HUM 111 CRITICAL THINKING
Running head: Week 7 part B & C
Hum/111 Michael Fitch August 18, 2013
Illegal Immigration part B
The two strategies that I would have applied to help foster critical thinking and to help lead you to the root cause of the illegal immigration would be applying curiosity and avoiding assumptions. Applying curiosity can increases awareness of problems and issues, enabling you to feel dissatisfactions and annoyances more consciously and to regard them more productively as challenges and opportunities. Psychologists have long recognized that when we travel a particular mental route a second or third time, we often follow our earlier footsteps without realizing that we are doing so. What has been tried in the past and what is tried now to help prevent illegal immigration has not worked. What is needed to be known is why so the solutions tried will not be tried again; new solutions need to be tried. I also chose avoiding assumptions as to assume is to take something for granted, to expect that things will be a certain way because they have been that way in the past or because you want them to be that way. It’s natural to make assumptions. It is assumed that the solutions that are in place will work when all one has to do is look around, pick up a newspaper or do an internet search. One can just pick up the phone for assistance and listen to another person struggle to speak English, I for one cannot understand what that person is trying to say and it is known that they do not understand you as well. If applying for citizenship, one should have to speak the native language. PART C
The two assumptions from Chapter ten I had to be aware of to ensure that it did not interfere with my critical analysis is the assumption that
Hum/111 Michael Fitch August 18, 2013
Illegal Immigration part B
The two strategies that I would have applied to help foster critical thinking and to help lead you to the root cause of the illegal immigration would be applying curiosity and avoiding assumptions. Applying curiosity can increases awareness of problems and issues, enabling you to feel dissatisfactions and annoyances more consciously and to regard them more productively as challenges and opportunities. Psychologists have long recognized that when we travel a particular mental route a second or third time, we often follow our earlier footsteps without realizing that we are doing so. What has been tried in the past and what is tried now to help prevent illegal immigration has not worked. What is needed to be known is why so the solutions tried will not be tried again; new solutions need to be tried. I also chose avoiding assumptions as to assume is to take something for granted, to expect that things will be a certain way because they have been that way in the past or because you want them to be that way. It’s natural to make assumptions. It is assumed that the solutions that are in place will work when all one has to do is look around, pick up a newspaper or do an internet search. One can just pick up the phone for assistance and listen to another person struggle to speak English, I for one cannot understand what that person is trying to say and it is known that they do not understand you as well. If applying for citizenship, one should have to speak the native language. PART C
The two assumptions from Chapter ten I had to be aware of to ensure that it did not interfere with my critical analysis is the assumption that