The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia

The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia EP 20: The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia How To Incorporate EP 20: The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia How To Incorporate Welcome to Episode 20 of the Homework Help Show! Have you ever wondered what your professors mean when they ask you to think critically? How do you learn the critical skills they are asking you to use? This week our Host and Top Writer Cath Anne discussed the importance of critical thinking in academia and gives you a series of skills you can incorporate into your learning right away! Looking for study tips, help with essay writing, or advice on how to be a better student? Welcome to The Homework Help Show, a weekly show where we teach, assist, and offer valuable insights for student life. From study hacks to writing tips, discussions about student mental health to step-by-step guides on academic writing and how to write a resume, weve got you covered. Want your questions answered? Write them below or join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #askHHG TRANSCRIPT: Cath Anne: [00:00:06] Whats up guys? Im Cath Anne and welcome to Episode 20 of The Homework Help Show. Cath Anne: [00:00:13] Im really pumped because we have changed our format up a little bit. We were doing live streams quite consistently, but now we are going to be doing a YouTube video a week and a quick Q and A on Instagram Live and Facebook Live, if you guys have any questions. So Im really excited about this new format. If youre unfamiliar with this show every week on The Homework Help Show we provide you with valuable content for your academic life. Cath Anne: [00:00:39] This week were going to discuss how to incorporate critical thinking skills into your work. Have you ever heard the phrase critical thinking? Im sure you have. If you are in university this is definitely something that gets thrown around regularly. What does it mean to you? For some people it might mean something quite negative. The word critical evokes a negative connotation. It might suggest that you have to pick things apart or deconstruct things or be really judgmental. In a way it does. Cath Anne: [00:01:14] However thinking about things critically can also help you to learn and it actually means a lot more than just being a general grump. Critical thinking is a skill that we engage in everyday. It is basically how we make a decision. We are essentially using critical thinking, every time we decide to make decision. It makes sense that this is something that we can apply to our academic career as well. Cath Anne: [00:01:43] However, in University and College critical thinking definitely has a broader meaning. Be critical means making informed, educational judgments about social issues, literature, math, and other topics that we talk about often in university. It can also mean distinguishing between facts and opinion. It also helps us to determine whether a theory is valid and how to actually apply that theory in context. Cath Anne: [00:02:17] When we make academic judgments they have to be grounded in research. As you probably know all of your profs are very consistently stringent on whether you are using appropriate academic resources or not. So critical thinking skills allow us to take that information to break it down or deconstruct it and to put it into a really well written essay or to apply it in a test or an exam. The benefit of critical thinking skills is that they allow us to consider things from all sides. So when we access all of this information it might feel a little bit overwhelming but its actually great to draw on different perspectives and different ways of knowing and different types of research in order to inform your topic. Cath Anne: [00:03:12] Critical thinking is a necessary component of academia because it is through the critical thinking process that information is actually developed and that knowledge is contributed to a particular field. So for example, when people are doing research they are looking at past research that has been done on a topic. Theyre taking all of the information theyre basically doing a literature review something that you might be familiar with. Theyre going through and theyre figuring out where the gaps in this literature and what questions can be answered in order to create new research and to contribute to the field. As a critically thinking student this is something that you are learning. Cath Anne: [00:03:58] It is important to incorporate this process into your reading, your notetaking, your essay writing, and your presentation. If you are in a professional field such as social work, nursing, or engineering. These are skills that can also apply to your future practice as you are going through school as well. Cath Anne: [00:04:20] So critical thinking. The cool thing about it is that it doesnt only apply to academia. It can also help us to navigate our daily lives as well. When we enhance our critical thinking skills if we can improve our decision-making processes and make stronger decisions based on accounting for all of the information that we take in. If we enhance our critical thinking skills, we can improve our decision-making processes and make stronger decisions based on accounting for all of the information. Remember, most of our everyday thinking are uncritical. We generally go through the days without thinking about every step, without deconstructing how we act, without thinking about societal issues, or you know gender roles or any of those topics that come up in academia. However, there is a time in a place when we can use critical thinking in our daily lives and where it can actually contribute to social change and changes in our own lives. Cath Anne: [00:05:30] Today were going to talk about how to use critical thinking in academia and how we actually learn some of these critical thinking skills and apply them to our life as a student and to our academic work. So you might be familiar with when profs give you an assignment. Perhaps your first assignment is quite small, it might be one or two pages and they ask you something pretty basic. The next assignment might build on that and then the third assignment is the final exam. That final piece is where you take all of your assignments and put them all together. That is actually called the scaffolding technique. Your prof is trying to teach you to develop critical thinking skills. It becomes a built in mechanism in academia and in the university and in college. However there are different ways of doing it and different professors and instructors will do it different ways. Cath Anne: [00:06:35] Its also really great to be working on your critical thinking skills and being aware of critical thinking skills, as a student so that you can have a one up on your academic work. Cath Anne: [00:06:46] Lets discuss one of the first tips that you can use to enhance your critical thinking skills in academia. Ask basic questions. What I mean by that is that is, as we know our social world is really complex and there is tons of information to take in. As students when were going through and sifting through research and literature it can often be overwhelming and seem very complicated and just be a little bit over our heads. However we can begin simply by asking simple questions. When in answer to a question becomes very complex we can actually lose the meaning of it. So when youre starting with an assignment it can be great just to be simple. Cath Anne: [00:07:32] Take the content that you know and work with that. Ask some of the following questions. What do you already know? If you are in an English class, maybe youve taken an English class. Ask what you already know about the topic. Draw on your existing knowledge and information. You will be surprised how much information you already have. Start by creating an outline and answer: what do you already know about this topic? Write it down from there. Ask yourself how do you know that? Maybe you think about some references that you might have had in your first year English class or when it comes to social work, as thats my background. I remember there were always some specific papers that I consistently referenced throughout my