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Hai razq, u have missed out some of the flaws. U have to mention all the flaws in the argumet in get a good score. Evalute mine and find out if had missed any flaws and organization of the essay. Many of the respondents in the recent survey might have shown interest in reducing the intake of fattening foods, but the author of above newletter presents a misleading advice to investors to get rid of the the Old Dairy Industries shares if they have any and refrain from buying them. The author assumes that the revenue and the profit of the company will decreases as the company has majority of the products in company's portfolio are high in fat content. Besides that the the author makes an assumption that people will buy the low fat products which are currently adundant in the market. The argument is full of loopholes and the claims made are not convincing enough to prove the soundness of the argument. The first claim states that majority of the participants in a survey indicated a desire to reduce the fattening food. There is no mention of the charactersitics of the participants such as age, demographic details and fat content in their body. If majority of the particiapants are in their adolescent age then it is obvious that they would like to reduce the intake of fat containing foods to avoid heart diseases. In addition to that survey might have been conducted in an area which has the large population whose weight is above the noraml weight. And also majority of the Old Dairy Industries might have products targetted a customers who differ greatly from the people participated in the survey. This clam clearly not sound enough to support the argument. He might have included the details of survey sample and the patterns of the Old Dairy Industries customers. Furthermore the second allusion that people will start buying the low fat conetent foods which are abundant in the market is a balatant error. The current products may be following low standards of quality, they may not be hygenic to health. He should have stated the quality of these products and willingness of customers to buy these products to sthrengthen the argument. The last assumption that the revenue and profit of the Old Dairy Industries will decrease as the company has majority of products of high fat content and people will start buying the other low fat content products available in the market. The comapny might be having many high fat conetent products in the portfolio, but there is a possibility that the percentage of market revenue these products may generate may be far less that the revenue generated by the low fat content food products. In addition the company might be having a very good brand name and people may not be interested in shifting to other brand prodcuts. They may take low fat food products available with ODI. Moreover the profit generated from selling high fat content food may be very less. This clearly contradicts the conclusion that profit and revenue of the company will decrease. Finally I can say that the author of the arguments presents a flawed argument that investors should refrain from holding and buying the shared of ODI. Had he taken into account the above mentioned details with every claim, he might of presented an irrefutable argument.

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Should universities just be responsible for academic education or be concerned with other parts of student life? Although academic education is the sole purpose of any university, it should not neglect the extracurricular part of student life. There are many things students do not learn thorugh academic education. Universities should concern both curricular and extracurricular part student life. To illustrate my point, consider what students learn from non-academic activity like sports. Sports help keep the body fit, the players can learn how to be a good team player and even how to lead people. If students lack sports they may lack these skills. Students who play well can represent their university in tournaments or competitions, there by augementing reputation of their univeristy. So a university should not neglect extra curricular activities. Besides academic education universties should teach the students how to be a good citizen of the country. It should also monitor the health and mental condition of the students and take appopriate actions to ensure that students are well enough to learn what instructors teach in classes. Leaving the students unattended after the class may leave them prone to drug addiction. After discussing what students may miss by the result of university's neglegence of non-academic activities, I can conclude that universties should not neglect the non-academic parts of student life. They should concentrate on both curricular and extra currciular activities. Pls read 'n rate 'n correct my mistakes!

