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Two modes of argumentation
Source: The OG Verbal Review 2nd Ed Two modes of argumentation have been used on behalf of women's emancipation in Western societies. Arguments in what could be called the "relational" feminist tradition maintain the doctrine of "equality in difference" or equity as distinct from equality. T...
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Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:22 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Two modes of argumentation
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Findings from several studies
Source: The OG Verbal Review 2nd Ed Findings from several studies on corporate mergers and acquisitions during the 1970’s and 1980’s raise questions about why firms initiate and consummate such transactions. One study showed, for example, that acquiring firms were on average unable to maintain a...
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Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:17 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Findings from several studies
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:49 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:42 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR
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Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:14 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Explosion of Public Interest
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:33 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Short RC
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Short RC
Source: KAPLAN A theorist of modernization in underdeveloped countries has defined this process as one of passing from “traditional authority,� derived from long-standing custom and the authority of kinship leaders, to “legal-rational authority,� based on procedures specifically established ...
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Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:52 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Short RC
- Replies: 3
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Conclusion is
It is consistent to support freedom of speech, and
It is also consistent to support legislation limiting the amount of violence in TV programs
But what is the meaning of option B?
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Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:54 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Although some people claim
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2567
Never in case of INCLUDINGvikram4689 wrote:"including" modifies the whole clause and implies the intended meaning which is "TC are ready to hand back 9% of 38% of Cyprus AND Varosha"
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Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:54 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC
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Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:27 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC
- Replies: 3
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RC99 Passage 19
In 1979, a team of scientists from Berkeley working near Gubbio, Italy, discovered a layer of clay that revolutionized theories concerning the disappearance of the dinosaur, which had centred on the assumed gradual climatic change. Beneath the two-centimetre-thick layer lay limestone containing foss...
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Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:49 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC99 Passage 19
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Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: eGMAT
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While atomism, a natural philosophy
While atomism, a natural philosophy common to numerous ancient traditions including Jainism and Greek metaphysics, revolves around an idea of the atom fundamentally similar to our unit of modern physics, the (5) philosophical apprehension of the term is altogether more abstract. While the philosophi...
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Sun Jun 12, 2011 6:30 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: While atomism, a natural philosophy
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There is no mystery
There is no mystery as to why figurative painting revived in the late 1970s. People want to look at recognizable images. Sorting out art theories reflected in abstract paintings is no substitute for the sense of empathy that comes form looking at a realistic painting of a figure in a landscape. Perh...
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:37 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: There is no mystery
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From a book review
From a book review: The authors blithely claim that there are “three basic ways to store energy: as heat, as electricity or as kinetic energy.� However, I cannot call to mind any affective ways to store energy as electricity, whereas any capable student of physics could readily suggest a few mor...
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:10 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: From a book review
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