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ORIGINAL: Edwynn



Thanks for that clarification and facile excuse for the double standard.

Unfortunately, it being academia, there are still stipilations involved which in fact run counter to the proposal of origionality, which your response conveys all too well.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn



~FR~

The academicians here would possibly better contribute to the discission if they were to were to explain the impetus behind such inane "questions," -to be charitable about it-, in the first place, and perhaps indulge the rest of us as to what particular 'critical thinking' would be behind such venture as requiring a student to write the imposed papers in service to academia's abstemiousness to r/l experience themselves, and disinclination to allow any experience of others in pursuit of that. Explain your own abilities in that regard. The questions proposed indicate lack of that ability in most instances, to be honest.

Where in r/l have you actually come up upon the things you propose to students; which by such insistence you impose upon them, as it turns out, being just for your own entertainment?

Enlighten us here.

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How about this: you believe what you wish to believe and I'll believe what I believe.

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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn



~FR~

The academicians here would possibly better contribute to the discission if they were to were to explain the impetus behind such inane "questions," -to be charitable about it-, in the first place, and perhaps indulge the rest of us as to what particular 'critical thinking' would be behind such venture as requiring a student to write the imposed papers in service to academia's abstemiousness to r/l experience themselves, and disinclination to allow any experience of others in pursuit of that. Explain your own abilities in that regard. The questions proposed indicate lack of that ability in most instances, to be honest.

Where in r/l have you actually come up upon the things you propose to students; which by such insistence you impose upon them, as it turns out, being just for your own entertainment?

Enlighten us here.

If this were a real question, framed in a non-aggressive stance, I'd be happy to. However, the way you've asked prompts only one answer from THIS academician.

No.

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Is the question of what life would be like had civil rights not been imposed in 1964 and 1965 (or the pill in 1960) meaning; life for the people in question was frozen at that point, and here we are today, everything else in progression while that particular issue being held in suspension until the time of today, or in the life of this student?, socially, technically, scientifically, etc, or, would this be a r/l question, as if there would not have been rioting even beyond what in fact happened in LA or Detroit in '66 or '67? Would there not have been the issue setttled in r/l no more than 5 years later? The proposed question seems to dissuade the student from everything to do with reality, even in various possibilities, for sake of a proposed unrealility in service to some contrived notion of 'critical thinking.'

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ORIGINAL: KMsAngel

see, in my studies, critical thinking isn't looking at a subject critically at all, it's being able to look at a subject objectively, to distance onself to a certain degree to be able to see all sides, culturally, historically, etc etc. and then compare those values and beliefs you've just highlighted by realising "that's my cultural window" you're looking through, and aim to look at it from a different cultural, historic, etc filter.

most history is written by victorious westerners, isn't it? so have you tried to look at an issue through the eyes of a conquered eastern country?

have you looked at the activities, for instance of the UK and US military powers through the eyes of someone who's had the hell bombed out of them?
have you looked at the phenomenon of indian women being surrogates for childless couples, male/female gay couples through the eyes of an indian family looking to secure a future for themselves, rather than through the eyes of a western woman who has a mortgage and vacations yearly and can afford shiny new tv's because she sells 20-30 eggs for harvesting for these same childless couples?

i've just come from an ethics class - i'm all full of debate

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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

Hello OP,

First, let me preface with I'm a teacher. While I understand that you want to have a discussion about this, are you actually working within the spirit of the assignment? When I ask my students to write an opinion paper, I want THEIR opinion. I want them to think about it - particularly a paper that is about THEIR LIFE. I can't possibly know how YOUR life would be different, what career path changes there would be. No one on this board can. We can certainly give our opinions about how the world would be different, but in the end, the question as you posed it is that you are to talk about how YOUR life would be different.

So, I ask you - how has the birth control pill affected you? Would you have been born? Did your family talk to you about birth control? Have you used it? What medical issues have you needed to manage with birth control? How has this affected your career path?

I am happy when the questions spark debate, but you aren't really debating. You are asking people to write your paper for you or at the very least to do the thinking for you. I would consider that on the continuum of cheating. What kind of critical thinking are you learning if you get others to do your thinking for you?

... and to the forum regulars who are answering this - why is THIS question ok for a paper that you will discuss but when folks want to talk about BDSM for a paper or they are doing research, people get their panties all in a twist. This issue is no less personal. It is no less vague. It is all about how you answer it - whether you make it personal versus conceptual.


best,
sunshine

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I have to spread out my answers into 5 pages for these three questions which I am finding to be pretty challenging

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The Pill, what if it was never invented, well, perhaps reliion would still have a control over the majorities lives like the bad old days, but on a more positive note, perhaps m