The following is a recommendation from the Board of Directors of Monarch Books.
"We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Clearly, opening the café would attract more customers. Space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own café."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
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The Board of Directors's claim that opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own café contains several logical flaws, and lends little credibility. Rather than relying solely on groundless reasoning, the reporter needs to consider the following points before making a final conclusion.
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First and foremost, the whole reasoning of the report is based upon an assumption that the space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Let us think about a situation where the population of the child over age ten. Despite the fact that national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten, the children over age ten's status is still remains unknown. Because both under or over age ten's kids can be called children, situations like this would weaken the validity of the reporter's claim, and in order to verify the claim, detailed investigation on this point must be addressed.
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Second, although the Board of Directors mentioned that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten, he or she did not touch upon the other types of age such as adults, elderly , men or women and so on. The Board of Directors must be aware of the fact that other types of age population can also contribute to the profit for a café, too. In addition to this, is Regal Books doing better after they opened a cafe? How about Regal Books cafe's financial condition? It is true that space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section. However, other factors are also comparably large. If further investigation of the Board of Directors' claim that opening a café showed that such other factors are also being counted as much as decline in the percentage of the population under age ten, then, the reporter's claim would become more convincing.
Third, the Board of Directors only insisted that according to reports from the most recent national census, the percentage of the population under age ten are declining. However, there are many other factor that Board of Directors should take into account. Does Monarch Books have the necessary financial capacity and skilled labors? Does Monarch Books has the people to execute the cafe? If more through investigations indicate that opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, the Board of Directors' claim may become more persuasive.
Fourth, the Board of Directors assumes that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Whether this trend is the indication of decline in the percentage of the population under age ten or simply a temporary trend is not clear. At least, at this point, it is too soon to conclude that this trend is due to an ongoing decline in under age ten children's populations.
As discussed above, the Board of Directors' claim is based on several assumptions that are not sufficiently supported. Before arriving at the final conclusion, the reporter should acknowledge that there are many factors that are involved in this story, and undertake additional investigation to clarify the uncertainties pointed out above.(556 words)
ll-known jazz musicians live in Monroe; and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is 'Jazz Nightly,' which airs every weeknight at 7 P.M. Finally, a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
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The developers' claim that a jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away; thus, the proposed new jazz club in Monroe, the C-Note, would have the local market all to itself. contains several logical flaws, and lends little credibility. Rather than relying solely on groundless reasoning, the reporter needs to consider the following points before making a final conclusion.
First and foremost, the whole reasoning of the report is based upon an assumption that the jazz fun's population in Monroe will remain stable, and the number of people participating Monroe's annual jazz festival. Let us think about a situation where the population of the Monroe is decreasing each year by 0.8 fold. Despite the fact that ,
The following was written as a part of an application for a small-business loan by a group of developers in the city of Monroe.
"A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away; thus, the proposed new jazz club in Monroe, the C-Note, would have the local market all to itself. Plus, jazz is extremely popular in Monroe: over 100,000 people attended Monroe's annual jazz festival last summer; several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe; and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is 'Jazz Nightly,' which airs every weeknight at 7 P.M. Finally, a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
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The developers' claim that a jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away; thus, the proposed new jazz club in Monroe, the C-Note, would have the local market all to itself. contains several logical flaws, and lends little credibility. Rather than relying solely on groundless reasoning, the reporter needs to consider the following points before making a final conclusion.
First and foremost, the whole reasoning of the report is based upon an assumption that the jazz fun's population in Monroe will remain stable, and the number of people participating Monroe's annual jazz festival. Let us think about a situation where the population of the Monroe is decreasing each year by 0.8 fold. Despite the fact that ,
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The developers' claim that a jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away; thus, the proposed new jazz club in Monroe, the C-Note, would have the local market all to itself contains several logical flaws, and lends little credibility. Rather than relying solely on groundless reasoning, the reporter needs to consider the following points before making a final conclusion.
First and foremost, the whole reasoning of the developers is based upon an assumption that the jazz fans' population will not change much over time. Let us think about a situation where the population of the jazz fans' is decreasing each year by 0.8 fold. Despite the fact that jazz is extremely popular in Monroe, the decrease in population will obviously lead to an total decrease of the total jass profit in Monroe in the end. Situations like this would weaken the validity of the developers' claim, and in order to verify the claim, detailed investigation on this point must be addressed.
Second, although the developers mentioned that jazz is extremely popular in Monroe, he or she did not touch types of people of lives in the place such as students, working generation and so on. The reporter must be aware of the fact that if a much larger amount of jazz fans' population is students. It is true that students will be fans of jazz music. However, after several years their attention will toward into another hobbies because they can't keep their sustainability. If further investigation of what types of people consis jazz fans showed that such other types of people's can keep their sustainability toward jazz, then, the reporter's claim would become more convincing.
Third, the developers insisted that according to nationwide study, it indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment. The result was nationalwaide. Thus, it can't represents Monroe's jazz fans' tendency. In addition to this, developers didn't show any history of a jazz company in Monroe and bench mark from old companies who had the same line of business. It is obvious that there are many factors that can make this argument more plausible. If more through investigations indicate that opening a new jazz club in Monroe will be tremendously profitable, the developers' claim may become more persuasive.
Fourth, the developers assumes that the result of a jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Whether this trend is the indication of the jazz music clubs tendency or simply a temporary trend is not clear. At least, at this point, it is too soon to conclude that this trend is due to jazz is extremely popular in Monroe.
