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Based off of the title it is clear the article talks about liberal arts and how that is connected to critical thinking. I think it will focus more on what is wrong with them or how our society does not use them. To me liberal arts are school subjects; math, english, etc.. What Are the Liberal Arts? There have been many different discussions about what really are liberal arts. Essentially it started out with seven basic topics : Grammar, rhetoric,…

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I just met with Olivia for my paper. She was so helpful!! At first I was concerned to read my paper out loud because I’m not very confident in my work but she was so nice and was not judgmental and when she needed to correct me on something she was super polite about it. I will 100% go back to meet with her on further assignments.

SAMPLE I ORIGINAL A fixed mindset is someone who finds pushing themselves when it comes to difficult school problems “tragic, catastrophic”(Dweck). They do not want to further their abilities and they do not want to be wrong. The opposite of a fixed mindset is a growth mindset – a growth mindset is someone who “understood that their abilities could be developed”(Dweck), and they love challenging themselves. If we constantly limit what one can think or talk about then students will…

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Paragraph 1: In today’s academic community, it is becoming more and more common for professors and teachers to limit what kids can and cannot talk about. More and more people have been turning normal everyday events into huge controversial issues. In Roth’s article, “The Differences between Coddling and ‘Safe Spaces’,” he gives an example of a college campus that had to cancel an annual event called “hump day,” which was based off of the popular commercial, where students could pet…

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https://areynolds7.podbean.com/e/podcast-example-1568985798/ This is my first podcast. It probably is not very good but I tried. My roommate, my RA and Brendan(my neighbor) are featured in this. Enjoy!

When I agreed with Lukianoff and Haidt I thought that their quote about how protecting students make them less prepared for life outside their classroom was right. I think that students need to talk about difficult topics, and that coddling them does not support them. If you don’t expose them in a comfortable setting, they won’t be able to handle the topics anywhere else. When I agreed with Roth’s quote that campuses need safe enough spaces and not just safe…

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The concerns I had when finishing my draft was including all of the topics and making them flow, which did not happen. I think my peers like how I introduced different topics and how I used my quotes and explained them. “Good job summarizing his points and explaining them more”(Nick). I used Dweck the best combining the fixed and growth mindsets to microaggressions and trigger warnings. I need to improve how I flow between the two topics. I work the…

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Michael S. Roth says that college campuses do not need “safe spaces” but instead need “safe enough spaces.” “Our classrooms should never be so comfortable that intellectual confrontation becomes taboo or assumptions go unchallenged because everyone;s emotional well-being is overprotected. Instead, we must promote intellectual diversity in a context in which people can feel safe enough to challenge one another. Vigorous scholarly exchange and academic freedom depend on it”(Roth, paragraph 21). If you encourage an environment where kids can speak…

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