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The Edukators

For the Thinking Skills class, with my group, we have seen the movie "The Edukators", after this in form of presentation we answered some questions regarding this movie towards education and moral values. Here is it:

Death Penalty

Here is my essay regarding point of view i have towards death penalty: In the following essay I will explain my opinion about the legalization of capital punishment, that is a penalty implented by the law, that consists in sentencing the criminal to death. The methods used can be Lethal injection is the sole method or electrocution. Moreover, in the movie “The Life of David Gale” is it shown the side effects of this punishment. To start with, my position regarding this kind of punishment is completely negative, due to the fact that there is no one who has the right to decide whether a person can live or not Moreover, judges and the legal authorities are not perfect, sometimes is common to make mistakes in this kind of procedures. In the movie The Life of David Gale, the main character was wrongfully accused of rape, the slowly destroyed his life even though he was innocent. This might be fiction, but the argument presented in the movie, are perfectly showing what mistake can cause in...

Should Capital Punishment be Legal?

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In the following essay I will explain my opinion about the legalization of capital punishment,  that is a penalty implented by the law, that consists in sentencing the criminal to death. The methods used can be Lethal injection is the sole method or electrocution. Moreover, in the movie “The Life of David Gale” is it shown the side effects of this punishment. To start with, my position regarding this kind of punishment is completely negative, due to the fact that there is no one who has the right to decide whether a person can live or not  Moreover, judges and the legal authorities are not perfect, sometimes is common to make mistakes in this kind of procedures. In the movie The Life of David Gale, the main character was wrongfully accused of rape, the slowly destroyed his life even though he was innocent. This might be fiction, but the argument presented in the movie, are perfectly showing what mistake can cause in the life of someone.I am not in favour of people paying ...

Angel Gonzalez

In the class of thinking skills, we were assigned to do a presentation explaining a case of an innocent victim who was imprisoned. I investigated about Angel Gonzalez, who was the supposed responsable of a rape, here is my presentation explaining the whole case.

Critical Thinking

In the class of Thinking Skills we were assigned to do a summary of the hole Unit 1. To start with, critical thinking teaches the skills required to analyse and evaluate arguments, this issues can be use on our daily life and applied into any subject. Some of this are: Arguments : Consists of reason/s which support a conclusion. Evidence : Designed to persuade, in order to be persuaded to accept the above argument, we would need evidence to support it. Credibility : Evidence is not enough to make us believe in something, consequently we need a judgment about the credibility of the evidence. Whatsmore, for your argument to be reliable and believable it is need information as a tool of support in the conclusion contained. Evidence comes from sources, for example newspapers, eyewitnesses, government press release, etc. However, is important to asses the credibility of the source. There are numbers of techniques which can support credibility of sources and the evidence th...