Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is."-Ron Fairly, San Francisco Giants broadcaster (quoted in Ross and Petras, The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said)

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We don't cover it in the text, but although stating the obvious doesn't necessarily impede clarity, it can make you look silly.

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The difference between patents, trademarks, and copyrights is that patents are" ¦

a. legal protections for artistic or literary work b. signs that identify a distinctive source for the goods or services enabling its creator to file a lawsuit if someone is using that word, phrase, symbol, or design for purposes unauthorized by the creator c. special kinds of things : owned things, both tangible and intangible-land, clothes, ideas, and relationships: relationships among people with respect to things d. exclusive rights granted by governments to an inventor that creates duties on others not to use or make a profit from a patented invention, without the inventor's permission

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Which god-ordinarily shown with the face of a monkey-helped return Sita after her abduction to Sri Lanka?

A. Hanuman B. Ganga C. Lakshmi D. Ganesha

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Anselm was the most famous advocate of the

What will be an ideal response?

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