a. Read the chapter entitled The Cosmic Calendar from Carl

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a. Read the chapter entitled The Cosmic Calendar from Carl Sagans book The Dragons of Eden. b. Carl Sagan tried to give meaning to the cosmic chronology by imagining the almost 15 billionyear lifetime of the universe compressed into the span of one calendar year. To get a more personal perspective, consider your date of birth as the time at which the Big Bang took place. Map the following five cosmic events onto your own life span: i. The Big Bang iv. First Homo sapiens ii. Creation of Earth v. American Revolution iii. First life on Earth Once you have done the necessary mathematical calculations and placed your results on either a chart or a timeline, form a topic sentence and write a playful paragraph about what you were supposedly doing when these cosmic events took place. Hand in your calculations along with your writing.