This document provides study material and solved assignments for a Final Exam. It includes sections on grammar errors, essay analysis, and a topic on dishonesty. The document covers various topics such as subject-verb agreement error, sentence fragment, comma usage, apostrophe misuse, parallel structure, and more.
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1FINAL EXAM Section A: 1.Subject-verb agreement error – Professors have been an important part of my time in school because they have supported my academic goals. 2.Problem with sentence fragment – In spite of everything, she gave her father an expensive present after the argument. 3.No comma in the compound sentence – Before Bobby had time to reconsider his decision, he jumped off the high diving board. 4.Misuse of the apostrophe with “it’s” – The dog was chasing its tail. 5.Problem with sentence fragment – The evening felt more exciting after the game of cards had eventually started. 6.Missing comma after the introductory element – She walked through the forest as quickly as she could, all the while rain had soaked her clothes. 7.Problem with sentence fragment – My brothers and I enjoy having beers together after we have played a game of football. 8.Missing “the” before “great schools” – People more to Canada for: the geography, the friendly people, and the great schools. 9.Problem with parallel structure – It is easier to think aboutcleaning your room than it is to start to do so. 10.No comma usage in a compound sentence – The dorm room will be cleaned by Mary, every Saturday. Section B: 1.The main aim of this essay to express the helplessness feeling that citizens have about their safety in the aftermath of a devastating terrorist act. Few of the main points of
2FINAL EXAM this essay are the human nature’s incapability of responding to terrorism, and the decision making dilemma that happens internally on the basis of emotions. 2.According to Taleb, human beings are essential emotional creatures that make the decisions. This affects our behaviour in the way that we are more inclined to stop riding a motorcycle if we know someone who has been badly injured from it rather than by reading the statistics of deaths caused by motorcycles. 3.The one sentence question is meant for the readers to first evaluate an answer in their heads and think of the possibility of what the answer could be, and the explanation was given in the manner of statistics. This is to strengthen the argument in the essay made by Taleb that says that humans respond quickly to anecdotal information, rather than statistics. 4.The point that is supported by Stalin’s quote is that it is common and known knowledge that 3500 people died in the September 11 attack, but the statistic of increased deaths caused by car accidents after the incident has become a mere statistic. It is ironic because Stalin removes the tragic situation from the deaths of millions, but there is only emotion involved when there is a “concrete and proximate” number of deaths during one event. 5.The author says that the wrath of Osama bin Laden continued after 9/11 because there was a reduced usage of airplanes due to fear and increased using of cars for long distance travel caused a numerous amount of casualties through car accidents. I agree with the answer because the pre-emptive clause of the question was that Osama had indirectly continued to cause devastation in America and Western Europe. Section C: Topic:Dishonesty is sometimes the best policy.
3FINAL EXAM I usually always try to tell the truth, but I have realized that sometimes being truthful may not always be the best idea. Usually, the reason why one lies, or does not say the whole truth, is because telling the truth might hurt someone’s feelings or may even spark a conflict. Honesty is a good intention to have, but in some situations, dishonesty may be the best policy. A common occurrence that happens with a lot of people is that when feelings are starting to build up, it becomes frustrating for me to just sit on them and not do anything about it. Of course it would feel great to be able to release all the feelings, however when we dump our emotional turds on other people, we end up flushing our own relationships down the toilet. School and life at home do not teach us how to deal with angry feelings and since it is usually intimate relationships that cause such feeling, it means that a lot of end up creating a lot of negativity by lashing out and verbally hurting the people that we care about the most. Familial relationships are not as volatile as the ones with other people, and in that case honesty can truly make or break a relationship. Usually, with family members lashing out is usually forgotten in the matter of minutes but this cannot be translated to the friendships that one has because these relationships are existent based on mutual goodwill from both sides of the party. White lies can sometimes spare the other person some grief, however if one starts making colouring the truth a habit, they can also damage the foundation of a relationship.