CRT-201 Critical Thinking: Rationale for a Position

CRT-201 Critical Thinking: Rationale for a Position

** The assignment has two parts **

Part I:DQ question, write in 50 words or more.

Discuss an example of a recent news story or article. What types of value assumptions did it convey?

*** include a copy of the article; paper, section, and date of the article ***

Part II:

Complete Exercise 3 below, Ideas for Writing or Speaking. Your essay should be approximately 500 words in length.Incorporate what you have learned this week about bias, assumptions, and ethics into your essay.

Format your paper using Writing Style Handbook guidelines.

Choose one of the following points, and write an essay in which you take a position (agree or disagree) on one of the following quotes. Support your conclusion about the quote with specific reasons.Incorporate what you have learned this week about bias, assumptions, and ethics into your essay.

a.“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” President Theodore Roosevelt

b.“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” Warren Buffet

c.“The great secret of morals is love.” Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1821)

d.“We must never delude ourselves into thinking that physical power is a substitute for moral power, which is the true sign of national greatness.” Adlai Stevenson, speech, Hartford, Connecticut, September 18, 1952

e.“Can ethics be taught? At some point in life, ethics must be taught. People are not born with innate desires to be ethical or to be concerned with the welfare of others.” Dr. Katherine Smith and Dr. L. Murray Smith

f.“I believe we are the sum total of all that we do, i.e., what we ‘do’ is who we ‘are.’ This is true because as adults we make deliberate choices in our actions. Therefore, our actions describe our inner selves, what sacrifices we’re willing to make, what evil we’re willing to perpetrate. It is with awareness that we persist in negative, ugly, and destructive deeds in one or more areas. Our actions are the blueprint of our character.” Dr. Laura Schlessinger

g.“When the Nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.” Albert Einstein, after World War II

h.“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln

i.“The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services.” Dr. Katherine Smith and Dr. L. Murray Smith

j.“To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.” Confucius