The term is coming to a close, and as I began this live journal with an introduction, it's only suitable to end with a conclusion. Looking over my journals, I noticed the last three entries have accomplished one thing I have been opting for during this course- to write more concisely. Working through the anti-oppression assignment has been ( Read more... )

The mass media is not only defined by the ways it reaches audiences, through radio, music, television, film, advertisements on subways, in magazines or bathroom stalls, computers and cameras; but also the producers of the media, like journalists, performers and news anchors ( Read more... )

From grade one until grade seven, I experienced tired, bored and ready to retire teachers. I would love to say I had a favourite elementary teacher, however this wasn't the case after kindergarten. Physical education was an awful experience growing up. I would have loved to go swimming, skating, wall climbing or anything other than dodgeball, ( Read more... )

This weekend I attended training to volunteer at the Royal Ontario Museum in the discovery room. This room is a hands on gallery for children under age five, and their families. They can try on costumes, learn about civillizations, do arts and crafts and other activities designed to help them learn through doing. At the start of training we had to ( Read more... )

Moral reasoning can take on many different perspectives. What is right and wrong can be determined by many factors, such as a person's happiness as a result of a decision, or what a person's duties and obligations are in the situation. At the end of the chapter, it's stated that it's important to choose a perspective of moral reasoning, because ( Read more... )

To understand the argument you are critically deconstructing, you must ask questions. Arguments are being pitched to us constantly. For example, universities present significant arguments to prospective students explaining why they should attend their institution. It would be easy to accept the arguments for each school at face value. However since ( Read more... )

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All arguments provide evidence for their conclusions, however deductive and inductive prove their own conclusions differently. Deductive tries to prove its conclusion using logical and straightforward evidence, whereas, inductive shows that its conclusion is reasonable through the premises. The importance of understanding whether an argument is ( Read more... )

Reading about the APA style and design of a paper made me think of myself as an educator marking papers in the future. I can understand why it's so important to know all the important parts of a paper, not just for myself as a student, but for when I am a teacher and reading my student's papers. One of the expectations I have of myself to is ( Read more... )

An argument is a theory defended by evidence, and is composed of statements and a conclusion. Statements, also known as premises, are offered as evidence to support the conclusion of an argument. Statements can be true, such as my birthdate is October 23, 1982; or false, like stating it snows in Canada mostly duing July and August. Statements also ( Read more... )