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"The Year of Magical Thinking", 2007.
An analysis of the continuing development of humans through adulthood and particularly middle-age, as described in "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion.
1,895 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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This paper discusses the concept of human development through different life stages. The paper focuses on the views of psychotherapists, Erik Erikson and Roger Gould, who discuss these changes. It describes Erickson's last three "ages of man" and Gould's recognition that individuals in their middle-age years must cope with major transitions. It then discusses Joan Didion's experience in this area, as described in her book "The Year of Magical Thinking."
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"The changes that middle age can bring, can vary widely: From a loss of a job for a short period of time, to a major illness and recovery, to a divorce, to a death of a parent or worse to the death of a husband or child. For Joan Didion, the loss was monumental--her husband dies in a matter of seconds when her daughter was unconscious in the hospital. Through all their middle ages, Didion and her husband were a true couple. Both writers, they worked at home, spent all their time together, read each other's work, completed each other's thoughts, and carried on a continuous conversation as one person would. Then, Quintana, her daughter, dies, as well. Some people, like Didion (in her early 70s), somehow find the strength to cope--albeit with much agony and despair. Others do not. In an interview, Didion states, "I didn't die. My life has to continue. I don't have an option," (Grossman, 2005, 56). Yet, she did."
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Critical Thinking vs. Creative Thinking, 2002.
This paper explains and compares these two modes of thinking.
630 words (approx. 2.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 15.95
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This paper differentiates between critical thinking and creative thinking, explaining the features and uses of each of these modes of thinking. The importance of both creativity and critical thinking is highlighted with the use of examples and famous quotes. It concludes by clarifying the place of creative thinking as an essential supplement to critical thinking, as opposed to a replacement for it.
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"Creative and critical thinking are often used simultaneously, but they have different meanings. Creative thinking can be described as creating ideas or thoughts. Creative is described as creating or power of creating resulting from originality of thought or imaginative. Critical thinking is evaluating the idea or thought. Both are different, but are important in the lives of people."
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Critical Thinking, 2007.
An analysis of the process and advantages of critical thinking over regular thinking.
1,566 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the various definitions of critical thinking. The paper discusses the significance of encouraging and facilitating the process of critical thinking in students within a high school setting. It describes the process of critical thinking and discusses the advantages of critical thinking over regular thinking for all individuals.
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"Studies have proved that cognitive skills lead to critical thinking. Research has shown increased forms of critical thinking among the students who have greater requirement for cognition and enhanced active learning. In the case of students whose cognitive capacities have been advanced by means of course exercises and assessment methods are able to promote the idea of critical thinking. The cognitive development, involving interpretation skills, analysis, assessment, as well as inference would tend to include the student's reading of a message as well as forming judgment regarding its effects. This is a function which is considered to be most typical with regard to the assessment of deduction in that of critical thinking. Further with regard to tapping of the student's capability in relation to deduction, the assessment of cognitive skills analyzes their understanding and acceptance of the varied fallacies, inclusive of those including slippery slopes, over-generalization, as well as wrong links. The assessment could also understand and tap knowledge of students with regard to socio-political values, which is important for finding about the incredibility relating to an argument. (Cheung; Kwan; Yue, 2002)"
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Critical Thinking: Problem Resolution, 2007.
An analysis of a particular example of critical thinking using the critical thinking problem solving model by R. Hansten and M. Washburn.
846 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper examines critical thinking (otherwise referred to as reflective thinking). The author reflects on a situation she experienced while holding a position in a hospital's accounting department and looks at how it was necessary to apply critical thinking to the problems that existed in the department. The paper presents the writer's opinion of the worth of the critical thinking problem solving model by R. Hansten and M. Washburn.
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"Implementing the change would require some cross training from those who were skilled and knowledgeable of various insurance company nuances. Incorporating insurance company specific protocols into an online or hardcopy binder, with company listed alphabetically, would provide a reliable reference tool from which to adequately handle insurance company protocols. It is also suggested that a day be devoted to cross training presentations; for example, in the morning the manager could conduct a presentation on how to effectively deal with insurance companies and in the afternoon conduct a presentation on how to effectively deal with private patients, both with ample time for team discussion."
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Children's Perceptions Of Magical Events, 2005.
A study across multiple age groups on the perceptions of magical events.
2,305 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 48.95
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The paper states that children use both natural and supernatural entities to account for events. Thus, children could view television programs and movies from a magical perspective and come out with a distorted perspective on how life actually functions. This paper presents research that attempts to validate past research that found that children use magic as a solution to improvable events. The authors of the study contend that 3- to 4-year-olds will use magic more frequently as a solution to a problem that looks unattainable in real-life. The authors also contend that 10- to 12-year-olds will attribute a seemingly impossible event to tricks instead of magic. As age increases, children will use magic less and less as a solution for deceptive events.
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"The participants involved in our study also were a limitation because they were all volunteers. Participants in this study all chose to participate; therefore they might have had some similar characteristics. The participants that came to the study might have wanted their kids to be involved in research and/or had a higher level of education then those who chose not to participate. The experiment may have left out a specific religious faith because some of the people who chose not to participate did do because they thought magic was evil. This detail also makes our results less generalizable to the public."
