...Nature of Thought Paper Sennet Perkins PHL/251 October 4, 2010 Leigh Clemons Is thinking a necessity in dealing with or handling issues on a daily basis? Every day we are faced with situations that will requires us to think on different levels. Thinking is a very imperative method of how an individual’s thoughts when being read by someone else can generate a comprehensible concept. In this paper, I will explain some of the perceptual blocks that have some bearing on my views and how I reply to it. The sensing process is a very significant part to the process of thinking. It would be very hard for an individual to think without using this process. Being able to hear, smell, touch, taste and see different things in our surroundings allows us to have multiple thoughts about what is actually going on around us and how to come up with a conclusion for the issue at hand. Memory is another significant factor of the thinking process. Memory assist individuals decipher information that has been stored in the short and long term memory. It also assists with processing information in multiple situations and recognizes concepts that has taken place in the past and build our future. The final part of thinking, the medium, is considered the most vital and is the part that transfers into the brain. Language is part of the thinking medium. Without language an individual will be unable to verbalize and/or translate information to recall or to think. Language configures...
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...Putting Thoughts to Paper For several years in school, I dreaded writing academic papers because I found many of the topics monotonous, provoking little desire in me to work hard. The writing process intimidated me because I was often unaware as to where I should begin a paper and once I did, how I should develop my thoughts in an effective manner. My appreciation of writing, both academically and artistically, did not surface until my sophomore year in high school. When I transferred from public to private school, I realized that my writing skills were not as strongly developed as many of my fellow classmates. This feeling of inadequacy motivated me to seek help from my teachers and peers. By the end of first semester sophomore year, my...
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...Nature of Thought PHL/251 January 30, 2015 James Lorthridge Nature of Thought William Blake said “Tell me what is a thought and of what substance is it made?” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). Human thinking is unique because neurologists have discovered areas of the mind, except thought. The Nobel laureate author Gerald Edelman at the beginning of this millennium said, “What goes on in your head when you have a thought . . . the answer must still be: we do not really know” (2000, p. 201) (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). In other words, there are sill regions to be revealed about the brain. The thought process remains a mystery with a model yet to be found. Expressing Thoughts The only way humans can express their thought is through communication. Thinking can be viewed as communicating. “One way to reach a definition is by observing the results of thinking as expressed in human communication” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). Therefore, we can define thinking as the activity of the brain that can potentially be communicated, and expressed in speaking and writing. However, there are multiple outlets of communications, for instance: * Language * Images * Art * Scientific formulas * Mathematics Even though most of these communication forms are effective in their own way, the primary human communication is language. Speaking, writing, and reading is the human form of communicating with one another. Memory An important part of the human thought process...
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...Thinking is defined as using thought or rational judgment. The process of using one’s mind to consider or reason about something. Thinking is activity of mind. It is mindful work of your own perception and understanding. The critical thinking process starts out with knowledge. All thinking starts with knowledge, whether a little bit or a good understanding of thinking topic. If you can not comprehend what you are thinking about, you cannot think about it effectively. Most of our thinking’s sensory interactive. Thinking can shape the way we sense. Sending for adults is concurrent with thinking. As we sit in class, drive, cook, or even clean; we are sensing with our eyes, ears, and hands. The two most important senses for thinking are seeing and hearing. Our senses play an important role for our brain. Our senses feed our brain as food. A person’s power to remember things is memory. According to Dictionary.com (2012), “Memory is the mental capacity of faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc. or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.“ Hidden within our brain is our memory. There are two type of memory. We have short-term memory which we seem to forget entirely and last only about twenty to thirty seconds without rehearsal. Then, we have long-term memory which are the most important for our thinking and last the longest. Without memory there could be no thinking based upon experience. What we think depends both on our ability to remember...
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...Thought Paper 1: The Uniqueness of Humans Aggression, or displaying any form of hostility towards others, is one of our initial reactions when our anger arises. Some people, out of utter fury because of severe reasons, tend to become overly aggressive which leads them to commit immoral deeds such as killing (another human, where organized violence and genocide are involved). That is indeed evident among humans but what we didn’t know was that, it happens among other species of animals, too. As what Dr. Sapolsky stated in his example, “the leading cause of death among male baboons are male baboons”. There are other reasons why other animals kill but the key point is that we, humans, are not alone in doing such sinful behaviour. “We are not the only species that kills.” The only thing that makes us different from them is that, we’re capable of terminating or harming the life of another of our own species in a whole new level. That’s what makes us humans unique. We are known for our notoriety. That can never be parallel and comparable to any other species aside from ours. After knowing of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, I’ve since then believed that humans are not much different from animals. We have seen how we have developed from apes and how we are closely related to primates. Surely, that would make us accept the fact that we are definitely one of them. But over the years, I’ve come to ponder upon the thought that maybe, we do have certain differences from them; even...
