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Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term.
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The art of thinking about one’s thinking with the goal of improving thinking
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The art of thinking about one’s thinking with the goal of improving thinking
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The tendency to rely on unreflective intuition that is largely self-serving and self-deceived
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The tendency to rely on unreflective intuition that is largely self-serving and self-deceived
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The tendency of the human mind to think that it knows more than it does, or that is in possession of the TRUTH
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The tendency of the human mind to think that it knows more than it does, or that is in possession of the TRUTH
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Awareness of the limits of human knowledge and a special focus on being aware of situations in which one is likely to be self-deceived due to native egocentrism
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Awareness of the limits of human knowledge and a special focus on being aware of situations in which one is likely to be self-deceived due to native egocentrism
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The willingness to face ideas and positions on issues that directly threaten our own ideas and beliefs
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The willingness to face ideas and positions on issues that directly threaten our own ideas and beliefs
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The fear of considering ideas that do not match our own
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The fear of considering ideas that do not match our own
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Intellectual self-centeredness
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The tendency to ignore other people’s ideas, thoughts, and feelings because their ideas do not address that in which one is interested
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The tendency to ignore other people’s ideas, thoughts, and feelings because their ideas do not address that in which one is interested
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Striving to create disciplined thinking as well as holding oneself to the same standards that one holds others to
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Striving to create disciplined thinking as well as holding oneself to the same standards that one holds others to
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The failure to hold oneself to the same intellectual standards that one holds others to
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The failure to hold oneself to the same intellectual standards that one holds others to
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Intellectual perseverance
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The ability to push on in the face of intellectual adversity in order to understand more about the truth of an issue or idea
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The ability to push on in the face of intellectual adversity in order to understand more about the truth of an issue or idea
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The tendency to give up the search for truth or understanding when difficult circumstances arise
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The tendency to give up the search for truth or understanding when difficult circumstances arise
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Intellectual confidence in reason
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The tendency to think that the world is a better place when people learn to think for themselves, when they draw reasonable conclusions, and when they think logically
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The tendency to think that the world is a better place when people learn to think for themselves, when they draw reasonable conclusions, and when they think logically
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Intellectual distrust of reason
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The tendency to feel threatened by logical thinking and scientific explanation, often the result of fear or the pain involved in analyzing one’s beliefs
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The tendency to feel threatened by logical thinking and scientific explanation, often the result of fear or the pain involved in analyzing one’s beliefs
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Thinking for oneself rather than uncritically accepting the views of others
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Thinking for oneself rather than uncritically accepting the views of others
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The tendency to passively accept the views of others and agree with mass positions on issues
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The tendency to passively accept the views of others and agree with mass positions on issues
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Assess what it means to develop good habits of thought through hard work. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Define critical thinking, and contrast this definition with the ways that humans naturally think. Explain at least two ways that you could become a better critic of your own thinking. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
As you journey through this unit, and are honing in on your critical thinking skills, you might have recognized the information regarding the Game Plan. To help in your critical thinking process, the Game Plan, located on pages 38-42 in your textbook, consisting of 10 strategies, was created to help assist you in making critical decisions. One of the 10, Keep an Intellectual Journal, will be the main focus of this assignment, however, other strategies will be included.
Throughout the week you are to keep a journal. Within this journal, list at least three situations that have occurred during the week that are emotionally significant to you (meaning things you deeply care about).
From your list, accomplish the following, while keeping each situation separate from the rest:
1. Describe each situation and explain why each was important to you.
2. Describe how you behaved, with precise details, in each situation.
3. Formulate at least two questions that ask what was going on during the situation, and explain your answer to each question as a means of self-assessment.
4. Of the nine strategies remaining, remember you are keeping an intellectual journal, choose two and explain how using them will help you in decision making to solve each situation you listed.
Your journal needs to be a minimum of two pages in length, double spaced, and typed using 12-point Times New Roman font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.
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After one is dragged out of the cave, the last thing that one sees is __________.
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According to Plato, what would the people in the cave do to the person who had been outside the cave after this person returned to the cave?
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According to Plato, the sun outside the cave is __________.
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According to Plato, how do humans find themselves initially in the cave?
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What are the humans looking at in their initial position?
