1. President Clinton is without a doubt one of the most outstanding presidents that the people of the United States have chosen. No less a man than Al Gore, Vice President during Clinton's term and thus well-placed to observe the operation of the administration closely, said that Clinton will be remembered as "the greatest president in history."
Select one:
a. Case Study
b. Testimonial and Authority Personal
c. Testimonial
2. There is a growing feeling on campus that professors are not responsive to the needs of their students. One student interviewed said, "Last week, when I was sick with pneumonia, my professor wouldn't give me a retest date for the midterm exam or reschedule the due dates for the homework that was due."
Gene Halloway, provost for the university, said "professors are responsive to student needs, as they always have been." He cited a recent evaluation performed by the university Committee on Student Affairs, which rated student satisfaction with professors at 79 percent.
One student, however, disagreed. "I think that report was biased. I've seen quite a few 'reports' like that one, and they always seem to come out in favor of the staff or the professors, not the students."
Select one:
a. Statistics
b. Testimonial and Authority Personal
C. Experience
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Select one:
a. Personal Experience
b. Testimonial
c. Authority
4. I don't believe that the Internet can ever be a reliable source for students to use in their work, at least as long as it remains unregulated as it is now. With so many different web sites out there and no way to verify the validity of the information on them, the Internet is just too hit and miss to be of any use. It's just like a bad baseball player; if you only hit one ball out of ten, it doesn't matter if the one you hit is a homerun - the major leagues don't want you.
Select one:
a. Personal Experience and Testimonial
b. Testimonial and Authority
c. Personal Experience and Analogy
5. A 1980 study conducted by Letty Pogrebin, Growing Up Free, yielded interesting information about the nature of socialized sex roles in American society.
Pogrebin's study asked 70 Wisconsin children aged three to five what they wanted to be when they grew up. The boys' list included fourteen occupations: fireman, policeman, father/husband, older person, digger, dentist, astronaut, cowboy, truck-driver, engineer, baseball player, doctor, Superman, and the Six-Million Dollar Man. Girls responded with eleven jobs: mother/sister, nurse, ballerina, older person, dentist, teacher, babysitter, baton-twirler, ice skater, princess, and cowgirl.
When asked what they thought they would really be when they grew up, the girls usually modified their choices to historically traditional roles (e.g. mother.) The boys, however, tended to change to more exciting and adventurous roles (e.g. from husband to fireman).
The study suggests that children, even at very young ages, have been socialized into expected roles. The children have clearly been victims of the societal propagation of sexually unequal role conditioning. Unless something is done to alter the mindset of both current adults and those of the next generation, we can expect such attitudes to be regenerated once more with the next crop of parents and children.
Select one:
a. Statistics
b. Research Study
c. Case Study
6. I was recently hired to find the best cherry pie recipe in the state of Virginia. I found it in the kitchen of Evelyn Smith. My search began by requesting all interested cherry pie tasters to answer my newspaper ad. All respondents in the state met in a central location and tasted cherry pies. Each of 68 persons tasted the five cherry pies that were judged superior at the recent Virginia State Fair. To assure fairness, each "taste" was made on a different day so that the taste buds would not be confused. The winner? Ms. Smith's pie! She received over 40% of the votes. Her closest competitor received 22%. Apparently, Ms. Smith has something special when it comes to cherry pies.
Select one:
a. Research Study
b. Intuition
c. Statistics
7. The financial problems of our public schools are highly overrated. In 1992-93, an average $6,100 was spent on every public school student in the United States. Furthermore, full-time public school teachers make an average $34,027 per year according to the American Federation of Teachers. This salary is not at all bad, compared to the 1990 median income of $34,400 of families in the U. S. It isn't insufficient funding or ill-paid teachers that are killing the educational system; it is, instead, the lack of well-trained teachers thanks to grossly lax colleges of education.
Select one:
a. Research Study
b. Experience
c. Statistics
8. The trial of Bobby Cherry ("Cherry Bomb") concluded this week. He was found guilty of the murder of four young girls when he bombed a church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Images reminiscent of September 11 were on display in the courtroom - firemen and rescue workers with vacant stares, rubble of a famous building in a landmark American city, and distraught family members searching for clues of loved ones. The original hypothesis in the church bombing was that an airplane had crashed on the site. As in Birmingham, the September 11 terrorists considered themselves "religious warriors" fighting off a godless modern society and the will of the US government. Even though terrorist was not a word used in 1963, Bobby Cherry and his fellow bombers were indeed terrorists.
Select one:
a. Analogy
b. Intuition
c. Case Study
9. The moral values of American youth may be different from their parents, but this does not necessarily mean their moral values are lower. Dr. John Q. Smith conducted extensive interviews with two teenagers. "Lois" rejected the career path of going into the family retail business in her desire to pursue a career in social work. "John" revealed a humorous detachment to his father's standards of ambition and success. He showed some concern about his lack of career direction, but stated his current goal as simply "knowing how to live."
Select one:
a. Testimonial
b. Intuition
c. Case Study
10. On his radio talk show broadcast on April 8, 2003, Bill O'Reilly affirmed his certainty that the US bombing raid in downtown Bagdad earlier that morning had killed Saddam Hussein. O'Reilly stated, "We got him, my gut tells me we got him."
Select one:
a. Testimonial
b. Authority
c. Intuition