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Book reviews for scholastic growth; read material from the world's top educators with our collection of novels, memoirs, biographies, philosophical texts and textbooks.

"Adaptive Resilience: Confronting the Emotional Landscape of Emerging COVID-19 Variants". Content Warning.
In the bustling city of Progressa, where science and innovation thrived, the pandemic had brought forth a new challenge - emerging COVID-19 variants. Within the emotional turmoil, uncertainty, and the unwavering dedication of scientists, healthcare workers, and the community, a story of resilience, collaboration, and the human spirit's capacity to adapt would unfold.
By Vincent Uche2 years ago in Education
"Unbroken Threads: Navigating the Emotional Storm of Global Supply Chain Disruptions". Content Warning.
In the bustling city of Riverside, where the heartbeat of commerce resonated through its streets, the pandemic brought a profound disruption to the world of supply chains. Yet, within the chaos, frustration, and uncertainty, a story of resilience, innovation, and the human spirit's unwavering ability to adapt would emerge.
By Vincent Uche2 years ago in Education
"Journey of Hope: Rediscovering the World in the Midst of a Pandemic". Content Warning.
In the quiet town of Serenity Hills, where the world had once seemed boundless, the pandemic had confined residents to their homes. Yet, within the stillness, a story of resilience, longing, and the power of travel to heal the human spirit would unfold.
By Vincent Uche2 years ago in Education
"The Heart's Crossroads: A Nurse's Ethical Dilemma". Content Warning.
In the bustling city of Everwood, where the rhythm of life was punctuated by the heartbeat of its residents, the healthcare system was a beacon of hope and healing. Yet, within the sterile walls of the hospital, a story of a nurse's ethical dilemma, compassion, and the enduring struggle to do what is right would unfold.
By Vincent Uche2 years ago in Education
"The Unbreakable Bond: A Teacher's Journey Through the Pandemic". Content Warning.
In the quiet suburban town of Elmridge, where the laughter of children had once filled the hallways of schools, the pandemic had brought about an unprecedented disruption to education. Yet, within the chaos of remote learning and the emotional turmoil of students and educators, a story of dedication, resilience, and the unwavering spirit of a teacher would emerge.
By Vincent Uche2 years ago in Education
UNEXPECTED FACTS OF THE WORLD
Do you share my curiosity about the world? Have you ever wondered how much water trees consume each day, whether planets can float on water, or why guinea pigs make popping sounds? I know it may seem strange, but I'm always eager to learn more. Join me on a journey to uncover the answers to these and other intriguing questions.
By Richmond Opoku2 years ago in Education
Titanic? Truth Has Been Revealed!
On April 14th, 1912, at 11:40 p.m., the RMS Titanic faced a catastrophic accident that ultimately led to its tragic demise. By 2:20 a.m. on April 15th, the grandiose ship, once deemed unsinkable, had vanished beneath the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean, claiming the lives of over 1,500 passengers and crew members. The widely accepted cause of this devastating disaster was the Titanic striking an iceberg. However, recent scientific findings have shed new light on this century-old mystery, challenging the iceberg theory.
By Sophia Hayes2 years ago in Education
why is the dead sea called the dead sea?
why is the dead sea called the dead sea the dead sea is a landlocked salt lake in the middle east that's virtually lifeless the dead sea's eastern shores belong to jordan while the southern and western portions belong to israel the northern half of the western shore is located within the west bank today the dead sea is a popular tourist destination and source of water for commercial applications how was the dead sea formed the dead sea's name comes from the water body's extreme saltiness which makes it inhospitable for most life the dead sea contains about 340 grams of salt in every liter of water making it nearly 10 times saltier than seawater the extreme saltiness of the water makes it denser than our bodies allowing people to easily float in the dead sea the dead sea is also the lowest point on earth at its surface the dead sea is about 1400 feet 430 meters below sea level at its deepest point the dead sea is nearly 1000 feet 300 meters deep or about 2 400 feet 730 meters below sea level the dead sea has become both lower and saltier in recent decades the dead sea rift the dead sea is located between two tectonic plates the african plate and the arabian plate between these plates are a series of faults collectively known as the dead sea transform or the dead sea rift the dead sea rift is made up of a series of strike slip faults or locations where the two plates are separating both the arabian plate and the african plate are moving in a north northeast direction but the arabian plate is moving faster causing separation the dead seas basin formed along the dead sea rift from the movement of overlapping strike slip faults which caused the basin to sink down this active fault line forms diapers a type of geologic intrusion that breaks through brittle surface rocks in the dead sea two diapers of salt have formed the leeson diaper and the sedum die appear these salt intrusions are the main cause of the dead sea's extreme saltiness a second source of the dead sea saltiness is water flow or lack thereof the dead sea's primary water supply is the jordan river the dead sea only receives about two inches of rainfall every year being so low there's no water flow out of the dead sea instead the dead sees water evaporates leaving behind the salt to accumulate today much of the jordan river's fresh water is diverted off route for agriculture among other uses as a result the dead sea's water level is falling by about three feet every year lake lison before the dead sea came its precursor lake lisson lake leeson existed for about 55 000 years during the late pleistocene estimates suggest lake leeson was up to 750 square miles making it more than three times the size of the dead sea sediments left behind by lake leeson are found throughout the jordan valley today including the shores of the dead sea together these sediments are known as the lissan formation lake lissan also left behind what's now known as the lisan peninsula a large salty uplift that created an incomplete divide in the dead sea due to drops in the dead sea's water level the lisan peninsula now blocks the southern portion of the dead sea completely this southern basin is now made of artificial evaporation ponds for commercial salt production does anything live in the dead sea the dead seas extreme saltiness high levels of magnesium and acidic conditions make the inland lake inhospitable for most life but not all while the dead sea surely does not house any fish crabs or other animals often associated with salt water bacteria archaea and single-celled algae have all found a way to survive the dead sea's extreme environment after abnormally rainy seasons blooms of these microbes can occur the type of algae that lives within the dead sea is thought to remain in a dormant form until unusually large rainfalls lower the concentration of salt in the dead sea surface waters allowing the algae to bloom these blooms are composed of a less diverse assemblage of microbes than the dead sea standard the microbes that live within the dead sea are likely unique to the dead sea and it's unlikely that the same microbes thrive anywhere else on earth
By mody2 years ago in Education
The New Paradox of Choice
I read books, and from a young age, I've learned that the things that are written down in books, are factually correct (at least, when they are non-fiction). However, after reading about 100 non-fiction books, I started to doubt that statement. It didn't have anything to do with a specific book, but I came to the realization that books are written by people, and people don't always tell the truth.
