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Critical thinking was discussed  briefly in William Goldings essay while explaining level one thinking. To think critical is to ask and question. It is not only just to stop at the question but to ponder and push to find an answer. Some people may ask a simple question but will stop at that. They must work for an answer to be considered a critical thinker. The example from Rereading America, really nails the concept. When an American citizen from El Salvidor reads the same title as someone who has grown up in the US reads it they view it in completely different ways. The critical thinker literally rereads the title America and takes a moment to rethink the concept. The US grown student reads it once and opens the book. This is what sets the two apart. If you want to learn how to become a critical thinker, you must take small steps and ask questions. Once the questions have been asked, ask why the question was adressed in the first place. Figure out answers and keep asking.

School sometimes can be a challenge for myself like most people. For me it all started back freshmen year when everything started to really get difficult. freshman year only began to seem difficult because we actually had to start worrying about high schoool credits. Most of our classes were required but we did get to choose a small percentage of our classes for a change. Things started to heat up a little when i moved from Columbia Junior High to the big bad Fife High School. Classes became more intense and things began to matter more. I was constantly being reminded of all of the requirements of graduation. Junior year was a mess for me. I started out the year with a pretty easy semester including; two business classes, a physical education class and accelearated algebra. Not bad right? Well my next semester is what mentally murdered me. I was stuck with AP english, Chemistry, US History and Advanced algebra. This may not sound bad to many people, but for myself, it was horrible. I ended up falling behind and struggling to get back but never fully succeeded. I finished the semester with 3 c’s and 1 b. By far the worst i have ever done in one semester. Now, because i recognise how terrible i have done in the past i really want to stick with the academic classes i have chosen this semester and seriously work hard at getting b’s or better!

Senior year has just started but i already feel overwhelmed. I remember how i felt at the end of my Junior year and i hated coming to school because i had fallen behind in a couple of my classes and i knew there was nothing i could do about any of it. If i could go back and redo last semester i would. I would have put a lot more effort in to it and i would have liked to retain some of the knowledge my teachers tried to teach me everyday. Since it is too late now all i can do i guess is just stay on top of my work and really focus every day in class.

UW Tacoma

college for myself is something i’ve been thinkng about for quite some time now. My three colleges that I have researched tonight are UW Tacoma, Washington State University and Western.

UW Tacoma -  closest school, cheapest tuition, focuses mainly on science but does offer a strong business department, no dorms, urban setting, smaller campus

WSU - Furthest Away, largest school, college town, offers many scholarships, need an average SAT score of 1111.

Western - not too close but not too far, college town, 16,348 is average tuition per year for an incoming sophomore, offer dorm rooms..

I’m a little nervous to apply for college because it seems so soon and i’m honestly afraid of being rejected.

1. I would have had to read that there were no longer gas powered cars and there was no longer an problem with pollution over population or world hunger.
2. I would describe t as one of the times you need very good weather for something and it automatically happens.
3. I personally wouldn’t find this to be the most beautiful sight ever because i do not have a particular fetish with these birds. I appreciate human life and growth more.
4. It describes how passionate he is about his work.
5. this is the world that confronts me on my biological books and
6. They are all connected but he believes each should serve their own part still.

 Rhetoric

1. It makes the reader hooked in and makes them want to read more.
2. he associates birds with machines and closely relates them making it a juxtaposition.
3. It makes it very honest an opinionated.
4. It makes them question themselves and wonder what there position is in the issue.
5. yes he could have used a different approach that did not consist of listing things but i think his aqpproach of cause and effect was good.
6. He makes ity very descriptive and makes it seem like you are actually there just by reading it.
7. It is ironic when he says it is a fine day to be alive when obviously fro the bird in the cage it is not.
8. It sort of sums up what he had been currently been talking abotu and brings tyou back to the main focus.
9. Having all three makes you able to tie the science humanity and technology all together and it makes it appeal top your personal emotions.

“Yellow Page usage among people, say, below 50, will drop to zero—or near zero—over the next five years,” Bill Gates predicted in a Microsoft address last spring, and unless by “usage” you mean yanking them apart with cars, it’s not hard to see his point. Left to pulp out in the rain and abandoned in mountainous mailroom piles, phone books don’t get much respect anymore. They’re having the most absurdly drawn-out death throes of any advertising medium ever known—and yet remain so poorly understood as social history that when they really are gone, we’ll scarcely understand what we’ve lost.

this article uses expert testimony because it notes bill gates speaking on a matter he is well educated on.

It’s pretty clear that disposable diapers require more resources to manufacture than cloth diapers, even when you take into account the vast amounts of water and energy involved in cotton farming. A 1992 study from Franklin Associates estimated that producing a year’s supply of disposables, which are composed largely of plastic, consumes roughly 6,900 megajoules of energy, vs. around 1,400 megajoules for a year’s supply of cloth diapers. Yet the study concluded that cloth ended up being 39 percent more energy-intensive overall, given the electricity needed to wash load after load of dirty diapers.

This article uses quantitive data to prove a point. It gives direct facts and numbers that have been researched to back its information.

I understand why the author says that students don’t need to be rewarded for doing a good job within their education but I don’t completely agree with it. I see reward as a good positive thing and saying this makes it negetive in my point of view. I think students who do a good job in school should be recognised just because it feels good for them. They have worked hard for something and deserve to be noticed for it. Why should our star athlete get attention but not the star student?

The Angel this author speaks fo is obviously a huge part of every writer. The angel is like an idea that a woman has a role and a man has a role and they must stick to it and do it exactly how it has been for years. This particular woman claims that the angel is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations in women or men. She believes men and women branch off from what they have known and decided to do and try new things. Women became more masculine and started doing mens work and it didn’t matter as much as it had previously. Men and women have had roles throughout history. Some may feel that a statement like this one can be sexist but i think it is still very true although not as harsh. A lot of the time women do cook in a house hold and men do work on the cars or mow the lawn. This does not mean that only that specific gender can do work like that, it just means that it is still very commen. I do not see this idea as dead because you usually do not see a woman working construction or a man working as a nurse. It is something we see nowadays but it is not very commen. .although a woman may be able to vote and can technically do the same exact work as men can i still think not everything a man can do a woman can do also. It is physically impossible. Women were made a cartain way and men were also. Some things we have to stick to because of our gender, but most things are a choice and we decide how we want to live our lives.

The piece of literature that I chose wasThe poem, Twas the Night Before Christmas written by Clement Clark Moore in 1823. I chose this piece because it is something i strongly remember from my childhood. This is something my parents would read to me eavery single christmas as a tradition. I remember sitting up on christmas eve trying to hear santa clause. I did it every single year because of the things i read in this poem. The poem describes how a child sees ST. Nick and the reactions made by the child. He describes him very vividly and vbefore this i don’t think Santa Clause had the exact image he does today.It is a great memory even though it may seem simple. Another reason i chose this is when i was in the first grade we had a christmas assembly and I had to read a line from the middle of this christmas poem. I never learned the entire poem because the first and second verse are tho most commenly known but i’m hoping to add on to that and make a greater accomplishment for myself. I am not going to recite the entire poem though. I have only decided to go through to the vesrse of ST. Nicks decscription. This one i find the most important to me, because thia is the verse i recited as a child. It hasn’t stayed with me all these years but looking back on it and reading it now, i knw that is where i had to achieve an accomplishment as a child, and i will do it again as a high school junior.