THINKING SKILLS. BIAS AND PREJUDICE.

During the class, we have been assigned to read a unit related with Bias, the language of it and Prejudice to solve two activities.

Al allong item A, we highlight the concept PREJUDICE when it says that German people blemed jews for every problem in their country (Germany) being hitler involved in this by representing PREJUDICE to jews. When we focus on Item B, the prejudice appears distorting the reality, when they tried to show that the Jews were the killers and responsables for all this damages. Due to all what we know, and study, we are concern that this two sources show distortion and irrationality considering they are not truth. The fact of being biased, let us know they are not credible because they are done with the intention of persuading people to believe something that is not reality.

The usage of language in this last mentioned items express BIAS as a result of the British using two different kind of vocabulary in order to speak about their man and the iraquies, This means that for the first one, the vocabulary was POSITIVE and for the second when NEGATIVE. When they talk about their man, there is no word of rejection or negativity, thus they named it "PROFESSIONALS, CONFIDENT AND LOYAL" but now, when they talk about iraquies there is no kindness at all, "Brainwashed, mad dogs and ruthless" is how they call them.
Now, always someone was going to hold their side but Britain was not going to talk perfectly well of Iraq if they are enemies,

JUAN SE VA POR EL RÍO: EL DICTADOR.

A lo largo del segundo trimestre, en nuestra clase de literatura leímos cuentos del autor Rodolfo Walsh y a raíz de los mimos, nos asignaron una actividad la cual debíamos crear un video con relación a lo previamente leído. 
Rodolfo Walsh había escrito un cuento el cual había llamado "Juan se va por el rió". El mismo cuento nunca fue encontrado por lo tanto  con mis compañeras analizamos cada circunstancia para imaginarnos cómo esto había sucedido. Al comenzar realizamos una puesta en común acerca de cómo sería este tal Juan, luego de varias ideas ¨Medico Forense¨ fue la preferida por la mayoría. 
A lo largo de este video, se ve demostrado que Juan, trabajaba para el dictador que en este entonces es Hitler. Aunque sin importarle, decide traicionarlo ya que no podía tolerar los asesinatos de los que el dictador formaba parte. Hitler junto a sus seguidores lo buscan hasta matarlo. Nuestra relación con los cuentos de Walsh es la ausencia de este personaje, Juan, el cual es nombrado reiteradas veces pero no se conoce físicamente. Es una historia realista.
Haciendo referencia a mi video, creo que fue un trabajo muy gratificante, se vieron mezcladas figuras históricas muy importantes, como figuras televisivas muy conocidas.

PROBLEMS AT THE TIME OF PRESENTING.

Introduction.

This proposal is intended to describe the problems students have with presentations identifying the current situation and the key points that should be addressed concluding by describing recommendation in order to solve this inconvenience.

Current Situation.

In the last two months we have discovered how students face problems while presenting their work orally. To get starte sometimes they deliver their work by remembering their part with out knowing it, secondly their choice of information and material is really poor. Moreover, they have conflicts between team members.

Key needs to be addressed.

Those three complications mentioned before, knowledge, the selection of information and material and the conflicts between team members have a negative impact at the time of presenting. The audience mix up information feeling confused.

Recommendations

I would mention some ways in order to solve students problems:
• It's completely necessary to be a self-confidence person.
• After preparing your presentation you should look for the key terms providing sources diversity.
• Understand that working in a team requires some negotiation and tolerance. Group members should respect the way in wich the others group participants thought.

Students should take this advices in order to present a better presentation with out loosing their opportunities.

MAD MEN.

THE SMOKING PITCH. 

During this short Scene of  ''Mad Men'' a team work company of cigarettes are discussing a new method, slogan in order to attract customers and obtain a satisfactory sale.

Here I leave the video for you.

1. Identify some of the vested interests in this scene. How do these work?

The most powerful vested interest in this scene is the way in wich they wanted to sell the product. This company tried to find fundamental, precise and powerful slogans in order to attract customers.

2. Why is Peter`s idea rejected and Don's idea accepted?
Peters interjects and offers the Death Wish while shocked with this idea the other mens begin to leave in particular disbelief over the ridiculous claims. When finally Don`s saved the meeting stating ''Advertising is based on one thing, HAPPINESS'' asking Lee sr, how Lucky are made. When Lee explains that ''Lucky are grown, cut, cured and toasted'' Don`s cut him off and pitches ''Lucky strike, it's toasted''. He makes his logical connection that if lucky strike cannot claim that cigarettes are healthy neither can any of their competitors.

