A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content."The environmental lobby used to be the watchdogs of government and industry, barking at their heels and snapping at them when they tried to grab at the country's virgin resources. In the nineties, the environmentalists have begun to look just like the people they're supposed to be watching. Representatives of the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and the National Wildlife Federation look just like other Washington, D.C., bureaucrats, lined up with their folded laptop computers inside their attaché
cases, all of them desperate to become the next assistant secretary of the interior."-Paraphrase of an anonymous environmentalist's remarks on a radio program
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which Canaanite group does Goliath originate from?
A. Moabites B. Midianites C. Philistines D. Edomites
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