...The following set of Discussion Questions has been proposed for use in this class. In almost all cases, these will be the Discussion Questions used throughout the weeks of class. However, please make sure you read the question as posted in the Main Forum and respond appropriately. Week One Discussion Questions • What do you think is the difference between thinking and critical thinking? Why? • According to the text, good thinking is a habit. Which bad habits to you think hinder your ability to be a good thinker? Why? • What is active listening? How do you think active listening is related to critical thinking? • There are predictable stages through which every critical thinker must pass. Under what circumstances might one regress from one stage to a previous one? In your current stage of development as a critical thinker, have you progressed or regressed to this stage? • Review the following Elder and Paul articles in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings: o “Critical Thinking: Nine Strategies for Everyday Life, Part I” o “Critical Thinking: Nine Strategies for Everyday Life, Part II” Choose one of the nine strategies. How might you apply it in your life to be a better student? Week Two Discussion Questions • Select three habits that hinder thinking from those discussed in Ch. 3 of The Art of Thinking. How have you struggled with these habits in the past? What can you do to overcome these habits and improve your thinking? • Even though...
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...affairs, and news shows than usual. There are many different sources of news ranging from television, newspapers, and the internet. With technology constantly changing, many young Americans turn to alternative sources for their news, and some researchers and politicians feel that this is a problem. These young Americans rely on satirical, or “fake news” shows, along with internet resources such as Youtube to get updated on current affairs, and learn about Presidential candidates. According to a survey done in 2004, Warner found that 50% of Americans between the ages of 18-29 get at least some of their news from shows like the Daily Show or the Colbert Report. This is a dramatic change compared to the 2000 research which showed that only 9% watched these programs. These “fake news” programs are shows such as, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with John Stewart, and The Colbert Report. We investigated whether or not satirical news shows can actually influence a voter’s opinion about a political candidate. Satire: a working definition Satire is when a person makes fun of or ridicules actual fact based information in a way that can influence the opinion and attitudes of the audience. Satirical news shows and internet sites use satire to deliver their top stories, unlike regular news programs. According to Baumgartner and Morris, “compared with traditional hard news, these programs...
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...The Epitome of Alternative Journalism The Daily Show’s host Jon Stewart refers to his work as fake news, and insists that the show’s agenda is to simply make people laugh. However, due to its ability to interrogate power, critique the news and ability to possess dialogue and democracy the Daily Show is the epitome of alternative journalism these qualities emerged in the shows October, 29th 2013 episode in particular. Geoffrey Baym states in his article “The Daily Show: Discursive Integration and the Reinvention of Political Journalism”, he believes The Daily Show is a prime form of alternative Journalism and the shows ability to function as both entertainment and news has brought on mass appeal of all generations. Drawing on live broadcast coverage of public statements and government proceedings, the content of The Daily Show resembles much of the mainstream news media. The show contains a few major content elements where within each; various aspects of alternative journalism emerge. One is the satire news update. The daily show advances beyond the style of “fake news” like other talk shows. The satire segment often focuses on national and global issues of significance left unquestioned. For example in The Daily Show’s October, 29th episode Stewart begins the program with a segment called “is that a good thing or bad thing”, within this segment he is able to critique the news by showing his audience live broadcast coverage from mainstream news organizations such as CNN...
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...Introduction The aim of this study is to see whether gum affects concentration while under test conditions. Research has shown that chewing gum does increase a person’s concentration. This study is being carried out because previous reports have I fact shown that gum has a positive effect on concentration levels. It is known that in most schools students aren’t allowed to chew gum during class; if reports have shown gum has positive effects , then the rule of students not being allowed to chew gum during class should be removed, as the gum will benefit both the student and the teacher. Both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express covered the story, with the Mail reporting that, "Chomping on gum is good for the brain and can boost alertness by 10%." This study concluded that chewing gum may improve reaction in healthy adults in a specific computerized cognitive task. The chewing motion gets blood flowing to the head, researchers suggest it’s the part of the head where memory is improved. Onyper (2004) tested 224 undergraduates from St. Lawrence University, dividing them into three groups. One chewed gum before and during the test, another chewed gum for five minutes before being tested and a third didn't chew anything. The researchers then gave them a battery of tests to determine their brainpower. Researchers think improvement in brainpower is because the chewing warms up the brain, this phenomenon is called “mastication-induced arousal”. So the act of chewing wakes you up and makes...
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...Availability heuristic provides us with the ability to quickly judge the likeliness of an event by the most outstanding memories we have associated with it. The Daily Show’s segment, “I Know What You Did Last Summer of the Shark” depicts how we can turn everyday occurrences into rare epidemics if the idea is influenced enough by the media or one’s own beliefs through their past memories of an event. The summer of 2001 was dubbed the “Summer of the Shark” because many new channels relentlessly covered the stories of shark attacks, making the viewer believe that sharks were much more dangerous that summer than any other. The Daily Show pokes fun of how easy it is for people to become terrified of ‘normal occurrences’ through availability heuristics. By overweighting easy-to-imagine instances of shark attacks, death from fallen coconuts, or even stair injuries, people will often remember these vivid experiences and will judge the likelihood of these events on how available they are in their memory. Repeatedly hearing about shark attacks will cause a person to believe that shark attacks happen much more frequent then they statistically do because the false information is readily available in their memory to call upon. Thinking about it, I believe that availability heuristics often influences my behavior and the people around me. A few days ago when I was talking to my mother, I mentioned to her that I was going into the city to meet a few of my friends for dinner and I would be...
