PA#5 -- They Say, Part 3 (Confirmation/ Downshifting)
Please blog the assignment by Sunday (9/14/14) at 5 PM. Bring a hard copy to class on Monday 9/15.
The assignment:
Look at your notes from other classes. Find some small claim made by the professor in that class. I emphasize the word "small" here. You're writing only a paragraph and not an entire essay.
Use the following pattern: (I know. But we have to start somewhere.)
1. Claim
2. Explanation
3. Bridge
4. Evidence with ICR (introductory citational remark)
5.Application (of the evidence to the explanation of the claim
State the claim. Explain it. Then, provide evidence to support it. Integrate the source material well. Don't forget to use transitions from TSIS, and introduce evidence using an ICR (more on that in class). You don't have to include a bibliography -- yet.
Note that your opinion is valid here, but it does not argue. You need to build an argument with evidence from valid sources. Use them in the paragraph.
Erin Fannin PA#5
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Baskes the zeal of the conquistadors during the conquest of the America’s was due in part to the after effects of the Reconquista. The Reconquista was a century long war the Christian Spaniards fought to expel Muslims from Spain. This retaking of Spain left behind an intense intolerance of other religions and a strong desire to spread Catholicism to other parts of the world. As said by David Walbert in his article Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest, one of the results of the Reconquista was that, “the men who fought in the Reconquista were convinced of their superiority to their enemies who had rejected Christianity”. Thus the Spaniards faith led them to believe that they had the right to impose their religion and rule on other, non-Catholic, cultures.
A professor of mine claimed that as the gas prices go down that the demand will go down. This is saying the price goes down people buy less. The resin for this is when prices go up people buy less because its harder to afford so then you need it. So there for its high in demand. Overall this is how supply and demand work. This fact shows me the basic principle of economics.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to one of my professors, Marketing is the center of all businesses in America. He goes on to say that current day businesses need a strong marketing system for businesses to be able to become a top competitor. This means that out of all the components of a business, Marketing is the foundation of its success. After all, you need customers to buy your product to be successful and what attracts them?.... The principle of Marketing. In the article “Marketing Strategy Is the Foundation for Business Success”by Linda Popky. Popky concludes for businesses to be successful a strong marketing plan must be intact. In Popky's article she states, “Unfortunately, the failure to first build a solid strategic foundation is counter-productive, risking costly mistakes later on not only for marketing but also for the entire organization.” This claim by Popky clearly defines the importance of Marketing and the impact it has on a company. Overall, I would definitely have to agree with my professor and his opinion on the concept of Marketing.
In my opinion, the most interesting part of physics is some fantastic phenomenon. There is one thing interested me, which I learned in the Dr tree’s class. This phenomenon is talking about if you use a ball as a projectile is aimed directly at an object suspended from a magnet. And when you shoot the ball towards the object, at the same time the object leaves the magnet, which is doing free fall motion. As a result, there will be a collision between the ball and object. Theoretically, it should happen, because without gravity, the ball should reach the magnet directly and the object should be the original place. However, with the gravity, the ball and the object have the same acceleration in the vertical direction. And for the horizontal direction, the ball has initial velocity, and the velocity of the object in this direction is zero, there for the ball can catch the object. To prove this theory, the best way for science is to do an experiment, to practice the theory. Therefore, Dr tree do the same thing in the class, although it happened quickly, we do see the collision at last. For experiment, we cannot avoid the uncertainty, the only thing we can do is to reduce the influence of uncertainty. However, for this experiment the result is perfect, we can see the collision, which is same as the professor said.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Martin as well as other geologists around the world, Pangea was a super continent that existed about 270 million years ago. Pangea was a huge land body that combined all the continents that we know to make up the earth today. Not only were all the continents connected, but the oceans as well. Thus, creating a huge body of water surrounding a huge land mass. Reynolds, Johnson, Morin and Carter, the authors of Exploring Geology were correct when they stated that “Before 200 million years ago, all the continents were joined the supercontinent of Pangea, which was surrounded by an enormous ocean.” My view also agrees with Dr. Barton, Reynolds, Johnson, Morin and Carter because of how widely this theory is accepted.
Gopika Nair
ReplyDeleteIn my 'Beginning Acting' class, Professor Denny claimed that anyone can act. Much like other skills, acting is not an ability that is reliant on talent alone. Several other factors such as commitment, professionalism, interest, and the willingness to learn also play an important role in shaping an actor. In fact, celebrated actors such as Julie Andrews, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marlon Brando, and others never even attended college to study acting. In Viola Spolin's view, "Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre and learn to become stage worthy." Spolin's observation is true as evidence points that while actors like Brando have a natural flair for acting, others like Arnold Schwarzenegger have earned their place as actors by constantly honing their skills. Brando and Schwarzenegger are two ends of the spectrum, proving that anyone can indeed act.
