Hum/111 Wk4 Appendix a

Associate Level Material

Appendix A

Midterm Exam

• Access the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings located under the materials section of the student website.

• Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

• Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each of the following questions.

1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained and the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams, or both, likely used to develop and improve his thinking prior to taking a stand and acting according to his beliefs.

I feel like both men were respectable leaders in their time, even if only by their own “crowd,” if you will. They both wanted to help the common folk, but they did so in their own ways. Samuel Adams seemed to do so by pen and paper, writing in newspapers and pamphlets that were handed out to townsfolk to “stir up sentiment” against the British. Samuel Adams, being the “moving spirit” in the Boston Tea Party, might have obtained or derived the idea to board the ship and dumped the tea from thinking outside the box – visualizing the solution. You might also be able to say that he was looking to force an uncommon response – not in in dumping the tea, but voicing their opinion through action, stating that, “they do not believe in being taxed… at least, not by the British.” You could say that some of the irrational thinking was what labeled him to be a “radical” or an “extremist.”

As far as Hutchinson goes, you could say that his way of applying critical thinking to fix problems at hand (looking to redeem depreciated currency, or fix economic situations) were scrutinized by others; while successful in stimulating trade, it did not bode well with colonists, and ultimately caused him to lose an election. Recapping what we have learned through the chapters, “thinking outside the box,” while it might work as a solution to problems, is not...