degree because they really stood out to me. What are some references that you can draw on from the past that youre really familiar with? Can you incorporate them into this work? You might not be able to do this but in this case you can also draw on the existing literature. Cath Anne: [00:08:33] So if you do have some information about a topic go ahead and do a little bit of research a little bit of digging and see why you actually know. If there is literature to back up what you already know then youre going to ask yourself: what are you trying to prove/disprove/demonstrate/critique? This process would actually be the beginning process of developing your thesis statement and framing out your assignment. Then you want to ask what are you overlooking. So are there any additional information that you should add to your outline? Cath Anne: [00:09:10] This can be good in the process of getting you to think a little bit outside the box. Getting you to think critically about the literature and helping you to engage with the literature rather than being overwhelmed. You actually do have some knowledge to contribute and this will begin your process of critical thinking. You can use this technique when it comes to studying as well. It can actually help to solidify some information in your brain when youre trying to memorize things. This is actually a really good process for either writing a paper or studying. If you have a little bit more time for that. Cath Anne: [00:09:48] As I mentioned definitely begin this process by doing an outline. This might even be a pre-outline. Just answer these basic questions and this will help you to write your paper a lot more quickly and a lot more fluidly. Engaging in a critical thinking process does not have to be complex even though the word critical can make it feel that it might be a little complex. You definitely dont have to make him overly complicated. Ask these simple questions and start where you are and then it should all flow from there. Cath Anne: [00:10:30] A second tip to developing your critical thinking skills is to question your basic assumptions. Particularly when youre writing a paper or thinking through a problem you are going to be coming at it with your own biases and analyses from everyday life. We all have these basic assumptions and thats okay. But academic quality work must extend beyond our basic assumptions towards analysis and synthesis of information. When we check our own assumptions at the door we can go into analysis with a clear head and go into research with an open mind. This can also extend beyond academia. This can apply to our mental processes as well. Cath Anne: [00:11:20] We all have ways of making life simpler. We have shortcuts in the way we do things. This is actually called heuristics, which are basically mental shortcuts. These were things that we used to when we were hunter-gatherers. It was really helpful for us to be able to make quick decisions or have shortcuts in terms of thinking. But nowadays our world is a little bit more complex than the hunter gatherer society. So we do need to be aware of those heuristics that we have built in for ourselves. Certainly they can be useful in some situations but they arent necessarily useful when youre writing an academic paper because you might take a short cut in something. Just be aware of these underlying biases. These heuristics are mental shortcuts. Maybe you write them down just so that you understand your own processes a little bit more. Cath Anne: [00:12:15] Some other tips are to read more, become more educated, and become more informed about how others think. These are three ways that we can be more aware of our own assumptions our own biases and our own mental shortcuts. Cath Anne: [00:12:39] A third tip to improve your critical thinking skills is to remember to think for yourself. Although you will evidently be drawing on academic literature and information when you do the research and write papers, it is important to remember to think for yourself. While this does not mean incorporating your own opinion or biases into your writing it does mean that you must analyze the situation through a critical lens. So go back and ask. Basic questions as we discussed. What is missing? Is there a gap in the literature? What is this research saying? Does it make sense in in relation to other research that you see on the topic? Cath Anne: [00:13:21] Think through the literature using your own power of deduction. So although you will be drawing on resources to make your point you want to make sure that youre using your own critical thinking skills because youll be increasing that critical thinking muscle. This will lead to a stronger paper and it will also show the professor that you can do more than regurgitate literature because that is what theyre looking for. Theyre looking for you to analyze and grapple with the data. So make sure that you are truly engaging with the literature and thinking through it yourself. Cath Anne: [00:13:55] So finally I wanted to give you a five step process. Weve already talked about this a little bit but this was actually developed by TED ED, TED Talks educational YouTube channel. It can help you to develop your critical thinking skills. Cath Anne: [00:14:12] The first step in the process is to formulate your question. So in an academic setting this looks like creating your thesis or writing your hypothesis. What is the question that youre looking at. Often if youre writing an academic paper, this will already be given to you in the outline provided by the professor. You will also have to enhance it and develop it yourself. Dig into the research. Figure out what there is out there on the topic and really take a few days to get engaged with the research and the literature so that you can develop your own opinion on the topic. Cath Anne: [00:14:52] Apply the information. So ask yourself what concepts are at work? What assumptions exist? Is your interpretation logically sound? Cath Anne: [00:15:01] So again this is a process of going back to your own mental biases, your own heuristics. Understanding whether your assessment of the information makes sense in relation to the literature that youre reviewing. Consider the implications of this information. So what does this research imply in terms of the world? Are they making any suggestions about how to change things? Are they making any suggestions about how this scientific research will apply to human nature? So what does this information mean? Because when youre considering that itll also allow you to develop a stronger critical analysis and understand the information in context. Cath Anne: [00:15:46] Then fifth you want to explore other points of view. This is absolutely necessary when you are writing an academic paper because you dont only want to provide one view of a topic or one analysis of some research because you want to have a well-rounded analysis. By presenting and exploring other points of view, youre also going to have a stronger argument because youre going to understand what the other person or what the other group of people will say about the topic. You will be able to therefore strengthen your own argument. Cath Anne: [00:16:29] So, guys that is it for this week. I hope this video was helpful for you. Thank you so much for tuning into The Homework Help Show. Im really excited for our new format and Im really hoping that you will join us again. Cath Anne: [00:16:44] As I mentioned on Thursday were going to be jumping on live for about 10 minutes on Instagram Live and Facebook Live just for a little Q and A session. Well also be jumping on to remind you to check out this YouTube video. So if you are interested in any more of our content we have tons of it out there please visit us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Plus, YouTube, Medium. And were also on SoundCloud, Anchor, iTunes Apple podcasts, Google Play Music. If you are more of a listener. All you have to do is search for Homework Help Global and we will be there. Also just a little reminder if you did like this video please SUBSCRIBE below and give us a thumbs up. That would be great and would really help us. So if you have any other questions please leave them in the comments below and I am looking forward to seeing you again. Cath Anne: [00:17:40] Take care guys. The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia EP 20: The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia How To Incorporate EP 20: The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Academia How To Incorporate Welcome to Episode 20 of the Homework Help Show! Have you ever wondered what your professors mean when they ask you to think critically? How do you learn the critical skills they are asking you to use? This week our Host and Top Writer Cath Anne discussed the importance of critical thinking in academia and gives you a series of skills you can incorporate into your learning right away! Looking for study tips, help with essay writing, or advice on how to be a better student? Welcome to The Homework Help Show, a weekly show where we teach, assist, and offer valuable insights for student life. From study hacks to writing tips, discussions about student mental health to step-by-step guides on academic writing and how to write a resume, weve got you covered. Want your questions answered? Write them below or join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #askHHG TRANSCRIPT: Cath Anne: [00:00:06] Whats up guys? Im Cath Anne and welcome to Episode 20 of The Homework Help Show. Cath Anne: [00:00:13] Im really pumped because we have changed our format up a little bit. We were doing live streams quite consistently, but now we are going to be doing a YouTube video a week and a quick Q and A on Instagram Live and Facebook Live, if you guys have any questions. So Im really excited about this new format. If youre unfamiliar with this show every week on The Homework Help Show we provide you with valuable content for your academic life. Cath Anne: [00:00:39] This week were going to discuss how to incorporate critical thinking skills into your work. Have you ever heard the phrase critical thinking? Im sure you have. If you are in university this is definitely something that gets thrown around regularly. What does it mean to you? For some people it might mean something quite negative. The word critical evokes a negative connotation. It might suggest that you have to pick things apart or deconstruct things or be really judgmental. In a way it does. Cath Anne: [00:01:14] However thinking about things critically can also help you to learn and it actually means a lot more than just being a general grump. Critical thinking is a skill that we engage in everyday. It is basically how we make a decision. We are essentially using critical thinking, every time we decide to make decision. It makes sense that this is something that we can apply to our academic career as well. Cath Anne: [00:01:43] However, in University and College critical thinking definitely has a broader meaning. Be critical means making informed, educational judgments about social issues, literature, math, and other topics that we talk about often in university. It can also mean distinguishing between facts and opinion. It also helps us to determine whether a theory is valid and how to actually apply that theory in context. Cath Anne: [00:02:17] When we make academic judgments they have to be grounded in research. As you probably know all of your profs are very consistently stringent on whether you are using appropriate academic resources or not. So critical thinking skills allow us to take that information to break it down or deconstruct it and to put it into a really well written essay or to apply it in a test or an exam. The benefit of critical thinking skills is that they allow us to consider things from all sides. So when we access all of this information it might feel a little bit overwhelming but its actually great to draw on different perspectives and different ways of knowing and different types of research in order to inform your topic. Cath Anne: [00:03:12] Critical thinking is a necessary component of academia because it is through the critical thinking process that information is actually developed and that knowledge is contributed to a particular field. So for example, when people are doing research they are looking at past research that has been done on a topic. Theyre taking all of the information theyre basically doing a literature review something that you might be familiar with. Theyre going through and theyre figuring out where the gaps in this literature and what questions can be answered in order to create new research and to contribute to the field. As a critically thinking student this is something that you are learning. Cath Anne: [00:03:58] It is important to incorporate this process into your reading, your notetaking, your essay writing, and your presentation. If you are in a professional field such as social work, nursing, or engineering. These are skills that can also apply to your future practice as you are going through school as well. Cath Anne: [00:04:20] So critical thinking. The cool thing about it is that it doesnt only apply to academia. It can also help us to navigate our daily lives as well. When we enhance our critical thinking skills if we can improve our decision-making processes and make stronger decisions based on accounting for all of the information that we take in. If we enhance our critical thinking skills, we can improve our decision-making processes and make stronger decisions based on accounting for all of the information. Remember, most of our everyday thinking are uncritical. We generally go through the days without thinking about every step, without deconstructing how we act, without thinking about societal issues, or you know gender roles or any of those topics that come up in academia. However, there is a time in a place when we can use critical thinking in our daily lives and where it can actually contribute to social change and changes in our own lives. Cath Anne: [00:05:30] Today were going to talk about how to use critical thinking in academia and how we actually learn some of these critical thinking skills and apply them to our life as a student and to our academic work. So you might be familiar with when profs give you an assignment. Perhaps your first assignment is quite small, it might be one or two pages and they ask you something pretty basic. The next assignment might build on that and then the third assignment is the final exam. That final piece is where you take all of your assignments and put them all together. That is actually called the scaffolding technique. Your prof is trying to teach you to develop critical thinking skills. It becomes a built in mechanism in academia and in the university and in college. However there are different ways of doing it and different professors and instructors will do it different ways. Cath Anne: [00:06:35] Its also really great to be working on your critical thinking skills and being aware of critical thinking skills, as a student so that you can have a one up on your academic work. Cath Anne: [00:06:46] Lets discuss one of the first tips that you can use to enhance your critical thinking skills in academia. Ask basic questions. What I mean by that is that is, as we know our social world is really complex and there is tons of information to take in. As students when were going through and sifting through research and literature it can often be overwhelming and seem very complicated and just be a little bit over our heads. However we can begin simply by asking simple questions. When in answer to a question becomes very complex we can actually lose the meaning of it. So when youre starting with an assignment it can be great just to be simple. Cath Anne: [00:07:32] Take the content that you know and work with that. Ask some of the following questions. What do you already know? If you are in an English class, maybe youve taken an English class. Ask what you already know about the topic. Draw on your existing knowledge and information. You will be surprised how much information you already have. Start by creating an outline and answer: what do you already know about this topic? Write it down from there. Ask yourself how do you know that? Maybe you think about some references that you might have had in your first year English class or when it comes to social work, as thats my background. I remember there were always some specific papers that I consistently referenced throughout my degree because they really