OLD TABACCO ADVERTISEMENT.

TO KEEP A SLENDER FIGURENO ONE CAN DENY...
Tobacco advertisement gave people the IDEAL way of living. Smoking turned into a lifestyle soon targeting women.

This advertisement have a perfect distortion of the truth pretending to inculcate women that smoking makes us more beautiful. 

ALLONS À L´ALLIANCE.

Le lundi30/05 nous sommes allons à l´Alliance avec le collège. 

Pour commencer c'était ma première fois et je me suis beaucoup amusé avec mes amis.
Le lieu est magnifique, et elle comprend quelques beaux secteurs. J´adore le bibliothèque il y avait quelques salles pour apprendre avec un professeur, un mur  qui nous montre du style de la France et un espace avec plus de 4.000 livres.
Le personnel qui nous a counduit ėtait très volontaire et sympathique. Il nous à porte à travers l'alliance et ma partie préférée il y a été quand il a expliqué

l´ histoire détaillée du lieu.
Enfin, Je suis passez une bonne journée et j´ai pu utiliser la visite pour apprendre.

Pour moi, Il serait magnifique retourner.

Asesinato a distancia.

La música, las risas pasadas de copas, el humo del cigarrillo rozando mis ojos y una hermosa mujer bailando frente a mi. Se veía tímida y cabizbaja, su vestido llegaba por debajo de sus rodillas. Mi euforia y el entorno nos llevó a encontrarnos. las horas pasaban y continuamos bailando, pero algo me hacía sentir que ella era diferente. Después de escuchar reiteradas veces mi celular sonar, atiendo y era el aviso de que mi pedido había llegado. Sin preguntarle, acaricio su pelo, le beso la frente y la llevó a la salida.

Allí estaban mis hombres, de forma silenciosa sacan de sus bolsillos éxtasis, les pago y la miro a ella pero no dice nada. Comenzamos a caminar por la hermosa ciudad de Nueva York. Su forma de andar era débil y sus ojos enrojecidos me miraban. Hablamos cosas que jamas imagine hablar con nadie, su sonrisa reflejaba felicidad y encanto. En horas me había contado mitad de su vida, algunas cosas a medias, otras sin tanto detalle pero parte de su historia ahora era mía. Me habló de una casa media abandonada a las afueras de la ciudad, aquella casa que había heredado de sus abuelos. Particularmente la usaba para escribir y alejarse del ruido de la cuidad. Y así pasábamos las horas.. sabiendo más del otro, conociendo nuestros miedos y alegrías.

 Amaneció, estábamos en mi departamento pero ninguno de los dos pudimos recordar cómo fue que esto pasó. Pero no importó porque estábamos felices, sentíamos tranquilidad y confianza.

Desde el baño escucho

-Me llamo Sofia-

-Simón- le dije acomodándome la camisa

De repente escucho que la puerta de calle se cierra, no lograba entender qué había pasado. Salgo y ella ya no estaba. Rápidamente, calzo mis zapatos viejos y corro hasta alcanzarla.

-A donde crees que vas?- Le dije enojado

-Ya es hora de irme a trabajar- me respondió tímidamente

Mi cabeza empezó a imaginar muchas cosas,habrá visto aquellas fotos? esas diez fotos que delataban el gran pasado oscuro que me digne a dejar atrás? Mi mente no dejaba de atormentarme un segundo. Todo estaba saliendo tan bien, me estaba enamorando, ella no iba a ser una víctima. Le solté el brazo y corrí hacia mi departamento. Me dirigí hacia el baño, corrí aquel azulejo negro, aquel pedazo de cerámica que tapaba la tragedia de mi vida. Con el corazón en la boca y los ojos cerrados lo corri, y las fotos no estaban.Mis fotos ya no estaban y aquella nota que una vez escribí delatandome de mi propio crimen ya no estaba. Mi vida estaba en manos de aquella mujer, aquella mujer que conocí en un boliche. Aquella mujer con la que por un instante pensé que podría empezar de nuevo. Tenía que encontrarla, no podía dejar que todo se eche a perder, no iba a dejar que esa mujer termine con mi vida antes que yo con la suya.

