Implication of critical thinking article

One of the important implications of this study is suggest to student that how can they improve their critical thinking skills. Students don't care about how much they understand about studies. They always think about how can I get a better grade without critical thinking. Even as me, I hadn't thought about critical thinking. I always care about my grade, but after I read this article, I realized that how critical thinking is important and the way of improving thinking with bunch of reading and writing practice.
  In Korea, until we enter university, I just learn the method which answer the question as fast as I can. My thinking was not important. I should analyze the research and should answer just with author's thinking. After this process, when I enter the university, suddenly professors need my own thinking. This demand makes me confused. I don't even know the way of get my own idea.
  But after I read this article, I realized the way of critical thinking. I need a lot of reading and writing practice. If there are someone who suffer like my problem, they also can get appropriate strategies from this article.
   In conclusion, students can find answer the way of improving skill from this article. Also, this article reminds me the method of improving critical thinking and lead to me to do more reading and writing for critical thinking

Get skills of Critical Thinking from Communicating

by Eri

     Reading and Writing would help me learn critical thinking skills. However, I think communicating would be more helpful than reading and writing in creating intellectual engagement. I have several reasons, and one of them is that I can know new ideas which I have never considered from other people by communicating.

     According to the article, "Study: Many college students not learning to think critically", the author, Sara Rimer, reports that students who took classes heavy on both reading and writing showed the higher rates of learning critical thinking. Reading more than 40 pages and writing more than20 pages per week help you think critically. This is true because reading can build your vocabulary, and writing can teach you to explain your own ideas. Nevertheless, reading a lot can be factors of making biased thinking. For example, my friend likes horror and mystery books and has been reading a lot of these books. By reading a lot, she can think critically. However, when she wrote essays, it became like a horror essay, and she couldn't write a positive one. It means that reading specific types of books, she acquired a biased thinking skill. As same as reading, although writing many pages might be good to increase the skill of analytical thinking, if someone doesn't have enough information, writing can be meaningless. Therefore,  the author's recommendation, reading and writing a lot, is one approach to improve your thinking skill, however, it is not the best way.

     Compared with this advice, communicating may be a better way to change your thinking skill to the more critical one. Before I came to the U.S., my mother suggested me to talk to as many people as I can. This is because the more I communicate with people who have different aspects, the more I can consider deeply and widely. Indeed, I learned a lot of ideas from Small Talk. My classmate told me many opinions which I had never thought. For example, I learned a lot of stereotypes of Japan which I couldn't notice when I lived in Japan. To know how my country has been thought by other countries' people is important to know what my country is, and I could think of Japan again, but more deeply. In addition, you can practice talking about your opinion by communicating as well as writing. Therefore, communicating is the best way to learn critical thinking for my lifestyle.

     In conclusion, although the author's recommendation, reading many books and writing many pages, is a good method to acquire critical thinking skills, as for me, communicating with many people is the best way to gain the skills effectively.

The Threat to Wildlife in Forests

by Eri
Today, many people have said that global warming is the most important environmental problem, so we need to make an effort to stop it. However, there are a lot of other critical environmental problems which we are not focusing on yet. Pollution of the forests is one of the problems. People throw away a lot of things in the mountains, and the garbage which remains is a factor which poses a threat to nature. Furthermore, the problem intimidates wildlife.

 A lot of trash which was dumped into forests injures animals. The rubbish causes them to get hurt in two ways, from inside of their body, and outside. 

      First, the garbage injures animals because they eat it. This problem is well known in the sea. According to the article, “US bans microbeads from personal care product”, the author says that nondegradable polymers are being eaten by fish as food. In the same way as in the sea, much waste has is being eaten by animals in forests and killed them. For example, only one plastic bag which is eaten by an animal can stop it breathing and rob its life. Therefore, the trash which is dumped into forests and eaten poses a threat of killing wild animals. 

Second, the garbage causes them serious injury when it remains in the forests. Even if animals don’t eat it, it can possibly hurt them. An expert says that a lot of wild animals are at risk of getting hurt by the trash, especially, sharp objects left in forests. This is because the objects fill the road and animals may walk on it. Which is how they can be hurt by the waste to stick them. In addition, there is a possibility that a small animal looks inside of an empty can, and gets its neck stuck in the can. Animals risk injury even if they don't eat the garbage.

In conclusion, because of the garbage which humans throw away, wild animals face the risk of death. People need not only to clean up the forests, but also to think about how to decrease the waste product which we dump into forests, and to realize what a dangerous threat the trash poses to wildlife. Making a comfortable world for both humans and animals is the task that people should do first.

Examples of threatening the environment and our attitude

By Daniel

In human's life, unconsciously we use a lot of items that of environmental problems. In other words, we face a lot of environmental problems. How can we deal with them? How should we differentiate what is harmful?  Here are some example for the items that we use frequently but harmful.

  One of them is micro-beads. According to the author of  'Study : Eight trillion micro-beads pollute aquatic habitats every day', micro-beads are serious cause of pollute environment. We use the micro-beads as a toothpaste or face wash. We think the micro-beads are go away and disappear forever, but they never really go away. They arrive to the ocean and could eaten by sea creatures, and kill the creatures as a food or pollute the water. So how can we handle this problem? From the article, we need the law for prohibit using micro-beads.  In the U.S. the movement for the ban has already begun from July 2017. They defined that any solid plastic particle less than 5mm in size should be banned.


  And then where can we find the item that we use unconsciously but harmful? It is using air conditioner. We use it every summer to make us feel comfortable but actually earth feel uncomfortable because of that. What is the matter of using air conditional? When we use air conditioner, it need refrigerant called R-22. It makes much Freon Gas that cause of global warming. Freon Gas generates Carbon Dioxide(Co2) in the process of disassembling oxygen and Co2 is one of the cause of global warming. We can't see the Co2, so we don't care about it or someone can think that our atmosphere is so huge so it will go away forever. Here is the same problem like micro-beads. Co2 is never really go away. They remain in the sky and block the geomagnetic energy. That's why the earth getting hotter and hotter. Then how can we deal using air conditional? World have already begun regulated use R-22, and find other refrigerant called R-410.

  In conclusion, what's our job for environment? It is too hard to notice which behavior is harmful or not. So we should have interest in current common sense and do our best to obey the rules which made for protect environment