...PHL 458 Week Three Refining Resolutions PHL/458 University of Phoenix Refining Solutions It is essential to refine ideas and solutions to find the highest quality solution to a problem. The creative thinking process is used to produce ideas but the critical thinking process is used to evaluate and refine ideas and solutions. Applying criticism to ideas and solutions reduces the risk for error and makes good ideas even better (Ruggiero, 2009). In this paper Arguments will be evaluated and revised resulting in a refined and final solution to the problem. Original Issue How do I find more personal time for myself without neglecting my friends and family? Or simply just taking a day to rest, relax or do something fun. Through close observation of my family, friends and myself, I discovered some unhidden feelings of frustration. These feelings originated because of the lack of communication from me to my friends and family. Everyone that I care about are unaware of their demands on my time or how they made me feel when I was deployed and was unable to be there for birthdays, holidays or special occasions. I would get emails and letters in the mail when I was deployed and it was depressing see how much everyone depended on me to keep the family together and plan all the functions. Initial Solutions With the importance of having free time and being able to balance my time with family and friends, I dove into my imagination and brainstormed for solutions. Initial...
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...Critical Thinking and Society PHL/458 August 14, 2013 Critical Thinking and Society 1. Describe a situation in which critical and creative could have been used for a better outcome. Describe why it is important to think critically in similar situations. A situation in which critical and creative thinking could have been used for a better outcome occurs when the United States went to war with Iraq. In 2002, President George Bush declared that Saddam Hussein posed weapon of mass destruction. Even though the Intelligence could not confirm his assumptions and other nations not agreeing to invade Iraq the United States still declared war with Iraq. Once the war began the inspectors began to look for the weapon of mass destruction. After several months it was crystal clear the country had no weapons of mass destruction. By thinking critically and creatively the United States could have prevented a war thus, saving of trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. 2. Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Explain how we use them to form thoughts. Free will is defined as choosing to make a decision and do what he or she please at any time. Free will gives a person the ability to change his or her choices. Truth is defined as “what is so about something, the reality of the matter, as distinguished from what people wish were so, believe to be so, or assert to be so” (Ruggiero, 2009). Knowledge is by personal experience, observation, and report from other. We have faults...
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...Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Martin Villarreal PHL-458 January 16, 2014 Renee Orton In my line of work, critical thinking and creative thought is extremely important. The quality of the project you are working on depends on critical thinking and creative thought 100%. You are always given scenarios where factors change and you must be able to adapt and think creatively to overcome those situations. One example is photographing weddings. As the couple moves around, the light hitting them is constantly changing. Creative thinking must be used to make the couple look amazing and the critical thinking must be used in order for you to make sure your camera processes good results. With every step a person takes, the changes in light could be drastic and as a photographer you have to be able to adapt to those changes to ensure your pictures are amazing and your clients end up as happy as possible. Free will is the ability to make a decision without any outside influences to possibly change your thoughts. I would define truth as the real answer, thought, opinion, or outcome. Truth is what really happened and it is explained without any misdirection. Knowledge is defined as skills one would learn through experience or education. Knowledge is to know about something. Opinion is what you think of something. You take your free will, your truth, your knowledge, blend it all up and make sense of it in your own personal way, and that forms your opinion...
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...Creative Process Michael May PHL/458 June 5, 2013 John Smith Creative Process The creative process is one that people use every day, (Passive voice – suggest “People use the creative process every day, “) whether they realize it or not. The creative process includes four stages: searching for challenges, expressing the problem or issue, investigating the problem or issue, and then producing ideas (Ruggiero, V. R. (2009). (Repeated error – do not include author initials or first names with in-text citations – use “(Ruggiero, 2009)”. In personal experience, I have noticed that I used the creative process while trying to improve conditions at the various places in which I was (word tense – use “have been”) employed. A big thing at Gateway Cold Storage was that the pick path, or the way in which products were arranged on the warehouse floor was not conducive in creating a path that was conducive to generating speed and getting more items loaded in a more efficient manner. (some informal language, vague pronouns, missing commas, and passive voice – try “At Gateway Cold Storage, the pick path, or how products are arranged on the warehouse floor, was not conductive. A quicker and more efficient system for loading items was needed.”) Searching for challenges would be to (passive voice – try “involves”) going out and looking for ways to improve the way you live life. The book states that the first stage of the creative process represents the habit of searching for challenges...
