【正文】 tment devotes littleof its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have beenplaints from residents about the quality of the river39。s coverage ofweather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during ourlatenight news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore,in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any furtheradvertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on allour news programs.Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of theargument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions andwhat the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number ofcallin advice programs that it broadcast。s conclusion aboutTertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observationcentered approach tostudying cultures is invalid as well. The interviewcentered method that my team ofgraduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurateunderstanding of childrearing traditions there and in other island cultures.Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluatethe argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen theargument.According to a recent report, cheating among college and university students is on therise. However, Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating byadopting an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in theiracademic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others havecheated. Groveton39。s in order to decreasecheating among students.Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered inorder to decide whether the remendation and the argument on which it is basedare reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help toevaluate the remendation.The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia andconcluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entirevillage rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviewswith children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that thesechildren spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about otheradults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field39。 under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases ofcheating per year. In the first year the honor code was in place, students reportedtwentyone cases of cheating。srecent success with callin advice programming, and citing a nationwide surveyindicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the stationmanager of KICK in Medway remends that KICK include more callin adviceprograms in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered inorder to decide whether the remendation and the argument on which it is basedare reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help toevaluate the remendation.The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.Over the past year, our latenight news program has devoted increased time tonational news and less time to weather and local news. During this time period, mostof the plaints received from viewers were concerned with our station39。s smell.In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use ofthe river for water sports is, therefore, sure to increase. The city government shouldfor that reason devote more money in this year39。 as a result, Omega graduates have notbeen as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. Toenable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate studentevaluation of professors.Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluatethe argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen theargument.In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speedlimit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed:the number of accide