By Angelo2 years ago in Education
the Bermuda triangle
in 1800 the USS Pickering disappears on route to Delaware carrying 90 people in 1814 the USS Wasp vanishes along with 140 passengers and in 1921 the Carol a Deering is lost and ultimately found abandoned near North Carolina but the actual location where the vessels go missing isn't defined until 1964. journalist Vincent Gaddis cataloged some of the strange goings on in an article and he finally comes up with a name for this mysterious area he calls it the Bermuda Triangle the Bermuda Triangle covers about 500 000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida Bermuda and Puerto Rico it is claimed numerous victims as the losses have piled up the area has become infamous legendary worldwide even everyone knows about the Bermuda Triangle but yet nobody knows what's going on over there there have been a number of different theories one of the earliest comes from Christopher Columbus Columbus is actually one of the first Europeans to cross through the Bermuda Triangle in 1492 and wouldn't you know it he almost immediately encounters a problem the Santa Maria and her sister ships get stuck in an abundance of algae which in Columbus's diary he refers to as weeds the ships are stuck for three days and the sailors become paranoid and panicked they fear running aground or being Tangled in the weeds and being dragged to the ocean floor the crew would eventually manage to cut their way out but they remain convinced that this is a dangerous area all thanks to highly unusual seaweed what Columbus and his men call weeds scientists eventually named sargassum from the Spanish word sargazo meaning seaweed the area ultimately becomes known as the sargasso sea the sargasso sea measures about 700 miles wide and 2 000 miles long it takes up about two-thirds of the Bermuda Triangle and is full of these dense mats of sargassum if you get stuck in it the sargassum wraps around the rudder so you can't steer and Barnacles begin to grow on the ship slowing it down but getting stuck is just one small part of the problem when sargassum groups together and begins to rot as it decomposes it produces hydrogen sulfide gas this gas smells really awful like rotten eggs and it's toxic if you breathe in this hydrogen sulfide it can irritate your eyes your nose and your throat but it can also cause some serious psychological issues if inhaled for an extended period of time possibly even Insanity obviously just getting tangled in the seaweed could explain the disappearing or erect ship if it's stuck out there for long enough but when you take into account this psychological effect this might explain the Wilder Bermuda Triangle stories the problem is this doesn't solve all the mysteries of what's been going on here could another sailor's tale offer a different explanation it starts off as something of a legend among weather hardin's sea weary Sailors as they share stories over a pint in the pub you may hear a tale of some enormous wave as big as a mountain capable of destroying a ship sweeping away its crew or just swallowing it whole the proof comes on New Year's Day 1995. about a hundred miles off the coast of Norway there's an oil drilling platform called the dropner in addition to its main equipment it contains a whole slew of instruments that can monitor wave height slope acceleration Etc on January 1st of 1995 a laser range finder on the bottom of this oil drilling platform measures a wave headed for the drop now the dropner wave as it becomes known seems to come out of nowhere and measures 85 feet high it has characteristics that don't fit any previous wave model researchers have found that rogue waves differ from regular waves in a few ways first is that they are greater than twice the size of surrounding waves these things are massive and they are also notoriously unpredictable and arise unexpectedly from directions other than the prevailing wind so these things could potentially come from anywhere these rogue waves because they are so gigantic so tall so Steep and moving so quickly they can carry up to 16 times the amount of force than a regular wave and in fact the bigger this ship the worse you fare when it comes to rogue waves because these rogue waves they don't come on slowly they're not giant wide things they're very sharp they're like Cliffs of water and so when a ship encounters a rogue wave It Gets Sent straight up the side of the cliff and then when it reaches the top it Teeters over and slams back down into the water but scientists still aren't certain what causes them one idea is that they're caused by constructive interference this is when different waves travel at different speeds and start to pile up on each other the constructive interference can occur when huge storms converge from multiple directions at once the Bermuda Triangle is well known for such thorns the triangle is right in the middle of Hurricane Alley where storms from the North and the South can come together if there's a third storm that comes in from Florida forget about it you've got the recipe for a deadly rogue wave this still doesn't explain every incident ships aren't the only things that have disappeared here what about all the airplanes methane itself is a colorless odorless gas you might be familiar with methane as natural gas to heat your home but in very special cases especially at the bottom of the ocean these pockets of natural gas can get so compressed that they turn essentially into an ice into a form of solid if the sea floor cracks or that ice gets pushed up to touch the water an exceptional amount of gas