stood out to me. What are some references that you can draw on from the past that youre really familiar with? Can you incorporate them into this work? You might not be able to do this but in this case you can also draw on the existing literature. Cath Anne: [00:08:33] So if you do have some information about a topic go ahead and do a little bit of research a little bit of digging and see why you actually know. If there is literature to back up what you already know then youre going to ask yourself: what are you trying to prove/disprove/demonstrate/critique? This process would actually be the beginning process of developing your thesis statement and framing out your assignment. Then you want to ask what are you overlooking. So are there any additional information that you should add to your outline? Cath Anne: [00:09:10] This can be good in the process of getting you to think a little bit outside the box. Getting you to think critically about the literature and helping you to engage with the literature rather than being overwhelmed. You actually do have some knowledge to contribute and this will begin your process of critical thinking. You can use this technique when it comes to studying as well. It can actually help to solidify some information in your brain when youre trying to memorize things. This is actually a really good process for either writing a paper or studying. If you have a little bit more time for that. Cath Anne: [00:09:48] As I mentioned definitely begin this process by doing an outline. This might even be a pre-outline. Just answer these basic questions and this will help you to write your paper a lot more quickly and a lot more fluidly. Engaging in a critical thinking process does not have to be complex even though the word critical can make it feel that it might be a little complex. You definitely dont have to make him overly complicated. Ask these simple questions and start where you are and then it should all flow from there. Cath Anne: [00:10:30] A second tip to developing your critical thinking skills is to question your basic assumptions. Particularly when youre writing a paper or thinking through a problem you are going to be coming at it with your own biases and analyses from everyday life. We all have these basic assumptions and thats okay. But academic quality work must extend beyond our basic assumptions towards analysis and synthesis of information. When we check our own assumptions at the door we can go into analysis with a clear head and go into research with an open mind. This can also extend beyond academia. This can apply to our mental processes as well. Cath Anne: [00:11:20] We all have ways of making life simpler. We have shortcuts in the way we do things. This is actually called heuristics, which are basically mental shortcuts. These were things that we used to when we were hunter-gatherers. It was really helpful for us to be able to make quick decisions or have shortcuts in terms of thinking. But nowadays our world is a little bit more complex than the hunter gatherer society. So we do need to be aware of those heuristics that we have built in for ourselves. Certainly they can be useful in some situations but they arent necessarily useful when youre writing an academic paper because you might take a short cut in something. Just be aware of these underlying biases. These heuristics are mental shortcuts. Maybe you write them down just so that you understand your own processes a little bit more. Cath Anne: [00:12:15] Some other tips are to read more, become more educated, and become more informed about how others think. These are three ways that we can be more aware of our own assumptions our own biases and our own mental shortcuts. Cath Anne: [00:12:39] A third tip to improve your critical thinking skills is to remember to think for yourself. Although you will evidently be drawing on academic literature and information when you do the research and write papers, it is important to remember to think for yourself. While this does not mean incorporating your own opinion or biases into your writing it does mean that you must analyze the situation through a critical lens. So go back and ask. Basic questions as we discussed. What is missing? Is there a gap in the literature? What is this research saying? Does it make sense in in relation to other research that you see on the topic? Cath Anne: [00:13:21] Think through the literature using your own power of deduction. So although you will be drawing on resources to make your point you want to make sure that youre using your own critical thinking skills because youll be increasing that critical thinking muscle. This will lead to a stronger paper and it will also show the professor that you can do more than regurgitate literature because that is what theyre looking for. Theyre looking for you to analyze and grapple with the data. So make sure that you are truly engaging with the literature and thinking through it yourself. Cath Anne: [00:13:55] So finally I wanted to give you a five step process. Weve already talked about this a little bit but this was actually developed by TED ED, TED Talks educational YouTube channel. It can help you to develop your critical thinking skills. Cath Anne: [00:14:12] The first step in the process is to formulate your question. So in an academic setting this looks like creating your thesis or writing your hypothesis. What is the question that youre looking at. Often if youre writing an academic paper, this will already be given to you in the outline provided by the professor. You will also have to enhance it and develop it yourself. Dig into the research. Figure out what there is out there on the topic and really take a few days to get engaged with the research and the literature so that you can develop your own opinion on the topic. Cath Anne: [00:14:52] Apply the information. So ask yourself what concepts are at work? What assumptions exist? Is your interpretation logically sound? Cath Anne: [00:15:01] So again this is a process of going back to your own mental biases, your own heuristics. Understanding whether your assessment of the information makes sense in relation to the literature that youre reviewing. Consider the implications of this information. So what does this research imply in terms of the world? Are they making any suggestions about how to change things? Are they making any suggestions about how this scientific research will apply to human nature? So what does this information mean? Because when youre considering that itll also allow you to develop a stronger critical analysis and understand the information in context. Cath Anne: [00:15:46] Then fifth you want to explore other points of view. This is absolutely necessary when you are writing an academic paper because you dont only want to provide one view of a topic or one analysis of some research because you want to have a well-rounded analysis. By presenting and exploring other points of view, youre also going to have a stronger argument because youre going to understand what the other person or what the other group of people will say about the topic. You will be able to therefore strengthen your own argument. Cath Anne: [00:16:29] So, guys that is it for this week. I hope this video was helpful for you. Thank you so much for tuning into The Homework Help Show. Im really excited for our new format and Im really hoping that you will join us again. Cath Anne: [00:16:44] As I mentioned on Thursday were going to be jumping on live for about 10 minutes on Instagram Live and Facebook Live just for a little Q and A session. Well also be jumping on to remind you to check out this YouTube video. So if you are interested in any more of our content we have tons of it out there please visit us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Plus, YouTube, Medium. And were also on SoundCloud, Anchor, iTunes Apple podcasts, Google Play Music. If you are more of a listener. All you have to do is search for Homework Help Global and we will be there. Also just a little reminder if you did like this video please SUBSCRIBE below and give us a thumbs up. That would be great and would really help us. So if you have any other questions please leave them in the comments below and I am looking forward to seeing you again. Cath Anne: [00:17:40] Take care guys.

