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Assignment 3

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Assignment 2

Technology gave rise to tonnes of social media, where information spreads and you can get in the know with just a few taps and scroll. The problem is however, you won’t be able to tap or scroll just for a few times, unless we are talking about those selected few. This occurrence is normal, although not healthy, but it is perfectly normal to get addicted to using them.

Technologies made our life easy in lots of way, but the most apparent one is obviously connecting people from afar. It lets you talk to people without having the effort to go and meet them. It also gives you reports and news from all over the world. And most importantly it connects you with people close and dear to you. There are also games for when people are bored. A simple game for you to fulfil your leisure, or more complex ones, played with your friends from your community and is played as sports – e-sports. There are also smart assistants who will do most of the things you should and help you doing them, ranging from reminding you for your appointment to finding you the best place to eat, they can do almost anything.

However, with this lots of pros, there also comes cons. Connecting people from afar made people lazier. So much lazier that people converse through texts although they can already meet them just by climbing a flight of stairs. The games that are made to entertain sometimes entertain people too much that they got addicted, spending 23 hours per day on screen. Having assistants make you rely on them too much that your brain starts to function less because apparently you need reminders for everything.

Technology is great and all but it came with a price, therefore use it wisely, and don’t get addicted.

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Assignment 2 - Reflective essay on Addiction to Technology

There are no words to describe how technology has influenced people in this modern era. The problem relating addiction to technology has slipped out of our hands as technology has begun to control us rather than us controlling them.

People especially teenagers nowadays are so addicted to technology that they can’t live their everyday life normally without them. This can be seen through the article where we can clearly see that most of the college students refused to voluntarily avoid their technological gadgets, mainly their cellphones, for one full day and when they were forced to avoid technology for some time, it was observed that most of them couldn’t lead their life normally and had felt several negative effects. This can also be observed around me whenever I take my friends’ or family members’ phone. They couldn’t take it and always ask back for their phones seconds later as they are too attached to their cellphones and can’t live without them.

I agree to the article that technology can be addictive sometimes and teenagers have to control or limit the usage of their technological gadgets so that they won’t be too addicted and dependant on their gadgets to live their life. I’m not saying that people should avoid technology altogether, but have to limit their usage as technology do have its benefits if used wisely.

Based on the ‘Satirical illustrations on addiction to technology’, we can see several bad effects caused by addiction to technology. One of the effects is that technology creates a barrier between human beings to communicate in their everyday life. This also has been occurred around me whenever I go out to eat or sit with my friends. They often use their phones rather than talking with one another. This shows that people are too tied to their technological devices until they could forget the people around them. Furthermore, technology has also caused distress to others and has emerged to cyberbullying. So, I believe that when technology, when not controlled, could cause several dangerous effects to people and can slowly lead to the destruction of humanity.

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assignment 3 , online ABDULLAH HARITH BIN AZIDIN

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assignment 1, online ABDULLAH HARITH

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CA Assignment 3

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CELL PHONE HARM
Keep mobile phones, tablets or laptops away from your body,

Wireless Devices may cause harm, this research is not shoddy,

Cervical spine stress caused by your communication possession,

Your head forward position increases cervical compression

On top of that there is an increase risk of brain cancer

It is enough to make you pause, before you answer,

Keep your cell phone away from your body and place

it in your purse or outer coat pocket, not near your face!

And use your speaker phone or ear phones instead

of placing the phone directly against your head.

It is impossible to belief that that only a few years ago,

there were no cell phones. So now when you go

home, put the phone away so you can be with your family.

Cell phone use is ubiquitous, sometime you need to get free!

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The top 5 advantages and disadvantages of text messaging
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPhW3ZuOrw

The text effect: How texting can derail your teen's social development

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n75W81OfNxw

5 Crazy Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right Now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HffWFd_6bJ0

How Is Your Phone Changing You?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CBb3yX9Zs

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6/2/18

For today's class, students have to do a little bit of research on negative effects of technology. Below is a link related to the topic.
http://roogirl.com/25-negative-effects-of-technology/
I want you to present on 13 Feb. Each presentation will be in about 30 minutes. You may have your presentations in a variety of ways, for example by performing sketches, showing videos, or reciting poem. This is a group work ( 5-7 students per group). You may work in the small groups that you have decided for your social action project. 10 marks are allocated for this presentation. These marks will be a part of the marks for Set 5 social action project.

Here are some suggestions of topics:
1. Child grooming
2.  Effects technology on health (physical, and mental)
2. Internet addiction

You may also choose other topics of your interests.

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SET 1 (only for Yash's group)
Text messaging: Pros and Cons

Dear students, for today's class, you have to share videos on either the pros or cons of text messaging. You are also encouraged to share some examples. This is a group work.

For example, I share this video on

'Texting and Social Media: The Impact on Student Grammar'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDG4n1Kwm4g

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CA Online Assignment 3

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SET 5
AP01511

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NOOR AFYZA EMYSHA BINTI CHE ABD HALIM (SET 5) AP01276

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS (Assignment 3)

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CA Assignment 1
1.After watching the video, my opinion is that critical thinking is something which will help us to make the best decision in a situation. Critical thinking makes us to find some evidences or proves to believe in something. It's a way of thinking that makes us not easily believe in any arguments and statements without any supporting evidences.
Most of the people are not aware of this things and are easily fooled by someone because they are accepting arguments and blindly believing in them. To prevent this from happening, we need to think in a critically thinking way.
2. In my opinion, we should not believe the email we receive and i would confirm if this email is one of the spam. Out there, many people are trying to steal someone's identity by this way. So, i think this person is trying to do the same thing. You have to the probability, you does not even know them, but why she choose you? Since his father is a former minister, they must have friends from other and they are more trusted than a stranger like you. This is all about money who does want to give you money easily?
3. I think critical thinker always have some time to think of something and do not rushingly make a decision. Because they aware of the error of result if they make a decision straight away.
For them its okay to look stupid, and do not pretend to know what we not know. Instead, they
They also judge the strategy, not results. Because the results can be made of bad strategies. Practising good strategies even the outcome did not really well but it worth repeating. Do not too obsess with short-term success. Most of this only luck and luck do not come to every people.

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Critical Analysis (Assignment 3)

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS Assignment 3

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Critical Analysis (assignment 3)

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From the video, we can say that people nowadays are mostly addicted to technologies. In this context, technologies are not only smart phone but also laptop, tablet and television. Social media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other popular site for social media are the top influencer in this problem. Just look how ‘health’ our community is, most of them have physical health problem which really worrying us. It is true that the obesities percentage in Malaysia not really affected by technologies directly. If we think deeply, obesity is the most popular among Malaysian because we can see it everywhere we go, and people always think that the problem is from our country which have variety of mouth-watering food, but put aside that factor, think it deeply, it is not a problem to be in this lovely country that have variety of delicious food, it is a problem to be in society which put technologies on the top of the top.

People do not go outside because they have technologies in their hand and they will get all the information they need at the tips of their fingers. So they do not really have to move and do some exercises. Why they do not want to do exercises? Because technologies is somehow more interesting than being outside and inhale some fresh air. The only need to sit anyway or lay down on bed, and can do everything with gadgets. They do not have to be tired or sweating just relax and chill their time with gadget. This is how obesity rate keeps increasing in our beautiful country. I have an experience whenever I ask somebody to go outside, do some activity, they will say they do not have many time and have a lot of assignments waiting for them. But when I come back and what I see is they are scrolling their smart phone while laughing instead of doing their assignments.

Second, most of people in this country have mental health problem. Why we can say that technologies might be the part of the contributor of this problem is people, mostly girl want to be famous or well-known in social media and they somehow keep trying to be the best and make people jealous with what they have. And some other girl will feel insecure and worrying about their life which is not good as what they can see in the social media. This shows that they are not appreciating for what they have, they tend to fell irritated and jealous to others people achievements. It is good if they inspired instead of feeling bad of themselves. If they feel jealous and doing nothing only just hating themselves. Yeah, it is a bad sign then.

As for the article, I don’t think I have the addiction problem because I still can live happily without gadgets. This might be because I love to interact with people but somehow people around me that have that kind of problem which make me feel lonely and need my gadget to get rid the boredom. But I have some people in my life that really love to interact human-human instead of human-gadget-human. I cannot deny how tempting gadget is but I still can resist it in good way.

But we cannot say that technologies is only bring bad side to people but we still need to remember how much we need technologies in our life, to make our life more easier and convenient. Don’t forget good things in someone or something just because you see how bad they are.

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CA Assignment 3

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LOH RI SHAN (AP01521) SET 5
CA Assignment 3 (2/1/18)

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Muhammad Azlan bin Agustiar - Set 05 - AP01327

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Critical Analysis - Assignment III

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As we are marching towards the era of globalization and urbanization, the youngsters are badly suffocated with the addiction towards technology and social networks. I am a teenager myself, and I acknowledge all of the occurrences and reports that were told as I have encountered most of the events shown in the video and written in the article. We may not notice the aftereffects of being too attached to the technology, but being too dependent on it does bring disaster to the current generation. A fact that most of us doesn’t know about is that, engaging ourselves with our cellphones and the social media releases a chemical called ‘dopamine’. That is why when we get a text, or notifications from our facebook, twitter or instagram account, we feel good. Dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke, when we drink and when we gamble. In other word, it is highly highly addictive.

In today’s society, a lot of people are depending so much on technology especially to make them feel loved and worthy and this explains a lot why the number of likes on instagram and retweets on twitter does give a vast satisfaction to some people. The youths’ social and communication’s skills are severely appalling as compared to the older generations' because most of their acquaintances are “internet friends” and so, they have very small circle of friends in real life and some of them are more comfortable being alone with their gadgets, alienating themselves from the reality of life.

With technology, we grow in a world with instant gratification. When we feel like buying something, we go to amazon.com, lazada or shopee and your stuff arrives the next day. When we feel like watching movie, log on and watch it on the internet. When we feel like learning something; how to bake for example, search for recipes and watch cooking show on youtube. You won’t have to go out to do all these things. Everything will be served right in front of you with just a click. Yes, with technology, everything mentioned above is possible. With technology, everything we want, we can have it instantaneously. Everything, except for strength of relationship and self-confidence, there ain’t no app for that. They are slow and messy process. These two things are what today’s generation are lack of in themselves, and these are examples of the negative effects that technology could give us.

The fact that we could never live a day without technology and internet, defines so much about our addiction towards it. And like all addictions, it will destroy relationships, it will cost time, money, and make our life worse. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that technology does have a number of benefits provided for the mankind. But do not let ourselves being too attached to it. When we spend less time on technology, we would literally enjoy the world, even the simplest little thing that happens, and that is when the bombastic ideas come.

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FARAH NUR FATINI BINTI AZHAN SET 5 (AP01513)

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CA ASSIGNMENT

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LEE ZI QUAN (Set 5) (AP01379)
CA Assignment 3 (2/1/2018)

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Nur Fadhlin Faqihah bt Anuarudin (AP01354)-Set 5

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Nur Zafira Binti Zabarulla (AP01522) Set 5

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Assignment 3 - Critical Analysis

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FATIN FARISHA BINTI ASMADI SET 5 (AP01453)

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FATIN FARISHA BINTI ASMADI SET 5 (AP01453)

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Evaluation on an essay about downloading a music from the internet illegally

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Assignment 2nd January 2018

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Muhammad Azlan bin Agustiar (AP01327 - Set 05

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Critical Analysis Assignment 2

Reflective Essay on Addiction to Technology

From the article and the video, it is true that people nowadays are addicted to the technology. As we live in a very modern world where technologies can be found everywhere, we can say that our life is depend on it. In my opinion, it is good to use technology in our daily life. However, the term ‘use’ technology should be specified. Technology is something that will ease our work and our life routine. It also give benefits to us if we use it in a good way. For example, technology can be used in finding information in a faster way. It also can reduce time and budget when using it for seeking information. The existence of technology also connects people who is miles away from us. In a nutshell, technology is beneficial to us and important in our life.

On the other hand, technology also gives some negative impacts to the users. People who are depending their life totally on technology surely cannot live without technology in a second. This is because, they had set their mind that technology is everything they need in their life. Some people who are addicted social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are tend to develop passive traits. They rather choose to meet someone online than meet themselves in personal – face to face. This decreases the social interaction among our social norms and it is very dangerous. If it is happen continuously, our world is predicted to become silent in the next hundreds years where people are just doing their own business through technology and not interaction among themselves.

