Critical Thinking Journal Entry #6

One issue could be Nutritional facts of certain restaurants or places that serve food. Although most places will give you a nutritional information guide if you ask most of them are not completely truthful. Many times they will take things such as mayonnaise, cheese or other "extra stuff" out of the guide to make food seem healthier than it really is. You may be able to find the more realistic information online from a external source that is not related to the corporation.
The information we get from third world countries or about the war in Iraq is probably dramatically incorrect. Many times news reporters and the government want to make things seem not nearly as bad as it really is. I believe they do this in order to keep people from worrying or panicking. You could probably find truthful information from foreign news reports and people who are trying to expose what is really going on around us.

Pre-Reading Blog #4

I feel relatively safe in my neighborhood. Of course there is some crime so I am cautious of certain situations.I primarily get my perception of the crime in my area from the news, and from talking to friends and family. Usually these sources are fairly accurate and I find it better to be safe than sorry and expect that someone could commit a crime anywhere. Actually about a week ago my dad's girlfriends car had the window smashed in when they were at the park and someone stole her purse. So there is a reasonable amount of crime in our area, atleast enough to need to make sure you leave nothing valuable in your car, which it did not make any sense why Alison would leave her purse right out in the open at a park.

Critical Thinking Journal Entry #5

There are many examples of where the media gives a false message. Whether it be how life is in high school, college, married life or retirement, most of the messages make life seem better or easier than it really is. In movies and TV shows college is always portrayed as a party that never ends. The acedemics of it are never really shown and when class time is shown it depicts class as always containing some interesting thought provoking discussion. The image of a married couple can go several ways though depending on the film or TV show. But in general I would say that it is anything but what real life really is. These messages must be derived from somewhere and maybe they are derived from memories of each example. You tend to remember the exiting or more interesting things in life, and memories are almost always better thann the real thing because the mind wants to remember the best memories. But generally these messages are a far cry from reality and sometimes it can make life more difficult or sometimes it is a nice break from the real thing.