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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Barriers to Critical Thinking Identify three barriers that influence your thinking and write at least 100 words for each‚ describing how you can overcome them. 1. Self-Concept is one of the three barriers that influence my thinking. Self-Concept is the way a person views themselves. It can be unhealthy if a person see’s themselves in a negative light. Such as not being very intelligent‚ not thinking you are attractive‚ or even maybe that you simply don’t matter. This is a struggle for me because
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Creative Thinking Hum/111 How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? The article I found on the university library is‚ ‘North Korea ramps up war rhetoric: 3 Seoul‚ South Korea’‚ by Kim Jin-Hyung for the Tulsa World. For this particular topic I would use the creative strategy process devising or modifying a process or system. The article explains that North Korea government
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Personal reflection paper Sherri Spurgeon HUM/111 02/24/2013 Michael Newcomb Personal reflection paper Critical thinking is reflective reasoning about beliefs and actions. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true‚ sometimes true‚ partly true‚ or false. The three most significant things I have learned in this class would be to never assume anything until you know if it is true or not‚ to never pass judgment on something unless if it is true‚ and I have learned to never go by
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References: Hormsy‚ G. (July‚ 24‚ 2001). Power To the People. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db-f5h&AN=4827494&site=ehost-live Orshal‚ J. (May‚ 12‚ 1999). Brain Tumors Stump BP Amoco. Chemical Week‚ Vol. 161(Issue 19)‚ p48.
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Week 7 essay No name Hum/111 No teacher 10/12/0000 Similar illness in one community suggests that there must be a connection between the environment and the illnesses. Acting on that hunch‚ I would conduct interviews with the families and people that are affected. All ideas and procedures in this easy can be found in chapter 10. (Ruggiero‚ 2012). I would ask them when did the symptoms start and what their official diagnosis‚ if any‚ has their doctor gave them. The assumptions
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PART ONE As a local television Director‚ my main focus is on the local news and the issues that affect the community in which I live. I would choose to make the closing of the parks for three days my lead story and leave the celebrity death to the bigger networks. My first priority is to report news that affects the citizens of the community that I serve‚ even with the prospect of bigger ratings; I would feel an obligation to my audience to report issues that are more closely related to them. I
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To Whom It May Concern‚ We are all aware of the illnesses that are developing in our community. Obviously‚ this is not genetic because it is attacking various members of our community and has done personal research to link the illnesses to our surrounding environment. I have found information in which the community should be aware. After extensive research‚ I have discovered the symptoms are because of the gas company not following proper procedures while digging in our community. I have spent
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HUM 111 Theodosia Lovett Media Bias Article The importance of making critical evaluations of news stories come to play in the recent story about the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman case. This is a story about a young black teenager and a neighborhood watchman that shot and killed young Trayvon. Many news stations reported the story showing pictures of both of them that had been taken years prior to the actual event. Trayvon’s pictures showed him as an innocent boy and Zimmerman as
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Decisions “You can do it...you can do it‚” I command myself in the full length mirror hanging from the wall. Today is perhaps one of the most important days of my life. It is the day I take my placement exam that determines which major you will be put into at the higher learning institution. Shakily I finish getting dressed for the day‚ I am adorned in a pair of navy pants and a grey button up with the number 84 on the cuff. Each year the society gives a number to every child born. I was the 84th
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