Should We Allow Hate Speech - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 2 Words: 591 Downloads: 3 Date added: 2019/05/13 Category Law Essay Level High school Topics: Freedom of Speech Essay Did you like this example? Should we allow hate speech? Should we punish people who are exercising their right to protest? The freedom of speech is one of the most important rights, if not the most important. Having the right to say what you want allows people to be critical of their government without fear of being arrested. Our current political environment is testing what this right is and how liberal we should be with it. Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "Should We Allow Hate Speech?" essay for you Create order There have been many protests on both sides of our political divide that question what is right regarding free speech. The controversy around Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the National Anthem and then not getting picked up by a team was unfair and punishing him for using his freedom of speech rights. The NFL players kneeling is important to protect because all ideas deserve a fair hearing and them kneeling during the national anthem makes their feelings heard over a bigger audience. Kaepernick talked with service members before he decided to kneel to determine what would be the best course of action to take. Then the NFL dropped him from his team and he didnt get picked up again. They have made rules about players kneeling that violate their rights. It was wrong for the President to say they should be fired if they kneel. He should protect their right to peacefully protest. Many people are calling on others to boycott the NFL for their stand on this issue, including not advertising during the Super Bowl or not performing during the halftime show. The Neo Nazis in Charlottesville also have the right to peacefully protest as long as they dont call for violence or are violent. It is easy to protect freedom of speech when what is being said most people agree with. It is much harder to do it when it is something we reject. If we deny their right to speak or peacefully protest, it emboldens them and makes their message more powerful. The best thing would be to let them speak, but no one listen so they didnt have a platform. The KKK has been spreading literature around this area and creating fear in people in the region. This is an example where its difficult to protect freedom of speech. Just this week, there have been three incidents of hate filled violence in this country. A man sent pipe bombs to CNN and leaders of this country, another man killed two people in a Kroger grocery store, and lastly a man killed 11 people in a Jewish synagogue. Many have said that President Trumps hate filled and racially charged comments at his rallies have radicalized these men to doing violent acts. Germany has enacted hate speech laws to try to get rid of social media and news media posts that are inflammatory, but how do you police that? Social media has billions of users and making the companies police this themselves seems like something that is impossible to do. We have to choose as a society who we give our attention to. It is up to us to police ourselves and others. Freedom of Speech is a fundamental right that was given to us by our founding fathers because they had lived under tyranny and knew the power that it provided. Our current administration is trying to curb those rights and the rights of the press and consolidate power because they know that to silence us is to weaken us and limit our freedoms. Though we dont always agree, we must protect our right to say what we believe.

Negotiating International Business - Mexico Essay examples

Negotiating International Business - Mexico This section is an excerpt from the book â€Å"Negotiating International Business - The Negotiator’s Reference Guide to 50 Countries Around the World† by Lothar Katz. It has been updated with inputs from readers and others, most recently in March 2008. While some businesspeople and officials in Mexico may have only limited exposure to other cul- tures, many are reasonably familiar with and prepared for doing business internationally. However, that does not always mean that they will be open-minded. When negotiating business here, realize that people may expect things to be done ‘their way,’ in which case you should strive to understand, and occasionally emulate, their behavior in order to gain the†¦show more content†¦This can be a time-consuming process and may require several trips to strengthen the bonds. Mexicans tend to distrust people who appear unwilling to spend the time or whose motives for relationship building are unclear. Once you have established a working relationship, the Mexicans may still prefer to keep the initial engagement small and low-risk. They view this as an opportunity for you to prove yourself. Larger- scale business engagements require time to build. Business relationships in this country exist between people, not necessarily between companies. Even when you have won your local business partners’ friendship and trust, they will not neces- sarily trust others from your company. That makes it very important to keep company interfaces unchanged. Changing a key contact may require the relationship building process to start over. Families play a dominant role in Mexican society and business life. Many companies are family- owned or controlled. Mexican families can be large and may extend into powerful networks that not only include extended family but also friends, business partners, and others. 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According to Sokel, he refers to this as an intrinsic drive that comes from someone. One must work hard and be determined on everything that he anticipates to realize. He should not entirely depend on the external forces or commands from external sources to make him go through. We will write a custom essay sample on The Compatibility of Freedom and Necessity in Marx’s Idea or any similar topic only for you Order Now He highlights the Marxist idea that someone only appears to be a true human being who can be recognized in the society when he can be positively rewarded by the works of his hands. Whenever he is imposed by the economic necessity, the work cannot actually make him became alienated because he would be engaged with other people, which is already an agent of socialization. He does not become himself as an individual; rather, he is alienated from his humankind. In this short analysis, the metamorphosis, the protagonist might become a wrong person. When Gregor works as a salesperson, he has a lot in his mind. Things might not be adding up according to him because he has to travel long distances to get customer, he has to pay his bills; he also has to take good care of this family. All these burden mounted on him does not make him happy. For this reason, he has to remain alone and except himself from the company of many. The paper will look into this issue through citation of Kafka`s depiction on the way in which the protagonist react to the idea leading his family into the misfortune. He eventually suffer the guilt of conscience which by all means dismisses Marx`s assertion that loss of humanity can also come from external sources like work mates and family members. From the journal, Palvos states that dangling among the vicissitudes in the world without harmony accomplishes a great blow to one`s moral identity. In life, every turn a fatality that has nothing to do with an incorrigible personal law and ethical countenance. If this happens, ones hope and determinations are all shuttered and his life remains without a meaning. Gregor`s self alienation and humiliation is suggestive of the modern dilemma of human beings in the technological period of machines who brute facts and information systems. This analysis points through and through to the reality of material existence and the possibilities of its fall, consequently moves toward the complete subversion of an ethical universe. From a responsible man who could take good care of his family to someone who is mentally tortured and only feels comfortable when he isolates himself from other people. Gregor’s metamorphosis from a civilized man into a horrific and monstrous