Critical phenomena

Critical Thinking Paper Activity Reflection The softchalk lesson was actually very helpful when looking at the penguin flying article. It talked about that critical thinking involves having an open-mind and being honest when facing personal biases. The quiz about common beliefs I found very interesting as I have always heard that mozart makes babies smart and that more people have suicidal thoughts when it is dark out. It made me realize that I made to question common beliefs and see what…

The key distinction between correlation and casual connection is the effect that one has on the other regarding the outcomes in scientific test results. In a study, the investigator is looking for the possible effect on the dependent variable that might be induced by changing the independent variable. Casual connection is an occurrence or action that can cause another and the results are predictable and certain. With that being said, casual connection can also determine how the two events are…

The speaker uses appropriate attention getter by asking a rhetorical question. She also clearly introduces her topic to the audience. The main points are very organized and the transition from one point to the other was very smooth and clear. A good concluding statement was in the speech, but the speaker did not summarize all the points that she presented. The speaker did make good eye contacts with the audience; however, there were few filler words. Furthermore, she used her visual aids very…

At the start of this semester, I felt a bit of uneasiness; this quickly subsided because the assignments helped me to build confidence. Two of these assignments were the evaluation essay and the literary analysis, which were most vital to my progress in developing ideas, attributing support, and reading, reflecting, and responding to texts. The first piece, the reading response, was important to developing ideas and gather information to support my points. For my essay, I evaluated the movie…

My Reflection: So I believe that I have shown growth in my writing skills because looking back in Grade 9 and the beginning of Grade 10 I saw myself as like a "Level 2" person when it comes to writing because when I write something like an news article for example, so after I handed the news article in to assignment bin (ELS20 bin I guess) and it's handed back to me with some feedback and I read that feedback. It would say that I should revise it because I have some errors such as comma splices,…

In my content area of middle school social studies it is essential that I develop a classroom that integrates literacy strategies that enables students’ to establish a strong vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and comprehension. Social studies carries a large amount of factual information that is presented through books, the internet, and multiple secondary sources that requires students’ to be proactive in reading throughout the school year. When I teach middle school social studies I will…

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. It could be described as the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. In principle, critical thinking requires you to use your ability to reason. It is about being an active learner rather than a passive recipient of information. None of us think critically all of the time. There are times when we think in almost any way, but critically, for example, when our…

Hume argues that we have no logical reason to believe in miracles on the basis of testimonies from those who claim to have seen a miracle. Miracles in a sense are derived from testimonies which are second-hand evidence from someone’s experience making it unreliable. No one can depend entirely on testimony as if it were to act as an immediate object of our senses since it contradicts our senses.The evidence must be greatly supported for it to be probable for belief, according to Hume. However, we…

Nonsense Buried Underneath the Rubble Many people would think a newspaper as reputable as The New York Times would put their articles through rigorous scrutiny before publishing. This is not the case in the article “The 9/11 Decade; Outdone by Reality” by Michiko Kakutani. After reading Kakutani's article, one is left with a sense of “where did ten minutes of my life go, and what the hell did I read?” Kakutani article is scatter brained throughout the whole article making it hard to follow what…

I am juror number three from the murder trial. I am writing to you so you can hear our reason on why we decided not guilty. I think the boy was not guilty. I think the boy was not guilty because there was no official evidence. The witness statements were not accurate. The first reason why I and the others voted not guilty because the witness didn’t give us good evidence. For example we had a witness who stated that he heard the killing take place. “The old man heard the boy scream, I’m…