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Thinking and Decision Making, 2008.
This paper analyzes three types of thinking styles: logical, persuasive and systematic thinking.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 28.95
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This paper explains that critical thinking and critical decision-making are partners in managing beneficially any business or organization; therefore, managers need the proper skills to make good sound decisions. The author explores logical thinking by looking at the deductive thinking process, which includes categorical, hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms. The paper points out that a successful persuader usually has knowledge of the subject, is objective, follows ethical guidelines and can appeal to the other person's needs and values The author relates that persuasive thinking is a form of creative thinking, which takes quite a bit of involvement, ingenuity and thought. The paper describes the process of systematic thinking as (1) recognizing and investigating the problem, (2) devising multiple alternatives, (3) characterizing and instituting a selection criterion and (4) making a concluding verdict.
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"A good example of systematic thinking occurs when an employee is in need of a raise or promotion. The employee would first establish a plan. The employee would analyze his or her individual position within the company as well as analyze the situation. What does the employee need to do now to achieve the raise or promotion? What will their next step be in order to bring them closer to his or her raise or promotion? This allows the employee to think coherently by developing a timeline and acting accordingly."
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Thinking and Decision Making, 2008.
This paper compares three different thinking processes to discover how each affects the critical thinking process.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 28.95
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This paper analyzes three different thinking styles: logical, persuasive and systematic thinking. The author uses workplace examples to show how the critical thinking-process moves into the decision making-process. The paper explains that one component of logical thinking is the deductive thinking process, which then is broken down into three types of syllogism-- categorical, hypothetical and disjunctive. The author relates that a successful persuader usually has knowledge of the subject, is objective, and honest, and can appeal to the other person's needs, wants, and values. The paper utilizes the example of an employee asking for a raise to demonstrate systematic thinking.
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"Persuasive thinking can be positive when following moral and ethical guidelines. In doing so one must be aware of his or her biases and control them. It's necessary to be objective and see things from different perspectives and to know the audience's values and needs.
Thinking systematically, or methodically, is probably the most popular and most organized style of thinking. Systematic Thinking involves the thinker to follow four simple steps, they are: (1) recognize and investigate the problem, (2) devise multiple alternatives, (3) characterize and institute a selection criteria, and (4) make a concluding verdict."
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Latin American Magical Realism, 2007.
This paper provides a contrasting study of the role of women in Latin American magical realism in 'The House of the Spirits' by Isabel Allende and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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In this essay, the writer discusses that in both 'The House of the Spirits' by Isabel Allende and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, females figure prominently in the authors' narratives of magical realism. The writer notes that in both novels, the struggles of the main female protagonist exist on a literal level of story and have a symbolic level of significance beyond the story, about the nature of politics or the nature of women, respectively. The writer concludes that Allende ultimately seeks to question the reasons for man's inhumanity to men, and women, in a political reality, and uses magical realism to heighten the consequences of her character's actions and cruelties, while Marquez relates his tale of a fictional village and family exclusively in the register of the fantastic and the surreal.
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"True, some of the actions of Allende's characters may be heightened by supernatural narrative motifs such as the matriarch Clara's ability to see into the future, but these plot points have ramifications beyond those of the psychological, symbolic, or merely mystical. For example, in a parallel of the terror that will come to Chile, Esteban hits his wife, and Clara takes a vow of silence, and never speaks to him until he dies. This act of defiance, although taken to an extreme in the novel, can also be read as a heightened example of a difficult relationship between husband and wife, and how the oppression within a patriarchal family structure mirrors the politics of the land."
"In contrast, Marquez's female archetypes lack the complex psychology of Allende's females, existing in the material dimension alone rather than on simultaneous spiritual and material planes."
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Magical Realism, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the magical realism of Isabelle Allende?s "The House of the Spirits" and Garcia Marquez?s "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
2,927 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 59.95
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This paper examines different definitions of magical realism in literature and, in particular, compares and contrasts the magic realism aspects of Isabelle Allende?s "The House of the Spirits" and Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The books are analyzed within the context of plot, setting, characters, style, and narrative structure. It shows how Garcia Marquez takes his themes and his use of devices to explore these themes to such exquisite heights that the comparison between the two books is really an unfair one and how there really is no comparison between the masterpiece of Garcia Marquez, and Allende?s rather one-dimensional, poor attempt at magic realism.
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"Bell-Villada (2002) acknowledges that magic realism is not an original construct of Garcia Marquez, that, rather, it came from Kafka (Garcia Marquez continually acknowledges the great impact The Metamorphosis had on his writing), and from Faulkner, and that Garcia Marquez took the ideas from these authors, and built on them to give the world his complex, enchanting magic realist masterpiece. This view, of Bell-Villada (2002), differs from the euro-centric view of Zamora and Faris? (1995) book Magic Realism: Theory, History and Community, by putting Garcia-Marquez?s achievement in its rightful place as the masterpiece of magic realist fiction, rather than downplaying this achievement, through analysis, interpretation and presentation of worldwide, magic realist texts (such as those by Toni Morrison, and Rushdie, most of which were written post-One Hundred Years of Solitude)."
