Neil Degrasse Tyson Analysis

In the Tanner Humanities Center video of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Tyson discusses the problems with the American currency. His platform is that there should be scientists like him on the U.S currency, so they could be valued as people who contributed to who we are as a nation. While watching the video, I enjoyed his humor , and the way he used logic to explain how the currency should be labeled. Although, I disagree with Tyson’s view that scientists should be the ones on the currency, I believe that the currency should be changed. It should not only have scientists, but some politicians, artists, etc.

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However whilst it comes with a severe loss, war is also a time to be proud of your country, to hold your heritage with august and to admirably bear a nationalist spirit. War, as it seems, is and has been part of nature itself for as long as mankind have roamed the earth. As seen with countless examples within the animal kingdom, many living creatures tend to form groups to survive. Through time, humans

Frequently, people will not give in to admitting they’re wrong, even though there may be facts in front of them. Wooden-headedness plays a remarkably large role in human actions and decisions.

Noelei Anglemyer Miss Wank Advanced ELA 8 7 March 2023 Humanity’s Greatest Invention A lot of things that we use in life we take for granted, such as airplanes. Well, in To Fly by Neil deGrasse Tyson, this article talks about the history of human flight and those inventions such as the airplane or space shuttles, and the impact these had on humanity. The invention that had the biggest impact on humanity were airplanes.

War is defined as “[a] state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict” (“War”). War existed throughout the history of mankind, and left its footprints deep within our society. Even though, we do not know what war truly is. We may assume that war is a complex matter that derives us to think and analyze its true meanings and values. It raises the question of ‘What causes war?’

For better or worse, war is a part of human nature (Walzer, 337). Throughout history, men have taken up arms against one another; initially in individual combat, as society progressed in tribal battles, and eventually in international war. Prussian philosopher, Immanuel Kant theorized that the “unsocial sociability” of mankind brings people together as a society but also drives them apart. The basic human need to be with others creates great societies, however the essential need for balance leads to warfare, which drives them apart.

The Mandela Effect Have you ever discovered that something you know to be correct was in fact wrong? If so how did you react? And what would you do if your parents and friends claim that one of your childhood memories that you remember distinct details of actually never happened? You will probably think that you must be misremembering it. There are some occasions in which a group of people misremember some events or physicality in the same certain way.

Summary Maria Popova’s article The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds, expresses that people h ave a hard time changing their minds. It is proven that is hard to change one's minds especially from within oneself, provided with scientific fact, and even winning an internet argument. Changing one’s mind show complications within oneself, because a person tends to be comfortable with their mindset. Popova mentions Carl Sagans’s book Baloney Detection Kit for critical thinking stating “Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours.” (Popova, 1), this statement proves that a human, when contradicted, are more inclined with their mind changing.

War is an addiction of the inferior. David P. Barash believes that war is caused and sustained by those who need violence to give their lives meaning. There has been a certain appeal given to war through media, movies and stories causing people to admire war, bringing an attractiveness to the violence through the thought of heroism, thrill and altruism (Barash 18, Paragraphs 1 and 2). Barash begins to describe these people in a way that shows them as lesser, giving himself a sense of elitism, believing that he is better because he does not indulge or depend on the acts of war to give his life purpose. The writer starts this section of War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning to preference how war is for those with small minds, and that if humans

Neil deGrasse Tyson writer of “Back to The Final Frontier,” is an astrophysicist writer and science communicator. With Tyson’s knowledge on the aerospace industry, he describes in his article what it will take for America to remain the leading superpower in space. While reading his article, I found that Neil deGrasse Tyson does an excellent job at persuading his audience by establishing credibility, with great evidence to support his case, and to support his case he offers effective strategies of reasoning, while organizing it well for the reader to understand. Tyson is quick to start establishing credibility in the first sentence stating, “Spring 2001, amid the manicured lawns of the Princeton University campus, I was recumbent in an office chair with my mind in the universe when the phone rang. It was the White House.

There is only constant fear of violence and death, and hence the life of man will be solitary, poor, brutal, nasty, and short as Hobbes mentions. So, according to him we need moral and legal rules to help everyone flourish. Everyone must come together and form certain rules, and everyone must agree to these rules. That is to say they enter a sort of some form of social contract.

Hobbes holds that “it is impossible to subjugate a man without first having placed him in the position of being unable to do without another.” Thus, the lack of organizational interdependence in primitive society prevents inequality. Similarly, the lawlessness of early society makes conflict impossible: war “can exist neither in the state of nature, where there is no stable property.”

These more primitive roots of war have developed into something a surprising number of people rally around and support. Scientists have determined that war has positive psychological effects because it creates a central conflict to rally around with a community of other people. This “brings a sense of cohesion, with communal goals, and inspires individual citizens (not just soldiers) to behave honourably and unselfishly, in the service of a greater good” (Taylor). Although it might be disconcerting to accept that war actually brings people together, that fact reinforces that meaning does exist behind war because people will not come together and risk their lives for something

All who inhabit the earth have a different opinion on the universe and the study of the cosmos. While many are eager to learn, some prefer to focus only on the world in front of them. The pros and cons to having a wide understanding and perspective of the universe vary depending on prior knowledge and opinions. While some would rather halt space exploration entirely, many still hunger and yearn to learn more about the universe around them. The human race needs to gain more knowledge of space with a new perspective to better understand their past, home, and universe.