Media Bias assignment Week 3 HUM/111 06/10/2012 GORSHA GALBRAITH Making critical evaluation is essential to understanding the underlying facts from media. The Travyon Martin & George Zimmerman case was well known issue in today’s society. Many news stations displayed Travyon depicted as an innocent boy and Zimmerman as a ruthless individual. The media facts were concerned with the entertainment and not the facts; it seemed like each news station was investigating the truth of story, but promoting
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To Drill or Not to Drill? April Augello HUM/111 2/24/2013 Bruce Bennett To Drill or Not to Drill? There are many types of energy used for our industrialized nation uses, there are only two types of energy; there is fossil fuels and renewable energy. These would power our factories, automobiles, electrical appliances and many other features of modern life. Fossil fuels like petroleum, natural gas, and coal are not a renewable source of energy. Renewable energy is found in
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Hunger in America Richard W. Curtis HUM/111 – Critical and Creative Thinking Kathleen Poole October 27, 2013 Hunger in America The search engine I used was Google, in the search box, ‘cuts to food stamps’, this is just one of the many article that the search engine provided. This article helps to explain what the cuts will do to families. I’m going to show that the cuts the government is making in the food stamps program, will hurt many families. These cuts can range anywhere from 11 dollars
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Creative Thinking Name HUM/111 April 28, 2013 Yasmeen Thomas Creative Thinking Of all the political issues present in our country today, the issue of Gay Marriage is one that everyone has an opinion on. There are very few people who will ever say, “I have no opinion.” They may not want to express their opinion, but everyone will have an opinion on this topic. The Gay Marriage debate is explosive because it touches several hot buttons: religion, civil rights, homosexuality, homophobia
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Detecting Media Bias Nolan Tisdale HUM/111 9/15/2013 James Williams, PhD, DM, CHE Detecting Media Bias The article titled Lawsuit targets Medicaid expansion in Arizona, discusses the latest lawsuit filed by Legislators to targeting the federal Healthcare Reform Law. This article was posted on September 12 2013, on the Fox 10 Phoenix website. The subject of the article is the Lawsuit filed by 36 Republican legislators to target GOP Gov. Jan Brew’s plan to expand
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To Drill Or Not To Drill Hum/111 02/13/2011 Natalie D. Harris I think that when it comes to drilling for oil in foreign countries or spending money to create new technology to make our own oil we should make the new technology and have our own oil. Three reasons why I am on this side is because you have to spend money to make money or save money, there will not be any more wars over oil and we will gain more independence. Those three reasons all tie into each other in some way because we
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Kendele Sitter 08/23/2014 HUM/111 Barriers of Critical Thinking 1) Stubbornness. Referred to as “the method of tenacity,” stubbornness is a big barrier for me when it comes to critically thinking. I have a comfort in clinging stubbornly to my beliefs, even when evidence and new facts emerge that place my views in question. Being stubborn influences my thinking immensely. I have a constant fear of insecurity as well as a feeling to protect my thoughts with predictability. This barrier
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Problem-Solving Process: Part I HUM/111 March 30, 2014 Pam Strunk Problem-Solving Process: Part I The situation in my life what I have chosen to use for is assignment is my sons weight. This is something his father and I have weekly discussions about. The problem is my son is overweight for his age and height and we want him to be a healthier weight. The issue is that his father believes he does not eat a healthy diet and
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Stefani Delap Bruce Beard Hum:111 01/31/16 The Mysterious Construction of The Pyramids Of Giza The Mysterious Construction of The Pyramids Of Giza The Pyramids of Giza are a great tourist attraction and an even more perplexing ideology of architectural construction. How were these great monuments built? In regarding how the pyramids were constructed, there have been many theories proposed but none have adequate
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Personal Reflection Paper Maria Williams HUM/111 February 24, 2013 Stephanie Washington Personal Reflection Paper The subject of critical thinking is one that has broadened my thinking horizon by a lot and I am happy to share. Critical thinking is a “type of reasonable, reflective thinking that is aim at deciding what to believe or what to do”. It is a way of deciding whether a
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