Jon Griggs PA #5
ReplyDeleteIn my HHK 231 class, Dr. Gies defined education as the following: “education refers to the ongoing process of learning that occurs throughout our lifespan”. She made the point that even after you are done with school you are always learning and adding to your wealth of knowledge. With new and innovative technology coming every day, people are constantly acquiring more skills to improve their daily lives. Peter Drucker, a man described as the “founder of modern management”, once said, “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” You never stop learning new things and we are fortunate enough to have this aspect in life.
According to my Spanish professor, anybody can learn the Spanish language. Meaning, it is the easiest language in the world to learn, and it takes no skill to learn the language. It only takes hard work and dedication to learn the language. After researching the topic of the Spanish language, I learned that it is in fact the easiest language to learn. But, in his intended meaning of his claim, he came up a little short. Learning is a skill that every body possesses. We all learn differently from one another, which is a skill. If he did not include that it doesn't take skill to learn Spanish, he would have been 100% right. But, learning is a skill, that also requires hard work and dedication. No matter what, if one feels that they aren't skillful, they technically are.
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ReplyDeleteSomething one of my teachers told me is that the first semester is a rough adjustment. He said the combination of homesickness, workload, and sudden independence was a hard combination that mad the first semester an overall unpleasant experience for most people. I cannot refute my professor’s claim that freshmen are burdened by these challenges, nor do I doubt his conclusion that it makes for a difficult semester, but my personal experience so far has been quite the opposite. I have adjusted well to dorm life, the work feels difficult but not impossible, and I’ve already made lots of good friends. People tell me to wait for finals before I say I had a good semester, but I personally don’t believe you should say that your first four months of college was a painful experience just because one week was particularly stressful.
“Race is an arbitrary term,” that is what my cultural anthropology professor said not only in class but in his book. We were going over another, broader term, cultural construct, that states cultures determine the meaning of certain words, which may vary from one culture to another; race being an example.The main way of identifying race is by simply pinpointing the more recognizable and generalized features of a person that matches a stereotype; but what happens when these features all become mixed? John McDonald, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Delaware, stated in an article, “... blending will make people look more similar over time.” How will race be differentiated then? It is now more socially acceptable for people of different heritage to come together, which makes the melting pot more realistic. Take Brazilians, for instance, at one point the people were quite distinct, having come from European, African, and Native American background, but now the majority of the population share similar dark skinned and dark haired features.
ReplyDeleteWolchover, Natalie. "What Will Future Humans Look Like?" LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 18 Sept. 2012. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.
(I had already done the thing and I didn't want it to have been a waste of time so I'm tacking it on)
One of the major discussions in psychology is the debate of the mind-brain problem – monoism versus dualism. Dualism is rooted on the idea that the mind and the brain are two separate identities. However, I quote, “dualism contradicts with the law of conservation of matter and energy, because if the mind is self-existent (not created by matter or energy) then it technically can’t control the brain and body which are made of these very materials.” This can be exemplified by everyday introspective interactions – the brain tells you to wake up and slam the alarm clock to snooze due to the vibration of particles signaling the brain to signal the body to react to that sound. The article on Dualism, section 4.1 of the ‘Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’, describes this problem in a realistic state – where a made-up scientist name Harpo is born stone deaf can become the world’s greatest expert on the machinery of hearing. This is to say that the belief of dualism is rather contradicted, because like the example, point B (becoming the expert) cannot be reached from point A (scientist) if there is no stimulant – in this case the stimulant is missing because the scientist is deaf. Ergo, the mind cannot be in control of the brain, which controls the body, if it isn’t created from matter or energy which are the essential connection we are looking for.
ReplyDelete“Look outside those windows there, put all other matters aside, that place out there is known as the real world.” I hear this saying every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I take it as something funny, but when I really think about it, it means a lot more. My Professor says it every class period but it’s never in the same context. His goal in class is to prepare us for the real world. He wants us to come out of his class with perhaps more knowledge about the real worlds then what he has taught us. He claims that more professors need to incorporate the real world scenario into their teachings because that is going to help each and every student later in the future.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Professor Twesigye, God is a holy transcendent Mystery. This is stated in his Critical Issues in Religion and Ethics class. This claim states that God is not a physical or human experience. This claim can be validated by the sheer fact that there is no proof showing that God is a real and physical being, but at the same time the claim doesn't say that God doesn't exist. This is what makes God a transcendent mystery.
ReplyDeleteThere are two variations of similar situations. One where a trolley is moving towards a fork in its tracks and cannot be stopped, the side it is heading for has five people standing on it but the other side only has one person standing on it and you are given the choice to switch a lever that changes the path of the trolley to the side with one person on it or to just leave it. The second situation involves a straight trolley track with a bridge over it, there are five people at the end of the track, you are on the bridge behind a person looking over the edge and have the option to push the person off the bridge to stop the trolley or just let the trolley kill the five people. Doctor Brandt, the professor of my psychology course believes and stated that the easier choice to make is to pull the lever than to push the person over the bridge. The reason is that with the lever option you are indirectly killing the one person, but with the bridge situation you are physically pushing a person to their death. In mass surveys, more people choose to switch the tracks than to push the person off the bridge typically, which supports Doctor Brandt's claim.
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