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    The transit of Venus, seen from Earth as a small, dark disk crossing over the sun, is one of the rarest astronomical events to ever witness. If you missed it back in 2012 then chances are you’ll never see it again in your lifetime. In order for the transit to happen, Venus’ orbit has to align just right so that the planet is positioned exactly between the Earth and the sun. The transit has helped astronomers learn more about Venus’ atmosphere, the width of the sun, the size of the solar system, and

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    A transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes in between the earth and the sun making it visible for us humans to see a small round disk moving slowly at a particularly slow rate across the sun. The components to this are the Transit of venus Transit’s such as the ones that have been viewed in 1874 and 2012 are very rare nowadays and will only occur every 243 years with a pair of transits that are 8 years apart from each other(1874 & 1882) (2004 & 2012), making it a very special occasion

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    experiencing, but for a little girl living who's living on Venus, this is exactly what is happening.The short story “All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury”, takes place on the planet Venus where everyday is like the next, full of rain. To the residents of Venus, this is normal, unless you just moved here five years ago. This is the case for Margot who has to deal with the torture of remembering life on Earth. Every seven years, the sun shines on Venus. For just two hour, the rain stops pouring and the sky

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    a day”, by Ray Bradbury, takes place in the underground city of the planet Venus where tunnels roamed instead of streets. The land above them was submerged with endless pouring rain and deadly jungles. The sight of the sun was a rare miracle that only happened once every seven years. The children spent all their life in the enclosed underground tunnels, well all except for one. Margot was the only child who came to Venus when she was four, and the biggest difference was that she still remembered

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    This short story All summer in a day is about this girl whose family moved to Venus from Earth that the sun only comes out every 7 years. Venus is 261 million kilometers and when you translate it to mile it is 162177881.174 and to you is that far from Earth and Venus is made of up of a central iron core and a rocky mantle, similar to the composition of Earth. Its atmosphere is mainly made up of carbon dioxide (96%) and nitrogen (3%), with small amounts of other gases. The short story All summer

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    Pitter Patter Day

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    as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the planet Venus is being swamped by storms of rain and thunder, never ceasing. The constant pitter-patter becoming annoying after a while. Margot, a nine-year-old from Earth, came to Venus when she was four. There are scientists that predict when the is going to emerge from the constant rain. And their kids, their terrible kids, treat Margot with inequality

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    Ray Bradbury Sameness

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    “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story. Margot is from Earth, living on Venus. Margot and her classmates are excited to see the sun. All of Margot’s classmates but they lock her in a closet and go enjoy the sun while she islocked in the closet. “All Summer in a Day” teaches readers that sameness is bad because there is no change and no experimenting with the world. One way that sameness has a negative impact on the people is the weather. For example, “It

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    of individuals, resulting in a self-oriented perspective and aggression towards others, as depicted in Ray Bradbury’s tale “All Summer in a Day”. The story revolves around a group of schoolchildren situated on a fictitious variation of the planet Venus, where torrential downpours occur constantly for seven years, and the dense layers of clouds disperse to expose the Sun for a brief period of time in the interim of storms. As this event approaches, the children impatiently anticipate the arrival

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    The short story by bradbury ‘’All summer in a day’’ is about margot and her classmates. They all live in venus and they only see the sun every seven years and it just constantly rains throughout the years. Margot has live on earth but moved with her parents and the students in her classroom get jealous and bulie her. In All summer in a day it teaches us that fear can turn into regret. Margot is always sad and in fear. In school nobody talks to her and gets bullied by some of her classmates, hates

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    Has it ever rained for hours or days on end and everything just feels gloomy and you get really sad? This is how Margot and the other children feel all the time. In the short story All Summer In A Day, Ray Bradbury the children live on the planet Venus with their families. They live in an underground city with tunnels and huge windows since it rains for seven years straight with no sunshine. Margot remembers the sun from when she lived on earth five years ago, but the other children who have lived

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