Step of the CCA involved us find 2 news articles and answering a set of questions pertaining to these articles.I found 2 articles that connect to my job of engineering, “Egypt’s oldest pyramid saved by engineers from Newport” and “Fewer Singaporeans are choosing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics”.
One of the first and important lessons I learned from doing step 2, was that reliability and relevance played a big role in APS. In this assignment I had to review the article that I had chosen. To check if the article had any bias that might influence readers to think a certain perspective. Throughout CCA 2 I had to learn how to identify bias, and positions. I had learned to dig out facts and separate them from opinions that the author put in himself. This experience taught me just how much physiology is used to formulate and write news papers and how important reliability and relevance is when reading one.
My first article was about the egypt pyramids, one of the great wonders of the egyptian people. The article was about a group of engineers that prevents a eyptian pyramid from collapsing. It gave me new insight on what and how these pyramids were constructed previously, and how these buildings were now breaking now because of the passage of time. This articles closely related to anthropology as I examine the history of the egyption pyramids and how we try to preserve the pass through much modern means.
The second article is about how fewer Singaporeans are choosing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The articles explores the education problem in Singapore, that is causing kids not to explore paths in the sciences. It’s stated kids in SIngapore do not pursue a career in the sciences because they think that their not smart enough. But the main reason themselves think that is because of negative parental influence. This article connect to sociology and anthropology as reminded me of what we learned about child development, and how the environment changes us over time, it connected . As a teenager myself, it reminded me to always stay true to myself and my ideals. And not to bend under the influence of conformity.
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