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Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term
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The goal of objective of thinking
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The goal of objective of thinking
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Data, facts, and observations that are used by human reason to understand its reality
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Data, facts, and observations that are used by human reason to understand its reality
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The frame of reference, perspective, or worldview that underlies one’s reasoning
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The frame of reference, perspective, or worldview that underlies one’s reasoning
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Those things that humans take for granted based on their past experiential knowledge
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Those things that humans take for granted based on their past experiential knowledge
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General categories or ideas that humans use to interpret and classify the information that comes into their thinking
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General categories or ideas that humans use to interpret and classify the information that comes into their thinking
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Thinking that demonstrates consideration of alternative points of view
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Thinking that demonstrates consideration of alternative points of view
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Gateway intellectual standard that determines whether a statement is accurate or relevant
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Gateway intellectual standard that determines whether a statement is accurate or relevant
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Combination of thoughts that are mutually supporting and make sense in combination
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Combination of thoughts that are mutually supporting and make sense in combination
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A step of the mind whereby someone concludes that something is true based on something else being true or seeming to be true
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A step of the mind whereby someone concludes that something is true based on something else being true or seeming to be true
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The idea that nothing can be proven to be true
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The idea that nothing can be proven to be true
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Define inference and assumption, and then explain the relationship between the two. Provide two examples of inferences that you made from assumptions that you have. Your response should be at least 75 words in length
Describe two intellectual standards, and give examples of each from your own life. Your response should be at least 75 words in length
Describe the movement of the person in Plato’s allegory of the cave. Be very specific about the various stages in this movement, and then please explain how this allegory relates to at least two intellectual standards. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Unit IV PowerPoint Presentation
Select and describe an important problem faced by society today (e.g., income inequality, gun violence, online privacy).
Once you have selected your problem, be prepared to address the following in your presentation:
1. Provide your own analysis by asking—and answering—a relevant question from at least three domains of thinking. Examples of these can be found on pages 139-140 of your textbook.
2. In your answers to the above questions, apply at least three intellectual standards, and explain why the standards are important in this context (e.g., the elements of thought or reasoning that led you to this thinking). The eight elements can be found beginning on page 62 of your textbook.
3. Explain why each question you have selected is either a question of fact, preference, or judgment. This information can be located on pages 126-127 of your textbook.
4. Finally, in one paragraph, reflect on your analysis of the problem that you selected, and describe how your consideration of this problem demonstrates deep learning. This information can be located on pages 144-145 of your textbook.
To accomplish this, you must compose a 12 slide PowerPoint presentation that meets the guidelines below. Your PowerPoint slides should be arranged in the following manner:
Slide 1: The problem selected and your description of it.
Slides 2-5: Provide your own analysis by asking—and answering—a relevant question from at least three domains of thinking.
Slides 6-8: Your three intellectual standards and explanation of why they are important in this context.
Slides 9-11: Explain why each question is question of fact, preference, or judgment.
Slide 12: Conclusion slide with your one paragraph that reflects on your analysis and describes your consideration and learning of this problem.
You must also include a title and reference slide (that does not count towards your total slides). Also, all sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format
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Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term.
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Characteristics of the low-performing student
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Limited and superficial knowledge of the course material that fails to comprehend basic principles and concepts
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Limited and superficial knowledge of the course material that fails to comprehend basic principles and concepts
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Characteristics of the mixed-quality student
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Demonstrates clear reasoning and problem solving, but only inconsistently. Often resort to simple memorization of course material
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Demonstrates clear reasoning and problem solving, but only inconsistently. Often resort to simple memorization of course material
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Characteristics of the high-performing student
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Consistently demonstrates clear reasoning and problem solving but sometimes lacks significant insight. Shows a commitment to critical thinking
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Consistently demonstrates clear reasoning and problem solving but sometimes lacks significant insight. Shows a commitment to critical thinking
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Characteristics of the exemplary student
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Raises important questions and uses language to reveal significant insight
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Raises important questions and uses language to reveal significant insight
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There are laws at work in the physical world that can be understood through systematic experimentation and observation
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There are laws at work in the physical world that can be understood through systematic experimentation and observation
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Looking at the past as something that can be understood through study and interpretation from many perspectives
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Looking at the past as something that can be understood through study and interpretation from many perspectives
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Achieving maximum profit with minimal expenditure
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Achieving maximum profit with minimal expenditure
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Judgements about the function or dysfunction of human behavior
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Judgements about the function or dysfunction of human behavior
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Living a reflective and rational life
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Living a reflective and rational life
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Data about human groups, including the characteristics they share and do not share
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Data about human groups, including the characteristics they share and do not share
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Assumptions of biochemistry
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The techniques of chemistry are the most appropriate for the study of life at the molecular level. Enzyme reactions are crucial for understanding life.
