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pls help me in this...                                                                                                          strong argument and weak argument

my understanding-if the statement is even slightly deviated from the main issue it's not a strong argument

Statement-Television has made people passive by reducing the urge to spend time on more active and healthier activities.

1. No : Even b4 tv became a popular mode of entertainment,ppl spent a substantial amt of their time listening to the radio.

2.Yes: ppl today hardly ever go out on picnics and treks.

3.No: Tv has merely fulfilled a need for entertainment of a better kind.

4.Yes: The quality of the medium is such that it encourages ppl to sit and watch for long periods.

ques:- which of the following is a strong argument, oa is arg 2

 first of all, is my understanding of strong & weak arguments correct, secondly, how can it be arg 2, imo, it is vaguely related, for me arg 4 is only strong, where am i going wrong. it arg 4 weak because it lacks the word tv, it can be ne medium..                                                                                                                                                                      source-IMS brms

C OR IC

The choices are :glorious death and shameful life.

Find the part of the sentence which requires correction

a)Though heavily dependent on the government for business and information

b)and on universities for talent ,the space research 

(c)center as a corporation is 

(d)independent of both

(e) no error


The probability that an equipment will ________ flawlessly is decreased if a critical function is performed by a single component; therefore, engineers build certain amount of ________ in their designs to guarantee against failures.


The government’s ________ clinical study requirements for approval of new drugs do not ________ pharmaceutical firms when it comes to research and development, chiefly because of the profit potential afforded by patent protection.

Choose the best option for the underlined sentence

Bacon believes that the medical profession should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a few days and at the cost of great pain.  

a.    be delayed for a few days  

b.    be delayed for a few days and  

c.    otherwise delay only for a few days and  

d.    otherwise only delay for a few days and  

e.    be otherwise only delayed for a few days and

If a four-digit natural number is 7083 more than the number formed by reversing the order of its digits, then how many such natural numbers are possible?

The US Health department has publicized the food pyramid that stresses that the people should increase cereals, vegetables and fruit in their food intake and cut down their consumption of red meat. There is no doubt as people live longer there will be increasing attention to the composition of food that will help reduce the risk of debilitating diseases that have their origin in diet. This will ensure that vegetarian food will gain popularity all over the world.

THE PRIMARY ASSUMPTION MADE IN THE ARGUMENT IS?


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can anyone tell how sentence A is correct?

hey guys need your advice ...

in VA section i am struggling with accuracy. the problem is i come down to 2 options and i am sure one of them will be the ans and it is but most of the time between the two i end up choosing the wrong one this has affected my accuracy a lot. pls tell me how do i choose the correct option in between those two close options??

Choose the option/ options in which the usage of the word is incorrect.

Check

________knowledge is what we find hidden behind the _______curtains. According to philosophy, everything in life has a complex meaning._______ we might see the color yellow but ______ that particular color has some specific meanings or energies.  

Correction

PC - 

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PC- 

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Women's oppression finds its denouement in sexual disempowerment and "emasculation" of femininity i.e. many women's inability to refuse sex. Sexism, expressed by societal glorification of male sexual prowess, links the male prestige with reproductive capacities. When women unwillingly give in to sex and men demand it for reasons which supersede their desire for space and abundant local species, their sexual disempowerment feeds overpopulation. Further, until women control their reproductive lives, successful birth control is impossible as it foists responsibility on disempowered shoulders. _____________________. 


_____________________. 

A)

Therefore, women's sexual empowerment is not only a feminist rhetoric but also an ecological imperative. 

B)

Therefore, women's sexual empowerment assumes a new-found importance for reasons which are less obvious to male chauvinists.

C)

Therefore, women's sexual empowerment finds resonance in feminist literature for varied reasons.

D)

Surprisingly, women have always taken upon themselves the responsibility of ensuring contraceptive measures.

1.The mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important issues in the present Particle Physics.

2. They are required to give masses for all quarks and leptons and to guarantee the absence of the gauge anomaly.

3. In the standard electroweak model a fundamental Higgs doublet is introduced to cause the spontaneous symmetry breaking.

4. Supersymmetry (SUSY), eliminating all quadratic divergences, may provide a better theoretical basis to describe a fundamental Higgs boson with a relatively small mass to a high energy cutoff scale, say the Planck scale for example.

5. In the minimal SUSY extension of the standard electroweak model the Higgs sector consists of two chiral superfields of Higgs doublets (H1 and H2 with opposite hypercharges

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