ARGUMENT: Dieticians have long known that professional athletes who eat a lot of nuts have higher levels of endurance than those who do not. Researchers have recently discovered that the particular combination of vitamin N and fiber found in some nuts provides a boost for those who participate in strenuous physical activities daily. Both vitamin N and fiber supplements are easily synthesized and widely available. As a result, all those who participate in athletic activities will be able to increase their endurance and win more games by taking vitamin N along with a fiber supplement. MY RESPONSE: The author concludes that by taking synthesized and widely available vitamin N along with fiber supplement athlets will be able to win more athletic games and have long endurance of enrgy. The author states the dieticians knowledge about energy endurance of the professional athlets who eat nuts. He also includes the result of the research work whose inference is that combination of vitamin N and fiber present in some nuts provide a boost for people who participate in high strenous physical activities. The argument is full of gaps and loopholes as it lacks the suffiecient evidence. Neither the premises nor the conclusion convincing. This argument is a result of hasty generalization. At first glance the dieticians knowledge about endurance of energy in professional athletes seems to be only a mere observation without any statistical data to prove that the athlets who take nuts have high energy endurance than those who do not. The author lacks to mention about the experiments conductuded by the dietician on athlets those who take on those who do not. These experiments might have revealed clearly the effects of nuts on athlets. This claim shows clearly the hasty conlcusion of the argument. Secondly the researchers found "particular combination of vitamin N and fiber found in some nuts" provides a boost for those who participate in strenuous physical activities daily. But in the first claim there is no mention by dietician about the the kind of nuts the athlets have taken. The athlets might have taken some nuts which have a different 'combination of vitamin N and fiber' or other vitamins/materials which provide boost to endurance of energy. This further refutes the arguments. Thirdly the author states the vitamin N and fiber are synthesized and widely available. But there is no evidenct to backup the claim that taking the synthesized vitamin N and fiber will have the same effect as natural vitamin N and fiber found in nuts. Moreover winning the athletic games does not depend entirely on the endurance of the energy, it may depend on game tacts also. And there is no mention of the athelts who have the natural endurance of energy. It may not be possible to defeat those athlets by taking synthesized materials. The argument is the result of huge speculation in which the author has comfortably taken for granted cosiderable amount of data. If he had taken the above discussed factors into discussion, he would have presented a irrefutable argument. And the whatever is presented lacks the convincing conclusion to the claims being made.

Argument: Yellow-legged frogs were once common in high-altitude lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but they have become increasingly rare. Trout feed on tadpoles and young frogs. Few lakes in the Sierra Nevada had any trout in them until a hundred years ago. At that time, many lakes were stocked with trout for recreational fishing, and now trout are common in virtually all bodies of water in the Sierra Nevada. Researchers removed the trout from one lake, and the frog population soon quadrupled. Since frogs are capable of moving several miles over land, removing trout from just a few lakes is clearly the way to restore the frog population to its former levels. My Response: The author concludes that removing trout from few lakes facilitates the frog population to restore to its former levels. The author makes a claim that dependency of trout population for feeding on frogs and tadpole is the main reason for decrease in density of the yellow-legged frogs in high altiltude lakes in Sierra Nevada mountains. In addition the author also mentions that trout were familiar in only few lakes hundred years ago and recreational fishing has caused the stockup of all lakes in Sierra Nevada with trout. He includes the result of one experiment where researcher's complete removal of trout has caused the frog population to become quardupled. The argument is full of gaps and loopholes as it presents insufficient evidence to back it up. Neither the premises are the conclusion is convincing. This argument is the result of a hasty generalization. The author lacks numerical data like statistics about the frog population desnity in lakes of Sierra Nevada to claim that the decrease in desnity of the frog population. He might have strenghtned the claim by providing statistics of the frog population and the analysis the patterns of changes in frog population. Furthermore he mentions the trouts as the only creatures which caused decrease in frog poulation. There is no claim about arrival of the other frog-eating creatures in to the lakes and environmental changes. These factors might have caused the decrease in frog popluation. He should have augmented his conclusion by providing details of these factors. This shows a clearly hasty genarilization of the argument. He even lacks the data of hundred year old to prove that the population of the frog is rare in tout poulated lakes of that time. If the density of the frog population in those lake in those times is much more, then it refutes the claim that trout are the sole cause for depletion of frogs. The authors mentions one instance where researchers removed the trout completely from one lake and observed the frog population quardupled. If the the number of frogs before trout removal are around 100 and after removal the number may around 400. As far as this increase is concerned it is not a substantial increase. It clearly show that there is some other cause for decrease in frog population. Summarily the author has hastily concluded that removal of trout in few lakes restores the frog population. The argument is the result of a huge speculation in which the author has taken considerable amount of evident as granted. If had taken the above discussed factors into consideration he might have presented a irrefutable argument. And whatever is presented in the agument fails to make completer picture of the claims being made.

