Author: chris

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking by playing the “Believing Game.” The Believing Game is about making the effort to “believe” – or at least consider – the reasons for an opposing view on an issue.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.

In Part I of the assignment (due Week 2), you will first read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes: “The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful” at http://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/believinggame.pdf. Next, you will review the Procon.org Website in order to gather information. Then, you will engage in prewriting to examine your thoughts.

Note: In Part II of the assignment (due Week 4), you will write an essay geared towards synthesizing your ideas.

Part I - Prewriting: Follow the instructions below for this prewriting activity.  Use complete sentences and adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

1. Select one (1) of the approved topics from the www.procon.org Website and state your position on the issue.

2. From the Procon.org Website, identify three (3) premises (reasons) listed under either the Pro or Con section – whichever section opposes your position.

3.For each of the three (3) premises (reasons) that oppose your position on the issue, answer these “believing” questions suggested by Elbow:

1. What’s interesting or helpful about this view?
2. What would I notice if I believed this view?
3. In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?”

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

• Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
• Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
• Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify the informal fallacies, assumptions, and biases involved in manipulative appeals and abuses of language.
• Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic.

Go to the following link and read about the contract woes of NFL player Elvis Dumervil:

 

http://legalstudiesclassroom.blogspot.com/2013/04/guest-blogger-henry-lowenstein-elvis.html

 

What are your impressions of the situation? Is it fair that he lost the money?

 

Now, locate some interesting articles/links discussing contract clauses involving other athletes, either dealing with playing for professional teams, or endorsing products. Summarize these, and provide links for your classmates to read about them. First to post

 

Describe your intellectual journey and the education that you are pursuing. Examine your perspective on education using the elements of thought.

Some questions that you can use to motivate your writing are:

 

1.    What is the purpose of your education?

 

2.    What information do you need to be successful?

 

3.    What questions do you have about your field of study?

 

Your explanations should have reasons that support them and you should make use of the concepts in the textbook.

PLEASE ANSWER QUESTION TWICE 200 WORD MIN EACH ANSWER. APA

Discuss the savings involved in a company retirement plan as well as typical monetary benefits that employees should focus on when considering a new job.

PLEASE ANSWER QUESTION TWICE. 200 WORD MIN EACH ANSWER. APA

One of the most common workplace communication tools is a telephone. What key principles should you keep in mind when conveying a message via phone versus communicating by email? Include a clear description of phone and email etiquette in your response.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

Question 7  

 

What makes one culture different from another? Select two different geographical areas and create a chart showing five ways these two cultures are clearly different.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

 

Course Textbook

 

Anderson, L., & Bolt, S. (2011). Professionalism: Skills for workplace success (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

 

Discuss the advertising techniques implemented in each to help teach, to inform and to persuade consumers. Which do you feel is the most effective form of advertising and why? Identify the cues, or stimuli, used in the ads to direct consumer behavior. What responses do you think these brands are looking for from their viewers? How well was the three-hit theory implemented in these ads? Discuss your overall thoughts on brand positioning in these ads.

At least two paragraphs and APA requirements.

 

The performance appraisal process is intended to measures the degree to which an employee accomplishes work requirements. The majority of the management and HR professionals in U.S. organizations believe in the value of providing regular individual performance appraisals. DO THEY REALLY?

 

How often do you receive a performance appraisal or discuss your performance with your manager? Discuss the positive and/or negative experiences you have had when receiving performance appraisals. What opportunities for improvement existed?

 

If you have limited experience with performance evaluations, conduct research on the topic and share your opinion.

At least two paragraphs required. APA requirements.

Assignment Choice #1: Organizational Management Approach Analysis
Many of the approaches to management and/or managerial theories are based on historical approaches to management and/or historical managerial theories. Analyze the approach to management your organization takes. In your analysis identify how this approach is both different and similar to at least one historical approach. Assess how effective (or ineffective) you believe this approach is.
Your paper should be 5 pages in length and should be supported by a minimum of three academic sources.
The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources. Follow APA format, according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Include a title page and reference page. Use outside academic sources other than the textbook, course materials, or other information provided as part of the course materials.

Describe the three types of project risks and detail the situation in which each type is most relevant when making a capital budgeting decision. Also include the effect of correlation.

Next, compare and contrast cash accounting methodology and accrual accounting methodology in order to illustrate how each works best for different types of companies.

• Present your analysis as a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.

David Hume said that the “self” is an illusion created by closeness and proximity (much like our erroneous believe in “cause and effect”). A modern example of Hume’s ideas about the “self” might be to look at movie film. At 30 frames a second, the individual pictures come so quickly that it looks like continuous movement instead of thousands of individual pictures. And the changes between each successive picture is so slight that we would hardly notice if we examined successive pictures one frame at a time. Since we have not been watching our “self movie” while sleeping, in the morning the projector is still running, and our minds simply fill in the blanks for the frames we missed, falsely giving us a notion that we are still same “self” from yesterday.

Fortunately, not all philosophers are as radical as Hume in denying that there is a continuous self. But, even those who admit there is a “self” do not agree as to what it is, how it is formed, and whether or not it changes.

In Week 8, we’ll be re-addressing the “essential self” as necessary in order to experience freedom and to make moral decisions that are truly freely made. So, the whether or not a continous “essential self” actally exists is an important philosophical concept.

For this week’s assignment:

1. Describe your “essential self”—that is, the set of characteristics that defines what makes you a particular person. If you do not believe an essensial self exists, explain why not.
2. Explain why you think the essential self can or cannot change during a person’s lifetime.
3. Since the essential self will (supposedly) actively resists anything that is not in our genuine best interest, how could self-sacrifice and martyrdom be regarded evidence of a person who lacked an essential self? Alternately, would voluntarily subjecting oneself to those things be a true indicator of an essential self? Explain your answers.

Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay must follow APA formatting and should be 500-750 w