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...Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Jorge Munoz PHL/458 December 2, 2014 Michael Simao Critical and Creative Thinking in Society November 2014 was a sad and memorable month that uprooted the racial divide in American society with the outcome of the Ferguson grand jury verdict. More disgusting is how many people were quick to make allegations of racial inequality and made it the root cause of Michael Browns murder before knowing that facts. With so many preconceived ideas of police officers and minorities, the facts of what actually happened were being lost in a snowball of misguided lies and burying the evidence of the situation. Although the death of Michael Brown was tragic, many people failed to think critically, and let their anger fog their thinking. The cause and effect: Michael Brown a young black male was shot by Officer Wilson a white police officer, is an invalid judgment. Looking for relationships in a cause and effect could lead to distorted opinions (Ruggiero, 2012). Racial inequality is a sensitive topic for many Americans to discuss but by exercising critical thinking, we as a society could tear down barriers and live harmoniously. Critically Assessing Situations Free will is the ability to choose, think, and act of your accord. Having free will to formulate my thoughts allows me not be influenced by others opinions or beliefs. More important, free will enables me to formulate my ideas and to express my thoughts, and to seek truths. Without free...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 October 6,2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis To find ones creative spark, one must look beyond the possibilities of failure within yourself and your peers and do what makes you happy. There will always be a time that the creativity will not be readily available, and the creative thinker will be able to recognize this and not get frustrated, and just find a way to put that spark away for another time. After watching a few of the TED Talks videos on Creative Spark, the one that caught my interests the most was Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius. The video was shot in February of 2009 in front of a live studio audience. Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the popular bestselling book Eat, Pray Love. Throughout her speech she goes into detail about her creative thinking process, using explanations to why she thinks the way she does, and gives incredible stories about other creative thinkers in which she discovered and developed her creative thinking process through. There are many elements to this video that made me choose it over the others. Elizabeth is both funny and intelligent, she knows the way she thinks and could easily explain this to an audience in such a way that it inspires one to think like her. Key points There are specific points that she hits throughout the video. The first thing she goes into is that She is a highly successful bestselling author that everyone feels sorry for and tells...
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...Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Allen V. Briscoe PHL 458 September 14, 2013 Joseph Zodl A situation where creative thought and critical thinking could have been used for a better outcome has to deal with hiring the right skill-set of people in barbershops around the world. Many barbershops around the world hire people who can give good hair-cuts to different customers with different textures or styles of hair, unfortunately that doesn’t go well for some minorities. All barbershops around the world should hire barbers suited to cut all styles of hair to customer satisfaction to include all people around the world. Thinking creatively and critically introduces new ideas and ensures careful planning. Free will is the will to do what you please at any time. Truth is when someone tells facts that happen and could be proven. Knowledge is the research and experience you have on different subjects. Opinion is something everyone expresses about each and every subject. These are all used in our formulation of thoughts. Our thoughts are made up of free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Three habits that are hindrances to the critical thinking process are human limitations, use of language, and misconceptions due to faulty logic. Methods of overcoming each one of these hindrances are to acquire an adequate basis of understanding of the situation at hand for human limitations, for use of language we need to recognize when words are not intended to communicate ideas...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers PHL/458 August 12, 2013 James Hal Cone and Cornel Ronald West are two individuals famous for using creative thinking to impact society and history. Hal Cone is a black theologian and Cornel West is a philosopher. This paper will focus on each individual’s unique contributions to society, ideas used to solve a specific issue, how the ideas were applied, personal and political background, creative thinking process, and a critique of their thoughts. From religion, oppression, educational segregation, and the Civil Rights movement, Hal Cone and Cornel West made a remarkable amount of progressive contributions to society. The contributions made by Hal Cone and Cornel West are often over-looked by today’s youth. Black American youth and young adults in particular have become somewhat distant form Black history because the way things appears in today’s society. What is overlooked, and should often be recapped is; without the endurance and dedication within the creative minds of these two creative thinkers, it’s possible that oppression and segregation would still remain a part of our society. Many Civil Rights leaders are responsible for the equality growth in our culture, and Hal Cone and Cornel West has been influential in ensuring Blacks continued to advance in America’s society. Both men contributed an important view to Civil Rights, and is known as leaders who changed the way...