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...Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. An example of satires are political cartoons which we witness every day in newspapers and magazines. These types of cartoons criticize some recent actions of political figures in a comical way. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and The Larry Sanders Show are all examples of television satires. “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we must pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it. “(Colbert, The Colbert Report) In the eighteenth century, a dominant intellectual movement happened. This was called the Enlightenment period, also known as the age of reason. While the Enlightenment was a broad international movement, many of its leading thinkers were French. The Enlightenment thinkers are known collectively as philosophes, the French word for philosophers. In fact, the...
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...gangster’. Within just two days of his death, riots had erupted in London as well as copycat riots in other cities up and down the country and reported globally by the press. Before getting out of hand, the riots were a direct response to the actions of the police. Mark Duggan didn’t hit the front page until after the riots had begun and it is likely that, similar to the case of Stephen Lawrence, the audience will never fully know the reality of the initial event. The final inquest report (2014) ruled that the killing was lawful. Looking back on the newspaper and press coverage, how was Duggan mediated? This is the coverage of Mark Duggan’s death on the Daily Mail Online webpage. It was posted in the early hours of 5th August and is a prime example of how mediation can change the image of a person. The photograph used by the Daily Mail is a close up shot depicting Duggan ‘making a gun symbol with his fingers’. This picture was chosen for...
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... will be larger than ever. My snapshot of China in 2016? An increasingly diverse, volatile, $11 trillion economy whose performance is becoming more and more difficult to describe as one dimensional. The reality is that China’s economy is today made up of multiple subeconomies, each more than a trillion dollars in size. Some are booming, some declining. Some are globally competitive, others fit for the scrap heap. How you feel about China depends more than ever on the parts of the economy where you compete. In 2015, selling kit to movie theaters has been great business, selling kit to steel mills less so. In your China, are you dealing with a tiger or a tortoise? Your performance in 2016 will depend on knowing the answer to this question and shaping your plans accordingly. Many well-established secular trends in China will continue in 2016. The service economy’s expansion is perhaps most prominent among them. In this piece, as usual, I won’t spend much time on the most familiar things. Instead, I will highlight what I believe will become the more important and more visible trends in 2016, either because they are now accelerating to scale or a discontinuity may become a tipping point. (For a quick summary, see sidebar, “The China Orr-acle: Gordon’s predictions for 2016.”) I hope you find my ideas valuable. The 13th five-year plan—few surprises Much of China’s 13th...
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...interests, which lie with China and Asia, and traditional ties with the America. General Peter Leahy warns of US-China collision FORMER Australian army chief Peter Leahy has urged Australia to tread warily in expanding its military ties with the US to ensure they do not "lead to increased tension and even conflict" with China. [pic] the Australian, 12 April, 2012 Warning against becoming "caught" between the US as its security guarantor and China as its economic underwriter, Professor Leahy has welcomed Australia's decision to play host to US marines, but noted that "too much of a good thing" could put unnecessary pressure on China. His comments, in an opinion piece in today's edition of The Australian, came as the China Daily state-owned newspaper hit out at Australia's expanding links with the US, warning they could spark a collapse of trust and endanger Sino-Australian economic ties. In a strongly worded editorial, the newspaper yesterday also warned that the Gillard government's decision last month to ban Chinese communications giant Huawei from bidding for work in the $36 billion National Broadband Network had created the perception in Beijing that Australia wanted to obstruct Chinese companies. But, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted her nation wanted close and peaceful relations with Beijing, Julia Gillard rejected the Chinese newspaper's suggestion that Australian foreign policy was aimed at containing China. "Australia's clear and...
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...The beginning of the industry The national demand of the public needing and wanting to be informed of local news stories, made William Caxton to set up the first English printing in Westminster in 1476. Oxford Gazette, printed in 1665 became The London Gazette in 1666 11 March 1702 - First daily newspaper named The Daily Courant The Times - first significant national newspaper (founded in1785 as Daily Universal Register) History development of the industry Time 17th 18th 19th 20th 21th What happened? • Pamphlets • First daily • The “golden • Newspapers • Decline of newspapers age” of have the industry newspapers emerged all over the country • News sheets • Sunday papers • First Ads • The format of papers changed • Decline of the industry • Online newspapers become more popular • Posters What the future may hold? Source Data: provided ABC What the future may hold? • It is estimated that newspaper market declined in 2007-2008 with 21% (Source OECD, 2010) What the future may hold? It is apparent that newspapers will no longer be in the format we are all used to seeing, as a hard copy; Hard copies will be replaced by online versions as a way for the industry to cope with the new technologies. What are the opportunities for a mediumsized player? Time spend on newspaper reading in the UK(2008) No time at all 32,3% Less than 0,5 hour 23,0% 0,5 hour to 1 hour 26,3 % More than 1 hour 18,3% Source:...
