AWA 19

The following appeared as part of an article in a magazine devoted to regional life.

“Corporations should look to the city of Helios when seeking new business opportunities or a new location. Even in the recent recession, Helios’s unemployment rate was lower than the regional average. It is the industrial center of the region, and historically it has provided more than its share of the region’s manufacturing jobs. In addition, Helios is attempting to expand its economic base by attracting companies that focus on research and development of innovative technologies.”

The argument in the article of the magazine devoted to regional life to look to the city of Helios for seeking new business opportunities is unconvincing because its conclusion depends on unsubstantiated assumption of exceptional history and performance of Helios in the field of manufacturing industry. Each of the following areas merit further explanation before it can be given any degree of credibility of its conclusion of corporations looking forward to Helios than any other city in the region.

Firstly, the article did not give any further information to consolidate its claim that the Helios’s unemployment rate was lower than the regional average, even during the recent recession. Additionally, one can question the contribution of the Helios towards the regional’s average unemployment if it was able to maintain its unemployment rate. Thus, it becomes difficult to say that Helios is the center of business prospects in the region. Additionally, one needs further unemployment data prior to the recession to consolidate the stand that the regional average was not equally bad.

Secondly, further information need to given to show that Helios is serious is expanding its economic base by attracting the companies that focus on research and development.

Thirdly, even if Helios might be seriously pursuing its goal of attracting research and development companies, but it might not be able to achieve its aim as it might lack the human and other resources necessary for the research and development to take place. For example, the general public of Helios might not be well educated and hence, may not suit to these kinds of jobs. Additionally, there might not be a good university that might support and encourage the world-class research and development in the Helios or its nearby regions. The environment may not be conducive for the corporations to do research and development in Helios in such circumstances.

Last but not the least, Helios might be a good destination for low-income jobs but not for specialized and sophisticated jobs like research and development, which, in turn, fail to attract the corporations interested in expanding its business for research and development.

Due to the many holes in the reasoning in the arguments of the report, it is difficult to take the arguments seriously. Unless further evidence surface in each of the areas discussed above, the given premises are insufficient proof that the conclusion drawn is viable.

AWA 4

Science may be on the threshold of greatly extending the human life span to 100 years or more. If all causes of biological aging are discovered and cured, people eventually may have an indefinite life span extending for many centuries.

Discuss how logically persuasive you find the above argument. In presenting your point of view, analyze the sort of reasoning used and its supporting evidence. In addition, state what further evidence, if any, would make the argument more sound and convincing or would make you better able to evaluate its conclusion.

The author’s argument is unconvincing because his conclusion depends on several unsubstantiated assumptions. Each of the following areas merit further explanation before the author can be given any degree of credibility.

Firstly, the whole argument is based on a single most powerful assumption that Science is at the threshold of achieving the near-possible immortality. But there is hardly any evidence given to prove the stand or as to how far the developments has actually taken place on which this prediction has been done.

Secondly, with the constant controversies around the research of the biological aging features like stem cell, cloning, etc., the possibility of the successful completion of any of them is questionable. For example, in a recent observation it was found that the animals on which the experiments are tested on, are different than the animals from their natural habitat. Such incidents always brings a question on the credibility of the outcome of such scientific researches.

Thirdly, supposing that Science could find and cure all the cause of the biological happening, then there is no gurantee of the indefinite life span of the human beings especially with simultaneous discoveries of new diseases like Bird Flu and so on. Additionally, the frequent natural calamities and accidents as that of wars, road accidents can hardly ensure that every human being will have an indefinite life span.

Last but not the least, questioning the natural process and controlling it could backfire the whole mankind severely as observed in the cases of mindless expansion of industrial growth at the expense of nature, that resulted in frequent tornadoes, floods, global warming and so on.

Due to the many holes in the reasoning of the author’s argument, it is difficult to take him seriously. Unless further evidence surface in each of the areas discussed above, the given premises are insufficient proof that the conclusion drawn is viable.

Essay 15

It is much easier to learn in a small class than in a large one.

Small and larger classes, each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let us snalyze them vis-a-vis.

Firstly, in small classes teachers can give individual attention to each and every student while this may not be possible in the larger classes. But sometimes repeating such things may make a steudent dependent on his teachers for his/her various activites like should he be participating in a dance competition, making him prone to his future decision making capabilities.

Secondly, small classes may encourage less group involvement activites and more individual oriented tasks. On the other hand, their larger counterparts will be involved in more of group oriented activities rather than the individualistic tasks. Thus, larger classes makes an individual understand and decision of giving priorities to the correct part of their involvement in day to day activites. Moreover, in todays fast changing business world, the participation and contribution of the groups can hardly be ignored anymore when an individual’s impact has come almost to its dead level.

Thirdly, smaller classes may be useful when an individual might be doing some advanced study as like PhD and especially in research but larger classes teach how to achieve every individual’s

 goals while achieving the group’s success at the same time.

Last but not the least, larger classes build ever lasting relationships while smaller classes sometimes may lead to harsh competition and rivalry among individuals due to jealousy and many other factors.

Therefore, considering the above said resaons,I would favour learing in a larger class rather than a samller one.

Essay 14

You have received a full scholarship to a good university in your country. You have also been offered a full scholarship to a top university in another country. Which of these two scholarships would you accept?

I would prefer to study in the university of my country rather than going to any another country, if I qualify to get full scholarship at both the universities.

Inida has come up as a strong economic pwerhouse in the past two decades after economic liberalization. It is now considered to be one of the fastest growing and emerging economies. With the future looking good and prosperous for the country, I would prefer to study and work here rather than going abroad to study.

