Carl Sagan

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The paper discusses how Carl Sagan revolutionized how the world looked at space and the search for intelligent life beyond our planet. The paper talks about Sagan's popular PBS television series "Cosmos" and his novel "Billions and Billions", specifically focusing on the chapters on abortion, religion and science.

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"Born in 1934, Sagan grew up in a working-class Jewish neighborhood of New York and attended urban public schools in New York and New Jersey. The University of Chicago provided him scholarship support when he entered in 1951, and he continued there for graduate work, receiving his doctorate in astronomy in 1960. After two years as a postdoctoral in biology at Berkeley and Stanford, he joined the Harvard College astronomy faculty as Assistant Professor until 1968 and then moved to Cornell University to become Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary studies."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Amazon.com. 1996-2008. Cosmos: Carl Sagan (7 DVD Set) (1980). 21 September 2008. http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan-DVD-Set/dp/B000055ZOB
• Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Jan/Feb 2007. Skeptical Inquirer magazine. 21 September 2008. http://csicop.org/si/2007-01/sagan.html
• Google Video. 20 May 2006. Cosmos Promo-Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. 21 September 2008. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1175883507954918704&hl=en
• Sagan, Carl. Billions and Billions. New York: Random House, 1997.
• The Carl Sagan Portal. 2007. Carl Sagan Biography. 21 September 2008. http://www.carlsagan.com/

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