Part 1 Directions Chapter Three of the Jones text discusses how our conceptualiz

Part 1 Directions
Chapter Three of the Jones text discusses how our conceptualization of a problem usually determines how we approach the problem (or in the parlance of intelligence analysis, our intelligence question will guide our analysis). To illustrate how multiple, conflicting perspectives can be taken on complex problems, please post to Canvas a one- or two-sentence description of what you see as “the problem” in the scenario described below.
Algona Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has discovered volatile organic compounds in effluents from a processing plant of the Algona Feritilizer Company in Algona, Iowa. These toxic waste products bypass the city of Algona but are carried into the East Fork Des Moines River, a tributary that feeds into Saylorville Lak, the principal source of water for Des Moines, a city of more than 300,000 people. The Des Moines city council, through news media and political channels, is putting enormous public pressure on state and federal environmental agencies to shut down the Algona plant. Environmental action groups, with full media coverage, demonstrated yesterday in front of the Iowa governor’s mansion demanding immediate closure of the plant. Local TV news and talk shows are beginning to focus on the issue. The company’s executive board has convened an emergency working group to consider what the company should do.
Part 2 Directions
Directions: Chapter Three of the Jones text discusses how restating a problem several different ways can help open our mind to alternative conceptualizations as well as to issues that we otherwise might have overlooked. With this in mind, consider the following questions:
Should children born in the United States to illegal immigrants be granted US citizenship?
Does this question accurately address “the problem”?
What is the problem?
Please rephrase the question in at least a dozen different ways, and see how doing so affects your perception of the problem and you how you might analyze it.
Use The reference:
Morgan D. Jones. The Thinker’s Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, & Chapter 3

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