Critical phenomena

digital portfolio and essay that summarizes my course work and highlights the critical thinking, research and digital writing skills we have learned in the Capstone Seminar at Charter Oak State College. The enclosed selected assignments and cover essay comprise the building blocks of my studies over the past eight weeks. The portfolio collection consists of the Self-Reflection Profile Essay from the first week of class, the Critical Analysis Essay from week two, the final Research Report…

I came into this class kind of dreading to take it, for I’m not a fan of writing essays. I’m glad I took this class, though, for a couple of reasons: one it was online, it was in the middle of the summer, and then the course was stretched over an 8-week course. I came in here just trying to get my credit for my major, but I’ve taken into liking of some of the authors we’ve covered and check out some of their works after this course. I would say or like to think, that I’ve become better and…

Little things which did not cause you stress before are now being magnified by the smallest actions of others may be an indicator to re-evaluate where you are and try to become centered once again. When your body, mind, and spirit are no longer in harmony your inner balance will be off as well. It will be difficult to recognize and take responsibility when acting against someone who may be in the line of your unhappiness. Bringing yourself back to basics and reflecting on why you have…

In the military, there are very few decisions that involve groupthink – which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you frame the answer and the overall impact of that decision. However, last summer our organization was presented with a unique situation. The Army built a new set of barracks next to the flight line, where my unit worked on a typical day. Currently, the Soldiers resided in older barracks closer to the headquarters but these barracks were quite a distance from the…

reading. Critical reading is described in the Content Area Reading and Writing textbook as basically being able to look at what we are reading on a deeper level. Being able to construct inquisitive and complex questions that lead to critical thinking. Usually, when students read they just read over the words and that’s it. They don’t stop and analyze the material they are reading. They don’t question why it happened, who did it and the motives they had. Critical reading and critical thinking…

clinical reasoning to guide their practice. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between clinical reasoning and clinical decision making, consider clinical reasoning in advance physical assessment and identify the nurses’ use of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. Clinical reasoning and Decision Making…

In The Presumption of Atheism , Michael Scriven argues that when arguments for the existence of God are unable to provide the evidence required to maintain this conclusion (and Scriven believes this to be the case for all such arguments) the only position that one can rationally maintain is atheism. I will first elaborate the salient points of Scriven’s reasoning in arriving at his conclusion and then attempt to challenge some of the assumptions that Scriven makes in the course of his argument,…

hopes of gaining supporters in order to achieve a prosperous growth in the arts because they desire for students to be able to benefit from arts education in school curriculum. They acknowledge its significance because it allows students to apply critical thinking and…

In the following essay, one wishes to discuss why there can never be any justification for a belief in Other Minds. Descartes offers up “I think therefore I am” in First Meditations on Philosophy (Descartes, 1641), which has it’s fair share of problems but one wishes to use this quote to illustrate that while Descartes only proved that ‘I’ exist within one 's own mind, there is nothing to say that this must extend to others too. Or even to anyone but Descartes and Myself. And while that may seem…

I believe that classrooms need to be universally designed in order to best meet the needs of all learners. Teaching explicit learning strategies to students and using these strategies universally in the classroom are so very important to ensure success for all learners. Reflection is aspect of many macrostrategies (Marzano, 2007). As students reflect on their learning, they gain important assessment information about how they perceive the efficacy of their thinking (Costa & identify and…