Month: February 2021

my first paragraph will be about major mishap #2

in the section of the second mishap the main statement is ” College graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal-arts degrees.” in the article it states that “A 2009 survey for the Association of American Colleges and Universities actually found that more than three-quarters of our nation’s employers recommend that college bound students pursue a “liberal education””. Although the stigma with liberal arts degrees is that they Arnt as important as a lets say business or nursing degree, they still help the economy and are a big part in what makes our country flourish. From our first reading I pulled this quote which helps the point of what Unger was trying to say. ” Liberal arts colleges seem an endangered species as curricula shift toward science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM disciplines. Students want jobs, not debt, and who can blame them?”

my second choice is the first misperceptions. the big statement here is how liberal arts schools are being too expensive for everyone to possibly go too. they talk about the number in the liberal arts field declining but they don’t see its because of the demand in jobs that don’t have to do with math and science but in the field doing Manuel labor and other things. ““Many families are indeed struggling, in the depths of the recession, to pay for their children’s college education.” Hes saying that its come to the point where people cant pay for a liberal arts education because its too expensive. they are seeing a decline in people attending these universities over the past two decades. “In proportion to all bachelor’s degrees, declined just 0.1 percent from 1980 to 2010, from 17.1 percent to 17.0 percent.”

1. I think this article will be about the main ideas of critical thinking and liberal arts. Also, I think that they’ll get into what they do and how they help us in our lives and why they are important to society. I think liberal arts means things that you may not be thought in your four main classes of math, science, English and history. But instead, art music, politics and things like that. 

• For the first section, what are liberal arts? 

After reading they go through the history of liberal arts and where they started. Liberal arts started over 2,000 years ago with the Latin’s and Greeks. Liberal comes from a word that means free minded. “In the beginning there were several liberal arts: the trivium of classical antiquity, consisting of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, combined with the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy”.  Clearly my thoughts of what a liberal art it was completely wrong, I only through the arts were one or two subjects when in reality they are the root of most subjects we learn about. After universities stared to stray away from the monistic and cathedral schools those seven were changed to philosophy, jurisprudence, theology and medicine. Toward the end of the section, it goes over how liberal arts, and the sciences are all somewhat connected or are distantly related to each other. 

In section 2; Why do we need the liberal arts? 

They talk about why the arts are important to our lives. “The liberal arts have traditionally been defended as instrumental to two key elements of democracy: critical thinking and citizenship”. I never knew that the arts layer a role in things as big as democracy something that runs our country.  This section talked a lot about the types of citizenships we have and how liberal arts ties into them. 

In section 3; What is critical thinking 

Critical thinking is not easy to describe but it is also very important in our lives. “critical thinking is about my thinking or yours or someone else’s in the here and now”. When you have to have a critical thinking period, you need to be able to pull that thought and then thinking about it as deeply as you possibly can. Critical thinking can help you with a lot of things from decision making to your work in school or your job. 

In section 4; the importance of critical inquiry. 

They talk about Wittgenstein and also reflected in certain organizing concepts that (like critical inquiry itself) transcend the various disciplines and unify the liberal arts curriculum. These concepts include truth, nature, value, causality, complexity, morality, freedom, excellence, and—as Wittgenstein understood—language itself, as the principal medium of thought. These concepts all are linked to critical thinking. In this they talked about how Wittgenstein understood and reacted to these concepts of capital inquiry 

The difference I had in my new paragraphs from my original essayed my revised essay was trying to make a personal connection with the sides and view points of the authors and what they talked about in there writings.

I tried to compare how I felt in class with how other students may have felt being in situations that the teachers create by accident or on purpose.

1. Critical thinking requires grounding one’s beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis.  “Critical thinking requires grounding one’s beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis.” The two topics Im gonna discuss are the water buffalo and the camel incident. To start with the first, when a student saw a group of African American students in a group they made a statement that was called racial harassment. “Many scholars and pundits at the time could not see how the term water buffalo (a rough translation of a Hebrew insult for a thoughtless or rowdy person) was a racial slur against African Americans, and as a result, the case became international news.”When things like this happens it creates an environment where students art going to be comfortable where they live and go to school. So when this student who was “Israeli-born” student calls out a phrase like that its ones word against another students. but when they say the phrase and then learn the background of the saying and then who the student is then at that point your using evidence to make a verdict rather then choosing a side because its put together better. Then we have the camel incident or the “hump day” incident, this was a schools yearly tradition to bring in a camel to campus and allow students to come and see the unique animal. this was completely fine until a group of students came together to make a petition to remove the celebration due to animal cruelty. “an event called Hump Day, which would have allowed people to pet a camel, was abruptly canceled. Students had created a Facebook group where they protested the event for animal cruelty, for being a waste of money, and for being insensitive to people from the Middle East.” This impediments a students right to walk freely around campus. Although some people might not agree with this to be on a campus with all different types of of people there are a lot of this that can effect people and you wouldn’t even know. 

2. The author gives an opinion biased opinion I don’t agree with their statement of “anticipating that things will turn out badly” and feeling “convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact.” I think that everyone has their own views on these types of things. Some people will go weekly and want to know everything that is going on in another life or what’s going to happen to them in theirs. I do agree with her section on PTSD and how its been a big problem for people since around world war 1. I also believe that every one has a trigger that will make them angry or upset and if they can narrow down what the basic population percentage worries about the most then they can eliminate possible problems or feeling towards their students. but also some people trimmest are different or unique and things that some people don’t have, you cant eliminate a trigger but they can be limited.