Category: Critical Thinking

Introduction Humans are obsessed with technology. The fact that there are more people with mobile phones (5.1 billion) than people with toothbrushes (4.2 billion) (according to Hubspot) shows how much we love technology. Those statistics do not surprise me. Technology is not going anywhere. Technology is not an option. It is a fundamental part of…

Should people be able to pay to get to the head of the line in public facilities, such as airports? To drive alone in carpool lanes for a fee? Or to quit smoking or lose weight? Should having money determine who gets first access to emergency rooms or transplants for kidneys? Does everything in life…

A man who blinded himself and ran off from his city, Oedipus, a man whose identification he no longer knew. He killed his father and married his mother, unknowingly stunning a prophecy. This is a story of a man written by way of the capability of the Greek Tragedian Sophocles and using the skill of…

‘Liberté, égalité and fraternité’ are the influential words pinned to the French Revolution of 1789-1799. This rhetoric encapsulated ideas of reason promoted by Enlightenment thinkers such as Immanuel Kant, and later Abbe Sieyes in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and Maximilien Robespierre in 1790. France’s ‘global dimension’ meant ideas, especially liberty,…

Forgiveness and loss an important themes in everyone’s life. It helps people to endure a challenge of hardship or to overcome a fear that they must be able to face in the future. For instance, Don Hall and Chris Williams’s film produced in 2014, Big Hero 6, conveys how important forgiveness and loss are throughout…

When Pi was thrown into the Pacific Ocean on the lifeboat with only a limited stock of food and other resources after the ship capsized, he had to make a plan to survive the uncertain and indeterminate period in the harsh seas; “when your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by…

The Hunger Games is a dystopian fictional novel by Suzanne Collins. The novel depicts an unequal world within which Panem and the citizens are troubled by the oppressive Capitol regime. The power of authority overcomes any others. Inequality is heavily present throughout the novel, both, in and out of the games. The Capitol holds influence…

Introduction The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biology corporation which existed from 1901 until 2018. In 2008 Monsanto was acquired by Bayer as a part of the crop science division. “Monsanto scientists have spent the past few decades modifying crops-often by inserting new genes or adapting existing genes within plant seeds-to meet…

The knowledge of one’s worthiness is crucial to a person’s ability to feel a sense of love and connection. In 2010, Brene Brown did a TED talk on how impactful being vulnerable is to our ability to feel belonging and connection which received over 40.5 million views. She explains that the soul of her work…

Everyone has committed a crime. However, some sins are unforgivable, to the point that they seem unforgivable. The ‘unforgivable sin’ is the obedience of the mind to the intellect. Nathaniel Hawthorne through Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, and Roger Chillingworth There are some excellent examples in The Scarlet Letter. Through the differences in the lives of…