Hum/111 Critical Thinking
Kristy Coon
September 11, 2011
HUM/111 - CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
Paula LeClaire
Assessment A: Distinguishing Between an Issue and a Problem | "They said one hit wouldn't hurt." What problems or issues do you see with this? | ☐ Mostly issues - people might have different opinions on if a single hit could hurt, much less kill you as in the commercial. | ☑ It's a problem - I think most people would agree that a single use of drugs could potentially be deadly. | | OK, so as far as this video is concerned, our challenge is to keep kids from even trying drugs. How do we express that? I would say something like "How can we prevent adolescents from experimenting with drugs?" | ☐ That is way too general. | ☑ That …show more content…
Adolescents who experiment with drugs normally do not have the facts of each drug and will normally start out with less harsh ones which eventually lead to the hardcore drugs as well as possibly alcohol. Adolescents who do not completely understand the consequences of these drugs are not fully aware of how these drugs can harm their bodies or how addictive they can turn out to be as well as some of the shameful things they may do in order to support their habit; they sure are not going to understand why these drugs are unsafe. Without understanding the dangers more adolescents to cave under peer-pressure. I believe adolescent drug abuse itself is a problem. Of course not everyone agrees on the solutions proposed. Certain individuals think more sports should be provided to offer structure to our adolescents away from home whereas others think parents need to become further educated to be prepared to teach their own children. | |
Assessment B, Part 2: Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest | Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest | This is a challenge in several different ways since the outcome could result from several different things, some adolescents have too much free time on their hands and get involved with things as such because they are not monitored by their parents as they need to be, giving them lead way to make this mistake. Then you have children who are protected by their parents too much and they are rebellious and do it out of spite. | |
Assessment B, Part 3: Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest | Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest
September 11, 2011
HUM/111 - CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
Paula LeClaire
Assessment A: Distinguishing Between an Issue and a Problem | "They said one hit wouldn't hurt." What problems or issues do you see with this? | ☐ Mostly issues - people might have different opinions on if a single hit could hurt, much less kill you as in the commercial. | ☑ It's a problem - I think most people would agree that a single use of drugs could potentially be deadly. | | OK, so as far as this video is concerned, our challenge is to keep kids from even trying drugs. How do we express that? I would say something like "How can we prevent adolescents from experimenting with drugs?" | ☐ That is way too general. | ☑ That …show more content…
Adolescents who experiment with drugs normally do not have the facts of each drug and will normally start out with less harsh ones which eventually lead to the hardcore drugs as well as possibly alcohol. Adolescents who do not completely understand the consequences of these drugs are not fully aware of how these drugs can harm their bodies or how addictive they can turn out to be as well as some of the shameful things they may do in order to support their habit; they sure are not going to understand why these drugs are unsafe. Without understanding the dangers more adolescents to cave under peer-pressure. I believe adolescent drug abuse itself is a problem. Of course not everyone agrees on the solutions proposed. Certain individuals think more sports should be provided to offer structure to our adolescents away from home whereas others think parents need to become further educated to be prepared to teach their own children. | |
Assessment B, Part 2: Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest | Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest | This is a challenge in several different ways since the outcome could result from several different things, some adolescents have too much free time on their hands and get involved with things as such because they are not monitored by their parents as they need to be, giving them lead way to make this mistake. Then you have children who are protected by their parents too much and they are rebellious and do it out of spite. | |
Assessment B, Part 3: Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest | Email a Friend about the Issue/Problem of Interest