Alicia’s ePortfolio

1- Liberal art degrees teach students how to become engaged parts of their communities. “that the future demands of citizenship will require not narrow technical or job-focused training, but rather a subtle understanding of the complex influences that shape the world we live in”(Ungar). If you go onto a higher education that only focuses on one specific thing, you cannot learn to adapt and work in, or with people in, your community. “But ultimately, it isn’t about parsing the idea…

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Another course that I take is Psychology. It is an exploration corse. It introduces “social science discipline as a way of knowing.” It also provides “an introduction to the assumptions, methods, and terminology of that discipline.” It introduces social ‘issues’ or personal/mental disabilities that would limit you from being as productive in society as you would like to be and how you, as a member in the community, can help them. Scheuer says that “liberal arts … yoking together two…

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The University of New England is a college of arts and sciences. It includes english, math, and science classes. The point of a liberal arts degree is so that we, as students, learn many different aspects of life. We learn how to think critically, work with others, do things that we probably would not chose to do, and we also get to learn about many different authors, philosophers and literature that we would not have known other wise. We also…

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https://areynolds7.podbean.com/e/hannah-and-alicia/ During this project Hannah and I worked together and talked about the paper we wrote. It was very interesting to listen to her ideas and see how many similarities there were. But we also had differences like I used the article by Roth, and she did not. Overall I had a lot of fun with this project!

Many people think that is is important to go to a school only to focus and study one specific topic. But why do that when you can go to a school and get an education that will give you important life skills and knowledge that will help you succeed on any path life takes you? Many people change their majors a couple times before finding what is right for them, so if you go to a school where you are…

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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!