Manhattan 1

Issue

The issue stated people who make decisions based on emotion and justify those
decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers, seems to be justified.
There are two ways of making a decision: either emotionally or logically.
Intelligent thinkers have always preferred logical decision making instead of
emotional thinking.

There is often a saying "Don't bring emotions in between your work". This
proverb is mostly used in Business profession when people tend to mix their
professional life with their personal life. It is very important to differentiate
between personal life and professional life so that one does not bring emotional
aspects in professional life. Various sessions or seminars are conducted in many
organisations to help them differentiate between the two as if the two are mixed,
it might result in loss of company. There can be various side effects if an
individual brings emotional aspects in between his/her work. It can hamper the
progress of work, reduce the efficiency of the final output, and sometimes often
leading to wrong decisions.

Our history is full of many discoveries, and the inventors leading new discoveries
have always preferred logical decisions over emotional ones. Just imagine what
would our present be if Albert Eistein would have married, had kids and gives
more time to his family rather than on creating new discoveries. It would have
greatly affected his job as well as our present. Those who are making emotional
decisions first followed by its justification not only affects their work but it can
also affect the people who are closest to the individual, and sometimes often the
society as well.

Another example is of Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. Elon had invested all his
money for the first 3 missions of SpaceX trying to get the rocket in Earth's orbit,
but all of them failed and he had very little money for the fouth launch. If he
would have thought emotionally then and quit SpaceX, it wouldn't have been
such a huge success for SpaceX.Finally, a person should always think logically.
Argument

The argument stated by the writer to combat the Vitamin A deficiency among
people in the impoverished nation of Tasus by urging government to promote
new breed of millet, although at first seems to be convincing and justified
enough, lacks certain evidences of how this new breed of millet might prove to
be useful for people of Tasus.

Firstly, the writer has never mentioned that the new breed of millet high in
vitamin A is similar to other millet. Although, it is mentioned that millet is a
staple food in Tagus but it might be possible that millet discovered by scientists
might not have traits similar to that of a regular millet such as flavor or taste,
color, etc and hence might not be accepted by all the people. The writer needs to
present evidences regarding the similarities in new ilk of millet and a normal
millet to justify the argument.

Secondly, the author has mentioned that seeds for this new ilk of millet cost
more. This statement, in some way or the other suggests that the items or food
made by new millet might be costly due to higher price of millet. Although, seeds
are provided to farmers at a subsidized rates, nowhere has it been mentioned
that people of Tagus have to pay less for purchasing the new breed. Hence, it
might not be consumed by many people due to its high price. The author clearly
needs to provide evidence regarding the cost of millet for people of Tagus.

Lastly, the author has simply mentioned that new breed of millet is discovered by
scientist high in Vitamin A, but the writer forgot to mention its effects. This new
breed must be tested first whether it can be consumed by a person in his food
intake or not. There might be some lethal effects of the new ilk of millet although
it is rich in Vitamin A. The author needs to provide evidence that the new breed
of millet is tested by the engineers and is safe for use.

The points stated above are very important to be justified before the government
promotes the new breed of millet to avoid Vitamin A deficiency from people of
Tagus. The argument fails to provide evidences to promote the use of new breed
by the governme
Manhattan 2

Issue

The issue stated by the author asking more emphasis to be put on the picking
worthy goals for young people who are often advised to follow their dreams due
to the fact that many people's dreams are inherently selfish seems to be correct
but if done so, might result in hampering the dreams of young people and there
can be many more effects of this.

Young people should have the liberty to think freely to explore their interest and
what they want to achieve in their life. Only by dreaming without any influence
would a person be able to know what truly he wants with the life. By
emphasizing them to pick worthy goals, others are not helping them, instead
they are hindering the dreams of young people. Instead of emphasizing them to
pick worthy goals, elders should teach young people not to be greedy or selfish
and what can be the effects of being selfish for the persons who are closely
attached to him/her or for the whole mankind.

Young children have young minds and they dream artistically. If we keep telling
them which dreams to think or which goals to select, they might lose their
interest in the new goals which are told by their elders and might not able to
focus on it. Hence, we should always support the child to dream but also teach
him juxtaposically about the side effects of being selfish. For example, Elon
Musk, if told by others to quit Tesla or SpaceX after their constant failures would
have lost faith in himself and we would be unaware of what his true potential is.