In a conclusion, we can say that technology gives either positive or negative effects on us depending on how we use it. So, we must use our precious technologies in a way that gives us more benefits instead of its bad impact. It is not a problem to live with technology, but use it well in order to get benefits from it.

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Evaluation on an essay about downloading a music from the internet illegally

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Dear students, Please read Essay 1 and critically evaluate it based on the criteria listed. You may answer aspects 1-15 (checklist for evaluating essay) as a whole essay or by using a table (as in the question). Thank you.

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Assignment 2

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Online Assignment
Aspect | Yes/No | Comments
1. The writer’s own position on the issues is clear. | No | The writer himself did not make his own stand on this issue.
2. It is clear what the reasons are for the writer’s point of view. | Yes | The reasons stated from the evidences are enough to make the reader understand why it is stated in that way but it needs further explanation.
3. The writer’s conclusion is clear and based on the evidence. | No | The writer did not include his stand in the conclusion besides, he only stated the evidences from other researchers.
4. Reasons are presented in a logical order, as a line of reasoning. | No | The writer wrote the evidences without following any order, instead it is stated together in one paragraph.
5. The argument is well structured and easy to follow. | No | The evidences stated are not eventually structured and I think it is a bit in chaos manner.
6. Reasons are clearly linked to one another and to the conclusion. | Yes | The reasons stated are connected with each other and also the conclusion but the writer does not conclude his stand in the conclusion.
7. All the text is relevant to the assignment (in this case, about whether stealing is always wrong). | Yes  | The writer clearly stated that whether it is right or wrong for stealing the music online based on other researchers evidences.
8. The main reasons and key points stand out clearly to the reader. | Yes | It is clearly stated from each researchers the reasons for their evidence to the reader.
9. The writer makes good use of other people’s research as supporting evidence to strengthen the argument. | Yes | A lot of evidences from other researchers are included to support the argument.
10. Does the writer make a reasoned evaluation of other people’s views, especially those that contradict his or her own point of view? | No | The writer only stated other people’s views but does not evaluate it according to his or her view.
11. Does the writer provide references in the text when introducing other people’s ideas? | Yes | There are references for every evidence stated from other researchers.
12. Does the writer provide a list of references at the end of the essay? | No | There are no references provided by the writer at the end of the article.
13. Has the writer successfully removed any non-essential descriptive writing? | No | The writer did include some non-essential writing in the article that is not so important and relevant to the issue.
14. Does the writing contain any inconsistencies? | No | The evidences stated are all connected with the conclusion made.
15. Are the writer’s beliefs or self-interest unfairly distorting the argument? | No | The writer did not make any stand that can be concluded as against or with the arguments stated.

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In my opinion, internet and technology have been misused lately. Adults nowadays tends to fill their leasure time with social medias, watching movies, looking up the latest news and gossip and many other things while today kids always fill their time with video games. Just like internet addiction, video games addiction is really dangerous too.

These addiction to technology may bring up to people neglecting other responsibilities, like spending time with family or focusing on academics. People who spend time excessively will most likely see their grades and overall performance in school drop. There are also many health problems with the 21th century people spend less time for exercise or other intense activities that may lead to obesity.

My experience is when I was in primary school, the students there will easily get along with other friends because they are playing active games with each other while most of nowadays student are so introvert where they cant communicate with each other well because they used to just whatsapp or message them when they need to. I also enjoying many great activity like playing jenga, duelling with yugioh/uno cards, monopoly which needed a group of friends to enjoying it while the kids today having a passive game play where they just need to touch the phone screen to play it alone.

That’s why the use of technology is something that needs to be done in moderation in order to prevent these problems from becoming serious and not become addicted.

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Nowadays, we want everything to be more convenient and accessible. With the help of technology, we can across almost all sectors. However, technology has slowly taken an essential part in our daily lives. We could not imagine how our life would be without technologies such as televisions, smartphones and computers. This will become an addiction and some of us could not survive without them.

From the video, a compilation of satirical illustration shows how sad is our society’s life today. The addiction to technology becomes worse that we couldn’t care less about the reality surrounding us. People tend to depend on technology for everyday existence. For example, once my phone broke last time, I’m at a loss which I thought that I have done for. When I’m with a group of people, I feel awkward that the only person didn’t play with the phone is me. It didn’t realise me back then that the society more addicted to their gadget.

With technology, life gets easier such as what we want to buy, we will do it online by using the internet. It’s effortless to communicate with others when we can do it on Facebook, Twitter and video chat them with Skype. However, the impact of technology mostly on our social, mental and physical.  The article about student ‘addiction’ to technology stated that most of the students can’t live without technology when forced to unplug them for an entire day. In my opinion, even though technology gives a bad impact for students in term of the social, but in education, technology is important for students because they can access information at any time.

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Critical Analysis Assignment 2

Reflective Essay on Internet Addiction

Being part of this modernized world is such a bless at your first sight but when you see everything more deeply and thoroughly, you will realize that we were all deceived by the freedom and the convenience of technology all around us. We may seem not to be colonized but we are, in the new form of colonization which is by the TECHNOLOGY.

Acknowledging this, I was once trapped in the world of technology where I was unable to undergo my daily life as a normal social person. Being unable to speak confidently, join a group conversation and even talking without being awkward among my friends, I realized I was one of the victims of this 'blessed' communication technology when I rely on Facebook when communicating among my friends during school breaks (since I was in a boarding school). But fortunately I did overcame this problem as I entered my form 4, seeing the effort of my counselor helping me much in improving my communication skills. Thanks to them I escaped from continuously being the victim of Internet addiction.

As every single thing exist, they will be benefits and shortcomings but we can see how common people will tend to be intrigued to be affected by the technology rather than benefiting from it. Technology are undeniably crucial in our life as it does not just make our life easier, but also making it more efficient and meaningful. But seeing how teenagers nowadays are controlled by this even them facing such addictions, making me think about the upcoming new generations. As if teenagers nowadays are much affected by the technology, how could they become a good parents for their children in the future? Can the future generations entertain their children without giving them iPads and internet connections just to please them? How will the entertainment and social devices evolve as technology continue to evolve in such a vast effect? People should realize these consequences as they live their 'happy' life thinking the fate of our upcoming heirs. For now, just pause, take a deep breath, slow down and think while scrolling down your Instagram account.

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Critical Analysis  Assignment 2
Reflective Essay on Addiction to Technology
Technology takes on many different form such as medical technology, information technology, Entertainment technology. The video and article are describing the danger of a certain type of technology,social media to be precise the internet. In both of the outlets mentioned, they described social media as a drug.It cannot be denied that society more importantly teenagers have become to reliant on this technology. Not only that,they also exploited the negative effects of social media.It is true that there are many people that have become an addict to this stuff. However I can't confidently say that social media is not important.If I said that then I would be lying to myself.I do not consider myself an addict but I do rely on social media to obtain information and entertainment.
Social mediahas its benefits. As previously mentioned it is a source of information.If we do not keep up with current events,we can get left behind and become ignorant of the world.Human requires entertainment.It is part of nature and right now entertainment has taken a new form, social media.It is social media fault to exist or transform into it. It is the flow of time and time is irreversible.My final on this matter is addiction to this problem is real but the cure is self will.We as individuals are only that can do it.

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CA Assignment 2

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Assignment 2
I strongly agree that social medias are the most likely to make teenagers addicted to it because without it, the teens would be restless and they feel like they would'nt survived without it. People who are really into the social medias and gadgets are unstoppable when they started using it. Everyone should have their own right to know about the current issues. Nevertheless, it would be too much if they misused them. All of the things in the world have its own limit, so we must know the limit of those things around us.

I disagree with the statement tha some of the people stated that they arw willing to let the hunger overcontrol them because they wanted to spend time scrolling their social medias. In my opinion, technologies really affect us in terms of communication. However, there is the advabtages and the disadvantages. The advantages is we can communicate from two places that are far apart. But, the words that we chose to put in our chats doesn't seem sincere if when you typed HAHAHAHA but actually you didn't laugh in reality. So, it seems like we are faking the whole world.

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Noor Afyza Emysha binti Che Abd Halim (set 5)

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Assignment 2
Nowadays, everyone have their own gadgets to connect to social media and being informed news and global information. But sadly things getting worse when people being obsessed with their gadgets. This affected their relationship with people arround them and not to forget nature too. They also keep wasting their time without realising.

In my opinion, like everything else. Technology also have their own pros and cons. But it depending on users to use it as good or bad thing. We need to control our addiction towards technology or things getting worse. We also need to keep in touch with people around us without using social media. We need to enjoy nature without holding gadget to taking pictures of them. Be appreciative to people around you before it is too late and you will be regret.

And don’t you know, this bad habits can lead to bad effect. Which is can lead to bad or lack of communication skills. This is not a good news to the students performance. Todays requirement, communication is so important. For example, to have any jobs or scholarship, students need to go through interview which is to test their communication skills. So, as a student, we need to lesser the using of gadgets and observe things around us by using our own pair of eyes.

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Syasya Diyana binti Saharudin (AP01471) Set 5

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Assignment 2
It has gone past the days when running in the green field, feeling the breeze whispering in your ears, and pressing the sole of your feet against the hard ground were the social norms. Now, instead of running miles on the endless track at the lake with your feet, you scroll miles on your phone. Instead of listening to the voice of your loved ones, you just read the proves of their love on text messages. Nature now is greeted like an old friend, only meeting up when plans were made. Isn’t it a catastrophe for the race of human beings? Being surrounded by nature, but only noticing that most of the good parts of them are fading away when it’s already too late.

It is no secret that the technologies that arrive upon the millennium age has benefitted us in more ways than we can imagine. We can easily cross the sea that separates us with our loved ones, only by a phone call. With just a press of your thumb, you can get accessed to news all over the world. With just tweeting hashtags, you can let the people on warzone know that you are aware of their misery.  Discussions with your groupmates are easily done without even leaving the four walls of your room. Simply put, the world is in the tips of your hands.
However, things that are made easy are the ones who steal you of the littlest things that make life more memorable. The evidence for this is, it is a common sight to see a group of family bending over on their dining table, each and every one of them with a gadget of their own. Technologies make communications easy but the very essence of communication which is verbal is forgotten and lost.

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Nur Nabilla Nadia bt Affendi (AP01457) - SET 

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Critical Analysis : Assignment 2
From the video and the article shown, it can be concluded that people nowadays mostly young adults from age 17-23 spend most of their time with gadgets. They always rely on their smart phones in order to connect with the outer world. For an example, they communicate with their loved ones through text messages, they keep in touch with the world news through social media, and even tend to record an incident instead of helping the one in need first hand. Besides, it can clearly be seen that people are addicted to technologies that they forget to spend their time with their beloved ones face to face and turns out they lack of communication skills and the relationship becomes meaningless. What is the point of having a smartphone when it is not used smartly. They only live for the likes and comments on every post that they updated on social media. In fact, all those things are only to influence other people and make them insecured. Hence, I think that being addicted to technologies is not a good thing where we would miss a lot of good things happening around us.

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Ainul Hayati binti Ab Karim (AP01514) Set 5 

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Assignment 2 Critical Analysis

After watching the video and reading the article, in my opinion I think that we should start taking the issue regarding addiction to technology seriously. As the technology advances, it has become one of the basic needs in majority of our society’s life. From what I can see in the video, technology affected our daily life. People who are addicted to technology would rather spend hours for it rather than having a nice dinner with their family. It is saddening to see some parents give their children gadgets at such a young age just to calm them down. From my experience, I had seen a child who is only 3 years old suffered from mild autism due to over exposure to gadgets. Also, based on the article, a research shows that most of teenagers seems like they cannot live without their phone or gadgets. These prove how bad technology or gadgets addiction can negatively affect us.

However, everything has its own advantages and disadvantages. I agree that technology has made our live easier. We can easily communicate with others and simply find information through internet access. Therefore, I believe we should realize its bad effect and start using it wisely so we can avoid ourselves from becoming addicted to it.

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Reflective Essay on Technology
In daily life, we only have 4 basic needs which are food, water, shelter and air but in this modern world, we have an extra basic need which is gadget. Why do I say so ? From the article and video, we clearly knew that most human especially teenagers cannot live without gadget! It is not rare for us seeing people engaging with smartphones and tablets everytime and everywhere. Me myself also agree that I will become lifeless without any gadgets. It is because we live in a modern and high technology world and everything is at our fingertips. Evidence?  Online banking, online hotel booking, examinations results, and even payments for our meals are through our gadgets.