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...Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Student PHL/458 June 4, 2012 Instructor Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Describe a situation in which critical and creative thought could have been used for a better outcome. Describe why it is important to think critically and creatively in similar situations. Alaska’s economy in the summer is in many ways driven by tourists visiting the state. A few years back the Alaska legislators enacted a head tax on visitors who arrive to the state. The $50. Per passenger tax was to go to projects that benefited the cruise line industry. Two problems arose from this ill-conceived tax; legislators could not find enough projects to put the funds to. Bradner,T, (2009) Par 10, along with this the downturn in the economy along with higher costs caused many cruise line companies to reconsider their Alaska destinations. If the legislators approached the cruise line companies and asked them for specific projects that would benefit their industry before levying a tax and then looking for projects they may have helped bolster the industry instead of hurting it. By thinking critically one considers the outcome and the effect ones decisions have. Also a creative thinker would look for inventive ways to accomplish goals that would have better outcomes than following the usual procedure. Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Explain how we use them to form thoughts. Free will is the ability to free oneself from the influences or...
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...Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Christopher Nieto PHL/ 458 May 1, 2014 Patricia Caracena Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Describe a situation in which critical and creative thought could have been used for a better outcome. Describe why it is important to think critically and creatively in similar situations. Alaska’s economy in the summer is in many ways driven by tourists visiting the state. A few years back the Alaska legislators enacted a head tax on visitors who arrive to the state. The $50. Per passenger tax was to go to projects that benefited the cruise line industry. Two problems arose from this ill-conceived tax; legislators could not find enough projects to put the funds to. Bradner,T, (2009) Par 10, along with this the downturn in the economy along with higher costs caused many cruise line companies to reconsider their Alaska destinations. If the legislators approached the cruise line companies and asked them for specific projects that would benefit their industry before levying a tax and then looking for projects they may have helped bolster the industry instead of hurting it. By thinking critically one considers the outcome and the effect ones decisions have. Also a creative thinker would look for inventive ways to accomplish goals that would have better outcomes than following the usual procedure. Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Explain how we use them to form thoughts. Free will is the ability to free oneself...
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...Critical Thinking and Society Jason Terry PHL/458 September 3, 2012 Cher Summers Critical Thinking and Society In the business world, we are influenced by the thoughts and actions of those around us. We are often encouraged to change our opinion or views based on the information that we are given at that moment in time. Persuasive speaking has proven to be an effective form of communication. When used properly it can change the way we operate and or manage many of our working environments. In this paper I plan to describe a situation which critical and creative thinking could have been used more effective to produce a better outcome in my personal working environment. The definition of free will, truth and knowledge will give insight to critical thinking. Understanding three specific hindrances, such as resistance to change, stereotyping and conformity, will give you the general understanding of the hindrances and how we can overcome them. Lastly, advertising plays a major part in today’s persuasive thoughts. I will evaluate one specific advertisement to find and explain the reality of the message. Critical and Creative Thoughts In healthcare, we often make hasty decisions without looking at the total impact that it may have on the organization. In early spring of 2010, the Federal government passed a law requiring hospitals to upgrade to electronic medical records. Funding was earmarked for this project and deadlines were set stating that hospitals would...
