Final: What Kind of Thinker Are You? HUM/111 August 5‚ 2012 Jennifer Summers‚ ESQ. Final: What Kind of Thinker Are You? What is critical thinking? Critical thinking is that mode of thinking about any subject‚ content‚ or problem in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully imposing intellectual standards upon his or her thoughts. (Paul & Elder‚ 2008) The three most significant things I learned about critical thinking are: how to broaden my perspective
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problems that affect my thinking. Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of my thinking The Challenged Thinker Determine the problems that I have in my thinking. Thinking that there are no problems in my own thinking‚ take up new challenges. The Beginning Thinker Determine new habits that I need to pick up Not being able to identify the habits that I need. The Practical Thinker Establish good habits Sticking to bad habits and not grasping the good ones‚ The Advanced Thinker Taking charge and also
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"Two Kinds" The story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan represents the theme that parents cannot control their children‚ but can only guide them. A Chinese mother and daughter Ni Kan are at odds with each other in story. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy of some sort‚ her daughter does try to follow her mother ’s orders but has she gets older she realizes she wants to find her own self and not to be what her mother wants her to be. They both have conflicting values‚ which is the theme of the
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“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane‚ is a poem that is very famous‚ and is about‚ well‚ war! War‚ violence‚ shooting‚ and death is what most of his famous works are about. We read in Biography.com that Stephen Crane went to college and never actually was in a war. He wrote “A Red Badge of Courage”‚ a book that was about the psychological part of war and how the soldier felt while he was in battle. Even though he never fought in an actual war he did a lot of research and what he wrote was very true
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down into four different sectors: eros‚ phileo‚ storge‚ and agape. These types of love are all found in the Bible and are classified as an important thing for all Christians to understand (“Four Kinds of Love”). Eros is the physical‚ sexual love – often called ‘erotic’ (“Kinds of Love”). It is the love found between two people in a marriage and is used for reproduction and emotional and spiritual bonding (Ceglowski). In the Bible‚ God forbids it outside of matrimony (Ceglowski)
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In Christina Garcia’s‚ Dreaming In Cuba‚ we read about three generations of a Cuban family torn apart by their environment. Political turmoil force the del Pino family to split and cause animosity amongst each other. It is centered on the complicated relationships and bonds between mother and daughter. Garcia expresses the story in a mixture of first and third person narration. This method paints a portrait to show the diverse mother-daughter relationship‚ allowing readers a multi-view perspective
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Kinds of Cakes There are two main types of cakes—butter and foam cakes. Butter cakes are those made with solid shortenings and foam cakes are those made with a large number of eggs or egg whites. Butter Even though these cakes also may be made with solid shortening or margarine‚ most people still call them butter cakes. They’re moist‚ light‚ tender and fine-textured. Foam Foam cakes contain a large number of eggs or egg whites. Their light‚ fluffy texture comes from the air beaten into the eggs
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Not My Dream In the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ we are shown the struggles of a young girl Jing-Mei. Her struggle is that of a young girl growing up and trying to find her own sense of identity. Her troubles are compounded by her mother‚ who convinces her that she can become someone important. Because of her mother’s constant overbearing behavior‚ Jing-Mei does everything she can to annoy and displease her mother even to the point of being a failure. This fight to find
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Two Kinds by Amy Tan A: Synopsis This short story‚ ‘Two Kinds’ is more focused on the relationships between mother and daughter. The narrator of this story‚ Jing Mei recalls of the days when her mother wanted her to be a prodigy in America. Her mother moved to San Francisco when she lost everything in China. At first‚ she thought that her daughter would be like Shirley Temple as they watched how talented Shirley Temple was in acting. And one day when the narrator’s mother saw a young Chinese girl
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""Two Kinds"" Many conflicts occur between parents and children because parents may push the child too hard‚ the child may feel an urge to purposely defy the parents‚ and also because of the parent or child misunderstanding each other. When these problems come about parents and children have different ways of dealing with these conflicts. Some of the strategies used to deal with these conflicts such as rebellion‚ defiance‚ and not cooperating are exhibited in "Two Kinds". In "Two Kinds" Jing-mei’s
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