Actually, it depends on the person itself. I think it is not the technology's fault. It is our fault. Technology makes our life easier and better, not to make our life getting worst and sick. Only people nowadays do not know how to appreciate technology and they overused them. From the satirical illustrations in the video, it is cleary stated that the misuse of technology effect negatively on one's life. We slowly break our family relationship eventhough we still have dinner together, we failed to speak in front of the crowd, and to be clear and honest, we do not live in a real life. We still communicate, but it is in virtual life. People also tend to invest a lot amount of money to buy something pricey and post them to the social media for the sake of 'Likes' and 'Shares'. Nowadays, people gain happiness through this. The more the 'Likers', the more they think that they are popular and the more they happy. To be honest, I think it is not the real happiness, they just want to prove to everyone that they are living happily, but the reality is not.

So, my point is, we do not have to blame the technology, we must blame ourself. We as a normal human can decide whether the applications are useful or not. It is our fault to install it and get addicted of it day by day. It is not the technology's fault because the applications do not come automatically in our phone. It is our finger tapping the button 'Install'. In a nutshell, don't let the technology to conquer us.

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Critical analysis assignment 2: Addiction to technology
After watching the video and reading the article, I strongly agree with all the points stated in the video and article. The world is changing to a technology-addiction world. Looking out in the street, even at home or in school, its not surprising to see that everyone including young children are bending their head down with a smartphone or a tablet in their hands. It is a common that all the people in this world starting to interact more to technology than to people in real life.

Technology has become a dominant in today’s life. Everything happens for a reason and the main reason is because of technology. For example, in today’s society, people starting to encourage cashless society, which means that everyone buy stuffs without bringing a wallet but a smartphone. We just need to flash our smartphone on a machine and the payment is made. Besides, lecturers can send notes to their students through email. Undeniably, technology does bring us advantages.

However, everything has its pros and cons. Being addicted to technology, people start to face problems like how to communicate with one another. They keep on chatting with their friends through social media, but when they meet up with their friends, they become socially awkward. They could not communicate properly with their friends as they used to chat using text. In addition, as stated in the article, people will start feeling uneasy when they are not allowed to use the technology. Its like a modern-day-drug to everyone. Even when a child starts to cry, the parents will also try to ask their children to be quiet by giving them to watch videos on the Youtube or play games in the phone and tablet. Children starting to lose their innocent and pure childhood time. Besides, people also starts to become unaware towards the surrounding. They keep on spending time on their gadgets even when walking in the street until they do not know what had happened surround them while they are walking. They would not even notice that if an old lady falls by the roadside. Thus, they would not stop and help the pity old lady.

In a nutshell, there are pros and cons on technology, A good usage of technology does bring a lot of benefits to us. Nevertheless, addiction to technology is really like a thorn in a flesh, a thorn in the society. Therefore, I hope that everyone will not misuse technology and make a full good use of technology but not addicted to it.

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Nur Alia Nazihah binti Norazri (AP01461) - Set 5

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Critical Analysis: Assignment 2

As we are marching towards the era of globalization and urbanization, the youngsters are badly suffocated with the addiction towards technology and social networks. I am a teenager myself, and I acknowledge all of the occurrences and reports that were told as I have encountered most of the events shown in the video and written in the article. We may not notice the aftereffects of being too attached to the technology, but being too dependent on it does bring disaster to the current generation. A fact that most of us doesn’t know about is that, engaging ourselves with our cellphones and the social media releases a chemical called ‘dopamine’. That is why when we get a text, or notifications from our facebook, twitter or instagram account, we feel good. Dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke, when we drink and when we gamble. In other word, it is highly highly addictive.

In today’s society, a lot of people are depending so much on technology especially to make them feel loved and worthy and this explains a lot why the number of likes on instagram and retweets on twitter does give a vast satisfaction to some people. The youths’ social and communication’s skills are severely appalling as compared to the older generations' because most of their acquaintances are “internet friends” and so, they have very small circle of friends in real life and some of them are more comfortable being alone with their gadgets, alienating themselves from the reality of life.

With technology, we grow in a world with instant gratification. When we feel like buying something, we go to amazon.com, lazada or shopee and your stuff arrives the next day. When we feel like watching movie, log on and watch it on the internet. When we feel like learning something; how to bake for example, search for recipes and watch cooking show on youtube. You won’t have to go out to do all these things. Everything will be served right in front of you with just a click. Yes, with technology, everything mentioned above is possible. With technology, everything we want, we can have it instantaneously. Everything, except for strength of relationship and self-confidence, there ain’t no app for that. They are slow and messy process. These two things are what today’s generation are lack of in themselves, and these are examples of the negative effects that technology could give us.

The fact that we could never live a day without technology and internet, defines so much about our addiction towards it. And like all addictions, it will destroy relationships, it will cost time, money, and make our life worse. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that technology does have a number of benefits provided for the mankind. But do not let ourselves being too attached to it. When we spend less time on technology, we would literally enjoy the world, even the simplest little thing that happens, and that is when the bombastic ideas come.

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Nur Aqilah binti Zubaidi (AP01456) Set 5

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Critical analysis assignment 2: Addiction to technology

Based on the video and the article given, technology has become a great benefit to us but many people have taken it too far. According to researcher and surveys taken all over the world shows that a large number of people may have become addicted to their technological devices and are not able to make it through a day without their cell phones or other technological devices. Many have concerns that people would rather use these devices than to have a face to face conversation. The addictions of technological devices are on the rise. Although these devices were meant to make our lives easier there have been many problems to arise ranging from health risk, relationship problems, classroom, and work interferences.

The video also shows that long term wireless use may be associated with health risk. Sitting in front of a computer for too many hours can be a health hazard which can lead to weight gain which causes cardiovascular disease and diabetics. Other than that, even when we're out and about, we take our electronics with us, often in the form of iPods or other digital music players. It's nice to be insulated from the hurly-burly of modern life, but listening to music through headphones can increase the risk of hearing loss.

I’m not going to lie I love technology; I think it’s a wonderful thing. But when I call my friends to go to the movies or go get some lunch, and they don’t want to go because they “don’t feel up to it”, I suggest you show up at their house or roo and drag them away from their computer; otherwise, I don’t think they’re going to move. Technology is necessary, but over used. It can be good for some things, but some things are unnecessary and make us less social.

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Nur Fadhlin Faqihah bt Anuarudin (AP01354)- Set 5

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Assignment 2

In my opinion, the usage of technology and social media nowadays is an issue that should be taken seriously by everyone. Besides that, the gadgets are also a crucial matter especially for kids and teenagers. It seems like they can’t live or breathe without the gadgets.

Based on the video, I strongly agree that there is such thing as ‘technology addiction’. Anywhere we go, we could see the people’s mind and eyes are glued to their smartphones no matter whether in the public transport or in the restaurant. This could lead to the lack of communication skill among the kids and teenagers. When they grow up, it will be hard for them to communicate in a proper way since they were disclosed with the technology since small.

From the article, I do believe that the technology has already conquer the young generation today. Based on the research, it stated that it was hard for the students to live without smartphones for a day. Honestly, as a student, I admit that it is quite difficult to leave the smartphone because most of the time, I use it to keep lecture notes and having a group discussion with friends. However, we have to know our limits and do not misused the social media as it will bring to an unhealthy life. Hence, we should know that lots of benefits can we get it we utilize the technology ingeniously.

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Assignment 2(Addiction to technology)

After watching the video and reading the article, I agree that in this modern day, technology is like a basic necessities for people. I can say this because of my own experience in life, I realize that I do not know what to do when I have a lot of time to spare after my SPM examination. All I did was watching movies all day and sometimes it made me think what if there is no technology? What should I do then? All the question keep coming out but I still spent my time watching movies as I was addicted to it.
In conjunction to my experience, I mostly agree to the article “Student 'addiction' to technology 'similar to drug cravings'” this is because Prof Susan Moeller, who led the research, said technology had changed the students’ relationships. I agree to this because technology can breaks family bonds. This is because family members cannot make a conversation if all of the family members is using their sweet time talking and chatting in their phones. This led me to agree to the statements where “students talked about how scary it was, how addicted they were,”. I also must agree that technology provides the social network for young people because they does not have to meet up to get to now new people or make friends because nowadays people can do this all online. I also agree that when we are not connected to technology we would felt helpless as there is nothing we can think of to do beside staying connected to technology because our life revolves on technology. I once wanted to experience a whole day without technology but it was very difficult because mainly a student cannot be separated from technology as this is the way they can receive lesson, completing their assignment or getting information from their lecturers. This show that technology is very important nowadays but can be very dangerous in some ways. However in this article I disagree on the statement ‘I became bulimic with my media; I starved myself for a full 15 hours and then had a full-on binge.’ because for me how addictive I am food is my top priority.

Does technology have a detrimental effect on us? The point that technology have a detrimental effect on us is when the people can starve for 15 hours long and had a full-on binge after that. Technology also can be harmful to ask if we are addicted to it, this may cause us to live unhealthily. We can also be passive if our lives is evolved around technology only. From this research article and my own experience I must agree that there is technology addiction.

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SITI AISHAH BINTI ABD HAKIM (AP01489) SET 5

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS - ASSIGNMENT 2
Reflective Essay on Video 'Satirical Illustration to Technology' and Article about 'Addiction to Technology'

After I watch the video and the article that were assigned to us for our homework, i feel that it really break my heart as the phenomenon that were discussed in both the video and the article are the truth and cannot denied. Both of the stimuli told that the world nowadays are taking their time and money on gadget and social media.
I strongly agree about the statement about the reality of our community that take very seriously about social network and cause them to neglect their family, friends and even the community itself. Based on my experience, whenever i go to the shopping complex, my institution for studies, my neighborhood, I see various of people but in their hand there will be the smartphone as the smartphone are one of part of them. I try to communicate with them, but mostly of them just say hi to me without any intention to talk longer in the conversation.then, their focus back to their smartphone again.
Moreover, I feel more sad as this phenomenon of addicting to technology is becoming a virus to my own family. All my siblings are too busy with their smartphone and even when we eat together, the smartphone still glued in their hand.
When i look the video, it s remind me that the relationship of our community become far each day. I agree that the gadget cannot be part away from the student, as today, our world move more faster both in the way of thinking and technology that become more innovative. The technology give benefits to us as student to search for the information. It is more faster rather than sitting in front of a thick books for hours to search for some knowledge. Hence, I do not put the blame for 100% to the technology as it is very significant to us.
As a reflective, the technology have both benefits and disadvantages itself. But people today more focus on its disadvantages as its show the bad result to our community. In my opinion, we as a homo sapien with the gifted of critical thinker should find away to prevent this issues became more worse each day. it is better do something than nothing.

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Wan Ahmad Ghazali bin Wan  Jaffar (AP01242) SET 5

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Critical analysis assignment 2

Technology has been very developed nowadays. The video and the article on ‘Addiction on Technology’ are primarily about how technology has destructed the norm of the human lives in this technological era. Nevertheless, it is actually pointing to the electronic communicational devices like smartphone and television which has negatively impacted the social life of the community around the world. As for me, I would always look into this issue from various perspectives. Honestly, the technology has brought the humanity a very good use but its development is rather uncontrollable until human themselves cannot avoid from its bad side. I once heard a phrase that says “we are private by default and public by effort”. Back at the previous time we get it so difficult to put any information about ourselves to the world and search for others. Then technology comes and eases our job. We can be found most anywhere in the internet at any time. Information is searchable. The data intrusion is inevitable and omnivorous. However, what brings us the most unfortunate thing with this excellent achievement of social revolution is that most of us, the internet users are addicted to this thing that we create ourselves. The situation is getting worse until this addiction is equalized to the drug addiction.

I remember back at the time when I was in my bed getting ready to sleep at 12 midnight, I looked at my Oppo smartphone and opened my Facebook application and I started scrolling down. Then I realized that it had been already 4 a.m. I was spending 4 hours looking at Facebook memes and timeline until I forgot the existence of time. And then I was late for class in the morning. The thing shows that we are losing our identities as human as we are attached to the technology. We are inserting the thing into our normal life, which we should not. The real daily communication becomes virtual and the virtual becomes reality. Perhaps I have become what social media scholar Danah Boyd calls a “technofretful parent” but I myself possess my own real life to be taken care of rather than spending times with ‘Clash of Clans’ or ‘Angry Birds’ on my mobile phone. My point is we should not let the technology dictates us. However, we are the one who create them and know what are their limit in favor of controlling them with our own hands. We are over-adapted to being watched in stories, to have little left of ourselves that is not “posted”, “liked” or “commented”. To what extent is our humanness has become unrecognizable to us? Just take a moment to think about it for a moment while watching your Facebook timeline.