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...PHL 458 CRITICAL THINKING | | Week One Assignment | | | The definition of free will is; the power of making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances or by an agency such as fate or divine will. We use free will to form thoughts by allowing ourselves to completely let go of all external and internal influences to create a free will thought. Truth is defined as; “is what is so about something, the reality of the matter, or as distinguished from what people wish were so, believe to be so or assert to be so.”Ruggiero, 2009 in other words a statement proven to be or accepted as true. We use the truth to form ideas or thoughts but must then test that thought or theory for it to be a truth then we can add to that truth or validate that truth. The definition of knowledge is the facts, feelings or experiences known by a person or group of people. We use knowledge to form thoughts by using understanding gained through experiences, observations or from report from other people to form our thoughts. The word opinion is defined as; a belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof. We use our opinions to form thoughts by one, expressing our likes and dislikes and by our personal judgments. There are three major hindrances to the critical thinking process and they are; mine is better habit, conformity and generalizations (stereotyping). One method to overcome some of these hindrances...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Sonya Walls PHL 458 December 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the video, Elizabeth Gilbert, a 40-year old author, explains how she began her start in writing. This speech takes place in California, February 2009, in front of hundreds of people. There, Elizabeth digs deep into her past to convey to the audience “the elusive creative genius.” As a teenager, Elizabeth knew exactly what she wanted to do. Her dream was to become a professional writer and she felt determined to achieve her goal. Being looked at as a far-fetched idea, people would often ask her if she felt that it would be the right career for her. She would always respond with a yes but fear began to grow. She was afraid, but she still had a vision to be what she felt like was her calling. If she didn’t take a chance and try, she would never know if she could achieve it. She ignored everyone and began to pursue it anyway. As she began to research the “arts” what was revealed to her was simply shocking. According to Elizabeth, everyone that pursued the arts or were trying to pursue the arts were considered to be mentally unstable. To Elizabeth, this statement had to come from a source where creativity was not present. Elizabeth felt that people who pursued the arts were often misunderstood and their thought process was different from the average person. Elizabeth explained that Romans felt that their creativity came from an outside source, For example, if there was an...
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...Critical and Creative Thinking PHL/ 458 Describe a situation of public interest in which critical and/or creative thought could have been used for a better outcome. Describe why it is important to think critically and creatively in similar situations. Recently, Facebook has force its users to download a separate messenger application that is supposedly to give user a faster way to send messages to other users directly from application instead from the current Facebook application. The creative thought was to have instant/real time access to communicate with other Facebook users. With the new application it forces Facebook to have access to your phone (i.e. Camera, contacts and even what you search in google). The messenger s has closed the gap on traveling long distances to meet with someone face to face or the delivery of a letter. That right now, instant access to whomever to transact personal or business with your customers or loved ones has evolved into a right now/instant way to communicate. Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Explain how we use them to form thoughts. What role does each play in critically assessing situations? Free will is defined as voluntarily; independently. Truth is a reality or a fact. Knowledge is the Familiarity and Information. Opinion can be define as the Belief; point of view; advice We use our own thoughts and judgments to coincide with each and every idea or thought we formulate. Whether right or wrong...
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...Solve a Problem PHL/458 Rebekah Armstrong University of Phoenix Aleyda Cardenas February 17, 2014 Solve a Problem Creative thinkers have a generalized set of character traits used within the creative thinking process to assist with finding the best resolution to the challenge faced that consist of originality, use of imagination, and effectiveness. Through each of the four stages of creative thinking, thinkers continuously find challenges and multiple ideas that create solutions for these challenges. Determining what the most effective solution to the challenge is may take a varied amount of time but because creative thinkers are so dedicated, they will keep striving to meet their goal. The personal challenge search effectively demonstrated all areas of the creative thinking process from beginning to end. Creative thinking is not just an art form; it is a process that requires hard-work and dedication from independent individuals who strive to find the best possible solution to a challenge. Creative Thinking Process The creative thinking process consists of four steps which break down the different essential areas that cover all aspects of the process, from beginning to end. Creative thinkers have character traits of boldness, resourcefulness, independence, are generally dedicated hard workers. Each step of the creative thinking process is routine for creative thinkers because they know until one step is completed the next cannot commence. Step 1 Many...
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