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Gold, a precious metal, is prized for two important characteristics. First of all, gold has a lustrous beauty that is resistant to corrosion. Therefore, it is suitable for jewelry, coins, and ornamental purposes. Gold never needs to be polished and will remain beautiful forever. For example, a Macedonian coin remains as untarnished today as the day it was made 25 centuries ago. Another important characteristic of gold is its usefulness to industry and science. For many years, it has been used in hundreds of industrial applications, such as photography and dentistry. The most recent use of gold is in astronauts’ suits. Astronauts wear gold-plated heat shields for protection when they go outside spaceships in space. In conclusion, gold is treasured not only for its beauty but also its utility.

· Read the following opening sentences of four paragraphs from a paper that discusses solutions to rape on college campus.

Specialists have provided a number of reasons why men rape.

Some of the causes of rape on the college campus originate with the colleges themselves and with how they handle the problem.

Just as there are a number of causes for campus rapes, there are a number of ways to help solve the problem of these rapes.

If these seem like commonsense solutions, why, then, is it so difficult to significantly reduce the number of campus rapes?

· A sample paragraph where a reader is not guided through the source material:

The social status of coal miners was far from good. The county blamed them for the dimmed lights and the three-day workweek. They had been placed in the position of social outcasts and were beginning to “consider themselves another country.” Some businesses and shops have even gone so far as to refuse service to coal miners (Jones 32).

The following revision of the paragraph provides not only context but also sentence variety.

The social acceptance of coal miners, according to Peter Jones, British correspondent for Newsweek, was far from good. From interviews both in London shops and in pubs near Birmingham, Jones concluded that Britishers blamed the miners for the dimmed lights and three-day workweek. Several striking miners, in a pub on the outskirts of Birmingham, asserted that some of their friends had been denied service by shopkeepers and that they “considered themselves another country” (32).

· Identify the paragraph that demonstrates a successful synthesis.

Some critics believed that there was enough coal in Britain to maintain enough power to keep industry at near-normal level for thirty weeks (Jones 30). Prime minister Heath, on the other hand, had placed the country’s usable coal supply at 15.5 million tons (Jones 30). He stated that this would have fallen to a critical 7 million tons within a month had he not declared a three-day worksheet (Jones 31).

The concerns against Wal-Mart all seem to focus around one main concern: Wal-Mart and similar stores have changed American retailing, and the protestors don't like the change. Albert Norman, the best known anti-Wal-Mart advocate, claims that Walmart represents "... an unwanted shove into urbanization, with all the negatives that threaten small town folks" (209). This urbanization appears to be connected, in the minds of the anti-Wal-Mart brigade, to "mindless consumerism, paved landscapes and homogenization of community identity" (Ortega 204). In other words, instead of a centrally located downtown shopping area with 30 different stores all locally owned, there are now only a handful of bigger stores located on the edge of town in malls and giant concrete shoeboxes, all of them owned by or franchised from huge out of-town corporations.