The Argument: The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist. 'Twenty years ago Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is false, and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid. Because they are using the interview-centered method, my team of graduate students working in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures.' My Response: Dr. Karp presents the conclusion that his working graduate students in Tertia will establish accurate understanding of the child rearing traditions in Tertia and other islands based on a flawed inference that interview-centered technique is far more superior than observation-centered technique. The conclusion of Dr. Field that childrens of Tertia were reared by the whole community of the island than just by their biological parents is established 20 years ago. This might be the more accurate observation 20 years ago. Things might have changed over these 20 years and community people of Tertia have stopped taking care about other childrens than their own. If this is the case contradictiong the Dr. Field's conclusion and infering that interview-based approach to community study reveals far better details than observation based techniques are highly flawed as he compared the results of study of community that behaved differently over the time. Moreover the interviews at the most may last for 1 hour. It is natural not just for children for humanbeing of any age to say more about their parents or who they are associated more frequently when someone asks. As far as the observation is considered it takes into consideration of the suffient time that is needed to reveal a paricular detail. The author makes one more flaw by generalizing that his students will achieve accurate results in studying the other island cultures by using the same interview based technique. Interview based technique work well for islands where people are willing to cooperate with the interviewers. We can't take it for granted that people in all islands are cooperative. Summarily we can conclude that Dr. Karp is presenting a conclusion based on insufficient and illogically drawn inferences. He might have sthrenghtned his argument by comparing the two techniques results on several island cultures during the same time. This is my first essay. I have taken nearly 50 min time. If I write 10-15 essays will the practice ensures the fine completion of the essay in 30 min?

Plz evaluate my answers CAR : GARAGE :: (A) bus : highway (B) horse : carriage (C) ship : anchor (D) train : junction (E) aircraft : hangar Ans: E GARAGE is a place where CAR is stored or repaired HANGAR is a place where AIRCRAFT is stored or repaired PROLOGUE : PLAY :: (A) chapter : novel (B) violinist : orchestra (C) appetizer : meal (D) statue : sculpture (E) screenplay : movie Ans: C PROLOGUE is played/done before the PLAY to motivate to see the play APPETIZER is taken before the MEALto invoke the hungriness MARATHON : RACE :: (A) street : highway (B) sprint : jog (C) career : option (D) epic : poem (E) habit : vice Ans: D MARATHON is a long form of RACE EPIC is long form of POEM DESIRE : COVET :: (A) increase : multiply (B) supplement : subtract (C) estimate : measure (D) open : discuss (E) dislike : loathe Ans: E COVET is envious/execessive DESIRE LOTHE is excessive DISLIKE GULLIBLE : DECEIVE :: (A) trustworthy : cheat (B) reputable : blackmail (C) liquid : evaporate (D) combustible : burn (E) broken : fix Ans: D GULLIBLE is someone/something who can be DECEIVED easily COMBUSTIBLE is something than can be BURNED easily \17 REND : TATTERS :: (A) fry : onions (B) burn : ashes (C) donate : beggars (D) irrigate : clods (E) water : plants Ans: B TATTERS are useless end products of RENDING of cloth ASHES are useless end products of BURNING of something 18 CALLOWNESS : COSMOPOLITAN :: (A) skepticism : cynical (B) uninventiveness : original (C) ecstasy : happy (D) despotism : tyrannical (E) intelligence : friendly Ans: B CALLOWNESS is lacking COSMOPOLITAN UNINVENTIVENESS is lacking ORIGINAL 19 NAP : VELVET :: (A) edge : razor (B) luster : pearl (C) bouquet : wine (D) grain : wood (E) surface : glass Ans: B NAP is a surface characteristic of VELVET LUSTER is a surface characteristic of PEARL GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE 20 LION : PRIDE :: (A) violinist : quartet (B) worker : syndicate (C) goose : gaggle (D) beaver : dam (E) elephant : circus Ans: C PRIDE is a group of LIONS GAGGLE is a group of GOOSES 21 PLUTOCRACY : WEALTHY :: (A) monarchy : sovereign (B) democracy : elite (C) anarchy : populace (D) bureaucracy : government (E) oligarchy : military Ans: A PLUTOCRACY is a government by WEALTHY people MONARCHY is a government by SOVEREIGN 22 CONSTELLATION : STARS :: (A) play : actors (B) hospital : doctors (C) garden : flowers (D) family : parents (E) range : mountains Ans: A 23 MISANTHROPE : HUMANKIND :: (A) cynic : kindness (B) martyr : punishment (C) deserter : cowardice (D) optimist : hope (E) xenophobe : foreigners Ans: E

My ans are A B E A