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Critical analysis assignment 2- Addiction to technology

Based on the article, there is such a thing as technology addiction. I agree on the point that students nowadays are deeply addicted to modern technology. They cannot afford to unplug from technology like mobile phones, laptops and television for a whole day. This phenomenon is very common and obvious in my country, Malaysia. The people around me, like family members, relatives, friends and schoolmates, almost all of them are equipped with a smartphone or tablet and they engaged in many social media applications too. It seems like the technology has been a must for them in their lives. When I was outside, I had observed that even small kids as young as 1-year-old will have their own modern gadget in hand. I think that the increased usage of modern technology is a negative phenomenon because it brings more harms than benefits.

I think that technology has a detrimental effect on us without us noticing. One of the effect is the modern technology has shortened and hindered the verbal conversation between people. This is because with everyone having their own smartphone or tablet, they are more likely to stare and play with their phones than talking to the people around them. At the same time, modern gadgets weaken one’s communication skills because one speaks less and being quiet more. One will also be affected negatively in the social aspect because one will tend to be more socially awkward. They fear talking face to face with real people because they are used to chat with them using social media apps. Thus, they are more likely to have “virtual friends” than real friends.

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Assignment 2- Addiction to Technology

Nowadays, technology is all around us. With the help of technology, our world just got a whole lot bigger. We discover a lot of thing that a 100 years ago was a subject of laughter. However, society today become too dependent on technology that it has become an addiction and cause lots of problem.

The video shown was a compilation of satirical illustration that shows today's society with technology, mainly social media platform. The idea that this addiction can detach someone from real life is the same as being addicted to drugs- when they had their first taste, they want for more until they lose themselves in a sense. This video made me remember my childhood that I was the kind of girl that play dolls with other girls who lived near my house. I was so happy back then. Now with the existence of technology, I find those to be tiresome.

From the article for 'Addiction to Technology', this is not a shock to me because I remember when my mother forbid me from using my phone and computer for the day. Along the day, I feel very bored, frustrated and kind of confused that day like my life was sucked out for the day. It was then I realized that my life circulate on technology. Without it, I feel very confused and lost.

Despite all the bad things caused with technology, I cannot argue that technology keep tabs on everyday's news. Technology nowadays help people with their everyday life from a simple call to someone to the new and developing technology such as AI like Alexa. With this, everything can be found and command with a finger tap or voice command. I wish there is a way that people can still have use their technology yet still keep their mind connected to the reality around them.

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1.       From the video, I learned that critical thinking is the ability to put aside the face value of something like dubious facts, tight situations etc. in order to go beyond the obvious. From there we can it gets easier to resolve the situation or decide whether that piece of information is mind-blowing or just a hoax made to spread chaos. And one must always bear in mind that thinking critically doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be an intellectual. To think critically, one require scepticism and objectivity. Scepticism is doubting the truth of something so that you don’t blindly trust something at face value and start to question its reliability and validity while objectivity means seeing something from a different perspective to have a wider and better insight of something, setting aside your own feelings and biases. Some people may not like to change what they have set in their mind and not trying to accept what new things that others want to implement in life which we should avoid to be able think critically and have a better life.

2.       In my opinion, you should not believe the email. This is because the sender herself didn't provide her full information and show any legitimate documents to prove whatever she stated is true. She just simply plead for sympathy to someone who doesn't even know her and most importantly, she doesn't state how she gets your email address and she didn't clearly state why she had chosen you to be the trustee. It’s very random and illogical. She doesn’t even have the right to ask your personal information especially this being the first time she contacted you. The way she asked for your personal information seems most likely a fraud. Hence, you shouldn't believe this kind of email without finding the truth beyond all the words. This is obviously a scam and you should ignore it.

3.       Characteristics of a critical thinker are able to slow down and think twice upon something; able to conserve mental energy to focus on something worth dealing; able to wait patiently  on hard thought rather than coming up with a stupid decision; knowing well their limit for self-betterment; judging strategy of something rather than its result; seeking for refutation to improve argument and insight on something rather than confirmation, duelling in the comfort zone; being aware of the frame of reference of something and many more.

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Assignment 2- Critical Analysis

Reflective Essay on Addiction to Technology

It is undeniable that technology is slowly taking over the world. Or maybe it already has but we are just too ignorant to see it. Our society function everyday with the help of technology as we had made it a necessity in life. However, we are now relying on technology for too many things that it has become an addiction.

Based on the article, I agree that technology can be addictive as we depend on it in many situations. Either for communication or gaining knowledge, technology like smartphones and laptops are simply needed in our daily lives. The statistics stated in the article further proves this point to be true. However, I disagree that technology cause more disadvantages than benefit us. As mentioned before, technology helps the society in many ways, be it as a mean to connect with people or as a tool to gain more knowledge. We just have to set boundaries to avoid overuse of technology which leads to addiction. The detrimental effects of technology mentioned in the article are mental and physical distress as well as emotional instability. I have read about addiction to technology before in a book called Awaken written by Katie Kacvinsky which is about a world where most people are plugged in. When I first read the book, I remember thinking that our world is not that far from being the one in the book. This fictional story helped me understand more about the advantages and disadvantages of technology. It all depends on the way we choose to use the technology to benefit us instead of wasting our time by getting distracted by it. This was also one of the hidden messages in one of the satirical illusion in the video.

Satirical illusion allows people to deliver their opinion about the society and allows critical argument indirectly. This particular video I watched gave me an insight on our addiction to technology. Some important messages that I managed to point out is that technology is becoming an obstacle for human interaction nowadays. We are tied to social medias on our gadgets and crave for people’s approval through the amount of likes we get on our social media posts. In the end, we isolate ourselves with gadgets and refuse to enjoy nature as well. Besides that, the reliability of information on the Internet is also questionable as people are getting used to making assumptions and spreading gossip which are untrue. Not only that, some people use technology to harm others with negative comments when they are emotionally distressed themselves. Invading others’ privacy has also become a normality in this virtual world. All these lead me to think that addiction to  technology can be very dangerous if not prevented in the future.

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Online assignment for 12 December, 2017 (Tuesday) for Group 5

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Dear students, I am on leave from 7 to 13 December, 2017. Please complete this online assignment on 12 December, 2017.
1. Watch 'Satirical illustrations on addiction to technology'
2. Read the article on 'Addiction to technology'
3. Write a reflection paper in response to  the video and article. You may write about your experiences, opinions, comments, beliefs, etc. You may also share other videos or materials which are relevant to "Addiction to technology'
Length: 200 words or more (you may write longer, however, 200 words would be sufficient)

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1.    From the video, critical thinking is an ability to think more and go beyond the obvious. It means to ask ourselves of what we do or don’t actually know about something. Critical thinking is tricky to pin down. Accepting something at a value without pausing to consider whether it is sensible or justified is what we think uncritically. But it is not the same as being stupid. As the reasons, it is not practical to wonder every time about the same thing in our daily life. This is because we don’t always have the energy and time. Critical thinkers are knowing when and how to engage critically with the question of habit and strategy more than intellect. For this, we need the “right tools”. The two concepts are skepticism and objectivity. With this tools, critical thinkers prefer to think beyond the obvious by doubting the truth of something and the decision will be made from a neutral point of view to evaluate the problem, set aside bias. New knowledge prompted skeptical thinkers to challenge the existing knowledge as the accumulation and analysis of new knowledge brought new understanding. Critical thinking is also explaining why we believe something to be true and being obliged to change our minds when facts change.

2.    When I read this email thoroughly, what I feel are curious and suspicious. Whether am I believing it or not, I need to read it twice. Is it really true about all of the informations that Miss Sharon Mohy said? So, first thing first, I look out and search for her statements and places which she mentioned in the email. As for his father who is a minister of road, it’s really bothering me that she didn’t mention the full name of him. I consider it is not worth believing. For the terrorist attack, it seems that was a true report which occurs as the Battle of Tripoli in Libya but this person can easily correlate this incident with her conflict. If she threatened to be killed, why she needs to tell you out of every person in the world? You can’t do anything about her conflict. One other thing is the conditions to get all the money from the bank by her late father. Why need to ask the foreigner as a trustee and moreover, they want to invest in our country. This is not a coincidental matter. The most suspicious thing is to give your personal information to help her. Obviously this email is a scammer to bait people for giving them money with the good interest to give you 30% of the fund. It is a lot of money. This is what we called phishing scams. Why risk the 30% of the fund for the person she doesn't know besides her friends and close relatives? Out of every person in this world, she chose you. Creepy. We still don’t know this person really exists or not. It’s such a big risk to give our personal information to whom we don’t know the person at all.

3.    A critical thinker needs to slow down when having a deep thought.  So, a strategy should be made to solve the problem. Mental energy is important to be conserved. This can be done by building habits and working environment that help to focus. To get a better thought, pauses and silence are required. To a critical thinker, you should know your limit and do not pretend to be all-knowing when you actually don’t know. Instead, seek out the expert to solve the problem. Besides, a critical thinker should always judge the strategy whether it’s good or bad but judging by results is a fatal. The mind of a critical thinker is always to seek out challenges and contradictions besides of seeking for confirmation on a certain thing. Lastly, a critical thinker must be in the neutral point of view that a rational decision will be made as in the future, every option could be wrong.

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Amirul Firdaus Bin Mohd Fairuz (AP01374) SET 5

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Amirul Firdaus Bin Mohd Fairuz (AP01374) SET 5

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1. So, what is critical thinking, anyway?

Thinking critically involves going beyond the obvious and ask what you do and do not know. While thinking uncritically involves accepting something at face value without pausing to consider whether it is sensible or justified. Thinking uncritically doesn't mean you are stupid and critical thinking is not what smart people always do.

People usually don't have time and energy to think critically. Whilst it is not practical for us to think whether green light means we have to move. It is important to know when and how to engage critically which is a question of habit and strategy. There are tools to think critically which are skepticism (doubting the truth of something) and objectivity (seeing something from a neutral point of view). It is crucial to set aside feelings and bias to establish the facts that matter.

Earth was once were felt and thought flat and the Sun was thought to be orbiting around the Earth until comes those skeptical people and the gradual accumulation and analysis of new knowledge brought new understandings that were updated as we learn more about those facts that matter. Critical thinking is not also just to explain the truth of something but also being able to change our mind when facts change. In hundred years' time, some of today's belief may be considered as laughable but still people usually don't like changing their minds. Importantly, thinking critically is not when you test your thinking to seek CONFIRMATION, but by looking hard for the things we still cannot explain.

2. Should I believe this? Why?

After reading this email, the first thing came into my mind is that who is this guy and how did he/she got my email as this person is from Libya and didn't even mention my country as if he/she really trust and know me? The first thing I did when reading this email is to confirm whether there is any Minister of road in Libya and it is definitely a lie when there is only Minister of transportation in Libya which deals with the projects involving roads. That is the most obvious lie in this email. Thinking it twice makes me felt weird as among of all human beings around this world, why am I the chosen one to receive this large amount of money and she even easily offered me a large proportion of that huge value? Not having any official letters from the bank or any trusted source even helped me to make up my minds that this email is really a fraud and not to be trusted anyways.

Conclusively, I had made up my mind not to trust such emails especially when it involves your personal information as they could do many things against us as they have those.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker.

Select and apply attention on certain issues that need a strategy and don't worry much about those didn't need one. Conserve your metal energy as you have limited willpower, mental energy and attention. Build habits and working environment to help you focus. Not having any background activities when doing any work.

Wait and take some time when you are in doubt in something. Having some pauses and silence is a need for a better thought. Decide whether taking or not to take any actions. Know your limits and don't pretend to know what you don't know. Seek experts and don't assume them to know what they don't expertise in.

Be ready to accept losses and not to stick with something you see is not working out. Make sure you minimize your loss rather than losing everything. Not to judge the outcome of something you have done. Failing with a good strategy is better than succeeding with a bad strategy as you cannot be too obsessed of short term success.

Look things in a long term. Don't give credits to people for what is likely to happen. Do not seek for confirmation. Challenge and contradict ideas by putting your arguments and beliefs in a genuine test. Be sure of your terms and reference. Your perceptions of one's values are always relative and does not fix. Do it yourself and don't let something else do it for you. Look outside the frame of your choices. Look if the choices were really an option and ask yourself for a better way of thinking.