As discussed above, the developers' claim is based on several assumptions that are not sufficiently supported. Before arriving at the final conclusion, the reporter should acknowledge that there are many factors that are involved in this story, and undertake additional investigation to clarify the uncertainties pointed out above.(511 words)
トピClaim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
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The topic claims that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the people that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models. Basically, I agree with this claim insofar as the term heroes or role models indicates the society's highest ideals. The term heroes or role models tends to be interpreted in many different ways such as political leaders or religious leaders; therefore, defining the term is of vital importance in order to avoid rambling discussion. Having defined the term, it is now clear that a political leader or a religious leader reveal a society's highest ideals. Indeed, if we look around with unprejudiced eye, we notice that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals .
The chief reason for my agreement with this topic is as follows: family is the smallest unit of society. However, character of people depends on their upbringing and how they are brought up in their society. In other words, the way they react to situations or how they act what they believe in is reflection of how they were saw by the society.
It must be obvious to anyone's eyes that character of the society's highest ideals have big influence towards their society. And if we analyze how the society's highest ideals influence the character of a society, we realize that they influence people by their personalities and behavior. They can change the character of a society. This is the reason why I insist that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals. Let us consider two examples to further verify this assertion.
The first example is George W.Bush. He started War in Afghanistan and Iraq War for the revenge of the September 11 attacks. He was aggressive and try to show America's strength towards any other countries around the world. But the Afghanistan and Iraq War has only cause the world to be more chaos. There is apparently no one gained profit during the war, only mass of death. President George W.Bush can fully express the character of America. They want to show off their power and make them the strongest country among any other countries.
I next turn to the example of Mother Teresa. She is the first nun who roamed the world and she is doing good especially to children and spreading her kindness and love all over the world. She is also a role model of Christian societies and uplift the belief of people to do good by showing us how it should be done. Not only Christian societies impressed by her kindness and love, but also people do not have religious belief take her as a role model.
In summary, I would like to stress that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals. Political leaders, religious leaders, famous celebrities, etc., each kind of person could be the society's highest ideals. Without the society's highest ideals, people will lose their direction and the society would be chaos. Thus, the society's highest ideals not only represent the character of a society, but they also needed by ordinal citizens.(569 words)
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Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.
Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
トピInformation, especially what must be taught and how, is vital concern to society. Some visionaries, including this topic, speak of a world in which any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future. I agree with this topic that much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate. However, I am not deaf to the merits of the information brings to us, and I, therefore, insist that concepts of both information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted or trusted must be weighed appropriately.
To begin with, one reason for my fundamental agreement with this topic is as follows: in order for people to acquire proper information, the source of information and how people accept the information must be made clear. Simply put, information exists among people in an organization or society where the members share common interest or goals. Although examples can be presented in a plethora of ways, two that aptly illustrate this point involve the areas of politics.
Consider first a case of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted. Political leaders tend to manipulate citizens for their politics decisions. In Japan, during World War II, Japanese emperor decided to participate in the war and agitate his people through mass media. After World War II his decision be proven false. Much the same kind of incidents can be happen in other country. Julian Paul Assange leaked many top secrets about United States' diploma, which referred to as a fact, but prove to be false after the leak. It is clear as shown by these two examples that information was distorted by mass media and government.
I believe, as stated above, that information referred to as a fact should be trusted is the very foundation upon which citizens can acquire information easily and directly. However, I insist that one must embrace the principle that citizens should not believe mass media directly and they should search many information about the situation by themselves. It is important that each individual learns the fact that both mistrusted or trusted constitute information offered by mass media or government, and bereft of one of the two, no full-fledged information can be fostered, let alone accomplished.
Why might this be so? The simple answer is this: no longer does it make sense to think of the notions of mistrusted or trusted information as separate entities, for they coexist in society, inextricably bound with each other. If one were to return to the mass media example discussed above, a rationale of my assertion becomes clearer.
Any mass media, whether it is a news paper or a news TV program, operate their business in an environment in which a certain degree of competition exists. To sell their own products, they must outmaneuver competitors. Exaggeration, embellish a story, make up a news report, they use these ways to attractive more viewers; there are various ways by which they can excel in the field of their business. But mass media needs to broadcast trusted information as well as mistrusted one. For example, scientific invention, Olympic games and so on.
In sum, instilling a concept of information into citizens for certain purpose may look bad. This is true and on this point, I agree with this topic. However, focusing solely on the mistrusted information is fallacious within the framework of a broader perspective, especially in a pluralistic society where monistic approaches fail to solve a given problem. I do not think any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, nor do I think that information referred to as a fact should be trusted. It's depends on the mess media or government to how to represent the information and how citizens' personality.(640 words)
Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
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Some people contend that innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students whereas others argue that these technologies all too often distract from real learning. Admittedly, both ideas are equally important and, in fact, history informs us that these two approaches are mutually exclusive. However, as far as study in today's Japan is concerned, I believe that innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students is more crucial.
The chief reason for my assertion lies in the evolutionary improvements of technology. If we analyze how technology affect our daily life, we would have a certain level of agreement that today's society system is much more efficient and convenience than ever before, and the reason for this is that technological advancement. In such society where video, computers, and the Internet became daily must items, persuing ideals of study is to use those methods.
However, using computers and the Internet for students' study often can distract them from real learning. As a matter of fact, some students use Internet to talk with their friends and playing computer games instead of real learning.
