What makes a good statement (or claim)? Jose Leon HUMN 210 Professor Miriam Abbott February 24th‚ 2013 1. You are given the following ten short claims to analyze. Identify which ones are good or bad statements. If they are bad statements‚ indicate why. a. Nobody in the world today is really good. b. The world is not flat. c. I will need an extended period of laborious cogitation to assimilate the missive. d. The number 2 is
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Is the Claim of White Skin Privilege a myth? As a whole‚ minorities from all religions‚ races‚ and sexualities have reached numerous high points in life. These high points have resulted in the establishment and entitlement to minorities having the same rights as whites. However‚ the right of blacks as in being equal is always up for debate. Statistics show and prove that for every dollar a white household brings in‚ a black household only brings in 61 cents. Some people like to say that the white
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Claims require evidence‚ or else they are disregarded‚ but to what extent? Evidence is a fact or a piece of information that portrays the validity of a belief or proposition. For example‚ in science‚ you cannot claim a theory if it is not backed up with supportive evidence. However in matters like the reason of existence or religious beliefs‚ to what extent should evidence be provided? In Hitchens quote‚ he claims that if one makes a statement without providing evidences to back it up‚ the claim
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Is tourism import or export? Tourism is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the economies of many countries‚ especially for the developed regions. What is the majority of their income of the tourism industry comes from? In fact‚ their income is came form importing and exporting tourism. However‚ is tourism solely export or import? Our group holds the view that tourism is both import and export. Exporting tourism means that tourists from other places travel to the host country and consume
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Guns by: Sean Chong Type of Speech: Informative Specific Purpose: To inform the class about the history and the present days about guns. Thesis Statement: Guns‚ a deadly weapon for everybody‚ so here’s a way to use a gun‚ to defend yourself with it and how it works. Introduction: I. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns‚ why should we let them have ideas.” This is a quote from Joseph Stalin. Though ideas are powerful so are guns and guns are not should
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There are many ways to tell if a civilization falls into the proper characterization to be considered an ancient state or not. It is possible for one to meet the minimum requirements‚ but not the other characteristics. Characteristic of a state include the following: government‚ cities‚ religion‚ writing‚ social classes‚ and job specialization. I decided to look closer at the Inca Empire to see if it exceeds the minimum requirements for a state. For instance‚ the start of the Inca Empire is founded
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72. | 97. | 23. | 48. | 73. | 98. | 24. | 49. | 74. | 99. | 25. | 50. | 75. | 100. | THEORIES (50 items) 1. The objectives of financial reporting for business enterprises are based on a. reporting on management’s stewardship b. Generally accepted accounting principles c. the needs of the users of the information d. Accountancy Law 2. Which of the following basic elements are directly related to the measurement of financial position? a. Assets‚ liabilities‚ income
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of the main reasons that an insurance company would return a claim would be because the patient did not have coverage at the time the services were rendered. This is a very common reason that claims are returned. This meaning that the patient was seen either before coverage began or after the coverage had ended. Now alot of insurance companies are putting the date coverage started on the insurance card to cut down on the number of claims being returned for this reason. The next main reason is a non
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Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Professions within a workplace are monitored and held to standards as dictated by the area of expertise that the employee is educated and trained in. A quality officer is accountable to ISO standards the company participates in‚ a research and development engineer maintains compliance within scope of the patent they may work on‚ and the accounting department is held to the standards set by the General Accepted Accounting
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PHILIPPINE CLAIM TO THE SPRATLY ISLANDS GROUP* Introduction The Philippines is a mid-ocean archipelago consisting of more than 7‚100 islands some of which remain unnamed. The islands portion of the archipelago lies along some 1‚150 miles between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. It is separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel‚ from Indonesia by the Celebes Sea‚. from North Borneo (Sabah) by narrow passages‚ channels and straits‚ from the Asian mainland by the South China Sea and from
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