A Critical Thinking Module 6

While the media might not directly contribute to discrimination, the media is undoubtedly a significant aspect of modern day society that influences how people think about racial issues (Royce, 2009, p. 1, 17). Many people claim that racism no longer exists; however, the minorities’ struggle with injustice is ubiquitous. Whites are attempting to keep blacks and other minority families locked into an impoverished political and economic position by using various tactics to isolate them, such as mass incarceration that stems from the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow helps us in seeing how history is repeating itself and how to legalized discrimination among the blacks and Hispanics by implementing the mass incarceration.

Identify a minimum of 10 project risks and when each will occur in the project life cycle, and then determine their impact and probability of occurrence.

My mother and I is quite similar to one another, except with connection. Mom likes to be surrounded by her family, close friends and dependent on others. The contrast, I am independent but I do like being close to my family and friends.

However, when IT projects fall behind schedule, these efficiencies can quickly evaporate and lead to cost overruns, glitches and bugs. (3) Due to their inherently complex nature, IT projects are susceptible to many types of failures; mainly caused by a lack or risk management and flexibility. Many of the risks present in IT projects are unrealistic goals; inaccurate estimates of needed resources; badly defined system requirements; poor reporting of the project’s status; poor communication between developers and users; adoption of immature technology; inability to cope with project complexity; sloppy developed practices; mismanagement of the project; stakeholder politics; and commercial pressures. (4) With so many potential risks, it is not surprising that IT projects that are completed on time, and on budget, are more the exception rather than the rule. Additionally, before IT projects begin, clear objectives and the allocation of time and resources need to be defined; all of which are usually lacking for one reason or another. The result is a high failure rate associated with IT projects overall, which puts a spot light on the need for organizations to improve their risk management abilities and design processes that will allow them the flexibility to reallocate resources when unexpected problems when they

IT projects take a lot of planning and resources to complete. Once the idea of an IT project is created, it is up to the project’s developer to provide the justification to move forward with completing the project. In order to sell the project’s idea to a company, the company must see a need for that project or product. Case studies can be used to do exactly this. Case studies are intended to provide all the benefits, the cost associated with the project, and the estimated risks involved with a project.

Communication is the transfer of information from person-to-person, perception and understanding, as well as trust, respect, and empathy are essential to creating and fostering effective communication (Huber, 2014). I will discuss the critical thinking exercise in our text. I will describe communication problems occurring with the development of a critical pathway, and to whom the responsibility of these problems fall onto. Furthermore, I will discuss team behaviors, and leadership and management strategies to resolve conflict and improve communication and relationships.

Chris had just been promoted as an Executive Assistant for Pat the CEO, Chief Executive Officer, of Faith Community Hospital. Pat had given Chris her very first assignment on her first day of work as an executive assistant and that was to gather information so that Pat can present the issues to the board of directors. Faith Hospital is faced with issues that needed attention and the board of directors must be notified of the issues so that a solution can be remedy to help the hospital stay in business.

However, issues such as conformity and disagreement, external validity, and assumptions of single explanations are likely to come between us and our personal desires and thoughts. These issues no matter what their determining the way we see the world and more so, are likely to decide what and whom we support. These issues, however, are either inborn or learned through the process of socialization and therefore are of significance to both the environment and our ways of operation. Therefore, there is need to award much importance to critical thinking and to stand by our decisions rather than the conformities of the rest who fall under our encryptions or

Identifying risks will involve the entire project team and will include an evaluation of all factors including the project management plan. Careful consideration to the project deliverables will be given when analyzing the risks. Analysis of possible risks have been prioritized by calculating the risk numerically from 1-10, from less likely to likely to occur and minor impact to severe impact to project success, respectively. A numerical rating is applied to the values of occurrence, outcome, and detection and then calculated to a risk priority number (RPN) to assess the risk to the project.

“Metacognition means thinking about thinking and can be applied in two general ways. It can mean thinking about the way that you learn best.” (Capella University, 2017) The other meaning of metacognition is the process of monitoring progress in thinking and learning in order to improve that way that you think. Monitoring how you learn and which strategies work the best for you, makes you the manager of your own learning. By doing this, it will help you be more successful whether it is with your school work, work at your job, and/or anything else that requires thinking.

When analyzing the concept of critical thinking, reasoning and solving problems, the models of Elements of thought and the right questions play a significant role. The model of elements of thought was developed by Dr.Richard Paul, and it gives guidance on how different parts of thinking can be divided. In perspective, the approach on right questions provides suggestions that when faced with a critical issue requiring a critical approach; it is paramount to deeply investigate the matter by asking some key questions. This paper will provide an analysis of the two approaches providing their differences and similarities.

Typically project managers focus on monitoring and responding to negative as opposed to positive risks. So we are now discussing about rest of the risks but considering the negative risks to prioritize them which help to focus on high- priority risks:

most important to them: their dead. According to Garcia Marquez, these villagers, on the verge

It is through critical thinking that one is able to excel however, in order to achieve a plan must be in place. By reflecting on the day’s activities, one is able to calculate and weigh options that were present thus coming up with the best and efficient way of handling the task at hand.

After reviewing the critical thinking question, I do think that the student did jump at the job opportunity based on her emotions. In the question it states that she had an admiration for this employer and said yes, before looking into other possible job opportunities. To me, she let her emotions guide her when making the decision to take the job as oppose to finding other job opportunities. I think that most people are swayed by their emotions or gut feelings they have about making a life changing decision. I also think her decision had to with her just being fresh out of college because it could be that she does not have a lot of job experience. Also, this was the first job offered to her and she did not have to put effort into looking for