Exam 11: Analyzing Causes and Effects

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -According to the Buddha, the key to freedom from fear is to abandon "passion, desire, fondness, thirst, fever, and craving for sensuality ."

Do not confuse true causes and effects with ________________.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Fear can be one of the great sources of personal __________________.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Rankings of America's top fears consistently reveal that one of their most prevalent social fears is public speaking. Presumably, the explanation is that people are abjectly terrified of ________________ in front of others.

Attacking child poverty at its roots means changing laws and changing social values. Legislators in California are considering proposals streamlining the child-support payment process. The leader is Washington state, where unmarried fathers must sign a paternity statement if they want their names on the child's birth certificate. Washington also requires many employers to give the names and Social Security numbers of all hires to the state child-support agency for tracking purposes. And several states now require fathers to join job search programs. -Jan Larson -Do you feel that Larson gets to the real causes and effects concerning the paragraph's topic? Explain your answer.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -For Pieper, this final qualifier is important: the confrontation of fear must be oriented toward the common good.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -We become sated with anything that is repeated again and again and our brains are ___________.

Why must you dig to find the true causes and effects of your topic?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Boredom is a signal that you are searching for new goals and the risk is that we can too-easily satisfy this restless drive-short-circuit it, even-by a simple swipe across the screens of our ubiquitous technology.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Is Robertson's argument that we should embrace boredom and curiosity persuasive? What are his most persuasive points?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -It is courage's necessary precondition .

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -It is normal to enjoy genuine mortal danger

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -In particular, fear can help people cultivate several classic virtues that religious figures,sages , and secular moral traditions have all seen as essential for living a well-ordered life.

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We learned that any female over the age of twelve can expect to be criminally assaulted some time in her life, that women aged thirty have a fifty-fifty chance of being raped, robbed, or attacked, and that many police officials say flatly that they cannot protect citizens from crime. During the same period, the number of women considering gun ownership quadrupled to nearly two million. Manufacturers began showing light-weight weapons with small grips and purses with built-in holsters. A new magazine is called Guns and Women, and more than 8,000 copies of the video A Woman's Guide to Firearms were sold by 1988. Experts say female gun buyers are not limited to any particular age group, profession, social class, or area of the country and most are buying guns to protect themselves. Shooting instructors say women view guns with more caution than do men and may make better shots. -Linda Hasselstrom -Do you feel that Hasselstrom gets to the real causes and effects concerning the paragraph's topic? Explain your answer.

Firor said the world might eventually have to cut its carbon dioxide production by half in order to stabilize the gas in the atmosphere but that this might not happen until the world had already warmed an average of 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit, an increase that still could have significant and perhaps catastrophic effects. In fact, scientists say it might even be necessary to reduce emissions by as much as 90 percent to reverse warming and to restore the climate to that of pre-industrial times before man-made carbon dioxide began accumulating in the atmosphere. -William Booth -What causes and effects does Booth cite? How do they relate to the topic sentence?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -By this definition, fear is not the antithesis of courage.

When we work with causes and effects, we are searching for _______________ and reasons.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -According to psychologist Stanley Rachman, what is the misunderstanding about courage?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We learned that any female over the age of twelve can expect to be criminally assaulted some time in her life, that women aged thirty have a fifty-fifty chance of being raped, robbed, or attacked, and that many police officials say flatly that they cannot protect citizens from crime. During the same period, the number of women considering gun ownership quadrupled to nearly two million. Manufacturers began showing light-weight weapons with small grips and purses with built-in holsters. A new magazine is called Guns and Women, and more than 8,000 copies of the video A Woman's Guide to Firearms were sold by 1988. Experts say female gun buyers are not limited to any particular age group, profession, social class, or area of the country and most are buying guns to protect themselves. Shooting instructors say women view guns with more caution than do men and may make better shots. -Linda Hasselstrom -What is Hasselstrom analyzing in this paragraph? Does the topic sentence capture this focus? Explain your answer.

To understand a cause, we look to the