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Muhammad Azlan bin Agustiar - AP01327 (Set 5)

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Muhammad Azlan bin Agustiar - AP01327 (Set 5)

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1.      So what is critical thinking, anyway?

Critical thinking is a principle of thinking where a person thinks about something thoroughly to make a better judgement. In example, before a person makes a decision, that person will think about the advantages and consequences of the decision that he or she will make. From the video, I realised that everybody can be a critical thinker. Thinking about something critically is not depends on your intelligence or your knowledge. It is depends on how much your curiosity to know the truth about it and how you let your surrounding affects your thinking. Critical thinking is a way of thinking where we think out of the box - beyond the range of a normal person’s thought. In other words, it is a concept which needs us to be more sensible when making a decision.

2.      Should I believe this? Why?

First of all, the email received is very suspicious. There are a lot of question exploding in my mind like a fireworks when read it. First, if she needs someone to be her trustee, why she chose me in a million people? Second, how did she gets my email account in a fact that her and I were not in the same country? Third, if she really wants me to her trustee, she should meet me first face by face and explain it properly which is not by the email. Forth, the information that she wants are all about personal information. It is a grave danger to give a stranger our own personal information. If I am the one who received that email, probably I will just ignored it and think it as a spam. This is because there’s no guarantee that the story and information that she told is true. In my opinion, it might be a syndicate technique in creating personal identity to be part of the country. Hence, the probably things that I will do are just ignored the email and block the sender. I must think about my safety first before thinking about other people.

3.      Write a response on characteristics of a critical thinker.

Critical thinker is someone who can think sensibly and fair. In my opinion, to be acritical thinker, we have to think slowly, deeply and understandingly about the certain topic. However, the most important element as a critical thinker is to stay curious and cautious about something. It is fundamental to not let people or surrounding affects your judgement. A critical thinker must stand firm with their own opinion but in a way that not rejecting others opinion blatantly. In a conclusion, it is important for us to apply this manners in order to be a critical thinker.

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1. What is critical thinking anyway?

For me, critical thinking is some way of thinking that need the person to keep asking themselves about something until he/she felt satisfied with the infomations or facts that he/she just get. Other than that, it is an ability to think and find the answer of the curiousity that rose up when a new information being processed into the brain.
But, after watching the video, I get to know about a critical thinker does not depends on how intelligent you are but how much your curiousity and how do you critically think aboutsomething before you surrender to allow the new  thing get into your brain. People might not very like the idea about how you think about themselves, what they are wearing or why they are wearing the colour today but this is the way how critical thinker thinks.

2. Should I believe this? Why?

I would not believe this because i found out that this email is really suspicious. The first question would be in my mind if i received the email is how can she get my email adress and why me? The next question is, why doesnt she tell her lawyer about her stepmother who threated her and might force her to give the treasure to them. Why she wants to invest the money in my country when she can invest to the country who have higher currency. The thing can be solved with people who have higher authority and she can bring this to people who can help her ro solve this problem.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker

1.  Think before you say
Sometimes it is not necessary to express all the think in your mind. It might help you to get the answer of the question but sometimes it can bring to something that will annoy your friends
2.   Analysis your surroundings
Before ask anything, look your surrounding as you may get the answer for the question plays your mind. Dont really depends on people to answer your question. If you can get the information first, why not try to get it first then you can start to ask other people's opinions.
3. Stop thinking unnecessary things
Your brain needs to stop and take a rest before continue their works. If you push your brain to keep regulates questions and the thing is not really important, your brain might quickly get tired. So take a breath and control your mind.

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1. After watching the video, my point of view regarding critical thinking is simply to go beyond the obvious. Thinking critically involves accepting something at face value after pausing to consider its sensibility and justification. Knowing how and when to engage critically is a question of habit and strategy because not being able to be a critical thinker does not mean that someone is stupid or slow and vice versa. Skepticism and objectivity are two crucial tools that engage with a man’s ability of thinking critically. Critical thinker usually doubt the truth of something and see something from a neutral point of view by setting aside all of their feelings and bias as far as possible when making decisions. When facing with a certain situations or circumstances, not only we should be able to explain why we believe something is true but also being obliged to change our minds when facts change. A critical thinker would never accept arguments or statements without any supportive stands and prove.

2. In my opinion, you should not believe the e-mail and restrain yourself from replying to the e-mail as it seems very dubious and doubtful. It is eerie on how and where the sender got your e-mail from and why did she chose you, out of many mankind living on the globe? It is even more suspicious that she did not give any of her personal information and didn’t provide letter from the bank to prove her credibility and also to ensure that her story is really genuine and authentic. This is most likely a fraud.

Hence, it is not advisable to believe the content of the e-mail and to provide all your personal information to the sender as stated.

3. A critical thinker should slow down and conserve mental energy to plan strategies before making any decision or taking any action. If we found ourselves being in any doubtful events, stay silent and pause to give ourselves some time to think and decide our next step. Do not act smart when we know nothing about the subject and learn to acknowledge our flaws if there is something that we do not know about. If your input doesn’t correlate with the truth, even if you have invested in a lot of money, time and effort, cut your losses. Judge strategy, not results. Keep following the right strategy do not be too obsessed with short term success. Much of it is just luck. By keeping in mind that most things revert to the mean, we should always look to the long term and the underlying trends as things tend to recover over time. Think beyond the possibilities. Seek out challenges and contradiction and never agree to an argument before getting a supportive stands and genuine test results. Last but not least, define your time reference in advance and be primed to listen to any rejection of the deal. Look outside the frame and think of any possible way of thinking.

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SITI AISHAH BINTI ABD HAKIM (AP01489) - SET 5

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SITI AISHAH BINTI ABD HAKIM (AP01489) - SET 5

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1. In my opinion, critical thinking is a habit that must be developed in all individual. In this world, critical thinking is important as without it, we, all human cannot develop our life and mind as the technology today happened as the critical thinkers are always make the innovation and ideas to improve the life. As in the video showed that, we can improve our life with the attitude of critical thinking. in my understanding about the video on critical thinking is not necessary to be excel in the academics so on, but to be clever about what to do beyond the situation that given to us. for example, the video stated that how the people used to think that the world is flat, but then, the critical thinker doubt about the fact and find the truth with knowledge that the world is round is still amazed me. Lastly, critical thinking are all about how we want to improve ourselves, change our mind when the fact change and how we want to handle a problem wisely.

2. I think that I should not believe this email as it looked  suspicious to me. After read this email, I noticed that this email asked me about my personal info and make me very uncomfortable to give that to the sender of this email. Other than that, I felt weird that about all the human in this world, why this Miss Sharon Mohy asked me a completely a stranger to her to be her presenter to withdraw the money that all of us are very sensitive when we talk about money. I thought that, if I became her, I would asked someone that very closed to me such as relative or best friends to be the presenter to receive 30% from the money that her father had given to her. and why she bother to asked the strangers still disturbing me. I also felt suspicious about this email as how could she know my email address to send this email as I live in Malaysia and she is from Libya? And why it should to be secreted as she just announce that she wanted to find some honest people to be her presenter to some random people. Lastly, I decide to not believe this email and ignore it to my own personal info to be secured.

3. Based on my reading on the article about Ten Commandments For Critical Thinking, I discovered that the characteristic to be critical thinker are know how to slow down. When we find something that important to us, we must take our time to think the strategies to excel in this very important things. Secondly, conserve mental energy means that we should throw the things that inhibit us from taking our time to do something, such as when we want to do our homework, we must focus on it for 100% and  ignore the social media that can take our time and mind from finishing the task in the given time. Thirdly, if in doubt, wait, when we find that things became harder to us to handle, we can take the way to leave it for sometime so that our mind will become more clearer on should what we do for the next step. Moreover, time also can be the healer to fix some problem in our life. Then, know your limit is about our honesty with our own ability. Do not show off as we are all clever about something. Do not feel embarrass if we did not know something. Just honest and state that we did not know about it. It is a way for us to seek the knowledge if we did not know about some information. Furthermore, a critical thinker did not judge results, they judge the strategies. They think more about long time effect rather than short time as we know that we will not just life for now, we still have our own future that wait for us. So think about ourselves in the future on how to be better of ourselves for the next time.

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MUGILAN A/L G.VALLIAPPAN (AP01356)  SET 5

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MUGILAN A/L G.VALLIAPPAN (AP01356)  SET 5

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Assignment 1

1. So, what is critical thinking, anyway?
After watching such an informative video, in my opinion, critical thinking is basically doing something or thinking beyond our knowledge and things that we obviously know. In such situation we should ask what we know and don’t know to ourselves and tend to think based on it. It is also a matter of not accepting something at face which means that we shouldn’t believe anything or anyone without proper consideration and justification. Furthermore, we can also say that critical thinking is something that depends on skepticism and objectivity. In simple words, we should sometimes have a sceptical view on certain things where we should doubt the truth and not trusting it fully and also have the ability to see something from a neutral point of view which indicates that we shouldn’t be bias or consider our personal feelings and requirements when taking a critical decision in life. Lastly, another form of critical thinking, which is the rigorous critical thinking means that we shouldn’t be only explain why we believe in something to be true, but also have to be obliged to alter our minds when facts change. In a nutshell, being able to think critically simply means not trusting things blindly and always have a doubt on the truth and also being able to take a decision after thinking well or being able to explain things in a more proper way.

2. Should I believe this? Why?
In my opinion, if I was you, after receiving such an e-mail, I definitely wouldn’t believe in it because after fully reading the e-mail, many suspicious thoughts have emerged in my mind. First and the most obvious reason that makes me not to have faith in that e-mail is that the whole e-mail sounds weird and creepy to be fair. Further reason to not believe in this strange e-mail is because out of the 7 billion people in this world, I randomly receive a strange e-mail from a person I don’t even know in the first place. Besides that, plenty of weird questions pop up in my brain such as ‘who is this Sharon Mooy ?’, ‘why does someone I not know from Libya wants to send me an e-mail to be asking me to be her trustee or foreign partner?’, ‘how come the daughter of a minister could face such a threat or problem?’ and the most obvious one is that ‘how did she get my e-mail in the first place?’. Well, it is pretty obvious that this e-mail could have been sent from a fake e-mail address or from a fake id and this e-mail can also be a scam which can cause problem to me if I respond to it. Furthermore, another reason for me to not believe in this e-mail is because there’s no evidence or justification to indicate that what she’s telling is the truth. She should have at least attached a bank statement indicating the procedures of the money transactions or a statement justifying the amount of money in the account. Lastly, another thing that is bothering me is that I can see that she doesn’t really know who I am as she is asking for my basic details such as my name and my age but how could she trust me and share all this to me without really knowing who I am?. So this e-mail is quite fishy and highly suspicious and hence, I would never ever believe such e-mail in my entire life.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker.
Based on my personal view, the characteristics of a critical thinker are taking time to develop an effective strategy in order to do or solve something, completely concentrating on something without being distracted by people or social media, taking some time off to think better about a complex situation more carefully, pursuing more knowledge on things that they don’t know or of things they aren’t sure of, keeping their thoughts on their future rather than worrying and keeping on thinking about the past, following a well-planned strategy throughout without depending on luck and without giving up easily, looking forward to what is about to happen next, hard to be fooled, seeking more challenges in life, always on the lookout for dubious facts and finding ways to solve them, having an absolute perception on cost and value of things, asking questions before choosing something, and always think out of the box to solve an issue in a smart and proper manner.

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Wan Ahmad Ghazali bin Wan Jaffar - SET 5x5/5 log5base5

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Wan Ahmad Ghazali bin Wan Jaffar - SET 5x5/5 log5base5

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1.      Based on my opinion, critical thinking is about learning to think twice about what is obviously observed by our five senses. It is not just that, it is also about creating questions about the justification of the situation, questioning the event. Living in this modern age makes critical thinking to be really essential. As a student, I am facing and bombarded with abundant information from the screen of my laptop, smartphone and social media. It could be anything, fake news, hoax, fraud e-mails are very much to be engaged by the society of this generation. Therefore, I need to be a well critical thinker as it is the key skill in coping with this information and communication era. Critical thinking skill enables us to differentiate between bad and good sources. It makes us better at the basic of making arguments, to come up with explanation that sticks on a particular subject and giving a solution. It grants value and appreciation to an individual’s ideas rather than just following other people’s words blindly without asking is it true or wrong. In a short term, it is all about thinking out of and beyond the box.

