In your local newspaper, you read an editorial supporting a local building initiative that will cost the town millions of dollar
s. After reading the article, you discover that the author has 20 years of experience in construction and owns a local construction company. What should you consider about the author’s point of view? A. that she may be unaware of the town’s deficit
B. that she may not have knowledge of the building site
C. that she may be losing money on the building project
D.that she may profit from the building project
As she has a local construction company and the big project would likely to employ her company she might profit from the approval of the local building initiative, so she might be biased towards the approval and would writte an article in favor of doing it and focusing solely in the good things that could bring and diminish the bad or not so good things about the construction project.
If the author of the article owns a local construction company and they are supporting an initiative to further construction in a town, the best answer is D. that she may profit from the building project.
The handicraft workers known as the Luddites were the workers who smashed new machines which they believed were stealing their own works from them. They were also a group of textile weavers and workers who made such smashing of new machines as a sign of their protest.