can be released the gas heats up the surrounding water and surges quickly to the surface methane is highly flammable so the intense heat from the plane's exhaust could cause a massive explosion enough to blow the plane to Smithereens if true this story could also explain the triangles lost ships when the gas explodes underwater it creates this giant sinkhole at the surface think of a toilet flushing with extreme force the suction created from the blast would suck any large object down below the surface never to be seen again over the last 500 years the Bermuda Triangle has claimed some 8 000 lives and hundreds of ships and airplanes none with a definitive cause but in 2019 a shocking new Theory emerges thanks to a scientist who experienced a surprising event in the area Bermuda is a volcanic island like Hawaii and many others but researchers discovered that Bermuda has one major difference most lava comes from about 20 miles deep but the lava that formed Bermuda came from a whopping 400 miles below the surface of the Earth that's immensely deeper and obviously much closer to the Earth's core this is entirely unique to Bermuda this geologic feature turns out to have surprising consequences because this volcanic rock in and around Bermuda originated so deep within the Earth it has a heavy concentration of a mineral called magnetite in fact Bermuda is 18 to 20 percent magnetite nearly 20 times more than typical soil magnetite is the most magnetic naturally occurring mineral on the planet and this is what could be making so many ships and airplanes go Haywire in the Triangle [Music] in other words Bermuda is basically a giant magnet this phenomenon easily demonstrated if you pass a compass over a small amount of bermuda's magnetite-rich limestone it can throw it off by several degrees and that's just one Little Rock there's 500 billion tons of this stuff in the Bermuda Triangle so just imagine what that could do without a trustworthy Compass ships could easily Veer off course and crash into the Rocks but what about planes planes would have problems with not only their Compass but also their altimeter readings a pilot could get quite disoriented and potentially make a fatal mistake according to One Pilot magnetite could also be powerful enough to generate a literal cloud of magnetism in 2017 Bruce gernon publishes a book called beyond the Bermuda Triangle in it he recounts many Pilots stories saying they've been in this electronic fog until the modern Advent of GPS navigation the compass is the tool that enables travelers to accurately navigate the globe it does this by always pointing in a constant Direction magnetic north it can however be instantly rendered inaccurate by the presence of a strong magnet according to gernin electronic fog is like a grayish cloud of electromagnetic fields that form above the ocean it can appear out of nowhere and completely engulf an aircraft gernon himself says he experiences this phenomenon while flying through the heart of the Bermuda Triangle his airplane is suddenly surrounded by a strange fog that he can't break through it seems to stick to his plane and he experiences the sensation of zero gravity as it propels his aircraft forward according to Gurney once he's out of the triangle the cloud disintegrates when his instruments work again he realizes that he just traveled 100 miles in only three minutes and 20 seconds he landed 30 minutes ahead of time the fog practically teleported him gernan and the others he cites in his book believe that the natural magnetism in the Bermuda Triangle may be giving the droplets within the fog an electromagnetic charge this is true then those droplets would naturally be attracted to anything they encounter and once they're attached they're dense enough to carry a vessel right along with them we generally talk about the Bermuda Triangle like there's only one explanation for this mystery but given the numerous disappearances across more than 500 years there's absolutely no reason why it needs to be only one of these things there's a combination of deadly factors that are existing here one day we may finally get some substantial evidence or capture a video of a destructive Rogue Wave or of the mysterious electronic fog or I don't know maybe a wormhole open up right over Bermuda for the whole world to see but until then I think it's best not to limit our minds to what the Bermuda Triangle could or couldn't be because there could be a new scientific explanation next year the possibilities are endless
By mody2 years ago in Education
The Craft of Productive Development: Exploring the Advanced Business Scene
In the present quickly advancing business scene, development has turned into the foundation of progress. The persistent walk of innovation, changing customer inclinations, and worldwide monetary movements request that organizations adjust as well as flourish. This article investigates the specialty of productive development and how organizations can explore this powerful climate to get their future.
By Ashok2 years ago in Education
From Homeroom to Vocation: The Job of Schooling In this day and age
Schooling has for quite some time been proclaimed as the way to opening a universe of chances. In the present quickly developing worldwide scene, the significance of training in forming the direction of one's profession has never been more critical. As we investigate the extraordinary excursion from study hall to profession, we dig into the diverse job that schooling plays in planning people for the difficulties and chances of the advanced world.
By Ashok2 years ago in Education