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Rain Man: An Illustrative Thinking, 2001.
A discussion on the three thinking processes: deductive reasoning, creative thinking or reasoning, and problem solving.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, £ 33.95
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This paper uses the movie "Rain Man" to illustrate the concepts of three thinking processes. The writer underscores the mechanics of deductive reasoning, creative thinking or reasoning and problem solving while citing examples from the movie as well as discussions on cognitive psychology.
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"The human thinking process is extremely complex. We have many ways of problem solving that we are not aware of but simply use. The movie Rain Man is an excellent illustration of what can happen if the processes are not complete or they are confused in our brains. Deductive reasoning, creative reasoning and problem solving are all intertwined and the movie about an autistic man provides a clear picture of the differences."
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Critical Thinking, 2004.
A brief explanation of the importance of critical thinking in decision making.
757 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 18.95
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This paper explains what critical thinking is and how vital it is, both within the workplace and in everyday life. The writer defines critical thinking as a rational way of thinking that attempts to understand and interpret information to find real meaning. The paper then shows how decision making is a large part of critical thinking and refers to the conclusion of the critical thinking.
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"It is interesting to note that while critical thinking must involve decision making, decision making does not have to involve critical thinking. For example, I can make any decision without thinking rationally about it. I can choose to leave my job and move to Rome without critically assessing whether this is an appropriate decision. I can choose to accept that Pepsi must be a great drink because Britney Spears drinks it and decide never to drink anything else. These are decisions but without being considered decisions, they are not critical thinking."
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Critical Thinking Skills in Learning, 2008.
An analysis of the importance of critical thinking skills in a student's learning.
8,176 words (approx. 32.7 pages), 84 sources, MLA, £ 120.95
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This paper discusses the relationship between the knowledge configuration and the buildup of cognitive skills, particularly critical thinking skills. It discusses the bridge that needs to be formed between what the students already know and how this prior knowledge can help them understand and use the latest and emerging topics in the field. It also looks at the use of interactive mechanisms that can relate the theoretical comprehension and the practical use in interaction of these theories.
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Introduction
Using Solo-User Programs In Collaborative Environments
Using Collaboration Process For Learning
Using Networking Tools For Collaborative Learning
Using LAN Systems For Collaborative Learning
Using Electronic Mails For Collaborative Learning
Using Internet For Collaborative Learning
Combining Multi-Program Systems For Collaborative Learning
Synthesis Of Research On CSCL
Using CSILE For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Using Belvedere For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Using CoVis For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Using Telecomunicando For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Conclusions
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"Computer Supported Collaborative Learning is very much related to the advancements and modifications in the approach towards education and teaching. We have discussed how some researchers highly favor the CSCL mechanism and have carried out studies that have made it come across as the most efficient ridge between education and technology. The two most important factors supporting CSCL are that it was the first to initiate the use of computer technology to improve the value of education and broaden the spectrum of the social interaction of students as well as teachers. All computer based programs that that were designed for individual improvement also proved to be useful in group dynamics. Also, when the computer-based programs offer the students and the teachers the opportunity to work in group dynamics through networks or public databases or internet conferencing, the growth and enhancement of the social interaction and understanding does become more apparent. Networking also helps the students and the teachers to indulge in joint ventures and constantly design and construct more and more educational as well as scientific theories, inquiries, tactics, etc (Jarvela et al, 1999)."
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Systems Thinking, 2006.
A discussion on systems thinking within the corporate world.
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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This paper begins with a definition of systems thinking. It continues to discusses its implementation into a company. It concludes with an exploration of the system's advantages and disadvantages to a business. The paper also offers an annotated bibliography.
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What is Systems Thinking?
How Systems Thinking Might be Implemented
Metrics and Strategies
Strengths and Weaknesses of Systems Thinking
Conclusion
Annotated Bibliography
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"These efforts to analyze procedures must be supported by other analyses. Statistical analysis can play an important role in data evaluation, if done well and kept in perspective. Statistical analysis has to be done by someone skilled in the use of statistics, and the research design must be carefully planned (Beckford, 2002). The computer saying "GIGO" - Garbage In, Garbage Out - applies to statistics as well. In addition, because statistics are so narrowly focused, their trend is somewhat contrary to Systems Thinking. Because of their narrow focus, decisions should not be made based on statistical results alone (Beckford, 2002)."
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Critical Thinking, 2002.
This paper discusses the utilisation of critical thinking in everyday life.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 26.95
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This paper explores the role of critical thinking in everyday life. Issues discussed include factors used in the decision-making process, barriers to critical thinking, and how critical thinking can be improved. The use of language, memory, and creativity in the critical-thinking process is also addressed. The paper concludes with a brief summary of its main points.
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"Like it or not, there is not a single aspect of our lives that is not governed by the thinking process. As employees, students, family members, and participants in various social groups, every day we have to think about things in order to make decisions about them. Those decisions may not always be deep and significant, but they are decisions that need to be thought about and made nonetheless."
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