Analyzing an Issue

Technology, while apparently aimed to simplify our lives, only makes

our lives more complicated.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you
agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for
the position you take. In developing and supporting your position,
you should consider ways in which the statement might or might
not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your
position.
The introduction of technology has mainly changed the way man
lives his life from the old mechanical way to an advanced and better
state and this judgment can only be made from one's experience.
There has been a paradigm shift from the taditional means of
communication, with letter physically move from one place to the
other, besides the time it took to deliver, to the current
technological advancements with emails and skypes that facilitate
instant communication in all spheres of life. This is being
appreciated more by the military, when on battlefield and on their
normal course of action, as well as socially the families that are able
to connect with their loved not necesarily physically going to the
places whee they are.
Further more, the ease of life as a result of technological
advancement can be seen the the printing and publishing side.
Unlike the old time where there were no quick means of having
large mamterial of data/information on sized papers and kindle
reading, today all these are optionally available to users and can
customized depending on one's taste and preference.
Further still, it is due to technology that transoprtation, both persons
and cargo, has incredibly improved. Today, one can fly accross the
Antlantic in a couple of hours unlike the old times that imagined this
impossible and the gradual shifts the seen boats the Titanic that
would take days, if not months, to get through. This has effectively
improved people's live more especially easing the way to do
business between continents.
On the other hand, the availability of the technology can be
perceived to have caused man to over relax at the disposal of this
facility, say the easily available information online, thus not using
his creative mind to find solutions. For example students have
always reached into google for simple solutions that would,
otherwise, have been solved by the application of mind. But still, it
takes a creative mind to navigate through the internet to generate

the right results given the enormous amount of information offered

by a number of search engines.
In a nutshell, it is more than clear that the introduction of
technology has improved man's life with the new and easily
reachable ways of communication, transportation, sharing
information through books and doing business, regardless of what a
few people might hold as a side effect.
Analyzing an Argument
SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The
recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves
that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the
home of SuperCorp's current headquarters. Moreover, Middleburg is
a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey,
SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area
that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than
Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a
cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the
assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument sound flawed in its primary stages the story by
assuming that the recent surge of homeowners in Corporateville
proves that the Corporateville to be a superior place to live than
Middleburg. There is no clear correlation between the SuperCorp's
move of its headquarters and the surge of homeowners. The
assumption could have sounded better if the author was able to
demonstrated whether the homeonwers are renting their homes to
the staff of the newly moved-in company.
Secondly, the source of the assertion that Middleburg is a
predominantly urban area is not clearly justified, it may inferred that
it was from the survey, which also does not even communicate the
number of people interviewed versus the general population,
besides the absence of the method used for the survey. This survey
clearly states that SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer
to live in an area that is not urban. Again we have no clue from the
argument on the scope and figures on the suvery. What if not even a
quarter of the staff was covered by the survey to come up with this
judgemnet? It will be completely misleading and flawed.
The final point of Corporateville's lower taxes that Middleburg thus
both a safer and cheaper place would only work if there were no
other towns ever that could serve as an alternative. There certainly

are other places which are not addressed in the argument yet could
be even much better than Corporate ville. The fact that they have
compared only two place and silent on all other makes this
conclusion doubtable.
And interestingly, with all the flaws from the given reasons above,
the author concludes that Supercorp's decion to move was best.
This certainly isn't, unless all the above factors have been
thoroughly addressed otherwise Supercorp could have decided to
either keep in Corporateville or move the facility to a different place.
The aurgument would be in a better sense of convincing if the
doubts presented on almost every basis of the claim has been
addressed otherwise there are lots of loopholes to trust the
relevancy of the decision.