Essays on Ignorance

Ignorance vs. Wisdom             In the Act III of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, it is easy to distinguish who among the characters are guilty of ignorance and fortuned with wisdom. This chapter encloses some of the most climactic parts of the story where the conflict in John Proctor’s defense arises.             The Deputy Governor Danforth…

Position paper “Argumentatively discuss the strengths and weaknesses of John Rawls’ ‘Veil of Ignorance’ method” In John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, he argues that morally, society should be constructed politically as if we were all behind a veil of ignorance; that is, the rules and precepts of society should be constructed as if we…

Attribution is defined as how people interpret and explain causal relationships in the social world. It is designating an outcome to one or more external factors. There are two errors in attribution: The fundamental attribution error and the self- serving bias. The definition of the fundamental attribution error is when people tend to aggrandize the…

Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) is a law enforcement process that can prevent cognitive biases and ,since the matrix leaves a trail of evidence, it can be traced back easily to re-evaluate if something goes wrong. The problem with ACH is that it is dependent to the validity of the…

ESP is one of our weakest senses. Compared to our other five senses, ESP is definitely our weakest. This seems to be true because our other five senses are so easily seen, but seeing that we all have ESP, it cannot be so easily seen, but we know that it is there. This is why…

1.What is a family? What is family composition? A family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. Family composition is the way in which a family is organized according to rules, roles and power. 2.What is cultural bias? What is an example of this? Cultural Bias is interpreting and…

Groupthink is a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment that results from in-group pressure (Verderber, Verderber, & Sellnow, 2011). Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other groups (Miller, 2010). A group is especially vulnerable to groupthink when its members are similar in background, when…

A term paper is a research paper written by students over an academic term, accounting for a large part of a grade. Term papers are generally intended to describe an event, a concept, or argue a point. A term paper is a written original work discussing a topic in detail, usually several typed pages in…

System One Thinking Everyday that we wake up we use system 1 and system 2 thinking just to get our day started. There are clear differences between the two types of thinking and when we are dealing with system 1 by itself we tend to be dealing with situations where we need to be fast…

“Looks can be deceiving” is a statement that should be considered seriously because there is much truth behind the wise saying. United States as a society has been culturalized into forming certain types of stereotypes due to media, beliefs, peers and much more that walks a fine line between courteously and ignorance. The play Arsenic…