These days there are many athletes that are beginning to step out of their “position” of just being an athlete and they are stepping more into politics as well. Some people say that athletes should just stick to what they do and keep playing sports and stay out of politics. One of the people that say this is President Donald Trump. Trump believes that the two should stay separate. People refer to athletes as dumb jocks and say they are…
The DQP stands for Degree Qualifications Profile which describes to college graduates different things such as knowledge, skills, and other ways for the graduates to succeed. Educators have worked for a long time to decide what was important for college graduates to know, and what they would need to succeed. The DQP has five essential areas of learning that can be applied to an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or master degree. The five…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 Why Do We Make Bad Judgements? No one wants to make bad judgements but everyone does. Most people don’t know why we make bad judgements. Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist and economist who has these answers. Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and why we make them. He explains that there are cognitive fallacies which are things in your thinking that are not right. This causes us to make…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown December 4, 2019 ENG 122 Writing Process This semester we did a lot of prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. I think that my prewriting always could have been better. I would read the article, summarize it to myself, and make sure I understood it. Once I understood it I would think about how it related to my work. Prewriting helped with papers because it was almost like a head start on it and it had some…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown December 2, 2019 ENG 122 Reading Process During this semester I learned a lot of new procedures, concepts, skills, resources, and tools that I would use in other articles like Kahneman. Some of the things I learned that I would use are chunking, chunk parts of the article together and to help me while writing my paper. I would use annotations to take notes on the article. This would help me be able to take notes…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 No one wants to make bad judgements but everyone does. Most people don’t know why we make bad judgements. Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist and economist who has these answers. Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and why we make them. He explains that there are cognitive fallacies which are things in your thinking that are not right, and this causes us to make bad judgements. He talks about…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and different types of cognitive fallacies that affect our daily lives. He talks about different cognitive fallacies in which we make bad judgements. Some of these fallacies include the illusion of validity, WYSIATI, being blind to your own blindness, and overconfidence. More specific to this story are the illusion of validity and WYSIATI. If you take a minute to stop and think you…
Autumn Flagg Eric Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and different types of cognitive fallacies that affect our daily lives. If you take a minute to stop and think you will realize that many of these fallacies are present in your life. This summer I met a new friend named Mat. Mat and I became pretty close in a short amount of time. We had lots of fires at his house with…
