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    the fall of 2006, Tyson appeared as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA's spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe. As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Dr. Tyson strayed away from traditional thinking in order to keep Pluto from being referred to as the ninth planet in exhibits at the center. Dr. Tyson has explained that he wanted to look at commonalities between objects, grouping the

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    Dr. Steven Greer is a retired medical doctor that funded the Center for Study of Extra-Terrestrials. He has conducted lots of research through the intelligence agency from the military, government, and corporate witnesses. He first came out with the disclosure of alien activity in 2001. He has furthered his research over the years and has been threatened to stay quiet. Dr. Greer refuses to stay in the dark about this topic, it needs to be out. Here, Dr. Steven Greer has written to the president to

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    Snowden Pros And Cons

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    In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked secret files on the PRISM Program, a shady program millions of American never even knew existed. Four years ago, Snowden released numerous files regarding the NSA’s PRISM Program that only a handful of people knew about. Why it is an important issue you may ask, well honestly you’re being watched by our ‘beloved government’ while we live out our private lives. This PRISM program should be ended because it invades privacy, violates the constitution, and weakens

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    “Our senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help,” states Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, author, and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. In his scientific essay “Coming to Our Senses,” published in Natural History Magazine, Tyson explores the idea of the five senses being limited and needing help from technology. Through Tyson’s use of ethical appeals, allusions, and hypothetical scenarios, he is able to effectively convince

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    Tigers Child Essay

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         The book "The Tiger's Child" is about a woman named Torey Hayden and one of her students, Sheila. Torey is a teacher for disabled children. When Sheila was six years old she was sent to the school where Torey was working. Sheila had a very harsh childhood. At the age of four she was abandoned by her 18 year old mother on a highway late at night. A year or so later, She was sent to live with her father in a migrant camp. While she was there, she was abused by

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    Book Report – One Child by Torey Hayden. In One Child, author and educator Torey Hayden retells the story of being a special educator in 1980. Placed in a small room with a diverse group of students, Torey Hayden is not your average educator. Her students call her by first name, she gets emotionally involved, and she even takes the desks out of her small classroom. Yet despite the challenges, she and her students come together successfully and begin learning. The class is thrown for a loop

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    accelerators and detectors across the electromagnetic spectrum, we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History used this quote to clearly express his idea in his writing “Coming to Our Senses” that we need technology with our senses to fully explore the world. Neil deGrasse Tyson used many different types

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    Professor Zepf

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    Professor Stephen Zepf is the associate chairman of Astronomy stationed at Michigan State University. The Astronomy Professor spoke on the sixteenth of November in the Abrams Planetarium. The topic he discussed is the SOAR Telescope and our collegiate association with the Chilean Observatory. This was a talk like no other in its set-up. It is not a stage in an auditorium or lecture hall. The audience seats could have spanned in the front to where the speaker ends up interacting with the front

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    The poem “ Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, illustrates an emotional distance between a father and his child. The speaker in the poem reminisces his father and what kind of relationship they had. The underlying message reflects the relationship of the speaker and his father, and this is developed with symbols throughout the poem. In this poem, Hayden’s hidden message explores a father-child relationship, a relationship where love is not evident. As the speaker states in the first stanza,

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    into their own families. The theme of isolation is apparent in all three poems. While detailing his morning in Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden writes that he walked by his father, “…speaking indifferently to him (Hayden 11)”. This disconnect form his father created isolation for not just one of them, but for both of them. This isolation led to loneliness. Hayden later writes, “What did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices (Lee 49)”. In Eating Alone, the speaker loses his father. He isolates

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