If the following passage contains an argument, write a well-crafted version of it; if the passage is not an argument, classify it as a report, illustration, explanation, or single conditional statement. Selective harvesting of timber is less damaging to the environment and healthier for local economies than clear-cutting. . . . Selective harvesting uses the natural rhythms of a forest's ecosystem instead of ignoring them. Selection harvesters carefully choose trees for timber, thinning a tree stand by cutting down the slow-growing trees that are likely to die within 15 or 20 years. They leave the healthier, faster-growing trees alone to reseed the forest. Above all, these foresters avoid cutting too many trees for a quick profit, and each decade they take a tree count to ensure that they
are not over-cutting. (John Tibbetts, Utne Reader, Jan./Feb. 1992)
What will be an ideal response?
1. Selective harvesting uses the natural rhythms of a forest's ecosystem instead of ignoring them.
2. Selection harvesters carefully choose trees for timber, thinning a tree stand by cutting down the slow-growing trees that are likely to die within 15 or 20 years.
3. Selection harvesters leave the healthier, faster-growing trees alone to reseed the forest.
4. Selection harvesters avoid cutting too many trees for a quick profit.
5. Each decade, selection harvesters take a tree count to ensure that they are not overcutting.
So, 6. Selective harvesting of timber is less damaging to the environment and healthier for local economies than clear-cutting.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ethical business leaders __________
A) A) seek to engage suppliers and customers as well as employees B) allow for foreign interpretation C) exercise moral imagination D) all of the above
Put this statement into standard form: There are no philosopher kings.
What will be an ideal response?
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A. evidence that man must dominate nature. B. a form in which many elements of nature arrange themselves. C. taboo for the people of Easter Island. D. a special form of the calumet.