Moreover, top universities like Indian School of Business, Indian Institutes of Managements, Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Information Technology has become global brands with their alumni having established as graduates at par with any other good universities of the world and has been now constantly been ranked at the world level.

Additionally, being in the country helps to be within the reach of my relatives and friends in mutual needs. And I strongly believe that joy of success will be in its true color if we share that joy with our loved near and dear ones.

As I am keenly interested to take my country tot he nect level of its development and see the dream of our past President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam of India becoming a developed country by 2020, I would like to help it from here be lending a hand in its course in every possible way.

Essay 12

If you could spend a year living in any city on the world, which city would you choose to live in?

I would like to choose New York. New York is famed to be the financial capital of the world and one of the busiest city. I choose New York due to four reasons.

Firstly, as I intend to work till the end of my life, New York can provide excellent opportunity to explore new challenges in the financial domain, win which primarily I am interested in. With the experience and mature financial market, I can not only impart my learnings but also learn from the changing markets.

Secondly, being in one of the main city, I can have all the facilities like health, entertainment, etc. at the highest level and efficiency.

Thirdly, the schools and universities like that of NYU Stern, Columbia, Buffalo, etc. help in imparting high class education to the people residing in the vicinity with ease.

Last but not the least, New York has the utmost infrastructure to support the communication and thus, enhancing the reach to any part of the world as and when required and with much ease than any other city probably in the world.

Essay 10

What was the most important decisions that you have ever made? Why was this decision important to you?

I would say, standing for choosing a girl aong the interested girls in our class for the anchor role against the chosen girl by the registrar during our seniors’ convocation was one of the most improtant decsion of my life.

I remember I was given the whole responsibility of organizing and planning the convocation ceremony of our seniors. I formed an oraganzing committe with a handful of students to carry out the task. As with the discussions with the organizing committee and the director of the university, we decided to call for the girls and boys of the universities who would be interestd in anchoring the event. A lot of emails flushed in within a few hours. Meanwhile, a girl managed to convince the Registrar to get her in for the job and she just acts arrogant by not sending an email to teh organizing committee. On the day of the final decision and when the auditions were about to start, the Registrar walks into the class to announce the name of the girl, who he had already chosen. I decided to stand against his decision and my whole team supported my stand. I proposed that as the girl that the Rgistrar choose and others should come and give their auditions before a faculty committee and whoever does well, the final decsion can be made. We managed to convince the Director and he approves for the audition. On the D-day, the girl whom Registrar choose, did not turn up also and we finally went with a new face whom  the whole university never saw on a grand satge before. On the Real Convocation day, the anchorers were admired a lot and the girl came to thank me and giving her that opportunity despite going against a major official of the university.

I still feel good about this decision as I was able to stand for my idealogies and values as I strongly feel these things shape a human being and his true character. Despite knowing the fact that my last final year could turn into a nightmare, I was able to gather courage and guts to fight the odds. And this incident gave me one of the most important lessons of my life that there is no more satisfying than standing for my values and beliefs and it is the only way to be happy.

Essay 9

Some people believe that schools should primarily teach students how to best compete with others. Other people believe that schools should primarily teach students how to cooperate with others.

In today’s world of competence, the one who becomes successful is the one who have used his/her opprotunity as and when it came. In these circumstances, ideally one should be always up for the struggle to face challenges confidently. And this is where schools pitch in to mould the people from their childhood. But categorizing this struggle as competition will not be fair enough for several reasons.

Competition cannot be always be defined as thirst of an individual againt another one. It could be a group, a family, an organization or a society. So, it is very essential to judge the thin difference between the self-interest and a group-difference. So, it is very necessary to fight along with the group for a common cause. Let us take an example of say, a company for which we work. we may be competing against each other each and every day to putsmart each other and be ahead of race for perks and promotion but when it comes to selling the company’s product in the market, we should try to be ONE, cooperating each other in increasing the brand value and recognition of the company, which in turn helps all the workers of the organization. Here, I feel schools should have moulded the people to understand the timing and context of a competition.

Additionally one must not always forget that one finger of hand has no pwer at all and can be broken down by anyone more pwerful but when five fingers of a hand combine, they generate the pwer of a punch which is much much more powerful and harder to break than a single finger. Therefore, I strongly believe that schools should teach people how to compete, with whom to compete and the power of making judgements of competing in which manner at what instant of time in a situation.

Essay 7

Some university students prefer living in campus housing such as dormitories. Other students prefer living in off-campus housing such as apartments. Which of these two options would you choose?

I would prefer living in the campus rather than off-campus. Living in campus housing such as dormitories gives us the following advantages:

Firstly, being in close proximity to the university, there is no time constraints. Sometimes, commuting may take lot of time, which may be judiciously used for studying, extra-curricular activites, playing sports or making friends. Additionally, there is no headache of daily traffic woes and hence, we can free of strict time-oriented activities at the campus.

Secondly, it allows to mix with the blend of students of the other courses and may be of other countries in the dormitories, thus, allowing to expand the horizon of relationships, culture, hertitage and own social network, which comes fruitful during the testing times of our lives. It gives the opportunity to participate in the various university activities and mingle with the people.

Thirdly, it always allows us to use the university amenities like computer labs, research labs, gyms and libraries as and when required, provided there are no constraints to using them.

Last but not the least, other than generally being less costly than off-campus housings, university life comes for just a couple of years where we are free to have our lives with others, which could leave a long-lasting impact on our lives and we go on to make life-long friendships. After the university, everyone tends to move out to their families and jobs, eventually settling down at the apartments.