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6th Grade
06/12/2012

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Comedy
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Time is crucial to comedy, as the punch-line must be placed perfectly. A slight disturbance or deliberation due to something, such as an audience disruption,can completely ruin the joke. If you time jokes wrong consecutively, you just lost your career. An audience, without knowing it, is timing the comedian, right down to the split second. If they don't think it's timed right, it simply won't be funny. 
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War
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In war, every watch has to be synced to the nanosecond. If it's not, everyone participating in the war will die. Think about it. There are 15 cannons that can take out 2 people at once. So if one troop (30 people) charges in a second early, they will get demolished, and then the next troop will get demolished as well. However, if they properly time their assault, they would run up at the same time, therefore disarming the cannons before everyone dies.
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Instinctual Beings
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Without a past, without a future, the present being here and now. Without planning or thinking, we would become our distant ancestors, primitive monkeys. Without innovation, without thought processes, the thriving flower of our civilizations would wilt. Nothing would be remembered, mistakes would recurr again and again. Noone would learn anything, it is the end of the world as we know it, as we can not know it, in such a state.
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Daily Bodily Changes
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Our body metamorphasizes throughout the day.The changes are pretty drastic, but we've gotten so used to it, so much so that we don't even notice it. For example, in the morning, you might feel grumpy, but do you really feel 10x as stressed out as you do in other parts of the day? Well, in fact, you do. But since you have grown accustomed to it, the time of the day has nullified into a relatively straight line. But for our earlier ancestors, the earliest Homo Sapiens Sapiens, these changes really did affect their lives, and so, their daily schedules went by such changes, even though they did not know what was causing them.
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Death
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It comes for us all, whether from cell decline or an accident or even a homocide, one day, no matter how well we treat our bodies, we will perish. This is a certainty, this is a law of physics. No matter how hard we try, no matter how fast we run, Death will catch us. Demise waits for us all. But hope might still be there. I didn't include this in my presentation, because this is a rather skeptical theory, but if the universe lasts for ever and goes into a deep freeze, it WILL happen. Quantum Resurrection, the idea that you will be reborn. Once in a while, following collisions in outer space, the M-theory takes effect. Small particles are formed. Usually just quarks and W-bosoms, but given an INFINITE amount of time, something bigger is bound to appear, and one day, trillions of years from now, we too, may come back.
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Free-Radicals and Aging
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However, aging isn't supposed to happen. Though our cells are designed to bring us to maturity, nothing actually charts our decline. So why does it happen? The answer is within your mitochondria, the power station of your cells. These mitochondria emit tiny particles, called free-radicals. These free-radicals are the true cause of aging. The reason you age is because your cells are too damaged in order to contiinue to work properly. Then what causes the damage? The free-radicals of course!
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Earth
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The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, roughly 4.5. 200 years ago, it was believed that the Earth was only 6,000 years old. However, over 200 years,that number has been continually increasing until it's become what it is today. The Earth has survived many eras and periods, even a few eons of time. Even one supereon. The Earth is unbelievably old. It started with a mass of fire,onlyto become what it is today. But something with an age that incomprehensibly large has go to have a secret.
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Universe
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The Universe's age is estimated at about 13.7 billion years. The universe is the most important. Everything that exists is part of our universe. Think of every single thing you want.Do you want everything? Well, everything exists in the universe, so own the universe, and dream come true. Everything is contained within it, parallel universes, black holes, the strongest pulsars to the weakest stars.
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