ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS: The overall Learning Goals for the entire project are to be able to::Reflect and learn about yourself as a critical thinker — your strengths, your weaknesses and how you handle reasons and arguments that challenge your beliefs.Apply the critical thinking skills learned in the course to research, analyze, and evaluate arguments.Reach well-reasoned conclusions based upon the application of critical thinking skills.Your essay will consist of the following four tasks which correspond to the order of your essay:(1) Identify a controversial issue that you find difficult being open-minded about. This should be an issue that you routinely find yourself having a one-sided stance on, but may have not spent much time looking into opposing perspectives or opposing evidence and arguments.(2) Explore and explain what it is about you and what contributes to you having this position on the issue, and what is it that challenges your ability to be an open-minded critical thinker on this issue