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...morning I wake up to the normal sun shooting through the window, blinding me as I try to open my eyes. My dog, Percy, licking my face off. He insists that every morning at exactly 7:04, she has to go outside. It really is starting to annoy me. Can’t that damn dog just rest? After I go outside for exactly 3 minutes, I realise I have to deal with my boss in exactly 48 minutes. I sit and moan for two minutes. Any more I would be late and any less I would be early: it has to be exactly two minutes. Afterward, I do my normal six-minute shower, I take another 6 minutes to brush my hair, 4 minutes to brush – just like the dentist told me – and five minutes to figure out what I am going to wear today. That leaves me 4 minutes to sit and read The Daily Telegraph and moan about having to drive 20 minutes to a job that I can’t stand. Once I arrive, it takes 2 minutes to hear the lame story about what Ron, the guy two cubicles down, did last night and four minutes ’til I get to hear my boss complain that I never do anything right. Spending 9 and a half hours at my job, driving 26 minutes home, taking two minutes to take Percy out and only getting 25 minutes to myself before lying down in my hard, cold bed and not falling asleep for another 12 minutes can really drive someone crazy. At least that is what my therapist tells me. But it doesn’t make me crazy; it makes everyone else crazy for not wanting to know how much time they actually have. The thing that will make you crazy is if...
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...We chose helicopter parenting as our topic because we found helicopter parenting a common issue in todays society. The articles we read in class on helicopter parenting inspired us to make a satire video on the issue. According to Dictionary. com, the definition of satire is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, of ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices…” In our video, we use many examples of satire to express our aspect on helicopter parenting. Some examples of satire in our video include five tools. The five tools we used are mock encomium, surprise, invective, inflation, and situational irony. We used mock encomium in the scene when the mom comes into the classroom and interrupts the class to check on her daughter....
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...I joke a lot about only being able to talk about music and standup comedy for extended periods of time and in a lot of ways that may be true. However, one of the reasons I joke about that is because I believe comedians are some of the most intelligent political commentators around right now. With the current state that our presidential campaign is in. I think now more than ever people should stop interpreting political rhetoric and start educating themselves on the politicians they think they support. I also think that it is extremely important to be critical of the news you consume and not look at politics through the eyes of a hate driven spiteful baby man with cheeto covered infant fingers. A lot of the major themes I have currently been seeing in politics is the hate people have towards the Clinton campaign because of the emails and Clinton not getting inedited for said crimes. Before I move on I will say that I was and still am Bernie fan, however to the Bernie or bust population putting Bernie’s name on the ballot in November is seriously like handing Donald Trump the presidency. That is why I myself will begrudgingly be voting for the lesser evil in November. And that may be sad, however, I feel much more comfortable doing that than I do voting for any of the third party candidates. And, instead of telling people not to do that I ask that you critically look at those third party candidates platforms while Gary Johnson and Jill Stein may look appealing to you I encourage...
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...The hangover 2: “It happened again”. The hangover has begun, oh yes it has. The tragic trashed trio have yet again repeated their actions from the first film, where they woke up in a chaotic Las Vegas suite with no memory of what happened the night before at all. But this time, they’d done even worse, and lost their friend Teddy, whose disappearance has totally broken his sister’s husband-to-be, Stu (Ed Helms). The wedding was to be in a couple of hours in one of the world’s amazing and exotic places, Thailand. Although Stu had decided to have a subdued bachelor party due to the unforgettable bash 2 years ago in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted to have a quiet bachelor party. However, this did not satisfy the boys, especially Phil(Bradley Cooper) and so instead, they have a buttoned up pre-wedding drink, and before they know it, they wake up totally demolished inside and out in Bangkok in a cruddy hotel with amnesia, AND with one member of the party missing which they only realise after checking up on their faces. However the worst has yet to come. They are all fully determined to find their friend Teddy although the circumstances are terrible and they have to meet with a series of humiliating disasters, and gross situations. Déjà vu has attacked them again, and what happened in Vegas was a total disaster, but what happens in Bangkok can’t possibly be...
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... On the other hand, it’s difficult to cover everything for any company. To outsource the some services to the third-party is a good choice for the Hotel. The third-party companies are more professional. 2. What recommendation will you make to the GM of The Independent once you finish sipping your cappuccino? What should the Independent do tomorrow? What should it change about its operations, if anything? From the data, we can see that the bookings of the third-party’s website is higher than the hotel website’s. Over time, the difference has become wider. The GM of the hotel should cooperate with a good third-party company. In order to gain the profit the hotel can outsource the online services. As a hotel, it should focus on the daily operation and reduce the input on building its website. 3. What do you think is the key lesson learned the Independent? What general guidelines would you have for your many other clients in and outside the lodging industry? The Internet enters a rapid development period, and the construction of corporate image in the Network Times becomes a new subject. A Hotel can develop its businesses from a successful online service system. There are the professionals. Every company should focus on what it can be excellent...
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