Argument:1. from external criticism .
2. ASEAN has taken Burma in as a member and taking an approach of ` constructive engagement ' however this prevents any member from speaking out on Burmese human rights abuses , even should they wish too .
3. Allowing Burma to join ASEAN seemed to signal approval of that regime 's record on human rights .
4. The forum often offers a shield for Myanmar 's regime -LRB- `` Burma , also known as Myanmar , is ruled by a military junta which suppresses almost all dissent and wields absolute power in the face of international condemnation and sanctions . '' -RRB-
5. Other regimes conduct questionable -LRB- at best -RRB- policies , such as Thailand 's treatment of the Karen or Indonesia 's approach in the past inAceh or East Timor , but go uncriticised .
6. Moller , ` Burma ' , p. 1102 .
7. Constructive engagement ' means that ASEAN hoped that peaceful change would be made by the Junta if ASEAN offered incentives , burma would slowly be changed by membership .
8. This creates the difficulty that once they are members such states expect to be protected by ASEAN 's norms , damaging ASEAN in the eyes of the rest of the world .
Claim: ASEAN governments conduct questionable policies but go uncriticised.


Sentences: 1. The Dutch government funded research between 1996 and 2003 .
2. The National Centre for Conventional and Alternative Medicines has spent over $ 2.5 bn on research since 1992 .
3. Not only have thousands of research exercises failed to prove the medical benefit alternative treatments for severe and terminal diseases , serious peer-reviewed studies have routinely disproved them .
4. Alternative therapies have been tested in mainstream medical journals and elsewhere .
5. Indeed , this tactic often forms the mainstay of pleas for legitimacy made by members of the alternative medical community .
6. Its all well and good to pick at mistakes in individual studies .
7. By contrast , conventional medicine only prescribes medicines and treatments that are proven , and vigorously proven , to work .
8. However , the odds against such consistently negative results would be extraordinary .
What claim can be made from these sentences?
Although there are many accounts of the efficacy of alternative cancer treatments, not one has been demonstrated to work in a clinical trial


This House believes major league baseball should continue to allow collisions at home plate.
Claim: Collisions are exciting and fun to watch.


Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. Many of these laws would be much more difficult to enforce than a blanket ban .
2. Child performers are currently protected by laws about all sorts of things from the minimum amount of education they may get to their pay and how many hours they can work .
3. The government could then bring charges against those who are employing the child and fine them .
4. It would be simple to enforce as child performers would in most cases be easy to spot as they are performing for the public .
Answer:
Just as the state creates laws to protect child performers it could ban child performers


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. Sanctions remaining in place is electioneering government at its worst , domestic interest groups controlling government foreign policy .
2. As Karl Rove has admitted `` When people mention Cuba to me , it makes me think of three things : Florida , Florida , and Florida . ''
3. National opinion generally expresses no preference or opposes the ban , in a 2009 CBS poll asking `` Do you think the United States should or should not re-establish diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba ? ''
4. 67 % said should .
5. Sanctions are not the will of the American people but of a small minority of embittered Cuban Americans in Florida who are being pandered to due to their importance in elections in a swing state .
6. Congressman Charles Rangel argues that the only success of the sanctions policy has been to appease the Republican constituency in Florida .

Claim: Foreign policy should follow the will of the people


Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. The very fact that the powerful and the privileged dislike what he is doing so much could even be taken to suggest that he has to be doing something right as one of the roles of the fourth estate is to act as a check on government .
2. In many ways , Assange has taken journalism back to basics acquiring information to which most people do not have access and making it public .
3. For the most part , however , journalists increasingly comment on the news rather than directly collecting it .
4. There are still extraordinary journalists finding news and genuinely affecting the society around them .
5. Sales of newspapers are in freefall and the stranglehold of a handful of broadcasters on political access has been lost forever .
6. Now readers and viewers have direct access to much of that information and can access it at their own convenience and through their own choice of media .
7. The traditional role of the journalist , disseminating information to which they had special or privileged access , has changed beyond recognition .
8. Few industries have been changed more radically by the advent of the Internet than journalism .
9. Hume , Ellen , Freedom of the Press , , December 2005 ,
10. At a time when much of the traditional media seems to have lost its sense of what its role is , Wikileaks is providing a timely reminder .
Answer:

The concept of what is a journalist needs to be clarified to deal with the reality of new forms of mass communication. Assange gathers, collates and disseminates information, ergo, he is a journalist.