2.      From my point of view, I already have trust problem when I read the e-mail briefly. I would neither believe nor disbelieve it. Honestly, I will just ignore the e-mail and put it in the trash. However, I need to give my own justification. The sender does not possess any evidence whether her statement is true or not. Plus, I cannot identify whether she is really a female or not. Too much questions come out from my mind. Is there really minister road in Libya? Why I was chosen? She should send the legal documents related to her problem attached with the e-mail at least. But, who knows she just has her own privacy. The main tool that she tries to get recipient’s attention is by sympathy. Issues related to money funding are quite serious and it also much related to fraud especially when the communication is not face to face. There is too much information lack and questionable from her which I can critically reason to search for the truth. Nevertheless, I can conclude that I would not trust this e-mail. It is not about intellectual or dumb to take the action but it is all about reasonable action to avoid the possibilities of getting the risks on me. Who knows, the subject is in a real situation but does not know the correct ways to ask for help from others. So, let’s just pray for her and everybody else.

3.      Characteristic of a critical thinker is to slow down when thinking deeply. Get on with the situation smoothly. Don’t be too rush as it will worsen the results. Apart from that, our mental energy is limited so we need to enhance it by building habits focused on our aim and don’t let ourselves to be distracted. Critical thinkers also should be full of patience especially in term of time. Some difficult problems demand more time in solving so patience is the key, just like doing assignments at the nick of time. Plus, if we don’t have our thoughts or points on a particular subject, just be honest that we know nothing rather than giving nonsense explanation which makes us look like a fool. Moreover, as a critical thinker we need to bear in mind that our effort might be useless as the results are unacceptable. However, don’t worry too much because what critical thinkers should focus about is mainly the strategy, the methods not the results. Most importantly, critical thinkers should have correct sources for thinking. It affects our way to give response to any issue wisely.

Sincerely,
madobae

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Fatin Farisha binti Asmadi (Set 5)(AP01453

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Fatin Farisha binti Asmadi (Set 5)(AP01453

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1. So, what is critical thinking, anyway? (after viewing the video)

From the video that I have watched, critical thinking is taking a moment to go beyond the obvious and asked what you actually know and do not know. Although it is hard to understand what is critical thinking we can always know whether it is critical thinking because it is the opposite of uncritical thinking. Uncritically thinking is accepting something just the way it is and when you think without considering to stop for a moment and think whether a statement is sensible or justified.  Nevertheless, if we have the right tools which are skepticism and objectivity we can think critically. Skepticism means doubting the truth of something. While an objectivity means trying to see something in a more neutral point of view, trying to set aside our own feelings and bias as far as possible and to establish the fact that matter. It may sound easy and obvious but critical thinking seems unnatural to most people as it is to step out of your comfort zone and think more deeply on something. This is because critical thinking is not only explaining why we believe something is true but also being obliged to change our minds when facts change. This is a hard thing to do because people tends to have difficulty to change their minds. Even though perfect objectivity is impossible but the progress is not because beliefs nowadays can change after time because of new knowledge result from critical thinking. If we test our thinking not only for confirmation but by looking hard for things that we cannot explain and by asking ourselves what does not add up in the world around us and where the world fall short of what it might be comfortable to assume, this is critical thinking.

2. Should I believe this? Why? (read the email)

From the email that I have read, I must say that you should not believe the content of the email and you should never send your personal information to this person who claim that she is Miss. Sharon Mohy.This is because of so many reasons that I found suspicious in this email. Firstly,is because of the date you received this email which is on 29 November 2017 and the sender mention about the dormant state of the account because of her father death has pass about a year and six months which is on 7 August 2011. This show a huge contradictions in both of this situations because it is already about 7 years apart from the death of her father for her to search a trustworthy person to help her in transferring the money.Secondly,is the most suspicious part is how does the sender found out your email address and why you were chosen when you live in Malaysia and the sender is living in Libya.moreover, it is very suspicious when the sender asked for your personal information only to earn the trust of a so called rich successor. This is because everyone knows it is hard to trust someone you barely know and your personal information does not even reflects how trustworthy you are. On top of that the sender claim that she wanted to start a new life with the money but then she claim that she wanted to invest the fortune she has gained to other people country. This show a contradiction to her claim. This are the reasons that you should not believe this suspicious mail.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker (after reading 'Ten commandments for critical thinking' and answering the quizzes)

The characters of a critical thinker is to slow down. This is when you pause and make a strategy and ask do the things matter and is it require deep thoughts. Then get rid of the unnecessary things and only think critically to what matters the most. Next is conserve mental energy by build habits and a working environment that help you focus and deal with things that require focus in a certain time where your focused is bursts and do not let others dictate your time and attention. Thirdly if in doubt a critical thinker will wait, this is when you think more deeply. Fourthly, is to know their own limit, this is when you admit that you do not know about something and seek for someone help. Beware of sunk costs, this is when if you are failing you must be brave to cut losses. Next is judge strategy, not results, this is when strategy is more important than the result itself. People who is a critical thinker judge by looking in the long term not because of something that is bound to happen. Besides that, a critical thinker must not seek for confirmation on certain thing but seek out challenges and contradictions, and put arguments and beliefs to a genuine test. They beware of frame of reference where they know the stated values in relation to which measurements or judgements can be made. Last is to consider every option can be wrong and choose the most benefits one.

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1.       Based on the video, Critical thinking is not just a thing that only smart people will do but everyone should be for us to develop the world better. Unfortunately, we don’t have much time to analyze what we have done in our daily life. Critical analysis is consist of skeptivity and objectivity. In my opinion the best thing about critical thinking is to believe something to be true.

2.       I should not believe this email because how on earth that a son of a president can know and choose me to share 30% from millions dollar. Next, if he really believes me, why did my private phone number, ID and photograph. If he can get my email, he should already study about my background before trusting me.

3.        Based from the article 'Ten commandments for critical thinking', I think the most important requirement for a critical thinker are, first, know your limits because there are things that human minds cannot think over it such as the existance of God. Next, judging the strategy not the results because everything begins with a good strategies. for example, eventhough a football team has prodigy players but if the manager cant pull out all of their abilities or do not know what is the suitable role for him then the team will be lose anyway but a team with average players with a good strategies then they can win the match for sure.

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1.     After watching the video, I think that critical thinking is the ability to think for ourselves, to know about anything that happens around the world. Critical thinkers will be able to determine the sincerity of others. Critical thinking is also a skill that can be developed through training and intensive practices. Critical thinking is to go beyond the obvious and question it. A critical thinker will not follow other’s orders blindly. They will consider carefully before accepting any idea or opinion from others. People are usually attracted to people that are less aggressive in speaking. However, a critical thinker will speak out the truth although their words might hurt the others. Skepticism and objectivity are something that will help us to become a critical thinker. Skepticism is doubting the truth of something while objectivity is trying to see something from more neutral point of view. A critical thinker will not include their emotion or feeling while making decision to make a correct and precise decision. A critical thinker should see a problem or situation in a bigger picture without being bias on only one side. All in all, as a critical thinker, we should be able to state the truth when we encounter any problem although it might hurt others feeling.

2.     In my opinion, I should not believe this and also refrain from giving my personal information to the sender. This is because the sender does not provide any official documents to prove her credibility. It might be a scam. Besides, we should always not to provide any personal information to anyone we do not know, especially those who randomly get our email from anywhere. We should always think rationally because we do not know why the sender will be able to get our email and send us email that says that she will be giving us a huge amount of money. Even though we might be attracted by the amount of money given, we should not simply accept gifts from strangers. In addition, the sender keeps on repeating the sad story about her, it is just to persuade us into giving her all our personal information by trying to win sympathy points from us. In a nutshell, we should always be careful when we receive such email by making sure we do not fall into the trap and give the sender our personal information.

3.     In my opinion, one of the characteristics of a critical thinker is to slow down and think carefully. A good strategy is needed to solve the problem. Although our brains will be lack of ideas while thinking to solve the problem, we should rest for a while and do not worry too much. Besides, a critical thinker should be able to conserve mental energy. Habits and a good working environment should be built to help us focus in our work. We should pay attention and not to waste time unmeaningfully. A critical thinker also must be able to be patient. Do not rush while encountering difficulties. Try to be patient and unintentionally, the problems will be solved. However, while waiting, we must also think alternative ways to solve it. In addition, we should always be humble. When we do not know about something, do not pretend that we know about it. We should just admit that we do not know about that. However, we must also try our best to find out how to solve the problems. Don’t over-value what we have just because we have it. Moreover, a critical thinker should always judge the strategies instead of the results. Bad strategies with a good outcome is always bad strategies, while good strategies are still worth repeating although they might not work out well. We should not only focus on short term success. We should always seek refutation but not confirmation. We should also always seek out for challenges and contradictions to prove something happened. Last but not least, we, as a critical thinker, must not always expect the answer we get are always correct. Every option can be wrong. Thus, we must always think rationally and wisely before making any decision to prevent ourselves from making wrong decision and for the best result.

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1)    So, what is critical thinking, anyway? (after viewing the video)

Critical thinking is skill developed by humans to have to ability to think for themselves and to have query about the things which are happening around. A person with high critical thinking skill able to detect whether others are sincere while befriending with them. Critical thinkers will know others are insincere and wanting to exploit benefits from them. Critical thinking skills can be developed through intensive training and consistent practice as well as patience.  One who fails to think critically in daily lives will only judge something based on the face value without considering the consequences. Critical thinkers are often being called aggressive in speaking out their minds. Instead, people are usually more attracted to people who are less aggressive and supportive at any idea. Those who are easily agree to others without thinking about the ideas thoroughly in mind are uncritical thinkers. Nevertheless, uncritical thinkers are not stupid and critical thinkers are not always the smart ones. People are capable in thinking critically but they just do not do so. This is because they simply give excuses like insufficient of time, energy and mood to think in a critical manner. There are two tools which are important in helping one think critically, which are scepticism and objectivity. Scepticism means doubting the truth of something while objectivity means seeing something from a neutral point of view. While thinking critically, one should set aside all his or her bias and prejudice in judging something to make the best choice.

2) Should I believe this? Why? (read the email)

No, I should not believe this. This is because the whole story narrated by the sender is too dramatic and fake. The sender is probably making this whole story up to create a trap for others to hop in. The email also aimed to get private information like ID numbers, phone numbers and home address from the receiver. Thus, it is obvious that the sender is creating a scam using this email to trick others into their designed trap. They used high amount of money to attract people to fall prey to their trick. I have doubts about their motive behind the long and sad drama. I am guessing that they want to use money to exploit money from others. This is a slick and clever scam to trick people with no critical thinking skills. As for the critical thinkers, a first glance will reveal how fake is the email to the receivers. The scam is also too good to be true because it offers high amount of money to the one who accepts to help the sender. It is impossible for a stranger to offer such high amount of money. There are also no certified documents or proves to show that the sender is not creating a scam. There is no way anyone should believe such ridiculous email from a stranger.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker (after reading 'Ten commandments for critical thinking' and answering the quizzes)

A critical thinker is able slow down his or her path and think calmly about which strategy to overcome when encountering a serious problem. Moreover, a critical thinker is clever in paying their attention on the prioritized tasks rather than wasting time and energy on less important tasks. A critical thinker develops positive habits and good in choosing a conducive environment to focus on certain project or task. Other small unrelated or irrelevant things will not distract them. A critical thinker has patience and silence in dealing with difficult problems. Furthermore, a critical thinker also knows his or her limits and they will consider thoroughly before deciding by considering their strengths and weaknesses. A critical thinker also never over-value what he or she has just because he or she owns it. Other than that, a critical thinker also does not judge a successfulness of an event by its results. Instead, he or she focus on the strategies used. A critical thinker is someone who looks at the long term. He or she is matured and experienced enough in dealing with hard tasks. Furthermore, a critical thinker also re-examine the old theories forced by precious evidences. Last but not least, a critical thinker is very rational in deciding the best option for the best outcome.

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Ainul Hayati binti Ab Karim (AP01514) (SET 5)

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Ainul Hayati binti Ab Karim (AP01514) (SET 5)

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1.       (From the video), In my opinion, critical thinking is all about the taking a moment to go beyond the obvious and ask what you do and you do not know. In other words, critical thinking is thinking rationally after all the sensibility and justification of something is considered. Most of the time, people do not think of what they are doing simply because we do not have much time. However, not being able to engage critically does not mean that particular person is stupid. Two related concept, skepticism and objectivity are said to be the crucial tools to develop critical thinking in one’s mind. Skepticism means doubting the truth of something while objectivity means trying to see something from a neutral point of view. By developing critical thinking, the person is able to explain something they know and is obliged to changed their mind when facts change.