vermin, an instinctual underworld character with an almost automatic nature, and finally to a simple bit of matter, turns him into an antagonist who upsets all the instincts of life. Indeed, Kafka’s criminal world vermin gives rise to a deep and stifled impulse in modernity, to the gradual spiritual death of the human, a metamorphosis par excellence of the human substantiate that overrides all instinctual and hermeneutical bound. When the mental capability of human being fails to reason, he is recognized as a worthless being that is at par reasoning with all animals. Henceforth, the humiliated modern human -uprooted beyond bound. When one is stripped of all ethical purposefulness, he no longer possesses the moral entity given to thinking and questioning. He is called to de facto accept and obey the mastermind of pretence techno capital reality, and, the geophysical enterprise of its dully respect. Positive factors of freedom sometimes blind many people. Myamoto emphasized on this statement by saying that most of the rich and modernized societies today have a lot of freedom and they enjoy it extremely without sensing the side effects associated with the freedom. The societies have failed in looking at the two sides of the coin. He goes by saying that alienation is a side effect associated with the freedom which most of us have failed to look into with a lot of concern. He support his claim by citing Enrich Fromm`s concept of alienation. He says that the relation of human being is very pivotal especially to those who are alienated. Those alienated should be put close to other people. Being alone to people is not enough, but it should be in all dimensions, through feelings, thoughts and even actions. This source identifies alienation as one of the side effect of identification of human being. Kafka`s protagonist, Gregor is very potential and cooperative in providing to the family. He shows all the ability of taking care of his parents. However, at some points, he alienates himself from the family, an aspect of perpetuated by the ended gratitude and concordat he previously got from them. Because of the isolation, he cannot be identified as someone who is financially stable and can take good care of the family. According to Nicolae, he makes his argument to the modern family where one appears to be insignificant or cannot realize his life dreams. He argues that the fact that Gregory stays benevolent makes him appear someone who is finally alienated and spends most of his time alone even without the family knowing his whereabouts. Gregor is portrayed as one who cannot be recognized in the society and he struggles with his loneliness at work place where he decided to seek new identity. At one point, the protagonist identifies himself with a creature which does not make him associate in the light; he rather has to hide himself in the darkness. Actually, being rejected makes one loose his value and becomes worthless before other people. In this regard, this source proves resourceful in identifying the change in Gregor which is from metal to physical level because of the challenge he gets while dealing with his family. From the outlook, Gregor does no change his moral standing irrespective of all the humiliations that he comes across. According to this source, morality is a factor in Gregor`s alienation after being neglected by the family. The social strength which is acquired by the family proves a lot of dehumanization as they draw the attention they originally had for Gregor. According to Yaron, maintaining culture in the society is very important. Culture helps in preserving the codes of conduct that governs good stay in the community. One who alienates himself from the culture has no positive contribution to the society. According to him, Gregor commits no crime towards anyone only that he was not true to himself and there was nothing that amazing that could make him alienate himself the other people. The split that he experiences in his personality, his deepest struggle and abandoning the culture includes everything taking place within him. However, most people who do not experience such things do not know about it. They can either choose to ignore or deny it. Gregor out rightly bears no illusion about the metaphysical chasm that encircles him and the isolation it brings from those around him who are his equals but do not know it. This gulf is not alienation from his family and the hypocrisy of his relations to them both prior and after the metamorphosis, but is the isolation where a disillusioned man who awakens to a radical awareness of his own mortality suffers the awful experience of separation from others. The separation is actually against the culture. The culture does not allow one ton separate from others irrespective of the situation, however, this takes place because of what he feels in his innermost heart. His corporeity points to his mortality which makes the inhuman world his master. Gregor’s inhuman world is as incomprehensible to human reason and sensibility as is death; it is far more human and humane than the reality of the people surrounding him who have denied their own mortality. Following the customs of our world, and according to the laws of habit and self-complacency, it would be beyond the bounds of scientific innovation for us to wake one morning and find ourselves transformed into colossal insects. Grego`s metamorphosis touches a deep, unappreciated, and anguishing reality in life. This is nourished by sources which are deeper than those of cogent reflection and scientific knowledge. Our personal existence can sometime lead us to horrifying and most anguishing discovery. This points out that the transitory nature of our lives and places can absolutely have great demand on our moral nature to reconcile with its true temporal dimensions. In this plinth, Gregor is doomed from the beginning. His far-reaching transformation into vermin is just physical and irrevocably. Later, it fully becomes impossible for him to reconcile the radical discontinuity between his newly discovered physical structure and his prior human self. The sudden awakening to the devastating discovery of his metamorphosis even brings backfire of his daily expectations with a terrifying inability not to achieve them again. His former self remains qualitatively unchangeable, indeed throughout the story is mostly baffled helplessly trying to adjust to radical change. Despite the tremendous effort that he puts, he ultimately finds it impossible to cope or bridge the gap between an unbridgeable void, which makes his insect like physical structure and the retaining of meaningful human identity. How to cite The Compatibility of Freedom and Necessity in Marx’s Idea, Papers

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Question: Explain the professional practices in IT? Answer: Introduction The analysis of Big Data involves numerous distinct phases, each of which originates many challenges. Many people distinctly focus just on the modeling phase: while that aspect is important, it is of a very brief use without another phase's analysis of data pipeline. Even in the stage of analysis, which had received much attention, there are worst understood difficulties in the context of multi-tenanted collections where different users' programs run simultaneously (Prajapati et al. 2013). Many rich challenges extend beyond the phase of analysis. For instance, a Big Data has to be maintained in context, which might result very noisy, homogenous and not include and direct model (Davis et al. 2013). The need to track the origin and to manage error and uncertainty topics that are vital to success, yet frequently mentioned in the same breath as Big Data. Similarly, the investigations to the analysis of data pipeline will not all is laid out in advance. This study emphasized on data analy tics with considering Oracle as the case organization. Oracle is an object oriented database management system marketed and produced by Oracle Corporation. It is the world largest database management system software provider. Data Analytics Data Analytics is the branch of scrutinizing organic data with the aim of representing completion about the orientation (Chardonnens et al. 2013). It is used in many industries to make business decisions and