Sentado en mi cama, con cierto nerviosismo, trate de hacer memoria, y recordar los secretos de la noche anterior en la que caminamos sin rumbo. Recordé aquel lugar que ella me contó que visitaba a menudo, aquella casita en las afueras de la ciudad. Era el lugar perfecto para hacerla desaparecer. Me dirigí hasta allí .

Ha pasado un año, pero aun no puedo creerlo. Aun sigo recordando a aquella mujer, como su sangre recorría mis manos, mis ojos lloraban y mi conciencia no entendía el porqué de aquel trágico acto. Como aquella mujer con la que por un instante me imaginaba todo hoy ya no esté. Y de vuelta me gano mi pasado, mi horrible y terrible pasado.

 Mi cabeza se golpeaba con las rejas y mis ojos veían el gran camino que me faltaba, 15 años de condena.

UNIT 1. Summary

Credibility Criteria.
critical thinking bring with it a number of techniques the ones can be used to assess the credibility of sources and the evidences they provide. Credibility Criteria is the name given to this techniques.

Neutrality.
It's shown that a neutral source is impartial, this one has no motive or reason to lie, to distort evidence, to present information wich supports only one side of an issue. An example of it could be the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, this was introduced so as to resolve disputes in the workplace.

Vested Interest.

If an individual or an organisation has one if this one, they have something to gain from promoting and defending a particular point of view. This could be an opportunity to lie, that is to say, they distort evidences that are the real ones in order to benefit themselves.
For example, Tabacco companies are an excellent example of a vested interest. All of us know that smoking is destructive to health, while this companies lie about what was smoking, trying in a way to avoid the ``disadvantages´´ of it.
But not always the vested interests are presented in compannies, or even thought identifying one of them does not necessarily reduce the credibility of a source. In reallity, they may have a good reason in order to support their idea to say just the opposite. Another example could be if a person is accused of a crime they did not commit, it is in their interest to tell the thruth and to present precise evidences to support their innocence.

Bias.
This concept promotes in a way a better particular view, having predilection for something, or seeing things in a particular way. Racil prejudice, Propaganda, Support for football, Loyalties to relative friends are examples of BIAS.
People see Hitler as a reasonable source of evidence about Jewish because of his extreme prejudice against jews.
A fan of a football team club would give a far more luminous report of their team victory than a fan of their arch-rivals.
An eyewitness to a fight, the one involved a friend may do their best to take out blame from their friend when giving evidences to the police.
Even though people could have a particular bia
s, this does not mean that the ones will influence in the situation.

EXPERTISE.
The testimony given by an expert are often higly credible. For example if we have a civil engineer, a forensic scientist, a geneticist, a criminologist, a meteorologist, an architect or a hospital consultant. Their training, their knowledge skills and their fantastic experience make them trusty sources to the evidence they provide.
However, sometimes are reasons to distrust their credibility. First of all, experts could also confuse. Buildings specially fall down becauseof a defect in the architects design. Doctors dont always make the correct diagnostic of a persons illness.

Reputation.
It makes reference to a person's character or a organization standing. In general the higher the reputation of a source is, the more credible it is seen to be.
However a reputation for honestly mean that the source provides accurate.

Observation and eyewitnes accounts.
The eyewitness discurse are usually seen more credible That the second hand or hearsay evidence. An eyewitness directly observes an event or an accident etc. During the re-telling of that event, details and important information sometimes are changed, left asside or even though sometimes people add false information in order to support their evidence. As a conclusion, hearday evidence is seen as less credible as the ones of first-hand or eyewitness speeches.

Corroboration.
This ones are pieces of evidences wich support each other. Corroboration inereases the credibility of the evidence.

Selectivility and Representatives.
What type of evidence id selected? Does it represent all sifes of an issue or only one side?
Campaings are groups of friends like greenpeace. The select only evidence wich support their views. This one-sided selection of evidence is seem to reduce their credibility as sources. It reflects their BIAS. The presentations of unrepresentative information can weaken the credibility of the source and the evidence they provide.

Context.
The context made reference to the setting in wich the evidence is produced. When assesing the credibility of evidence it is important to look at the wider context in order to indentify factors wich might affect the evidence wich people provide.

Credibility on truth.
Credible means something that is believable. It is not true. The word true means something that is real, a fact that it happens, that is to sat that this word means something that is correct. Credibility does not equ truth that credible evidence is not necessarily true evidence. So finally the evidence does not have to be true in order to be credible.