2.        In my opinion, I should not believe this kind of email. This is because the whole email sounds like a made up story and it does not make sense. Why would anyone trust a stranger so much instead of their own family to inherit their wealth. The sender should find someone who they have known for quite some time instead of trying to give it to a stranger. The sender also asked for some personal information in which involved only in personal or government purpose. This email is obviously a scam. The sender did not even provide her personal information and kept telling her sad stories as if she was trying to manipulate the receiver. We all should think rationally and avoid this kind of email as it can be dangerous if our personal information falls to the wrong hand.

3.        The characteristics of a critical thinker are able to slow down and do not rush into making decision. A critical thinker should capable thinking deeply and constructing a strategy if needed when facing problems. Other than that, they can conserve mental energy. They can do this by building habits and a working environment which help you focus. Most importantly, do not let others dictate your time and attention. Next, a critical thinker would not jump into conclusion right away when they are facing doubtful situation. They will wait first and think deeply whether their action is worthy or not. A critical thinker knows what they are capable of. They are aware of their limit and they do not pretend to know something they do not know. They will seek out others’ expertise where theirs runs out. Apart from that, a critical thinker will never over valued things just because they have it. If it’s failing, they just cut their losses. They do not get shackled to their past. A critical thinker never judge results. They will judge the strategy instead and keep doing the right thing. Most things revert to the mean. They have to think further in case things did not work their way. A critical thinker has to seek refutation and not confirmation. Then, they will never let anyone decide for them. They choose the best decision for themselves. Last but not least, a critical thinker needs to think the pros and cons of every option so that they will not regret it in the future as every option can be wrong.

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1. Before coming across the video, I saw critical thinking merely as an act of looking at something big critically. It never crossed my mind that critical thinking can be applied in every aspect of life because, as the speaker in the video said, most of the time people don’t do critical thinking because not everyone has the time, energy and enough practice to apply critical thinking in your daily life.The video gave a few good examples of how critical thinking is applied such as thinking whether a green light really means to go or deeming spaghetti as the superior pasta. Critical thinking brings out the questions in every obviousness that happens around us hence why uncritical thinking is obvious and exist all around us. One of the characteristics of critical thinking is making yourself feel uncomfortable by going beyond the obvious. A way of critical thinking is asking what you don’t know when you know something about a particle topic. However, critical thinking is not equivalent to being stupid nor it is something that smart people always do. Critical thinking is more a question of habit and strategy rather than intellect. When you have the right tools, you can questions almost anything critically, and the speaker in the video gave us just the right two tools in order to think critically. The first tool being ‘skeptism’ which means doubting the truth about something. While the second tool is ‘objectivity’ meaning seeing something from a neutral point of view. George Orwell, in his book, 1984 magnificently portrays a protagonist who put his critical thinking skill to a good use. To have a vigorous thinking skill is to explain why we believe something to be true, other than being obliged to change our minds when facts change. However, the main problem as to why critical thinking is deemed hard to apply by most people is because they don’t like to change, especially their mind. Long story short, challenging yourself by asking yourself “can you think of an idea that challenges your belief” is what critical thinking is all about.

2.  At first glance, my suspicion about the letter is hard to be doubted as receiving such lengthy mail from someone who is not in my contact nor any newsletter that I subscribed to is already enough to build up the suspicion. Other than wondering where on Earth this Shima got my email from, after reading through the email, several questions seem to be assembled easily which somehow explains why this mail is dubious. First of all, the writer claimed that her father, Dr. Parizad Mohy is the former Minister of road in Libya. As if to answer my doubt right away, the writer has given me the straight path to confirming whether the mail is a scam or nor as I can easily confirm whether this proclaimed fact is indeed a fact or not. Her father being someone so prominent in the industry seems not possible for me to know. Her parents were killed on August 1, 2011, but the mail was received just a few days ago. What causes the delay? Why did her step mom and uncles team up by threatening to kill her instead of just asking someone in the family to marry her off? Not to mention that going to Burkina Faso from Libya is no easy feat for someone who is desperate need of money. Father’s instruction is highly suspicious, asking her daughter to trust a stranger when even her relatives threaten to kill her. If she wants to keep it a secret, she shouldn’t have emailed me as everything that we share online is really no secret to anyone in this millennium.

3.  A critical thinker is someone who asks the whys in every whats in her or his life. In order to practice this habit, one should slow down to think whether the thing that is in question should be pondered upon or not. If not, then feel free to press the resume button. Next, focusing your willpower on a specific thing at a specific time is crucial in order to become a critical thinker. An important characteristic is to wait. You don’t simply get the results that you want straight after asking a critical question. Critical thinking is not about results, but progress. Other than that, knowing when to say “I don’t know" when you really don't know is a feat that a critical thinker develops the habit for. Then, work for the long terms. Seek refutation, not confirmation. Always ask yourself, is there another frame of perspective I can this issue from? Always ask yourself if you're given any choice in any situation.

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1. In my opinion, I think critical thinking is a way of thinking about ourselves, and other people around us. It is also a way to think of the situation happening and how true do we think the situation is and how would we handle it. Besides, critical thinking is actually is not a normal way of thinking where we rarely think critically in our daily life, which we will only think critically when we are facing critical situation. Other than that, critical thinking is scepticisms where you are having doubts in believing on something and objectivity is to see something without bias or in a neutral point of viewSo generally, critical thinking is how you think about you, people around you and how would you handle the situation.

2. Based on the email, I think that you should not believe the email because it seems very suspicious. There are many questions coming out from that email such as where did she get my email?, was she just picking random people and sent the email?,etc. Besides that, the sender asked for private informations such as identity card number, photograph and others that are actually only eligible for personal and government purpose. Other than that, who would trust a foreign stranger to transfer all of your money into their account? Even if your family members are fighting against you to get all of the assets left behind, you should at least find a person who you have known for quite a long time and trusted them, then you could ask their help. Another reason is that nowadays, a lot of things happened that cause other people trouble by scamming or faking some of their act. Thus, you should not believe the email you received to avoid from any scamming act to happen to you.

3. One of the characteristics of a critical thinker is that one should slow down in making a decision where he should take a pause and think if it is matter to have a deep thought. If that matter does need a deep thought, then just leave it for a few days before making the deciosion. A critical thinker should be able to stay focus in anything that they are doing without getting interrupted by friends or gadgets. Besides, to be a critical thinker one should not pretend to know what they do not know, instead they should ask what they do not know frequently to increase the ability to think critically. It is important to judge the strategies and not the results as good strategies will assure good results but if you do not get what you wanted it is worth to repeat it again until you succeed. We should never give up whenever we fail and always learn from our mistakes so that we can avoid the same failure. Other than that, we should look for the long term instead of the short term results. Thus, we should think wisely before making a decision because maybe all of the choices are actually bad for us so we have to many none of the choices. Generally, those are the characteristics of a critical thinker should have.

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1) In my opinion, from this video critical thinking is a thinking skills that many of us should apply in our daily lives. Many of us have this thought of something else beside what we usually  learn or hear. From this thought came skepticism, where we doubt the truth. Critical thinking is also often touted as a superior way to confront the issues one faces. For example,  we use a set of critical thinking skills to consider an issue. At conclusion, we make a judgment about what to believe, or a decision about what to do.

2)  From the email ,firstly i will be skeptical about this email because it came from someone that I don't have any relationships with. After that, comes my action to believe this person or not. So this email is a good example to apply our critical thinking skills.
From my view, I will certainly delete or ignore this email because this person easily gives his/her personal information to strangers. Normal people don't do that so easily especially with someone new. I will also ignore this email because the content is ridiculous. How in the world would someone have that much money and have her daughter to come all the way from her hometown just to get the money in a bank so far away even the name of the bank is hardly known and suddenly when the daughter was just about to take it when suddenly she was told the conditions that you put in the bank.  Normal people and bank officers would not waste their customers' time, instead they just contact you or your family members via email using a certified email and give their official contact number if you have any problem. And all fathers would not let any stranger to take advantage of his daughter just by marrying someone over money.

3) From the article, the characteristics of a critical thinker is you have to slow down if you were in tight spot. Other than that, a critical thinker must always develop their focus because we have limited attention. And sometimes time can be our little friend that helps us to get through something hard. Also as humans, we have our own limitation that we must overcome by seeking other people. In other words, a critical thinker must not dwell in the past and keep moving forward. In addition, we must always create a good strategy and do not stop trying until you get a good result.

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1. So, what is critical thinking, anyway? (after viewing the video)
2. Should I believe this? Why? (read the email)
3. Characteristics of a critical thinker (after reading 'Ten commandments for critical thinking' and answering the quizzes)

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1. After  watching the video, basically critical thinking is the ability to solve problems and make the right decisions in our life. We cannot simply make decision without thinking because this will make our problems become bigger. To think critically, we need more energy and times to make sure we are making the best decisions. We also have to think the unexpected situation we might face so that we will be more prepared with the challenges. The vital concepts that we should take into account while thinking rationally are skepticism and objectivity. Skepticism is when the thinkers go beyond the obvious when having any difficult situation so that they get the best solution. Critical thinking do make us feel uncomfortable but with that, we can think rationally and compare the good and bad of certain situations. For example, critical thinkers are being skepticism when they are offered with something valuable so that they will not get tricked by someone. Besides, objectivity is seeing something from a neutral point of view. It means that, we should not be bias on some situations that we do not agree with. Therefore, these two concepts are important for us to be a critical thinkers.

2. Should I believe this? Why?

In my  opinion, I should not believe this email. I knew she gave me some of her personal informations but how can we say that the informations are true? I don't see any documents or certificate as the evidence to prove her identity and situations. Furthermore, she said that her late father was a former Minister of road in Libya. Logically, a daughter of an important person should be well-known in the country. In this modern days, a prominent person and his family background can be found easily through internet. With this, we can get to know the truth. Besides, in the last part of the email, the sender stated that we should give our address, occupation, private phone number and many more in order to join the investment project with her. From this, we know that the main purpose of this email - to get our personal informations. Hence, I will not believe this as there are a lot of points that show the situation is not 'real'. Thus, we must think and act critically before making any decision because the quality of our life is depends on the quality of thought.

3. In my point of view, a thinkers have some characteristics that make them to think critically. Firstly, don't rush. It means that we have to slow down and think carefully eventhough it takes longer time. The longer time will produce a high quality thought. Secondly, we should not pretend that we know everything and we end up have no ideas at all about certain topics or situations. Better be a listener than a speaker. It doesn't mean that we do not know anything but with that, we can improve and increase our knowledge on that particular topic. Furthermore, a critical thinker judges the strategies instead of the results. Judging the results may lead to short term success only. In conclusion, we must improve our quality of thought by taking all of these characteristics into account while dealing with difficult situations.

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Nur Zafira Binti Zabarulla - AP01522 (Set 5)

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Assignment 1- Critical Analysis

1. So, what is critical thinking, anyway? (after viewing the video)

After watching the video, not only once, but twice, I think I have a rough understanding on what critical thinking really is. You cannot simply categorize the ability to think critically according to someone’s intelligence, but instead, it depends on something way simpler; the ability for a person to think differently. And by differently, I mean the ability to think with two main tools mentioned in the video, which are skepticism and objectivity, not only as a habit but as a strategy to face challenges in our daily lives. Skepticism lies within someone who dares to doubt the truth of something, unlike people who accepts whatever that comes their way, not questioning any of it. This ability can be harnessed as we gain more knowledge to help us support new findings and contradict old ones. On the other hand, objectivity can be seen as something impossible and very difficult to be practiced by anyone as it require us to have an unbiased perspective, a neutral point of view on any changes implemented.  This might be true but there are people who prove that it is possible by making constant progress in shaping the way they think. When there is a will, there is a way and thus, nothing is impossible as long as we try to do our best. Critical thinking is basically fueled by the curiosity of a person about the events happening around him or her. In this modern era where we are all spoon fed by technologies, with knowledge handed to us without much difficulties, we tend to have less opportunity to practice critical thinking. We are too used to being given information that we do not question it and accept it blindly. People may think that this stereotypical way of thinking is beneficial to all as it prevents uproars or rebellion, some may even claim it can retain peace but the sad truth is that thinking the mundane way debunks our development and ability to grow. Critical thinking is not being judgemental but it is proving something new that can cause change which then may lead to some people feeling uncomfortable. It is beyond obvious and forces us to change our minds on many issues in the world which can be challenging for people who are reluctant to accept changes. We must be able to think critically not to seek credentials or confirmation but to explain things that are hardly explainable or kept quiet for the sake of peace and normality.