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The techniques of chemistry are the most appropriate for the study of life at the molecular level. Enzyme reactions are crucial for understanding life.
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The knowledge to understand, maintain, and protect forms of life.
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The knowledge to understand, maintain, and protect forms of life.
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Plants and animals function in relationship with one action within their habitats. They need to be in balance for the earth to be healthy and sustainable.
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Plants and animals function in relationship with one action within their habitats. They need to be in balance for the earth to be healthy and sustainable.
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Concepts of aerospace engineering
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Newtonian mechanics; conservation of mass, momentum and energy; aerodynamics; propulsion
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Newtonian mechanics; conservation of mass, momentum and energy; aerodynamics; propulsion
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Information of electrical engineering
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Experimental and computational data, legacy designs, regulatory requirements, and mission needs
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Experimental and computational data, legacy designs, regulatory requirements, and mission needs
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Describe the typical design of a college course and the outcomes that result for students in these courses. In addition, describe a situation in which you found yourself falling into this style of learning. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Paul and Elder encourage students to redefine grades as levels of thinking and learning. What do they mean by this? In your view, are grades necessary or unnecessary for self-assessment? Provide an example from your own experience to support your position. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Provide an example from your own experience where you acted in accordance with one or more of the patterns of irrational or unethical decision making. Explain the egocentrism or sociocentrism, as well as any pathological tendencies of mind, involved in your thought process. How could you have applied the keys to sound decision making to approach the situation more rationally?
If you prefer not to discuss your own decision-making experience, you may instead discuss someone you know, a historical figure, or a fictional character.
Your response should be at least two pages in length and should be typed using 12-point Times New Roman font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the two-page minimum.
Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.
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Mass media producers have sympathies that distort their objectivity. All of the following are groups to which the media are sympathies EXCEPT the __________.
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In order to obtain information from a story that is filled with propaganda, a person must do which of the following?
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Analyze the story with a clear understanding of the point of view that lies underneath it.
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Analyze the story with a clear understanding of the point of view that lies underneath it.
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In order to be economically successful, the stories in the news media must do what?
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Sell the media effectively
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Sell the media effectively
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Most people consider facts to be important when those facts
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deal with people from distant places who suffer.
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affect their own living conditions.
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When constructing a news story for an audience, those who create the story are motivated by:
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how to relate the story to the beliefs of the audience.
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how to relate the story to the beliefs of the audience.
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Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term
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Openness to multiple points of view and the ability to question one’s own point of view
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Openness to multiple points of view and the ability to question one’s own point of view
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Understanding of one’s own ignorance
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Understanding of one’s own ignorance
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Understanding of the many-sidedness of an issue
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Understanding of the many-sidedness of an issue
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The result of studying multiple views with the overriding motivation to defend a specific viewpoint
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The result of studying multiple views with the overriding motivation to defend a specific viewpoint
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Widespread dissemination of ideas to promote one’s own interests or harm another’s interests
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Widespread dissemination of ideas to promote one’s own interests or harm another’s interests
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Sensitivity to advertisers
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Reluctance of news media to criticize their principal source or revenue
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Reluctance of news media to criticize their principal source or revenue
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Sensitivity to government
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Tendency of news media to support the views of officials in power
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Tendency of news media to support the views of officials in power
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Sensitivity to competitors
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Bias of news media toward following stories first reported by other outlets
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Bias of news media toward following stories first reported by other outlets
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Sensitivity to powerful interests
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Influence exerted by economic, political, and religious organizations to shape media coverage in their favor
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Influence exerted by economic, political, and religious organizations to shape media coverage in their favor
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Civilization that embraces critical thinking as a way of life
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Civilization that embraces critical thinking as a way of life
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Describe a story that has recently been sensationalized, and explain a key component of sensationalism that was part of the way the story was presented. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Describe the prospects for establishing a “Critical Society” as described by Graham Sumner. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Identify and explain the steps that one must take to be a critical consumer of the news, and describe a time where you failed to be a critical consumer of the news. Your response should be at least 200 words in length
Unit VIII Reflection Paper
Provide an example of a possible confusion between theological beliefs and ethical principles in a commonly-held religious belief system. Are there practices within this faith that might be critiqued as unethical? How should we apply the fundamentals of ethical reasoning in this case?
Your response should be at least two pages in length and should be typed using 12-point Times New Roman font. You are required to use at least your textbook and one scholarly article from any database within the CSU Online Library as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the two-page minimum.
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