Critical Thinking
Rethinking what critical thinking meant I finally understood it. When I looked through all of my assignments I tried looking for ones that actually stood out to me, like the ones where I had to analyze and evaluate an issue and make my own judgement of it. So I picked this assignment which was an argumentative essay in English class. For this assignment I had a question which was if torture was ever acceptable, I researched lots of news articles and most argued for it and argued against it. While I was going through the news articles I had lots of thoughts going through my mind for where I stand when answering this question. After reading through articles I finally made my decision, although it was difficult to find where I stand I chose to argue that it was acceptable, because I had my own views on the subject and my own intake of it. So through this whole process of this assignment I learned that critical thinking doesn't just mean thinking outside of the box but learning to find where you stand, and your own views on the subject. This is what I learned from Mrs. Hatch, when you think about critical thinking it doesn't just mean to think outside of the box but to analyze and evaluate your own thinking on the subject, like what I said to find where I stood and to research my thinking on the matter. Starting my essay I first had to pick a topic that I really wanted to learn more about so I chose if torture was ever acceptable, when I first start this essay I argued that it should, after going through research, finding multiple news articles and other websites explaining torture, and even reading lots of stories on people and their experience with torture in jail. The thought of torture horrifies me but for some reason it didn't change my mind. To me I argued that it should be acceptable, because when reading most news articles most torture comes from inside prison and how sometimes they are tortured for the wrong doings they do, and a thought came into my mind, I thought about how like when kids are younger and they do something really bad they their parent would give them a little slap to keep the straight. So to me that was the main reason why I argued that it should be acceptable.
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