Persuading Your Audience Angie Brown HUM/111 6/03/2012 Prepared for: Professor Marilyn Jean Trollope Persuading Your Audience To persuade your audience you must first help your audience recognize the quality of your ideas‚ using techniques that will work is the best way to do this. The techniques I would use to persuade my audience effectively are as follows: Understanding why people reject ideas: The more people challenge one’s ideas or beliefs‚ the more likely they
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In the wake of 9/11‚ a multitude of Americans have been overtaken by hysteria and fear. These emotional responses have been generated and intensified by the virtually unanimous Islamophobic propaganda that has been perpetuated by the main stream media. As a result of the media’s anti-Islam campaign‚ Americans have been persuaded to distrust Muslims‚ instinctively categorize Muslims as terrorist or potential terrorist‚ as well as sacrifice essential civil liberties. Scapegoating theorist may argue
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Stage of Critical Creative Thinking Cynthia Waters Hum11 12-2-2012 Laurie Bays Stage of Critical Creative Thinking Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking‚ describing how to move from each stage to the next‚ and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking. The Unreflective Thinker Examine my thinking to identify problems that affect my thinking. Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of my thinking The Challenged
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Considering ending an unhappy relationship can be a tough decision for anyone to make. There are many things that need to be thought over before making a final decision‚ and this can be either a problem or an issue. Ending an unhappy relationship can be a problem if you do not communicate with your spouse or partner and hold everything in. this does not give the chance for the partner or spouse to give their input and express their feelings. Some of the ways that I have determined this can be
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Associate Level Material Stages of Critical Thinking Stages of Critical Thinking Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking‚ describing how to move from each stage to the next‚ and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking. |Stages of critical thinking |How to move to the next stage |Obstacles to moving to the next stage | |EXAMPLE: |Examine my thinking
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An open letter to our community: Many of us are aware of the risks of lead - based paint in older homes‚ gas leaks‚ contaminated water and all other chemicals with their contaminating affects on our health and our family’ s health and safety. Less known is just how close these contaminates can be hiding - even in our own backyard. I am a very happy resident living the American Dream in the Country Place suburban community located in Old Bridge‚ NJ. We have always considered this neighborhood
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Living in a community that offers all the amenities can be very beneficial to families. It allows them to live life in the comfort of their own neighborhood with the neighbors they know. Those types of neighborhoods also seem to offer a bit more safety and protection as well. Sometimes though we can’t protect against everything and human error takes place that can cause harm to others. If a mistake was made in a community development that has caused some children and adults to get sick‚ there
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To Drill or Not To Drill? It is obvious that the demand for energy and fuel sources is increasing drastically as time goes by. The United States also anticipates an oil demand increase as the population grows over the next few decades (Haug‚ 2011). Therefore‚ the big dilemma is whether or not the search for oil on our land should continue. The recent development and expansion of clean energy resources‚ although expensive‚ can end the battle over oil deposits and lead the country into a cleaner future
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Personal Reflections I always believed my thinking was good but not necessarily superior. I thought I knew how to approach and solve problems with good reasoning skills. I never realized how my own perspective could cloud my thinking. There was never any real depth or purpose to my thinking. I just thought and therefore‚ I was. Critical thinking is purposeful thinking. We find ourselves thinking in every situation of life. Most of that thinking may be more automatic than purposeful. The
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The mass media is the means by which the majority of the public gets its daily national and global news updates. It is supposed to keep us informed and be a solid foundation from which we can form our own opinions. Because of this‚ it is unfortunate that the media in the United States have an extreme bias on political topics. Being able to gather political information and facts about the government’s actions is critical in a democracy‚ however‚ our market based media system makes it difficult to
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