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...Thought Paper #2 The study of discrimination through the economic approach is studied in detail in The New Economics of Human Behavior. The vital component in this analysis of discrimination is the assumption that the role is played by an individual that is maximizing his or her own utility in a non conventional market by receiving benefits and paying consequences of their own actions. One misconception of Becker’s model for discrimination was that it only applied to employers when it actually applies to employers, as well as, consumers, co-workers, and the government. He explains that the two ways discrimination affects the labor markets is through wage discrimination and employment segregation. Wage discrimination is the differences in wages that workers are paid for the same level of skill or productivity due to some characteristic other than performance. Employment segregation is the separation of employment of individuals of comparable productivity. One crucial element to studying Becker’s model of discrimination is the assumption that individuals have a “taste” for discrimination and that they act rationally and are willing to pay for something pleasant and to avoid something unpleasant. This “taste” for discrimination can be applied to any of the three roles that people play in the labor market: consumers, employers, and employees. Peoples’ “preference” for discrimination is evident through the example of the Chinese restaurant in which people preferred being served...
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...United States Workers Deserve More As an individual who works 40 to 80 hours a week, attend ODU full time and is a single mother of two children I believe the u.s works too much. The quantity of hours is important. However, if there was more of a focus on the quality of hours I believe production and worker satisfaction would increase dramatically. I know my productivity decreases and the number of mistakes I make increases as I become burnout. If I was hired as the chief human resources manager of a large corporation to avoid the workers experiencing burnout I would give them two choices shorter work week 30 to 35 hours or once a number of hours has been met in a month, under certain criteria (ie max number of hours a day/ weeks etcetera) , reminder of the month off. The workers would still receive the same amount of pay they would if they were to work a normal 40 hour week . I think technology plays a significant role and society tendency to be "overworked." it allows workers to get more done in a shorter time frame which raises the standards of how much a person is expected to get done in a given amount of time. Which in turn increases the total workload and time needed to get the job done. The United States lags far behind other nations in terms of offering "family friendly" benefits. I believe this will dramatically impact the United States ability to attract and retain the best employees in the global competition for top talent. Benefits and perks play a huge part in most...
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...Dr. Radwan Cost 1610 Thought Paper #2 “Teaching and learning are inseparable parts of a single continuum of reciprocal giving and receiving.”(Christensen Pg. 621) In this quote Christensen describes the reciprocal nature of the relationship between a teacher and a student. In his essay, he describes his theories of teaching as a successful college professor at the prestigious Harvard Business School. It is important to listen to and hear his message on teaching because we all experience at least the student end of the spectrum at some point in our life. It is important to know not only what is going on in the mind of the students as a teacher, but also what is going through the mind of your teacher every day in class. After reading his essay, discussing it, and experiencing 15 years of school I can honestly say this topic is important to understand and consider from both sides of the relationship. First, I will begin by laying out the role of the teacher in Christensen’s view. Then I will go over the students’ role Christensen’s view. Finally I will wrap up with an example to illustrating the key points of the essay and conclude with a summary of my points. “No matter how factually accurate and time-tested our data, how clear cut and disciplined our analytical methods, or how practiced and skillful our pedagogical techniques, true learning emerges only when we honor the human factor.”(Christensen Pg. 631) Christensen’s first idea about the role of the teacher...
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...Daisy Solis Feb 21 2015 Thought paper 1 HD 239-700 Giving Birth has Many Options Birth is the emergence of a baby or any other young from the body of its mother. Have you ever thought about birth in general? Do you think it is easier to have a C-section and that way one can overcome the pain of natural birth? It might just be easier said than done. There are many different types of births. There are long labor hours, some are just a matter of minutes, also the options women have now a days are way more than what they used to have. A woman has options of home births, birthing centers using a doula and of course the most common hospital births. Every birth has a better benefit than the other option though each woman is different than the others, so maybe 10% like a home birth but 90% prefer a hospital birth. Being there are so many options for example home births are not for everyone and you can know if you talk to your health provider. Having a previous C-section is a way to no be able to have a home birth due to the cut you already have in your uterus. Also some pregnancies develop complications such as preeclampsia and that needs medical assistance not only a midwife. Though for the ones that do take the choice of a home birth it is because it may be a lower cost, also some woman have a history of fast delivery or also they just want to be in a familiar, relaxing environment. Hospital births in the other hand also have a preference. A hospital birth may be a safer...
