Assignment Evaluate an Argument For this assignment, you will write an evaluation of “Is the World Falling Apart?” Reread the text. Then, read and answer the questions using evidence from the text to support your evaluation. 1.What is the author’s claim? 2. What reasons does the author provide to support the claim? 3.How well do the author’s reasons support the claim? Use evidence from the text that shows the reasons do or do not support the claim. 4.What evidence does the author use to support the reasons? Type your answer here. (Score for Question 5: Does the evidence support the reasons? Does the author provide enough evidence to support the reasons? Use examples from the text to support your answer. 6. in a few sentences, evaluate the author’s argument. Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the argument.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion