The authors purpose of this article is that you shouldn’t judge a person by their looks nor there first impression. You shouldn’t show emotion and lead a person on because you don’t know how they will feel or would react to the action. Theirs is many passive aggressive people who could take a simple conversation to another level. 2. The audience for this article would be those persons who exchange any type of information to people they just meet.
Weaknesses 1. Ethics still has some grey areas to me. In the beginning I had to verify things with my supervisor before I was sure of myself, when it came to verifying appointments over the phone or leaving messages or issuing texts to clients. 2. Love for people can also be a weakness because I have to intentionally draw boundaries to not become attached (especially with children).
I then realized that the wall I had constructed to keep what I felt was wrong about my new environment away was simultaneously preventing the positive aspects from effecting me as well. At this point is when I regained my briefly lost self-assurance and knew that I was never any less competent than the best and the brightest at Jordan, but that I needed to study and apply myself (methods I had not always practiced so vigorously in the past). I opened my mind, and a true understanding for diversity found it’s way in. I understand now that regardless of the differences and even the similarities of a group of people should not justify the intolerance for one another. I also believe my experiences have enhanced my communication with those whose backgrounds, opinions, and/or lifestyles contrast with mine.
The author is trying to get people to put their character ethics into perspective by introducing, in laymen’s terms, the foundations and skills which will help to build these characters but without the religious interventions. The overview of the book tries to prepare you so that when you get to the first habit, you will have a better understanding of how the habits came about. It explains the differences of the personality ethics most people possess today instead of the character ethics we were born with. It starts with some common problems that most people can relate to. Then it goes through the history of character ethics and how society seemed to have lost these ethics to personality ethics.
On the other hand after reading of Milgram's experiment with Obedience to Authority, at this age, I would not be able to follow through with the orders to repeatedly shock someone for a wrong answer. I know that people make mistakes and don't always know the right answer to questions, but being wrong shouldn't be punished. As a child, I was brought up to listen to adults and they are "in charge." I can't personally speak from what I would've done in the past, but being put in that situation where I understood that the person in charge was going to tell me to push a button to shock someone, I most likely would've
At times I wouldn't blame them if they were to think this in any way but I am going to have to say that have a little faith in us. What we do cane either make or break America. My responsibility is to be able to demonstrate to others that it is not a bad thing to have ambition and strive for the best in whatever it is we want to pursue. Everything we want to do or be starts with education. Even though Education can be very tedious and at moments seem extremely difficult we just need to get through it, after all education is not something meant to be easy because then it is not education and we are not learning anything, the goal is to learn, comprehend as much information and apply that to the world we live in.
Assumptions should play no part in critical thinking but unfortunately they do, and often. I know as humans we all make snap judgments, but the idea is to push aside our assumptions and judgments when we think critically. Thinking critically is a skill that you either have or you don’t, the ones who have it will ultimately be the ones to thrive in their respective fields. Though it may be difficult to avoid making assumptions, as professionals we have no choice. We can keep our assumptions to ourselves but unless we consider all aspects of the situation we are not thinking critically.
I saw that some reviewers didn’t like how there was no “twist” or “wow factor” towards the end, but honestly, does every book need it to be successful? Definitely not. What is the novel questioning exactly? In Never Let Me Go, the question this book raises is what “being human” is and treating “clones” lesser than humans. That’s what we should be asking ourselves, and
It would make no sense to say, I persuaded him, but he wouldn't come around to my way of thinking. Further, only when a receiver has freedom of choice, can we say that persuasion is being used instead of coercion. Although some would argue that the final goal of most persuaders is to change behavior rather than just mental states (Funkhouser & Parker, 1999), these changes are generally achieved through a person's mental state and, specifically, attitude. Directly controlling another's behavior is rarely appropriate in a democratic society. The existence of interpersonal communication is a given in persuasion research.
I need to learn to get use to books that I never imagined me reading because I don’t have a choice but to do it. Also, I would get very lazy to even try to take a glimpse at the text because I’m not use to reading the books the teachers like to read. My last goal is too use context clues. This is not a big deal but I would like to get a little better at it. When I am answering questions about the book, I don’t pay attention to the big clues.