Critical phenomena

Reflecting on this semester through the lenses of the operations process and troop leading procedures I have gained insight in how these two can aid in making me a more effective military leader. While learning these two concepts have helped during the execution of tasks like teaching labs and preparing for classes it has also made me more analytical about many other tasks I take on. The most significant event that I could apply these two concepts to and describe would be teaching the weapons…

When writing an article to persuade your audience on a specific idea or topic, it is important to be very direct about what it is you are trying to persuade, leave out fallacies, and also have excellent credibility. Based on the two articles about adding a tax on sugary drinks or not, the article “Soda Taxes Fall Flat: Our View” by USA Today Editorial Board, is stronger than the article by Jim Krieger. I will first give you a short overview of each article and then inform you about details of…

In the passage, " America Needs its Nerds," by Leonid Freeman, the author is talking about a growing issue in American Culture and academics. Freeman talks about how many kids are getting called "nerds" and "geeks" just for taking their education more seriously than others. He wants to tell his audience that America needs to end the culture of calling kids nerds and geeks and start hitting the books so that those kids can be intellectual. This is Freedman's argument. He develops his argument by…

1. What is a typical pattern of reasoning in moral matters? Through dialogue in the Crito, Socrates outlined the process of addressing moral matters. First, decisions must be made through reasoning, and exempt of emotion (Cahn, 2013). Next, during the decision making process we must think for ourselves, therefore, we may not be able to appeal to popular beliefs or adhere to social norms. Finally, our decisions should not be morally wrong, regardless of outside influences or potential…

Today, we will be talking about bias and how to assess it to reduce distortion of information or of behavior; which could be positive or negative biases. Our last session, we talked about central tendency, we saw how the wrong measurement of central tendency could misrepresent the data by biasing it, or distorting systematically. For those who were not absent last time, I will do a small recap of the central tendency and then I will illustrate what a systematic error (bias) in action. The…

For this reflection, the assigned reading was from Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. The first part of this chapter broke down difficult conversations into three different conversations, including conversations about the mistake or issue, how each person feels about the issue, and how the conflict makes each party feel about themselves. The conversation about what happened is exactly like it sounds, each party tries to figure out who made the mistake and…

Summary In this article, Delcourt and associates (1998) outline the implications of the carbonized plant remains to better grasp the effects Prehistoric Native Americans had on the Eastern Kentucky landscape through paleoecological sequence. Specially addressing how Prehistoric Native American populations bred and selected for plant-food resources in Eastern Kentucky during the Pleistocene and early Holocene (Delcourt, 1998). 36 radiocarbon-dated, botanical assemblages, mostly charcoal, obtained…

Elizabeth Rodriguez Professor Marcelo CAS 113A 19 September, 2015 Transnationalism Identity is who you are. Who you identify yourself as. They are many different ways on defining identity and it all has to do within the situation. In this case I define it as, knowing who you are or what something is. Another word that also should be defined is Transnationalism. Transnationalism is going beyond national boundaries and interests. In two class readings that we covered, “Central American…

author’s lack of high vocabulary it is still credible because the author’s addition of facts and statistics are acquired from credible sources and offers both perspectives of the topic, the government and the students benefiting from the plan. Since The critical reader may question where the author acquired their facts and statistics inputted on the article, the reader is responsible for the perpetuation of…

Misinformation in headlines directly impact what readers expect from the article and leaves readers with false first impressions. The headline is the first part of an article readers are exposed to, it tells the readers “what kind of article [they]’re about to read […] and it sets the tone for what follows” (Konnikova). For example an article with the headline “A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep” and the same article with the headline “Why We Need Eight Hours of Sleep” were remembered…