Alternative Medicine Mini-Passage

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<p>OK, so the first of the four questions was comparing the two passages.
What was the answer set for this?? I have completely forgotten. </p>

<p>The other three are: </p>

<li><p>Passage 1 was more critical, Passage 2 more enthusiastic</p></li>
<li><p>Proponents would support the practitioners</p></li>
<li><p>person in passage 1 thinks people support alt. med. because it is less impersonal than modern medicine. </p></li>
</ol>

<p>Any Dispute on those??</p>

<p>AND DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE FIRST QUESTION???</p>

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<p>It was the relationship between passage 1 and passage 2. I thought it was passage 2 was more historical while passage one had a more modern analysis. I don’t get why everyone thinks passage 2 gave a specific example of something discussed in general in passage 1. Can you explain it?</p>

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<p>i don’t remember choosing either of those answers (specific example or historical), which is why i need to know what the other choices were :)</p>

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<p>Passage 1 discussed the phenomenon, which was the re-emergence of alternative medicine as a popular method of treating disease. Passage 2 provided a specific example of the phenomenon – the ancient method described.</p>

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<p>O thanks, you’ve sparked my memory. I agree with you, passage 2 was more historical as it discussed the ancient Indian practice of medicine. Passage 1 analyzed the use of alternative medicine in modern times, and was not general at all (giving specific examples). That is what I put as well, and Im pretty sure we’re right.</p>

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<p>ah! yes, thank you.</p>

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<p>Passage 1 was not at all general though, that shouldve sounded some bells.</p>

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<p>But it was. Did it mention any specific forms of alternative medicine?</p>

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<p>I know this isn’t about alternative medicine, but it is another question about the consolidated list (similar to my questioning of the alt. medicine passage 1= general, passage 2 = specific question).</p>

<p>It seemed like everyone was confident that the gneiss question was “made the guy feel younger.” I was stuck on that one, but I thought it was “reveal a fascination about the origin of gneiss.” What do you think?</p>

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<p>the historical choice was incorrect because it said passage one describes specifically the modern practice of what is mentioned in practice 2. this is wrong; it discusses alt. med. in general. so the phenomenon answer was the better chocie</p>

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<p>Definitely made him feel younger. He opened with “whenever I feel old and wrinkled,” or something like that.</p>

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<p>Its hard to argue without the text, but I thought that passage 1 was specific in its description of modern applications of alternative medicine. Passage 2 was clearly a historical description and in some sense validation of alternative medicine practices. The purpose of Passage 2 wasnt to describe a specific example of a phenomenon, it set out to prove the legitamacy of a practice with historical fact. The two passages discuss alt. med. from two standpoints (modern and historical), two seperate analyses.</p>

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<p>Any counter arguments??</p>

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<p>Was this the experimental? Which one was? I know I had 4 Writing sections.</p>

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<p>It’s sort of pointless with the text; neither of us will likely convince the other. We’ll just have to wait until June 26th.</p>

<p>What were the other options for the more critical/more enthusiastic question?</p>

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<p>Wait, was one of the choices less negative?</p>

<p>I remember that from somewhere</p>

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<ol>
<li>Proponents would support the practitioners</li>
</ol>

<p>what were the other choices to thise question? i don’t remember even answering this.</p>

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<p>I’d still like to hear your reasoning star (or anyone else) just to settle the question.</p>

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<p>it was definitely historical vs modern… so much passage evidence</p>

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<p>i put critical vs .enthusiastic.
in passage 1, towards the last sentence, the author is saying how proponents weren’t using the traditional medicine properly and how it was dangerous. -critical
in passage 2, it’s all support. No critiques.</p>