to authenticate absolute theories. In other words, it is the process of examining, inspecting, testing, analyzing organization useful information, thereby helps in suggesting decision-making. It is very sophisticated software used by almost all the industry. Data Analytics in business: In many multi-national industries, the theory of data analytics is at height. Many industries use big data analytics. It refers to skills; practice, technology, and investigation of past activities of business that include past business performance, to gain organizational interest and turn to business planning. The figure shown below is the analytics of Oracle: Evolution of data analytics It is used in business management since the 19th century to face each challenge that frequently arises in commercial activities (Davis et al. 2013). After the invention of data analytics, it had succeeded to bring changes to a completely new level and made endless possibilities. Advantage of data analytics in Oracle: Errors of the organization are known shortly: It helps companies to react fastly to migrate the operational problems. This will assist the organizational operations to save quickly falling from the stop of the database products (Chardonnens et al. 2013). New and latest strategy of the industry are known immediately: With the system like Real-Time Big Data, the industry can move one step ahead to get notified of the direct competitor and to lower of the process immediately (Zheng et al.2015). Detection of fraud: In the world of the multi-national financial area is very attractive to the criminals. Hacking of any type of database system will be informed instantly (Prajapati et al. 2013). Disadvantage of data analytics in Oracle: Special computer power: In a company like an oracle the technology like Hadoop is not suitable for Oracle. New tools and latest technology increases costs of Oracle (Prajapati et al. 2013). Different insights of using real-time data: To gain an accurate information result from greater insights that will harm the entire industry by overlooking some of the processes. Maintain ace of the system: The management of the system in Oracle requires highly qualified and trained candidates to take and maintain several types of system (Chardonnens et al. 2013). Challenges faced by Oracle and recommendations to overcome: Challenges faced by Oracle Risk Assessment: In an industry like Oracle (Corporate Performance Management) helps to make the evolution of the real world technology. It is becoming very tough for the industry to maintain financial forecasting in the market (Prajapati et al. 2013). Because the whole database market is vastly complicated and interconnected. Analytics business real time: There is a mismatch between different businesses that where should they apply the allocated resources. In some places, business and data work faster than employees. However, in maximum places, it becomes a bottleneck as it is very useful (Chardonnens et al. 2013). In a real time system, the allocation of several resources is quite vital. Measuring proper Rate of Interest: Oracle develops several types of database software in the market. There is an enough competition for the same product thereby as a brand name of Oracle; it releases a product at a very low price (Zheng et al. 2015). Hence, it results in a low gain rate of interest Big Data Potential: The actual potential of Big Data application will be unlocked when we get a customized view. In an exact way, that we each have a personal profile on any sites, we will positively have a personally customized view of each data that we interact with.To unlock application vendors provide differentiated value. Suggested Strategy to overcome the challenges and rationale By collaborating with a digital solutions technology, a personalized technology system can be developed for Oracle, solving every organizational challenge listed above (Davis et al. 2013). To start an intelligent, analytical scheme and to implement with different digital campaigns allows Oracle to work efficiently and collect useful data (Brner et al. 2015). By maintaining integrated database system helps Oracle to get accessible to information quickly. It is very beneficial to make the environment more user-friendly from several source channels. It is very crucial for the industry to remove the unnecessary noise by making the interaction of consumer trends (Chardonnens et al. 2013). Dashboard analytics is the massive and vast amount of data that determines and gives the ability to organize and make the actual sense of data that had been collected. It takes the data and information to look visually and intuitive and make easily accessible presentable. Analysis of Data Analytics Transformation at Oracle with respect to customer satisfaction and Responsiveness From the view of customer Satisfaction: In this context, an example is taken into account. According to this, when any customer enters in a bank, Big Data allows the clerk to check their profile and helps them to learn different products they might advise (Chardonnens et al. 2013). It will also have a significant role to play in initializing the physical and digital spheres of shopping; retailers could suggest an offer a mobile, by customer indicating a need in a social media (Brner et al. 2015). From the point of view of Customer Responsiveness There are few responses from customers in view of data analytics: reporting and insights, holistic approach to different customer services, integration of external and internal data feed in public place, timely response, use of proper and dedicated software of data analytics Trend of Data Analytics in Oracle in Future (next 10 years) Trends of Big Data at Oracle in future Oracle is world number one database management software provider who integrates and manages different system and in that context the trend of Oracle till 2020 is shown below: Rationale of the selected Response Relational Data Cloud Data Analyze, big and enhanced data on Hadoop Aggregate and Transform data using interactive analysis, trends of data with Machine Learning, utilization of Internet things in Real Time Transforming business with a complete data analytics Conclusion This study concluded that the existence of Big Data, low-cost products hardware, and latest information management and analytical software has composed an exclusive moment in the history of analysis of data. The solitary of these trends means that we have the efficiency to analyze data sets cost-effectively and quickly for the first time in history. This potential is neither trivial nor theoretical. They perform a genuine surge forward and a fair opportunity to comprehend the enormous gains regarding productivity, efficiency, profitability and revenue. The youth of Big Data is here, and these are truly radical times if both technology and business professionals promote to work stable and convey on the promise. References Atkearney.com,. (2016). Big Data and the Creative Destruction of Today's Business Models. Retrieved 16 January 2016, from https://www.atkearney.com/strategic-it/ideas-insights/article/-/asset_publisher/LCcgOeS4t85g/content/big-data-and-the-creative-destruction-of-today-s-business-models/10192 Brner, M., Rhode, W., Ruhe, T., Morik, K., IceCube Collaboration. (2015). Discovering Neutrinos Through Data Analytics. 