108 Alipato High School Students’ Reasoning Skills and Their Study Habits and Attitude Towards Learning Maricris B. Acido Introduction A major task of education programs is to come up with guidelines and tools to enable students to learn effectively. This is to ensure that students are able to acquire skills for them to carry out their academic and problem solving tasks. UNESCO acknowledges that: On the eve of a new century, there is an unprecedented demand for and a great diversification
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Unit 3 Assignment Sebastian Lewis Kaplan University HU345: Critical Thinking 3/14/2012 Real guys ripped results is what this ad says.Hydroxycut the perfect diet pill/fat burning pill, a pill that will boost energy and at the same time burn fat and increasing the muscle definition. We all want to lose weight and get that body back that we had as a young adult or in our youth, this is what the advertisement says to the consumer. What caught my eyes as I turned the pages of the flex magazine
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THE TYPES OF ARGUMENTS Normally we classify all arguments into one of two types: deductive and inductive. Deductive arguments are those meant to work because of their pattern alone, so that if the premises are true the conclusion could not be false. All other arguments are considered to be inductive (or just non-deductive), and these are meant to work because of the actual information in the premises so that if the premises are true the conclusion is not likely to be false. The difference is
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Women have been pressured for years by mass media. They are pressured by the unrealistic and unhealthy body types the women in the media have. They are also being pressured to reach the perfect body or what society believes to be the perfect body so that they can fit. They are pressured by the models they see allover media and in advertisement. The Victoria Secret advertisement for the perfect body from three years ago. The photograph consist of ten women all in different color two piece lingerie
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Thank You For Arguing, composed by rhetoric advocate Jay Heinrichs, is a popular persuasive work written in 2007 (but revised many times since then) that expounds over the art of persuasion. Jay Heinrichs was a previous journalist and publishing executive before studying and writing about the “lost art of rhetoric”. Heinrichs is also the author of many other great reads and the father of two children, Dorothy Jr. and George. Since his experience as a journalist, Heinrichs has taught persuasion to
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Analysis: Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. | Examples: Troubleshoot a piece of equipment by using logical deduction. Recognize logical fallacies in reasoning. Gathers information from a department and selects the required tasks for training.Key Words: analyzes, breaks down, compares, contrasts, diagrams, deconstructs, differentiates, discriminates, distinguishes, identifies, illustrates,
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this extract we are presented with Scrooge. From the beginning Scrooge is presented as a miser. In the extract we find out that he is an old, rude and ignorant man that doesn’t appreciate others around him. Dickens uses different language techniques to describe Scrooges appearance as clear as possible. In the opening paragraph Dickens uses imagery to create a vivid impression of Scrooge. He is described as ‘a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone’, and this
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How does Tennyson use setting to build the character of Mariana? As a character we can see that Mariana is completely combined with her setting; all of her surroundings affect her and the way she acts. “The broken sheds look’d sad and strange” this shows that they almost didn't belong there; it depicts sad emotions with gloomy imagery in the world with lost love. The sense of them being broken could reflect Mariana as damaged, showing that something significant has happened in her life to change
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Examining The Elements of Thought & Right Questions Participating in a changing and increasingly complex society requires citizens to process large amounts of information and to operate effectively in ambiguous and unstructured situations. Such work demands thinking and thoughtful people. (Grant, 1988, p. 36) The importance of critical thinking is directly linked to the ability to make sound, informed decisions. The results of those decisions could have a major impact not just in regards
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Problem-Solution Speech General Purpose: To Persuade and provide a solution Specific Purpose: To help my audience understand the amount of litter that is produced by cigarettes Thesis: Cigarette pollution is the worlds largest litter and it must be addressed. Introduction: 1. A man strolls casually down the street, looks around and takes one last puff from his Marlboro then he casually throws it in the direction of the nearest street drain
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