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...Reflection Paper Assignments Due Dates: March 20, April 3, May 1 Overview These reflection papers are the chance for you to review your recent journal entries (or the sum total, if that helps) and to synthesize some thread of thinking or learning that you find in there. You might build on a single entry or on something bridging multiple entries, but the point is to capture something that you are learning. We expect the paper to have some over-arching, coherent argument so that it is not simply a string of thoughts. A string of thoughts is fine for your journal entries, but here we do want some synthesis. You should not spend time summarizing your activities, unless that is essential for your argument. Grading Criteria The criteria we will use to evaluate the papers are listed below. Note that you do not have to address all of these criteria in one paper. We want you to address all of them over the course of the semester, but any single paper can focus on only one or two of these. Regardless of what you choose to write your reflection synthesis on, your paper must demonstrate clear, coherent argumentation. 1. Expression of Learning 2. Discussion and/or synthesis of course readings 3. Reflection on assumptions and cultural frames of reference 4. Connection to proposal process Word Count The reflection papers, except for the final one, should be at least 500 words, but not a lot longer than that. The final paper should be around...
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...going to give you the paragraph for your paper. Just give a basic recap of the paragraph in the book. It may be nearly word-for-word. The second and third paragraphs allow you to describe the proposed solutions, procedures, opinions, thoughts, positions, or whatever is required to satisfy the case objectives. Write this paper in the voice the text requests or just as a written response to me. These papers will not be read to the class, nor will they be harshly graded. The purpose of the Case Projects is to engage critical thinking in the realm of the subject and communication of ideas. This is not a writing course, but written communications is important in the IT world. Your final paragraph should include a recap of the objective and solution. Please remember to keep the audience in mind. If your selected topic is a letter to other IT folks, you may use technical jargon without a ton of explanation. However, if you’re to write a user policy for example, you should tone down the tech talk to end-user level. Remember to include AT LEAST one external source in each of your papers. This source may be anything you’d like as long as it has something, anything, to do with the subject and comes from a reputable source. We will be using the MLA standards for our citations. I have included a link to Purdue University’s OWL web site at the bottom of this paper. It’s a great source of information for these papers. You don’t need to create a separate...
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...have learned there is in fact a great deal of work required, in writing. Throughout my lifetime, I have been required to write numerous essays and papers for various subjects, all requiring different styles and techniques. Before immersing myself in the writing process I would try and think of whom I am writing to and what I am writing about. I always assumed I was writing for the audience of my teacher. Writing an argumentative research paper is something I had yet to accomplish in my college career, not only was it thought provoking, this paper also challenged me in numerous ways, such as, understanding who I should be directing my thoughts towards throughout the essay, as well as the simple steps of organizing my thoughts...
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...Writing can be difficult, very difficult. But something great to remember is that writing is difficult for everybody at some point or another. Almost nobody sits down and writes a perfect first draft. Writing is a process and it takes time. In the article "Shitty First Drafts", Lamott writes about how you should have three drafts. The first draft is about getting your thoughts down. The second about fixing it up and work on editing. And the third draft is to perfect it and fix all the little mistakes and for critiquing. I've never really wrote papers this way but after reading this article I agree with Lamott that it is the most efficient way to write a paper. In the first draft, you just want to get stuff down. A problem I tend to have...
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...Thinking about my individual writing process has caused me to forget how I begin a paper. It’s strange to think about the concept of what writing is before you actually write something. After reading over the assigned pages to give me the help I need to discover what my individual writing process is I “skimmed” over freewriting. I tend to just start writing and let my thoughts flow and I feel like it’s what best suits my writing style. So here we go. My individual writing process includes freewriting, lists, and looping. I like to use freewriting because I enjoy continually writing and letting my ideas flow out. Sometimes when I get stuck, it helps me to have a list of the things that I want to include in my writing so I can elaborate and expand on them. After I get to a certain point, I use the process of looping. Looping can be considered a side effect of freewriting. I loop by rereading what I have written and decide if I like the order and the theme of my...
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...incoherent. And the non-edit function also became the advantage of free writing because most of time people were being stuck in how to write the paragraph right, which would omit the content of the paragraph. Therefore, Dr. Elbow encouraged writer to apply free writing to improve writing. In addition, free writing is considered a workout to the writing; the more you do the more your writing gets shaped. As to desperation writing, it is a method to help people who have had trouble writing; or to save people who were hard to produce a coherent speech or thought. The main point and key of this method is to keep writing as though you were drunk. Keep on doing this until you will find out that there are some usable materials on your paper. Moreover, you can take a piece of paper or pad or card to write down your ideas, feelings, thoughts, perceptions, etc. this would help you build up your writing ability as well. Afterwards, you reorganize the papers or cards and you will receive some new ideas, which should be the return of your work. And it will give you more inspiration. And just keep on writing, make as many as metaphor as you can to improve and build up your paragraph. And keep on practicing the exercises, your will...
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