Question: Argument:1. The African Union took this step and has achieved success in combat missions defending the Union .
2. The UN Refugee Agency -LRB- 31 January , 2008 -RRB- .
3. The European Union has significant integration and convergence of the political and economic spheres .
4. Integration of defence policy and the establishment of a European Defence Force should be the logical next step .
5. Accessed September 7 , 2011 from :
Claim: A single army would enhance the political integration of EU members states


Sentences: 1. Vlahos , K. B. -LRB- 2005 , June 23 -RRB- .
2. Heavy military recruitment at high schools irks some parents .
3. In addition , no one is signed up on the spot in the classroom ; they always get the chance to think about it over a few months or more , and to discuss the decision carefully with parents and peers .
4. As such , military recruitment in schools should be seen as no less unethical than the visits to schools of policemen , for whom there is similar risk but little public conjecture .
5. A career in the military also offers young people a lot of benefits , and it is only right that they should get to hear about those as well .
6. As Donald Rumsfeld noted , for some of our -LRB- US -RRB- students , this may be the best opportunity they have to get a college education .
7. Young people are not stupid they know that there are risks involved in joining the military .
8. In fact the media usually focuses on the bad news coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq , ignoring the good work of our military there .
9. Retrieved May 18 , 2011 , from Fox News :
What claim can be made from these sentences?
Young people are aware of the risks of military service and therefore would not be easily misled by military personnel


This House would ban professional cheerleading
Claim: Cheerleading harms school attendance and academic achievement


Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. It provides an opportunity to make the system sustainable and to make it fair to all generations by having everyone pay for their own retirement rather than someone elses .
2. Faced with this impending crisis , privatizing is at worst the best of the ` bad ' options .
3. As a result of changing demographic factors , the number of workers paying Social Security payroll taxes has gone from 16 for every retiree in 1950 to just 3.3 in 1997 .
4. This ration will continue to decline to just 2 to 1 by 2025 .
5. Social Security is in Crisis .
6. Social Security in the United States , as in most western liberal democracies , is a pay-as-you-go system and has always been so .
7. As such , it is an intergenerational wealth transfer .
8. The solvency of the system therefore relies on favourable demographics ; particularly birth rate and longevity .
9. In the United States the birth rate when Social Security was created was 2.3 children per woman but had risen to 3.0 by 1950 .
10. Today it is 2.06 .
Answer:
The social security system is unsustainable in the status quo


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. McKinley , James C. , In Texas School , Teachers Carry Books and Guns , , 28 August 2008 ,
2. Arming teachers in predominantly rural areas of the USA is therefore a logical and necessary step to protect schools that do not already have dedicated protection .
3. With the law enforcement officers so far away a lot of children could be killed before there could be any possibility of response from any police of law enforcement agencies .
4. Places like Harrold county in Texas have a sheriffs office situated 17 miles away , and unlike more urban areas they can not afford to hire district police officers .
5. Arming some teachers is most urgent in areas police provision is scarce due to diminished funds .
6. All schools and schoolchildren need to be protected yet not all schools are anywhere near a source of protection .

Claim: Not all schools have police available to protect them.


This House believes the classics (Latin & Ancient Greek) should be taught in schools.
Claim:
Answer: Learning the classics gives its own intellectual pleasure.