Ch 10 #2

I think Liodice's argument is better than Wootan's because Wootan has a bunch of guidelines that could eventually turn into rules. When there are rules that children have to follow, most will follow without thinking about why there is a rule for this and that or why this food can't be eaten or why that food can be eaten. The children will not learn anything about the right food choices and the wrong ones. Children have to be educated about the type of food there is and the ingredients in it. By calling some food, "bad food," the children that feel rebellious will want to eat those types of food even more. Parents have an important part in teaching their children what is healthy and what isn't. After time, the children will find the healthy choice the choice they will choose without thinking. Sometimes I wonder why people don't like vegetables, but I think it is because my parents taught me when I was young that they are good.

Ch 10 #1

There are advertisements on the T.V. and posters are everywhere. Some marketing strategies are so similar to the company's past advertisement that I can just know which company is being represented instantly. There was a commercial I saw recently with two cartoon cats in a cage. They were having a conversation about getting adopted and why they haven't been adopted yet. In the end they were going to sleep and one said, maybe tomorrow. I thought it was so cute and makes me want to adopt kitties, but I know they are not allowed at my house and my mom hates the smell of them.

I think marking strategies that are not effective depend on different things like the colors they use or the story in it. Sometimes I have no idea what is happening in some commercials or sometimes the colors are too hard to look at. Some strategies involve being different to stand out, but some are too strange to even comprehend.

Ch 4 #3

A concept that I liked in this Chapter is the Direct Experience and False Memory. One example in the book that I found interesting was the participants watched a video of two cars colliding together. Then the participants will be asked how fast were the cars going when they smashed/collided/bumped/hit/contacted each other. Depending on which verb used, the answers would be different. If the verb made the accident sound more intense, the participant were more likely to say a high speed. The book also said that eye-witness identifications can be up to 50% wrong. That's a pretty big percent. I can understand how though, when we see something at one moment, we either remember it very clearly or forget about it. When either of them happen, either trying to keep remembering or trying to remember later, the memory of the event will be slightly altered. Another example in the book that I've also heard about in Psychology is when a memory is suggested, even when it never happen, some people will claim to remember the event vividly. For example if someone starts asking if the person has every been lost and keep on suggesting such an event happened, some people might claim they do remember. This is the false memory syndrome.

Ch 4 #1

Knowledge is the information learned from one's environment and school that the person believes to be true. Wisdom is similar to knowledge, but it is more likely to be acquired through experience from the environment and not really from schools. Wisdom is the information we can take and put into action. I feel like wisdom would kind of be like the common sense we learn without it being taught to us. 
I believe in college we are learning more knowledge than wisdom. Classes are teaching us information that the professor believes is true and therefore, we should believe it is true. If not, we debate with the professor. All the information I'm learning in college seems like it is just knowledge I might have to remember to use in the future or just remember long enough to pass a test. If wisdom is being acquired in college, it is more outside of the classroom than inside. 
I think the information age has made us more knowledgeable than wiser because there is so much information on the internet now that we can easily access and read - and memorize to tell other people later. Wisdom is more like going out and trying things on their own. An example can be reading how to ride a bike and watching a video on Youtube, but without going out and actually trying, that person doesn't actually know how to ride it. That person only knows the steps down. 

Ch. 4 #2

Condon believes that studying UFO is not a study that can get a lot of fruit out of it. He believes that finding information on UFOs is hard because when we want information, we look to specialists and there are no specialist in this subject. Some people believe that they might be specialists in the topic of UFOs, but these people can not get the approval and acceptance from the rest of society. Although he thinks studying UFOs is not fruitful, he believes that the people who have the skills and training to do it should be supported. 
Hynek believes that UFOs exists in the world and wants people who claim that they have sighted UFOs to tell their story. He wants to gather more data on this topic 
I think Payner's argument is the most appealing to me, because he is pretty much saying that everything is a just a theory, until there is some actual proof. 

Ch 3 #3

Emotive language is an important concept that I learned in chapter 3. The type of words used when speaking  to another person is important in the way the person will understand the meaning of what one is saying. Some might misunderstand and take something that might have been a compliment as an insult. If emotions are not understood, the argument might not be as persuasive or the person arguing might convince the people to do the exact opposite that the person doing the argument want. Something that is good for us could sound awful if the person advertising the product sounds disgusted or angry. People usually side with sad stories. If the story doesn't sound sad, how will a jury side with you? Emotions help convince people onto a certain side. Sometimes I read stories so sad that it brings me to tears. I can't imagine a world that doesn't have emotions. We would all sound like the Clear Eyes commercial man.

Ch 3 #2

I have noticed that sarcasm has become very popular in my age group. I maybe use it at least once a day. Because of the internet, many people have sarcastic comebacks for their friend's obvious statements. If I were to say it was hot, one of my friends would say, "you don't say." Most of the sarcastic comments I hear or use are friendly and joking. I don't hear many sarcastic comments that have ill intent. Hyperboles are used often too. I have recently said that the weather is so hot that I could die, but I wouldn't have actually died in the weather here. Sarcasm and hyperboles are not actually really required to be in daily conversations, but it makes conversations more interesting. Sometimes, depending on the situations, sarcasm and hyperboles are not used in a friend and jokingly way that I use. People have used these rhetorical devices to make people feel bad about themselves.

Ch 3 #1

Sally Ride is a exemplary critical thinking, because she is able to set out plans in her life to get her to the position she wants to be in for the future. She is able to analyze, understand and figure out the solution to a problem. She also able to communicate with other people about her ideas in an effective manner. Because of her skills, NASA was impressed enough to accept her into the program. Since she can communicate well, she was in charge of speaking to the people on the ground and the people up in space. If she wasn't able to communicate well, something could possibly go wrong and the shuttle could go of track or something along those lines. She has to be a good speaker if she is to go in front of the United Nations and speak in front of these adults. I would not be able to speak in front of them. I'd get all nervous and get all my ideas messed up. Examples of her writings skills can be seen with her report and her children books. Other peers must have found her writing good enough to be published.