Argument:1. The only way to incentivize internal pressure is by expressing support for civilian movements .
2. True reform needs to come from pressure within and outside of the state as it did in South Africa .
3. Part of what encourages peoples to stand up for their civil liberties is a feeling of support against their regime from outside actors .
4. Sanctions send a strong message to the people of a country that the Western world is on their side and will not just remain compliant by dealing with an oppressive regime as if it has done nothing wrong .
5. Therefore sanctions can be an important signal of support to a country 's people , which makes them more likely to stand up to their government and create the necessary internal pressure for reform .
6. The leader of the opposition movement , Aung San Suu Kyi , in Myanmar has called for a continuation of sanctions , and in an act of support the US has complied .
7. In the case of the repressive government in Myanmar , the lifting of sanctions would be viewed as a betrayal by the Myanmarese and would reverse any progress that sanctions have helped to achieve .
Claim: Sanctions make clear where a country stands.


Sentences: 1. This week alone , 33 people were slaughtered by government forces include 6 children .
2. The West has the moral obligation to intervene in Syria to protect the lives of the innocent people and end the reign of terror of Bashar al-Assad .
3. It denies the basic empathy and value we afford to each person on the basis of simple personhood and its occurrence is a black mark on all human beings who allow it to occur when they hold the power to end it .
4. In Syria today , the government forces are making their people live in fear of death and are routinely taking the lives of innocent people in order to control their population through fear .
5. Widespread indiscriminate killing of human beings is something that everyone in the world has an obligation to end .
6. Mass killing of people is something that affronts the very basic meaning of what it is to be human .
What claim can be made from these sentences?
We have a duty to launch a humanitarian intervention in Syria.


This House believes that Eritrea is responsible for its isolation
Claim: The government has supported terrorist organisations


Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. It is unjust for celebs to use their influence in this way .
2. Politicians want endorsements because they know it will bring votes ; it is estimated that Oprahs endorsement of Obama in the Democratic Primary of 2008 brought an additional 1 million votes to Obama .
3. Consequently , they represent an unelected , unaccountable pressure on the democratic system : they have been given power and influence , with no mechanism of checking that power , or way to prevent them from misleading the public -LRB- unlike , for example , political journalists , news channels and other sources of political information -RRB- .
4. Celebrities have an ability to influence the political sphere that bears no necessary relationship with their knowledge of the subjects concerned , or qualifications otherwise to do so .
5. Celebrity involvement in politics is a hindrance to that , effectively handing the famous more votes than is their due .
6. This is principally unjust : the optimum democratic system is the one that holds the closest to the principle of one person , one vote , and attempts to ensure that those votes are as informed as possible .
7. Evidence from the 2008 US Democratic Presidential Primary , , 2012 ,
8. Garthwaite , Craig , and Moore , Timothy J. , Can Celebrity Endorsements Affect Political Outcomes ?
Answer:
This is an unjust use of unelected power


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. US congressional inquest into Puerto Rico 's political situation has found that , despite the divergent views that Puerto Ricans have with respect to their preferred political status , all factions agree on the need to end the present undemocratic arrangement whereby Puerto Rico is subject to the laws of Congress but can not vote in it .
2. During this time Puerto Ricans have supported the US by serving in large numbers , both voluntarily and through conscription , in the US military in every major war since the Spanish-American War .
3. If Puerto Rico became a US state , Puerto Ricans would then share as everyone else in full benefits from the US government , while paying taxes like everyone else .
4. The status quo perpetuates a semi-colonial situation in Puerto Rico , where American citizenship , which they have held since 1917 , carries fewer rights than in the US proper .
5. Although it has its own Governor and legislature which handles some domestic matters , inhabitants of Puerto Rico receive no say in US federal matters or foreign policy , despite being heavily affected by them -LRB- more so than most current American states , as Puerto Rico sits in the Caribbean surrounded by other island nation-states -RRB- .
6. However the island 's current status still prompts United Nations to still debate whether Puerto Rico is a colony .
7. Currently , Puerto Ricans do not receive full political rights and equal representation , despite their American citizenship .
8. The former chief justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court , Jose Trias Monge , has written a book on the political status of Puerto Rico entitled Puerto Rico : The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World .
9. Therein he argued that just prior to the U.S. invasion , the Island enjoyed greater freedom and rights in certain areas than it does now , including an insular parliament that could legislate in matters of monetary policy , banking , import/export duties , and public credit ; the ability of Puerto Rico to negotiate its own commercial treaties ; Puerto Ricans were Spanish citizens , equal in all respects to mainland Spanish citizens ; the Spanish Constitution applied in Puerto Rico in the same manner as it applied in Spain proper ; the Autonomic Charter of 1897 , which governed Puerto Rico 's relation with Spain , could not be changed except with Puerto Rico 's consent .
10. The political rights currently enjoyed by Puerto Ricans , such as their right to elect their own Governor , are not even guaranteed to them in the status quo .

Claim: Puerto Ricans deserve full political rights and citizenship


Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. The countrys economy is growing ; its poverty rate has dropped from 59 % to 45 % in 2011 and economic growth is expected to reach up to 10 % by 2018 .
2. Women become the driving force of the socio-economic development after the 1994 genocide with many taking on leadership roles in their communities .
3. While some of the fastest growing economies are simply as a result of natural resource exploitation some are also countries that have given much more influence to women .
4. 56 % of Rwandas parliamentarians are women .
5. Where women in Africa are treated more as equals and are being given political power there are benefits for the economy .
6. Africa is already surging economically with 6 out of the worlds ten fastest growing economies in the past decade being a part of sub-Saharan Africa .
7. In Liberia , since Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took the presidency seat on January 2006 , notable reforms have been implemented in the country to boot the economy , and with visible results .
8. Liberias GDP has grown from 4.6 % in 2009 to 7.7 % by the end of 2013 .
9. When peace brings economic growth women will deserve an outsize share of the credit .
10. Baobab , Growth and other things , , May 1 2013 Izabiliza , Jeanne , The role of women in reconstruction : Experience of Rwanda , , Pinker , S. , 2011
Answer:

Women provide a platform for economic development