Extra Credit Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Neil deGrasse Tyson • Episode 1: “Standing Up in the Milky Way” • Episode 2: “Some Things That Molecules Do” To watch episodes try Hulu+‚ OnDemand‚ http://www.cosmosontv.com/‚ and googling for streaming video For this extra credit assignment watch these two episodes and complete two one page reading responses on each episode. DO NOT SUMMARIZE. I want to know what you think about deGrasse Tyson’s approach to the topic of science and science education;
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If you were at a party with people from another planet would you notice? In Neil Gaiman’s short story “How To Talk To Girls At Parties” Enn‚ Gaiman’s main character‚ is trying to come out of this shell and start talking to girls with the help of his best friend Vic‚ whom is very good at talking to girls. Gaiman introduces many girls to the reader but only later the reader finds out that the girls are all from a different planet than the boys. Enn talks to a few of the extraterrestrial girls but the
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are insignificant and tiny in comparison to the Universe that surrounds us. His writing style is reflective‚ presenting the information in a way that inspires a sense of wonderment in his readers. This sense of wonderment can also be seen in many of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s works‚ who accredits Carl Sagan as a main influential factor in his scientific endeavors. Tyson also employs scale in his writings‚ but focuses more on the insignificance of people and their actions in the Universe. Both of these men
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United States National Guard opening fire into a crowd of peaceful college war protestors. The four killed were Allison Krause (age 19)‚ William Schroeder (age 19)‚ Jeffrey Miller (age 20)‚ and Sandra Scheuer (age 20). Immediately after this massacre‚ Neil Young‚ a war protestor himself‚ composed a song called “Ohio”‚ which later became an anthem known as “Four Dead in Ohio”. This song is a very simple one with a very clear message against the war in Vietnam‚ and against President Nixon. It was not
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loved to find out about bugs and plants‚ and I especially loved to watch the stars and wonder about them‚ because they were the hardest to get to‚ but simultaneously the most beautiful. As I grew up‚ one of the people I began to really look up to was Neil Degrasse Tyson. He had grown up in New York‚ a place almost devoid of starlight‚ and grew up to be a very successful astrophysicist. He worked hard‚ and became successful in something he was passionate about. In HPU I can see the stars and learn about
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Evaluating The Cohabitation Epidemic Neil Clark Warren in his essay “The Cohabitation Epidemic” starts by using tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf’s case to mention the “cohabitation” issue and then quoting the data from the U.S Census Bureau and researcher Larry Bumpass to show that the number of people involved in cohabitation has significantly increased in the U.S in the last few decades. After that‚ Warren concludes that we should be alarmed over the recent increase of cohabiting couples
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Champion of Science Rhonda Schear Valencia Community College ENG1102 Neil deGrasse Tyson‚ renowned American astrophysicist‚ director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History‚ and the host of PBS’s NOVA ScienceNow. Tyson is also the author of several best selling books. He is probably most well known for his appearance The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and other late night interviews on shows such as The Daily Show
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8th grader sit up in their chair and say I want to be an NSF Researcher. With all do respect‚ these agencies do important scientific work but they are unknown and invisible at the age where people choose what they want to be when they grow up.” [1] Neil Degrasse Tyson brings into play a very important thought as he explains the affect of the budget cuts on the younger population of America. Scientists are worried that if NASA is taken way‚ we are taking away the birthplace of the STEM research fields
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In the play “Rumours”written by the mastermind playwright Neil Simon‚ he has effectively brought out several themes throughout the play. Such themes include materialism‚ the importance of social identities‚ as well as how most affluent people are alike. I’m the cutest The theme of materialism is first brought out in the first Act and comments “It’s all over the room. I don’t know why people decorate in white…’Ken Bevans who is the protagonist of the play does not seem to take notice of the issue
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This paper is a response criticism in Jose Neil P. Garcia Poem “The Conversion”. Based on my perspective‚ this poem is all about the life of a gay who converted himself from being back to its original gender which is “male” because he never accepted by his father‚ family and even his uncle’s and auntie’s by who really he want to be‚ except his mother which is died. He drowning by his own father when he caught wearing his mom’s dress‚ he locked himself in the cabinet when he feeling alone. But at
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