A selfish person will always remain selfish as its his nature. Dreams won't have
such a huge impact on his/her life in becoming selfish as his/her nature
contributes in being greedy. It is the job of elder people to teach young people
not to be selfish. Finally, the conclusion is that dreams of young people should
not be hindered in any way, rather we should teach them not to be greedy in
their life as their nature will automatically influence their dreams.
Argument

The argument stated forcing Seatown to institute a free-tuition policy for its
professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring
new professors based on the study conducted at nearby Oceania University, at
first seems to be true but lacks certain key evidences which weakens the
argument.

Firstly, the argument simply mentions that faculty retention is higher when
professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged
children. But nowhere does the argument tell significance on the morale of
professors. It simply tells that faculty retention is high when free tuitions are
offered, it does not tell the relationship between the increased retention and the
morale of professors. Hence, the argument must provide evidence which proves
the increased retention enhances the morale among the faculty.

Secondly, the study is conducted only at nearby Oceania University which is one
of the many Universities in Seatown. The results of one University cannot be
generalized for the entire Seatown city. Other Universities might or might not
show similar results. To bolster the argument, it must be proved that result
carried out at Oceania University is valid throughout the universities of Seatown.

Thirdly, the results does not show anything in order to lure new professors by the
free tuition offered at Oceania University. It might be possible that new
professors are lured because of the great reputation of the University or free
tuition or for any other reason.

The study conducted by faculty committee must consider all the above
evidences before President announces free tuition at Seatown. Finally, the
argument lacks certain evidences which if mentioned properly might bolster the
argument
Manhattan 3

Issue

. Teaching a foundation of logical reasoning is very important for students to

excel in their lives, achieve what they want, lead new discoveries, create new
ideas, etc ; but, it is equally important to teach moral values in order to be
balanced in the society. In order to produce a moral society where everyone is
kind to others, talk decently and maintain a decorum, a foundation of morality is
the key factor to build such a society.

Children should be taught how to behave right from the beginning. A set of moral
values should be embedded into their mind such that they can differentiate what
is good and what is bad both for themselves and for the society. However,
teaching only moral values will do no good; it is very important to teach to be
logical so that they can achieve their dreams and become a succesful person
who can do some good for the society. It is very important to maintain a proper
balance between logical teaching and morality.

Moral teaching is the foundation for a Moral society. It is very important to be

moral to persons who are lower in status than you to encourage them to work
harder. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, if taught only to be logical would
not have accomplished such huge achievements if he would not be moral
because it is very important that the whole team should work rather than himself
for which he needs to behave morally. Lets take another example of a multi-
national company. If the employers are not behaving properly and giving to
respect to the workers in the company, it would lead to poor relations between
employees and the worker would have a harmful effect on the company's
growth.

Some other examples includes Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi, who, if not
moral would be just like anyone else. But, it is the moral values inside them that
helped the nation.

It is very important to teach to be logical, however, it is equally iportant to

behave morally in order to produce a amoral society for a better fu

Argument

The argument stated by the author that the company should not devote further
resources to the investigation of pet food since all the chemicals used in the
product were approved for use in pet food, at first seems to be logical, lacks
certain evidences, which in order to bolster the argument might prove to be
fruitful.

Firstly, the company stated that all the chemicals in the pet food are approved
and none of them are harmful for pets. This statement alone does not completely
justifies why the company should stop investing further on pet food, because it
didn't mention what are the effects of chemical, rather focused simply on
chemicals that are not harmful. It might be possible that a mixture of certain
innocuous chemicals might be the cause for vomiting, lethargy and other similar
activities occuring with pets. For example, a mobile company Samsung recently
launched Galaxy S7, which contains all the certified components in it approved
to be used by the customer, but due to some reasons, the battery caught fire.
Samsung then recalled Galaxy S7 and focused heavily on the reason behind this
fire. If they would have said that all the components are approved for the user
and they are not responsible, then people would have lost faith in Samsung
products and the company would see a major decline in the growth of its
upcoming products.

