Solar energy has been fixed in one form or another on the earth throughout much of earth's 4.5 billion years history. ... Marine plant cells accumulated for hundreds of millions of years, gradually building an atmosphere that screened out the most destructive of the sun's rays and opened the land to exploitation by living systems. ... Only about a tenth of 1 percent of the energy received from the sun by the earth is fixed in photosynthesis. ...

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We deal with various natural aspects, such as our birth, death, universe, sun and moon with great deal of harmony and regularity, but still as a whole, even if we don't have a clue about them it still doesn't bother us. ... If we recall history, man first imagined of going into space, moon and universe, and it was the imagination that led mankind to work on his way to find it's imagined destinations. ...

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"Fear no more the heat of the sun" is written by William Shakespeare, in the time Elizabethan England, during the later part of the renaissance period, when society was very structured, and different from today. Shakespeare was an infamous poet and playwright who wrote many sonnets and plays- tragedies, comedies and histories, whose common themes were love, life and death. ...

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"Christina Rosetti seems towards the dark side of life." Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. A common interpretation of the work of the 19th century poetess, Christina Rosetti, is that her work is depressing, morbid and highly pessimistic. However, in thi...

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