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Solve a Problem Paper

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Solve a Problem Paper
Tamara Peeples
PHL 458
March 18, 2013
Latrisha McAloon

Solve a Problem Paper
The stages of the creative process are search for challenges, express the problem or issue, investigate the problem or issue and produce ideas. The first stage – the essence of creativity is meeting challenges in an imaginative, original, and effective way (Ruggeri, 2009, p105). The second stage – the objective in this stage is to find the best expression of the problem or issue, the one that will yield the most helpful ideas (Ruggeri, 2009, p105). The third stage – the objective of this stage is to obtain the information necessary to deal effectively with the problem or issue (Ruggeri, 2009, p106). The fourth stage – the objective in …show more content…

In reading Chapter 7 of the assigned work I chose to look at all of these problems from different perspectives. I looked at this from my perspective; my mother’s perspective; my father’s perspective; my adult cousin’s perspective; and from the perspective of those whose opinion I respect. With that view, I was able to refine and revise the expression of my problem to, “How do I respect my mother and show reverence to her as the intelligent, committed mother that I know and remember from my childhood while keeping her and the rest of my family safe from her actions, that at times jeopardize our health and safety, as a result of her diminishing mental abilities?”
When investigating my problem and while looking for insight into the stated problem, I first looked to how others may see this problem and information that they may have from their stated perspectives. I asked myself the following questions: 1) Does my mother think there is a problem, (best answered by my mother)? 2) Does my mother think she has Alzheimer’s, (best answered by my mother)? 3) Does it matter what my mother thinks; she has Alzheimer’s, (best answered by my mother’s physician and me). 4) Does my father think I respect my mother, (best answered by my father, whose verbal communication skills are limited)? 5) Does my father feel safe when my mother feeds him food that he cannot swallow, (best answered by my father whose verbal communication skills are limited)?

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