Argument:1. Indeed , where UN peacekeepers have been sent into war-torn countries , they have sometimes been guilty of the most horrendous human rights abuses themselves .
2. As of 2011 , the UNs Human Rights Council itself is comprised of members such as Saudi Arabia , Cuba and China .
3. Despite the development of the concept of human rights in the post-war world , the UN has totally failed to protect the rights of citizens , ethnic minorities , women and children .
4. It has stood by during episodes of genocide in Cambodia , Rwanda , Congo and Yugoslavia among many others , tolerates some of the worlds worst dictatorships as members , and does nothing to improve the situation of women in developing nations .
Claim: UN ignores or enables human rights abuses.


Sentences: 1. Demographically Tibetans are rapidly becoming a minority within their own country , and administratively this has already taken place .
2. Due to systematic campaign of Sinocization , millions of Han Chinese have been encouraged to settle in Tibet , and with the support of the government they now dominate the economy and upper echelons of the administration .
3. Not only are they attempting to drown them through settlement , but Tibetan students are forced to learn Mandarin in the schools and are being taught that they are Chinese .
4. While short of open genocide , the intent of the Chinese government is quite clearly the elimination of the Tibetan people as a distinct national , cultural and linguistic group .
5. While there may well have been past periods of Chinese sovereignty , the policies of the current Beijing government seem designed to produce an outcome far more permanent than those past efforts which respected Tibetan identity and culture .
What claim can be made from these sentences?
Tibetans are rapidly becoming a minority in their own country


This House would ban the use of animals as objects of sport and entertainment
Claim: Blood sports cannot be justified by reference to their role in pest control or conservation


Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. Blocking the development of necessary tactical nuclear technologies actually raises the chances of these dangerous states obtaining nuclear weapons .
2. Another instance of tactical nuclear devices proving useful is in the destruction of clandestine biological and chemical weapons factories .
3. Were such facilities destroyed by conventional bombing , some of the materials being manufactured could easily leak into neighbouring population areas , leading to increased casualties .
4. Clearly , in light of these defense innovations , tactical nuclear weapons are an essential addition to a nuclear power 's arsenal .
5. There are a number of technological developments that have made the use of conventional weapons ineffective in combating certain threats .
6. For example , some bunkers are buried so deeply underground that conventional bombs can not penetrate them .
7. Weapons such as the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator -LRB- RNEP -RRB- , currently in development in the United States , would be able to penetrate such bunkers , while leaving no more surface damage than a conventional bomb .
8. Deployment of a weapon such as the RNEP might prove necessary in order to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons in rogue states , as for example , Iran has built extremely tough bunkers for the purpose of nuclear testing and storage of weapons of mass destruction .
Answer:
Countries need to design nuclear devices to adapt with changing defensive technology.


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. Terrorism is part of the modern world and is inextricably linked with the rise of modern communications , the internet , and a global community .
2. This is an age in which space and time are bending to the tune of new media information at your fingertips may sound nice , but for those who want to destroy , it only makes their object easier to attain .
3. And so more strict national security measures must be employed in order to keep up with the enemy .
4. Escalation is the name of the game imposed on governments around the world by terrorists for example the Mumbai terrorists used GPS systems to guide them into Mumbai , attacks were coordinated on cell and satellite phones and Blackberrys were used to monitor the international reaction .
5. In order to keep up states need new powers to stop , deter , and prevent terrorism .
6. The government needs to secure state-security first ; only then can the debate on civil liberties begin , and only then .

Claim: National security is something that must be protected even at the cost of civil liberties.


Argument:1. Kavanagh , Dennis , , 3 ed. , Oxford University Press , 1993 , p. 17
2. As a result the whole package of austerity measures is usually regressive , with its impact falling harder on the poor than the rich , as has been the case in Greece .
3. To make matters worse an increase in VAT has been a favored method of increasing government income while there has been a squeeze on unemployment benefits as the government does not want to pay more as unemployment rises ; in Greece in the year to December 2010 the number of unemployed workers was up 45.1 % whereas the number of unemployment benefit recipients went up only 9.6 % .
4. Just at a time when more people need these payments they are being cut back .
5. With austerity the government is doing exactly the opposite of what it should be doing to help its citizens .
6. It does this by , for example , provision of social housing either at greatly reduced rates or free of charge , through state hospitals , through unemployment benefit for those made unemployed and disability benefits for those who cant work .
7. The state is responsible for the social and economic wellbeing of it citizens .
8. The idea behind the welfare state is to provide for this through creating a safety net for every citizen .
9. We all need a place to live , a level of healthcare and some income in order to survive .
10. We all have a duty to provide aid to those who need it and the government is the best placed to act on this duty .
Claim:
Governments have a moral duty to help their citizens