2. Should I believe this? Why? (read the email)

I suggest that you do not believe this email because of a few reasons I think are crucial in deciding whether or not to doubt the authencity of this email. First of all, the woman mentioned that her late father was a minister. As known by many, ministers from whichever country are usually well-known and can at least be searched online for confirmation, to see if such a minister even exists. And as a minister, he must have had more than enough connections that could have helped his daughter with all these unsettled business. Not to mention, he must have known about his relatives supposedly planning to forcefully take all of his treasuries and assets or he could have at least expected this to happen. The first thing he would have done was to take proper measures to ensure that everything gets handed to his daughter. But then let us say that he was as ignorant as this woman implies him to be, and failed to see all of this unfold in the future. There are still a few more suspicious aspects to this email. This woman claims that her parents were killed on August 7, 2011 during a terrorist attack and yet you happen to receive this email on 29 November 2017, years after the incident. This sure screams fishy to me. Within that long period of time, she would have already found someone as a trustee to get her father’s possession. It also does not make sense that someone from Libya is actually asking you, a civilian of Malaysia for help. Libya is thousands of miles away from Libya and the fact that she is looking for a so-called trustee all the way in Malaysia simply does not add up. How did she even obtain your email address? Why would she suddenly choose you, a stranger she never met before and ask for your personal details, when you barely know anything about this woman except for her story which can be excerpt from one of the books she read, for all I know. Nobody, I dare say, would put trust in someone else, especially a stranger to give 30% of her fund and invest in your country. There are too many loop holes in her request which you cannot afford turn a blind eye on as it might affect you terribly. Giving away personal details to known authorities can still be a danger to ourselves, more so if it is to a stranger. The fact that she asks you to not tell anybody else really just seals the deal. Like I have mentioned before, her relatives are miles away, what harm could it do to tell someone you know here. Clearly she has a hidden agenda and she must be up to no good requesting people’s personal details in this deceitful manner. She offered no details of herself which is of value and therefore, you should not share yours as well. Precaution is well needed in this case and the best thing to do would be to delete the email you received and help prevent future criminal acts by reporting mails like this one to the authorities.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker (after reading 'Ten commandments for critical thinking' and answering the quizzes)

A critical thinker should be able to slow down and not rush into things in their daily lives as this would allow them decide whether they have to create a well-planned strategy in order to handle the crisis at hand or not to worry too much about unnecessary or unimportant matters. This allows a person to adjust how much attention he or her needs to give to every aspect of life without wasting time or energy. This will be a huge advantage which allows us to conserve mental energy as all of us have limited willpower. Knowing exactly what needs most of your attention helps us to focus on our tasks better and organize our time effectively. Doing something earlier does not necessarily mean that it is a good thing to do and doing something later does not mean it is a bad thing either. To differentiate which is which, we need to be skilled enough to use time to benefit us in the best way possible. Pretending to be a know-it-all does not help too. It takes courage for someone to admit that he or she does not know a particular thing or simply has no experience in that discussed area. This is another relevant characteristic of a critical thinker. This will then stimulate the urge for us to know more and seek knowledge. We must be able to take risk and face the consequences that come with it as well. As long as we had put in effort, whatever the result may be, a critical thinker would be able to accept it and move on instead of hanging on to the past. By not giving up easily, somehow, we will be able to rise again with perseverance and persistence. Critical thinkers can contradict something with the proof needed and argue, not for the sake of recognition, but to seek out the truth in the end. A critical thinker must always think before acting to avoid mistakes that can be avoidable and thus cause less problems that might arise in the future. With all these characteristics planted deep within oneself, being a critical thinker will not be that big of a deal.

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1) In my opinion, critical thinking is meant to have a precise point of view about something.A person who is a critical thinker tends to be more straightforward compared to a considerate person in a situation.Critical thinking also causes a person to has a better view on their objective in doing something without being distracted.A critical thinker valued facts more to support their argument.Critical thinking might be good or bad depends on the situation but there are two concepts that can improve a person to become a well polished critical thinker.Skepticism, it means doubting the truth of something.Most people doesn't like changing their point of view on facts but by always being prepared to change their minds when facts change can make a person becoming better.Objectivity, it means seeing sonething from a neutral point of view.To be able to become an optimist and pessimist thinker would also make someone be able to make a comfortable decision and not become biased.

2) As for myself, i wouldn't trust this email because obviously after i read this email i searched for 'Dr Parizad Mohy' in the internet to verify the truth whether he is the former Libya minister of road or not.It turns out it is a fake character and therefore there is no more reason for me to believe this email.This email also give a lot og storytelling without a concrete proof that can support their claim.Then, for asking a personal information of others even before knowing them has made this email very doubtful and not trustworthy.

3) Among the characteristics of a critical thinker, a person need to be calm and analyse the situation calmly before making a decision.A stressful environment is meant to be avoided to prevent decision making that based on emotion.Find a suitable environment or situation that can help in increasing focus such as hearing music or going to a place with less noise.If the person is confused, getting advice from wise person or just let it be for a moment is also good.It is because this is mainly due to lack of experience therefore getting one from the one who knows or wait for the experience to come is the best way to learn.There is a saying that 'experiences is the best teacher'.Don't be ashamed of not knowing something because it will ruin a person morality and making them to become more egoistic.It is best to know ownself expertise and weaknesses.

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1. So, what is critical thinking, anyway?

Based on the video, critical thinking can be defined as the ability to think beyond the obvious, deeply into the hidden messages. It is not thinking. A critical thinker does not simply think at the face, but beneath it. He/she usually thinks what underlies the surface. Critical thinking is not that smart people do most of the time or stupid people do least of the time. Instead, knowing when and how to engage critically is in fact critical thinking. A question of habit and strategy more than having solely intellect is also a part of critical thinking. Therefore, critical thinker is commonly a curious person. He/she will always be thirsty of knowledge and facts so as to satisfy the logics.

Fundamentals of critical thinking are comprised of scepticism and objectivity. Doubting the truth is the habit of a critical thinker and seeing something from a more neutral point of view is what they do most of the time. They develop a strong mind within themselves.

Thus, to be a critical thinker, we have to think like one. We have to make a paradigm shift from now onwards.

2. Should I or shouldn’t I believe this email? Why

As far as this email is concerned, I believe that this email is a mere scam. You should not trust such ludicrous email from someone you don’t even know who the sender is, what kind of background she is coming from and what type of personality she is of. In other words, you should not take this matter for granted because the stranger may be someone who shows her concern on your welfare purely to bait you to her set-up trap in order to put you in a plight. You should not be too gullible when dealing with this form of persuasive treatment. On that account, you should not believe this email.

From my point of view, first and foremost, the sender herself seemingly put the message in the email in a fishy hyperbole way. To have an axe to grind, it’s like there’s something not good beyond her offer from which she was concealing. In addition, it is a common sense that there’s scarcely an ordinary individual giving away fortunes to an absolute stranger. It does not make any logical sense. If I were the recipient of this email, “Why me? Why not other person? Why must it be me? Who am I to you? Have we ever met before?”, such thoughts would be juggling in my box of mind. Plus, there’s no even a single supporting details or evidence to prove that each and every statement she is proclaiming to be true. Libya is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa and Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. She said that she moved to Burkina Faso towards better life. But then, there is no continuity in the story she conveyed. There is no link between the part she told she received maltreatment from her step mother and the part she had left Libya. I think there is something missing between the two parts. What is the missing part she is hiding us from? Why didn’t she mention anything about how she got away from her uncles and step mother? She did not enunciate clearly the major reason to these questions in the email. She should have at least revealed a bit of her true identity by sharing several pictures of herself before soliciting your personal information. Not to mention, it is tremendously bizarre for some desperate stranger to share and invest such amount of assets you for no hidden agenda. 30% of US$7,200,000.00 is completely an immense amount of dollars, but you should probe more about this so as to not accept it blindly for your own sake of security.

To sum it up, you should never ever believe something told by any kind of people without thorough critical analysis about it. This is the main gist delivered by me.

3. Characteristics of a critical thinker

The first and primary characteristics of a critical thinker is they think slowly and apply attention in an effective way. At times, they get rid of things that require least attention. They spend more time in solving problems worth of a strategy. On top of that, a critical thinker conserves his/her mental energy. They deal with things in full-focused bursts by not letting others dictate their precious time and attention. That is essentially how a critical thinker works. Apart from that, critical thinkers will wait a bit before reaching the final decision. If they were clouded with doubts, they would pause for some time and become silent because pauses and silence sometimes can be the best friends of better thought. It is better to not pretend you know of something you don’t know.

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1. Based on the video, critical thinking is thinking beyond the obvious. In my opinion, I think critical thinking is something that must have in everyone nowadays. It involves two concept which are scepticism and objectivity. Scepticism means doubting the truth or something. We shouldn’t easily trust or believe anything we see or told to. It is better for us to search the truth by our own before doing something. Next, objectivity means seeing something from a neutral point of view. Don’t do or decide something emotionally but think carefully about the pros and cons behind every decisions we made. Hence, everyone should have this way of thinking and consider those two concepts in order to be a great critical thinker.

2. No, I should not believe the email sent to me. I had a bad feeling after reading the email because I think she is not a not a nice person. Besides, in the email, it seems like she’s creating the story in order to ask for my sympathy. I kept thinking where did she get my email and why did she choose me? If she was really in a difficult situation, she should think the exact way to solve her problems. Since she was a daughter to a former minister, it’s quite impossible if she really didn’t has her own savings in case if an unexpected thing occurs. Then, I was also feeling curious when she told me to keep this email as our secret. Why I can’t tell about this to others if she’s really in trouble? So, we have to be careful especially when receiving that kind of email. Don’t trust easily to a stranger even though they are asking for help. It’s better for us to ignore the email than taking the risk by giving our personal information.

3. Characteristics of critical thinker

The first characteristic is slow down. We shouldn’t be rush especially in making decision. Then, conserve mental energy. It means that we have to be smart in managing our time and don’t waste our time with things that can distract our focus. Next, wait if we’re in doubt. Calm down and relax if we’re in a difficult or unwanted situation. Besides that, we have to know our limits means that we shouldn’t be shy with others if we don’t know about something. We better ask someone rather than remain silent. Next, beware of sunk costs. Do not expect too high with something that we’ve sacrifice and be sincere in anything that we’ve done. Then, don’t ever judge the results. Plan and do the best strategy in order to achieve successful. Most things revert to the mean! It means that we have to think further if things do not happen in our way. Next, we have to seek refutation and not confirmation. We must challenge ourselves instead of putting ourselves in a comfort zone. Then, beware of our frame of reference. We shouldn’t let others decide for us. Choose the best decision for ourselves. Lastly, every option can be wrong means that we have to think carefully the pros and cons of every option so that we will not regret in future.

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1. Critical thinking, in my eyes, would be the ability to think beyond basic capabilities of humans. We are primarily mammals, but also the only species able to think beyond our basic emotions and survival instincts. With such, we've developed the ability to think "critically", or past the amount we would intuitively think about something. Thinking beyond the realm of basic thought requires effort to dissect the different aspects or perspectives on an issue as well as to identify questions, answers or solutions to problems that might initially seem non-intuitive or unreachable without further thought. Critical thinking is a tool humans use to further expand the limitations of the mind in processing information beyond the point where we'd usually stop thinking.

2. No. The email is written in a way that it caters to telling a sad story with a hopeful end, meant to unlock a sense of pity and willingness to help in the reader. Despite this, time and time again we've been told not to trust emails with situations that seem too good to be true, and so one might immediately find this suspicious, especially since it involves money, phrased in the form of investments and family financial drama. It is most probably a scam, since it requests personal information and documents. The amount of money promised is absurdly large and would never be entrusted onto an unknown person, no matter how dire the situation may be.

3. The ten commandments for critical thinking are amazingly useful tips when one needs to delve deeper into an issue or topic of thought. Like mentioned in the video, there is a time and place to think critically, you cannot do it all the time like wonder if you should stop at a red light in traffic. A good time to think critically could be in class, when finishing a project, or at a debate tournament. In any case, the commandments surely ease the process of thinking critically. The brain would find it easier to access its thinking powers and find a solution to a problem or understand an issue better. In conclusion, our limits can be shortened with the right effort and actions, such as is presented in the article.