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molt_llest
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I'm quite lost in the essays, i need your opinion. I know I don't write very well but I don't know wether I write very bad.
Analysis of an Argument
Question Stimulus
The following appeared in the opinion column of a financial magazine.
“On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Since the number of middle-aged people will increase dramatically within the next decade, department stores can expect retail sales to increase significantly during that period. Furthermore, to take advantage of the trend, these stores should begin to
replace some of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intended to attract the middle-aged consumer.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
Question Answer
The argument is clear but can be flawed easily, since it doesn't support on any example or study.
First of all, the argument assumes that if middle-aged consumers nowadays devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products, the future middle aged consumers (The ones who now are youngers) will have the same consuming behaviour. This assumption is clearly flawed when we compare the consuming behaviour on retail expenditure between 1970's and 1980's.
The argument also states that stores should begin to replace some of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intended to attract the middle-aged consumer. Since the future middle-aged consumers will be the nowadays younder consumers, not attracting the younger consumers now would mean that the potential middle-aged consumers will be buying in other stores, and therefore will not buy on those stores that they won't know.
Finaly, for all explained above the argument is flawed in his main assumption and his conclusion.
Analysis of an Issue
Question Stimulus
“Previous failure in some enterprise is essential if one is to become a successful leader.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your experience, observations, or reading.
Question Answer
I disagree with the opinion because is not essential to had failed in some enterprise to become a successful leader.
Leaders need to manage many things, like mood, ambition, fidelity or motivation of their employees. And the skills needed to be successful are not only learned in enterprise but also in other experiences of live.
For instance, learning how to motivate a group can be learned training a basketball team. Being a traineer is possible to learn what happend to a group when fails, and from that experience be able to handle a failure in an enterprise. Also being a traineer is possible to learn what happend when there are problems within a group of people that work together, or what happend when a difficult goal is needed to be achieved.
All these experiences learning out of an enterprise are very valuable for a successful leader and is not necessary to learn those from a failure in some enterprise.
For the reason and the example stated above I disagree with the opinon that previous failure in some enterprise is essential if one is to become a successful leader.
Analysis of an Argument
Question Stimulus
The following appeared in the opinion column of a financial magazine.
“On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Since the number of middle-aged people will increase dramatically within the next decade, department stores can expect retail sales to increase significantly during that period. Furthermore, to take advantage of the trend, these stores should begin to
replace some of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intended to attract the middle-aged consumer.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
Question Answer
The argument is clear but can be flawed easily, since it doesn't support on any example or study.
First of all, the argument assumes that if middle-aged consumers nowadays devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products, the future middle aged consumers (The ones who now are youngers) will have the same consuming behaviour. This assumption is clearly flawed when we compare the consuming behaviour on retail expenditure between 1970's and 1980's.
The argument also states that stores should begin to replace some of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intended to attract the middle-aged consumer. Since the future middle-aged consumers will be the nowadays younder consumers, not attracting the younger consumers now would mean that the potential middle-aged consumers will be buying in other stores, and therefore will not buy on those stores that they won't know.
Finaly, for all explained above the argument is flawed in his main assumption and his conclusion.
Analysis of an Issue
Question Stimulus
“Previous failure in some enterprise is essential if one is to become a successful leader.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your experience, observations, or reading.
Question Answer
I disagree with the opinion because is not essential to had failed in some enterprise to become a successful leader.
Leaders need to manage many things, like mood, ambition, fidelity or motivation of their employees. And the skills needed to be successful are not only learned in enterprise but also in other experiences of live.
For instance, learning how to motivate a group can be learned training a basketball team. Being a traineer is possible to learn what happend to a group when fails, and from that experience be able to handle a failure in an enterprise. Also being a traineer is possible to learn what happend when there are problems within a group of people that work together, or what happend when a difficult goal is needed to be achieved.
All these experiences learning out of an enterprise are very valuable for a successful leader and is not necessary to learn those from a failure in some enterprise.
For the reason and the example stated above I disagree with the opinon that previous failure in some enterprise is essential if one is to become a successful leader.
