The following opinion was provided in a letter to the editor of a national aeronautics magazine:
“Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men and women into space. Therefore, we should invest our resources in unmanned space flight."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Putting "man on the moon" has been a remarkable phase in human history. Manned space flight maybe costly or dangerous, but the fact that that first step on an extra-terrestrial surface involved years of study and research, cannot be ignored. Though this letter to the editor shows concern for human life, there are quite a few flaws in his/her assumptions about manned space travel that are elaborated below.
There is a basic difference between a manned space flight and other space probes and satellites. A manned space flight intends to study the difference between environment on Earth and in s...
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-02 | parul | 45 | view |
| 2013-10-01 | snehal hiwase | 35 | view |
| 2013-09-29 | apurva | 73 | view |
| 2013-06-11 | prifriendz | 83 | view |
| 2013-03-19 | ezb | 55 | view |
- The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station."Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaint 70
- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers. 91
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 85
- The following is an excerpt from a letter sent by the principal of Greenwood School to the parents of all incoming kindergarteners."We have decided to institute a policy of all-day kindergarten, instead of half-day kindergarten, for all students at Greenw 50
- "Only once one has known real sadness can one feel true happiness." 97
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 428 350
No. of Characters: 2053 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.548 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.797 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.516 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.42 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5