In the 1st Book of Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle began an argument by stating "But presumably the remark that the best good is happiness is apparently something [generally] agreed, and we still need a clearer statement of what the best good is. ...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed In this philosophical book, the author enlightens us about the relationship between the "oppressor" and the "oppressed" in terms of the student-teacher relationship. ... This book poses an interesting comparison between the oppressor and the oppressed as it outlines a symbolic parasitic relationship between the two. ... While reading this book, it reminded me of The Prince by Machiavelli, an inspirational book that glorified the individuality of the student "soldier", the dependence of a teacher, while at the same time maintaining the values of the larger communi...
The book that I choose for this assignment is The Opposable Mind by Roger Martin. ... This book relates back to the course of Business Leadership because Martin talked about globalization, opposable mind, integrity, organizational, and skills, which we discussed in class and on assignment. ... In the second half of the book, Martin outlines how to develop integrative thinking capabilities. ... Throughout the book, Martin studies the thought processes of prominent leaders and for each chapter uses several examples outlining how the leader used a particular aspect of integrative thinking to crea...
That being said, I strongly think that this book is absolutely an important analysis for all the individuals who are curious about the burden of severity and expect for a fair-minded future. ... I chose this book because Haiven argues that the wisdom of ineffectiveness is the remaining result of how the current capitalism encompasses our present time, our people, our atmosphere and most definitely our vision (p.33). ... During the course of the book, he argue these ideas in many ways and he believes that the way the mind thinks is similar to what occurs, not only at the way individuals percei...
The major events that I believe contributed to getting him caught, was where he had his affair with Julia and when he tried to join "the brotherhood", and to a lesser extent his diary notes, which to me, set his general behaviour and ways of thinking for the majority of the book. ... In the context of the book no other event was more prominent than Winston's Affair with Julia, this event really showed Winston's rebellious side, and made him less and less careful about the watchful eye of big brother because he knew he was to be caught in the long run eventually, so he made sure he en...
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon, integrates unique elements of structure, language style and character narration to really deliver a rare, wonderful and one of a kind book that truly brings up thought provoking issues and is overall a satisfying read. ... Although the book starts of with a usual inquisitive narrative hook, it is really lacking in an imaginative plot, climax and ending. ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ... For instance in one scene in the ...
O'Brien affectively confuses average readers with his ambiguity between "story truth" and "happening truth" and casts doubt on the veracity of the entire book to show a normal audience how war veterans are forced to cope with their experiences. ... Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ...
According to Browne and Keeley in their book, Critical Thinking: Asking the Right Questions, critical thinking consists of an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus the capacity and readiness to ask and answer them at appropriate times. ... According to Morgan and Kaplan in their book, Whatever It Takes: The Realities of Managerial Decision Making, decisions are made and problems are solved in fits and starts. ...
This one line quote explains more about humans than any definition, research or a detailed book. ... Origin of Cognitive Approach There is a certain lengthy debate concerning who pioneered the cognitive methodology, yet a few reliable sources ascribe the term to the 1950s and 1960s, with Ulric Neisser's book Cognitive Psychology, which made unquestionable references of the human personality through extensive working in a debatable and comparable manner to machines. ...
The assignments were normally just answering the questions at the end of each chapter, which we could easily find the answers, simply some dates, names and locations of each events, in the book because they were usually in bold. Some answers were even in the back of the book, so we just copied. ...
In the year 1967, Ulric Neisser, who was an American psychologist, published his book Cognitive Psychology making him the first person to use the term "cognitive psychology." ... According to Ulric Neisser's book "Cognitive Psychology," the human mind has been viewed as performing its functions similar to computers. ...
The ideas of disability and race (much like the idea of gender used in previous discussions) are socially constructed. Many of the articles read in Women's Studies 302 discusses the idea in which race and disability are not biological issues but ideas prevalent in society only because of the modern ...
In the text book Readings In Critical Thinking; Strategies In Decision Making, (1994) Critical thinking is defined as "an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus the ability and willingness to ask and answer them at appropriate times"" (Browne, Keeley, McCaw, and Kaplan, p. 5). ...
In my opinion the most significant event that transpires during chapters 13-19, occurs in chapter 14 when James is sent to live with his sister in Louisville, Kentucky. His time there is a crucial turning point for James because he stands on the precipice of ruining his life at this point of his sto...
Introduction Through the year 2005, the Labor Department estimates that half of all labor force entrants will be women. In addition, a third of the labor force will be African American, and the working population is aging along with the country ("Gender"). Our increasingly diverse society is ref...
Descartes" writing his Meditations on First Philosophy in a first-person format is essential to the potential success of his argument. In effect, the Meditations are written as a guide - there is nothing within the text that any other human being could not come across, making Descartes" "tools" acc...
Over the course of many years in the education system, along with the help of Pablo Freire's The "Banking" Concept of Education, it is becoming more noticeable that students have suffered from narration sickness and loss of creativity. The ability to be creative dies off in the classroom when the s...
