Wisconsin Idea

understanding and thinking through new and different ideas and possibilities. When it comes to the speech “You are not Special” by David McCullogh Jr. there is a need to look over things critically. The speech itself may seem one sided, but as with almost anything, there are two ways of looking at it. When looking critically at the speech there are more things to be learned and ideas to understand. In critical thinking, it helps to think of others ideas and the way they would think of things.…

Socrates was unable to use his ideas to act and become powerful in his time, he cannot be considered Man Thinking. From this perspective, Socrates is not Man Thinking because he only thought but did not act upon his ideas, being more like the scholar than Man Thinking. On the other hand, however, others argue that because Socrates was Man Thinking because he did stood by his ideas until the very end. According to this view, the fact that Socrates stood up for his ideas is action enough for him…

ones against us to further develop ideas and information. There is not a definite opinion. Truths change on a daily basis because new arguments can be found at any given time. In his book Mill says, “To refuse a hearing to an opinion.. is to assume their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.” (Mill page 23) We can’t just assume we are right, because it is not possible to prove with one hundred percent…

difference, a conflict will begin to form. The idea of conversation is what keeps relationships on good terms, it easy to say men and women have different ideas about conversation. In Deborah Tannen’s article “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” holds key information about how important a conversation can be. Throughout the article Tannen forms different scenarios where a couple may or may not have conversation problems. This article pushes the idea of how each person wants to talk…

In today’s world the internet consumes the people 's minds with information. Some are useful, while others is not, but all were created by someone or something for a specific purpose. “Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas” (Glick). This was stated in Gleick’s essay “What Defines a Meme?”, and simply voicing that all the information being processed in our head creates new ways of thinking and continues to build off of each other. On the opposite side, in “The Disremembered” by Charles…

think they may be in control of what they know and their ideas when it’s possible they can not be. I do not think that people can trust themselves to believe that all their ideas and thoughts our their own. I believe that all the experiences that people have had, influence how they create ideas and how they think in life. Things that a person goes through in life influences their mind, how they make decisions, what they want, and their ideas in life. Most importantly, the people around a person…

When he got the job offer from my company, he was 27 years old in Korean age, and it was relatively early compared to other university students. I thought he was a very quiet and shy man, but, consequently it was a wrong idea. He really loved to travel, shopping, meet women, and drink alcohol. Sometimes, he overslept, and was late for work because he had drunken a lot of alcohol the night before. In my case, because I lived with my parents, my mom always woke up me to…

ability to write a long paper. Looking back at my posts, I am able to see how well they helped me develop tools. On many of the posts I could have used the tag, focus, because all of them helped me to focus down my ideas and use the surrounding information I had to further develop my idea. However, I only included that tag on posts that I thought really provided me with critical tools. One of the post I tagged with this certain tag was the one about the organ sales essay. In this post I was…

stuck in my mind was because of how you were able to relate your presentation back to those words and why they were important. Despite our answers they were able to relate to your story in one way or another. One of the words was related back to the idea of being conditioned for fear. This was a concept that I have never heard of and thought it was interesting once I learned what it was and how it can affect you. It makes it so as if certain things weren’t even happening in your…

were looking for similes, alliteration, rhyming, etc. In other words, we learned that rhetoric involved figurative language. Early in high school, students adopted the idea that rhetoric was figurative language. To an extent rhetoric does involve these devices, but this class helped me understand rhetoric is not limited to this idea. Rhetoric became a broad term that articulates different factors of writing like audience, context, and…