issue207&argu45提纲，欢迎拍--7.10

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TOPIC: ISSUE207 - "Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."
WORDS: 63
TIME: 00:05:00
DATE: 2010-07-10 20:54:36

Position: Rituals and ceremonies only form a part of culture which is not crucial to a society of a group.

A:
It is true that societies or groups always have their rituals and ceremonies.
B:
To some extent, rituals and ceremonies are just exterior and meaningless.
C:
Sometimes it is a waste of both time and money to care much about that kind of things.
D:
Rituals and ceremonies are not the best ways for societies and groups preserve cultural identify


TOPIC: ARGUMENT45 - The following appeared as an editorial in a wildlife journal.

"Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic region. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of a year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed, and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the decline in arctic deer populations is the result of deer being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea."
WORDS: 28
TIME: 00:05:00
DATE: 2010-07-10 20:54:36

A:
Local hunter's reports are not convincible since they have not carried out completely investigations.
B:
Even so, the journal has not studied other possible factors and cannot exclude other possibilities that cause the decrease of deer populations.
C:
No evidence shows that arctic deer die during their age-old migration so the journal should not give such kind of judgment without further evidence.
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