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Organic foods, although stereotypically known for having a bland taste or having no taste have been shown to improve ones quality of life be decreasing some health risk such as cancer or heart disease. If you haven’t realized it, organic fruits and vegetables taste better, and the flavor is crispier. The health consequences of genetically modified food, when examined closely, will convince you to change your eating habits. The shelf life of food depends on four main factors: formulation, processing, packaging and storage. Change any one of these conditions and you can change the shelf life for better or worse. Shelf life has many attributes: bacterial control, color stability, yeast and mold inhibition, flavor stability, textural stability and aroma stability. The appearance of shelf-life problems can be wide, as well, including oxidative browning, oxidation of flavor compounds, or liquescence. To increase the shelf life of more unstable foods, such as low-sugar jam, low-salt condiments, low-oil salad dressings, prepared fresh produce and deli meats, food companies may take steps to reduce bacterial load from ingredients before they process the final food. We will write a custom essay sample on Organic vs industrial food or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page To grow, thrive and survive, microbes need a friendly environment; this usually includes moisture. Lowering moisture creates a hostile environment for bacteria by decreasing the available medium for them to grow in. There are a number of new ingredients to help regulate water activity in foods with a reduced fat phase. â€Å" Generally, the water activity of a minimally processed food needs to be about 0.07 or lower, water has an a W rating of 1.00, and most products preserved with sugar, measure about 0.07, with the excess water bound so that bacteria are under osmotic pressure too great to survive(Katz, February 4, 2006).† Whenever you buy food, you have decision to make: Healthy or cheap, organic or industrial. If organic food was not so expensive, that decision would be easy, everybody would buy organic food, for a healthier body. Unfortunately not everybody can afford it, making it look like healthy food is becoming a  luxury good. In the rush to produce more and more food for the people on this planet, chemicals came into play. Farmers begin by trying to sell the highest percentage of their crop and therefore often use pesticides, gen-manipulated corn, chemicals etc. The farmers investment in pesticides, hormones, and chemicals tends to pays off, earning more, their fruits look better and costumers are happy with huge pest fee fruits and vegetables. When a farmer says no to chemicals, he runs the risk of losing a harvest because of pests. The only way to compensate the cost is a higher price for organic food. You cant ask everybody to pay higher prices, and a lot of people would starve to death without the use of chemicals which protect harvests against pests. Every time you eat something, you consume pesticides, these substances are added in order to produce and sell more efficient. Fortunately there are strict rules for the use of chemicals. Organic foods are produced following practices described in the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), a marketing program with a certification process throughout the production and manufacturing chain. The NOP describes the practices that are required for labeling a product â€Å"organic,† but it does not address nutritional benefits or food safety issues. Even when you buy organic food, you are consuming these substances, but the bar is set at a different height and you are consuming less harmful substances that could be particularly hazards for high-risk groups such as pregnant women, infants, young children and farm worker households. Since organic food is not prepared using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, it does not contain any traces of these strong chemicals and might not affect the human body. People strongly believe that organic food tastes better than non-organic food. The prominent reason for this belief is that it is produced using organic means of production. Further organic food is often sold locally resulting in availability of fresh produce in the market. So how bad is industrial food? Let’s take a look; there are maximum residue limits on all pesticides and chemicals. The department of health determines how much of each substance is ok. Eating organic food lowers the risk of getting hit by a similar scenario, but its not a 100% guarantee (Are Organic Foods Better for You. 2010). However, getting seriously sick from cheap food is not that high of a risk as long as you read food labels you can eat cheap and healthy at the same time? If you are eating organic food only, you are  still eating unhealthy foods. Almost everyone is aware that foods grown according to organic principles are free from over exposure to harmful pesticides, but that is only one small aspect. A larger part of organic agriculture is the health of the soil and the ecosystem in which crops are raised. Organic farmers know that healthy, live soils significantly benefit crops. Synthetic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, and/or fast acting inorganic fertilizers applied to or around crops interrupt or destroy the micro biotic activity in the soil. Organic farming reduces groundwater pollutants, decreases pesticides that can end up in your drinking glass; in some cities, pesticides in tap water have been measured at unsafe levels. The Farmer’s Market is a growers’ market, meaning everything in the market is homegrown, but Richard Bowie, an experienced organic grower is not convinced that all the food being sold is homegrown. â€Å"The market’s slogan ‘100% Homegrown makes us different’ is used as a gimmick, said Bowie† (Shreve, October 3, 2011). Vendors have been seen carrying produce and selling it to other vendors at the market bringing the term organically grown in to question and without certification, and but by law they cannot say they are a certified organically grown vendor. Most vendors cannot afford the certification process and want consumers to look past the term organic there for focus on the soil used or nutrients used. Almost everyone is aware that foods grown according to organic principles are free from over exposure to harmful pesticides, but that is only one small aspect. A larger part of organic agriculture is the health of the soil and the ecosystem in which crops are raised. Organic farmers know that healthy, live soils significantly benefit crops. Synthetic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, and/or fast acting inorganic fertilizers applied to or around crops interrupt or destroy the micro biotic activity in the soil. Organic farming reduces groundwater pollutants, decreases pesticides that can end up in your drinking glass; in some cities, pesticides in tap water have been measured at unsafe levels. We should choose farming methods that truly address our real concerns safety and sustainability, not simply methods that satisfy an arbitrary marketing label. To whatever extent these practices include methods that are permitted under organic rules. But theres never a case when a safe, mo re efficient, and sustainable modern technology that feeds more people worldwide should be disallowed for no logical reason. Eating â€Å"organic† alone doesn’t guarantee 100 percent healthy .The truth is that most Americans eat so badly that we get most of our calories from soft drinks, more than we do from vegetables; the top food group by caloric intake is â€Å"sweets†; and one-third of nation’s adults are now obese. It’s not unimportant, but it’s not the primary issue in the way Americans eat. To eat well, says means avoiding â€Å"edible food-like substances† and sticking to real ingredients, increasingly from the plant kingdom. There’s plenty of evidence that both a person’s health as well as the environment’s will improve with a simple shift in eating habits away from animal products and highly processed foods to plant products and what might be called â€Å"real food.† From these changes, Americans would reduce the amount of land, water and chemicals used to produce the food we eat, as well as the incidence of lifestyle d iseases linked to unhealthy diets and greenhouse gases from industrial meat production. And the food would not necessarily have to be organic, all it takes is paying attention to what you eat and read your labels more closely. Participation on our part to be more aware of what we buy and to raise our voices, if need be. We can let our opinions be known even in the simplest ways. A good example is when we shop, if there is no substitute for the product we need, let the store owners know, they will surely change their products. Organic food is better as it uses natural farming techniques. It is similar to preferring natural remedies when suffering from a disease as compared to eating chemical antibiotics. So, the question of organic foods vs non organic foods; which is better, is clearly answered. Organic food surpasses the conventionally produced foods.

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