<h2><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Issue Prompt</strong></span></h2>
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<h2><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it are justifiable.</strong></span></h2>
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<h2><span style="font-size:18px"><em>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.</em></span></h2>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px">Argument Prompt</span></strong></p>
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<h2><strong><span style="font-size:18px">The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the healthiest citizens regularly eat.</span></strong></h2>
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<h2><span style="font-size:18px"><em>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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.</em></span></h2>