Secondly, the company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to the
complaints registered for deleterious effect of the food on pets. This amount is
huge and hence it is absurd to say that the company is not responsible for the
vomiting, lethargy in pets consuming the food. If it would be fault on user's end,
the recalled amount of food would be less. There must be some defect in the
product itself, that is why the company recalled such a huge amount.

Finally, it is impossible to test each and every sample. It might be impossible that
the company checked only the samples not containing any harmful chemicals
and there are a lot more samples which the company did not check which might
contain chemicals harmful for the pets. The company should invest further in
order to see a larger sample size and focus on effects of the chemicals.

The pet food company recalled 4 million pounds. This means that there must be
some flaw in company's end and hence must devote for the investigation in
order to maintain its reputation among the customers.

Manhattan 4

Issue

As the technology is getting better and better day by day, it is trying to save a
lot of time. Nowadays, mass media and internet tell any news in a concise and
brief format focusing only on the relevant information; thus helping us to reduce
our attention spans to get shorter. This is very effective as it saves a lot of our
time, but a news too brief can deviate from the actual news. Moreover, it is very
important to distinguish between good channels, sites and others as many news
channels often try to make up fake stories.

Internet has proved out to be very effective in delivering brief news in a better
format with pictures and videos so that a normal user can easily digest the
relevant information out of it. There are manny sites such as The NewYork Times,
The Hindu, Atlantic Daily, etc which provides very brief news in the front page
and if one likes to get deeper knowledge, he/she can click that particular news
and go in depth of it. In this way, a person is able to focus only on the news
which they want and still get a gist of other news. This saves a lot of time.
Mass Media and Internet are a step towards the future of the News Industry as
they edit the irrelevant news and gives a better understanding of the news to the
customer. However many news channels try to make up counterfeit stories in
order to attract customers, such that they are able to increase their TRP Rating.
For example, there are many fake stories of crime and rape cases being shown in
India to attract the customers. This leads to misrepresentation and many times
can often create trouble for the government. It is very important to distinguish
between a good and trusted source of news with the others.

Mobile Apps have proved to be very effective in providing news to the users.
They keep providing news within each hour and thus provides news in less time.
NewsInShorts is one of the best app which tries to provide news within 60 words
and helps a person in getting a gist of all news and if someone wants to go in
deep of that news, one can click on it and get a detailed version of the news.

Mass Media and Internet are very helpful in delivering good, brief news in less
words focusing only on the relevant information, but it is important to have a
knowledge of good and trusted source of news.

Argument

The argument stated by the author about Pirouttes Ballet School being the best
choice for any child in Elmtown due to its intensive dance programs and having
many professional dancers as its alumni may seem convincing at first, but lacks
many evidences in order for the argument to be firm and solid.

Firstly, the author has mentioned that Pirouttes Ballet School is the best school
for any child. This statement, although seems to be convincing at first glance
lacks a major point. The school is a Ballet School and will focus mainly on dance
programs, hence it is good for a child aspiring to become a dancer. But, what
about any other children? There must be many children in Elmtown who wants to
become Enginner, Doctor and thus wants to focus more on Maths, Sience and
other subjects. If Pirouttes Ballet School is the best choice for any child, the
author must clearly certify that it excels in all fields and not just dance.

Secondly, the author has mentioned that many of the alumnis of the school have
become professional dancers with top dancing companies. This is because those
students were dedicated and passionate enough to become dancers. This does
not mean that the Pirouttes School is the only school to produce dancers. There
might be many other schools who have produced good dancers. Moreover, just
because Pirouttes School has many students who have become Professional
dancers does not mean that all the current children will also become Professional
Dancers.

Thirdly, the author has mentioned that teachers of Pirouttes School have danced
in most prestigious ballet companies all over the world. Also, the Pirottes
provides the most intensive dance programs in Elmtown. These statements
however very convincing at first does not justify why Pirouttes is the best option
for any child. The author has to certify whether the teaching of dance is provided
in a better way. It is not important to provide intensive programs but to focus on
good way of teaching of those programs.

The Pirouttes School is a good option for a child aspired to become a dancer, but
for it to be the best choice for any child living in Elmtown, the author needs to
focus on these points.