Anthony/360 Critical Thinking

Tony is very smart but also quite poor. His family didn't have enough money to send him to school but since he was smart and the nuns had faith in him they were able to provide him with a scholarship: “His family could not afford to send him to school. But the nuns believed in him because he was smart and a good boy.” (McKay 44). This shows how tony was viewed as a person before everything with the LRA happened. Tony also had a dream to become a priest when he was older. He never openly said it but it was very obvious to others; “ He has never actually said to his friends, but everyone knew that tony really wanted to become a priest.” (McKay 45). This shows that Tony wanted to go to school to repay god and how much of a good kid we was and how he didn't deserve to have to become a rebel soldier.

Representativeness Bias or Representativeness Heuristic is a shortcut in trying to associate present people or events to past experience. It is the probability that event A is connected to event B because they share common physical characteristics. We observe a person or object and if it shares similar qualities from another object we are familiar with, then we assume that the object is a part of that category.

(26) he feels his soul grow under Ultima guidance. One of Tony’s obstacles in life is to become a man. His mother does not want him to become a man but his father argues saying “everything Tony sees and does makes him a man”(37) but Maria says that it is a sin for a boy to grow to be a man by saying that “life destroys the pureness God gives”. (36) but this is not the only diction Tony has to make. His first dream portrays his insecurity about his identity. He has to choose between the two is he a “fine vaquero” or a “farmer-priest”(9) He is confused, on one side its his mother and on the other its his father. Who should he become? He is also confused about which God to believe in. the golden Carp, who he marvels at the “bright golden-pagan God”(114) on the other side the catholic God “who could not forgive”(120) He does not understand why God cannot forgive Narcisio who is a good man while the Virgin Mary can forgive the evil Teronio. Tony is confused throughout most of the novel. Tony believes that the women always forgive, therefore in his child’s logic he thinks women in general do not judge but always forgive. He has a lot of decisions to make. He remembers his dream where he sees Andrew at Rosie’s and remembers what Andrew had told him in his dream that Andrew “will wait and not enter until (Tony) looses (his) innocence”.(85) Tony’s belief that

2. In the 21st century exposure to media is an everyday event for most of us. Even at the grocery store, we see magazines and newspapers with eye-catching headings that may not be true. Also, the news is everywhere, and with technology on the rise, we even get news alerts on our phones. The media has taken over society. Most of the stories we read about seem to be true but in reality, are they giving a true insight of what is actually happening? Some of the stories cause people to become blindfolded from reality. This is because the stories that people read or see have a profound impact on shaping our reality rather they are true or not. We see the news about events that are going on in the world; rather they are catastrophic events or devastating events that were done by humans.

Self- esteem is used to describe a person's overall sense of self- worth or personal value.

Previously we were assigned a critical thinking exercise that consisted of reviewing a PowerPoint over Appendix 14A. Appendix 14A covered different debt restructuring and modification of terms options for companies and how you would go about recording them. The most theoretically challenging aspect of this material for me had to deal with the problem I was assigned in class. I did not understand why there would be no interest expense recorded even though there was a gain. I would assume theoretically that since Barkley is still paying off the note an interest expense would have to be recorded, however, I learned otherwise. An interest expense is not recorded because the payable is only being reduced by an amount

In our lives there are many different cognitive biases that can interfere with our ability to solve problems and/or make rational decisions. One that I think is especially problematic, and has been for quite some time, is representativeness heuristic. This is defined as the tendency to make judgments about a group membership based on physical appearances or the match between a person and one’s stereotype of a group rather than on base rate information. And essentially, a stereotype is the use of concepts to make generalizations about a group of people. (pgs. 252-253) Stereotyping in this country is, and always has been, a huge problem.

Moore, the author, states that Tony is persistent that his younger brother, Wes, is not following his example of being a drug addict, but instead is staying in school and out of trouble. Still, Tony and Mary’s attempts fail to prevent Moore from doing drugs. Rather than taking Tony’s advice, Wes chooses to follow and copy his older brother, Tony, and both of them ultimately end up being sent to prison for the same

Tony’s original perspective about the world changes when he meets Ultima, a wise woman who comes to live with him, for the first time and when Ultima teaches him about the world. When meeting Ultima, an old woman, Tony looks into her wise eyes and sees “for the first time the wild beauty of our hills and the magic of the green river” (Anaya 12). Ultima, a healer, comes to live with Tony’s family because his mother likes the old woman. With the old healer, Tony’s view on the world

Florence is introduced as an experienced youth. A character undeterred by the notion of eternity or the cultivation of religion. With outstretched arms he is a parallel to the crucifixion of Jesus. His affinity for questioning makes him a rebellious unafraid personality that yet is still likeable. However, because of this and his search for meaning Florence is an outsider; for not believing in god he is judged, the blows of life he has unfortunately experienced leave him without motivations. Eventually his own uncertainty foreshadows his downfall. Their friendship further catalyzes Tony’s religious ambivalence. The way that Florence asks questions about god confuse him as Tony questions the same aspects. The idea of redemption in the next life

When something is perceived through damaged lenses, nothing appears to be abnormal because everything is equally out of sorts. One way to look at it can be like looking at color blindness. Whether or not the color blind person knows that they cannot see color regularly is irrelevant, either way their perception of color is damaged everywhere they look. So, this life of color blindness is normal when it otherwise would not be to someone who has seen color before. This is just like Tony’s damage, even if he could recognize his damage, he would still see the world differently than everyone else. The problem arises when Tony’s perspective is the only one that the readers are allotted to. The reader may not even know that their interpretation of the novel is skewed because, through one lens, the default is that everything that is happening is normal. Nothing can be known to be true about the actual events that happened as they truly happened to Tony; nevertheless, it would be bias to assume that what is on the pages is what the story was from an outside perspective. Judgement needs to be suspended in order to come to a conclusion about one’s opinion of what truly happened, unless one believes that Tony’s account of his story was true word for word. It is no coincidence

Discuss the view that Tony Lumpkin is nothing more than a comic country bumpkin In some ways Tony Lumpkin is nothing more than a comic country bumpkin due to his foolishness and humour he creates within the play. for example when he accidentally meets Marlow and Hastings, he deliberately misdirects them into thinking that the Hardcastles house they are at is an inn and the Hardcastles are the Landlord and Landlady audiences may see him as no more than a bumpkin due to the humour he creates, where we the audience therefore laugh along with him, therefor we do not consider him inferior to us, therefore could resemble as Tony not being a country bumpkin but more of an intelligent character. he also pokes fun at Marlow and Hastings when they have lost their way, and “if you know neither the road you are going nor where you are, nor the road you came, the first thing i have to inform you is that- you have lost your way” and how they “must be sure to only take one” road, which pokes fun at the two characters and creates humour. We also learn of his pranks by Mrs Hardcastle as he is “composed of tricks and mischief”

Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.

Poldma dissects the Interior Design one element at a time. Her book will assist with the research

The articles that I read discussed Social Perception. Social Perception was described as interpreting information about other people. If you feel that you are familiar with a person, you perceive to have a better understanding of that person intention. The pattern of thinking can affect a person’s perception of others. The social contexts, in which you meet someone, can play a