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Nguyen Ly Posted 8 years ago
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Question( true, false, not given)

I found this article and I have to figure out whether the statement is false, true or not given (based on the article below)? Can anyone help me

"Imagine Cook's surprise, then, when the natives of Hawaii came paddling out in their canoes and greeted him in a familiar tongue, one he had heard on virtually every mote of inhabited land he had visited. Marveling at the ubiquity of this Pacific language and culture, he later wondered in his journal: "How shall we account for this Nation spreading it self so far over this Vast ocean?""

1. Captain cook depicted number of cultural aspects of Polynesians in his journal.

Faithfully,

Nguyen

  

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" does not in itself "depict a number of cultural aspects of Polynesians". Therefore it comes down whether "Marveling at the ubiquity of this Pacific language and culture" implies that he expanded on this theme to the extent that the answer could be "true". My feeling is that it doesn't, at least not with certainty, and that the answer is therefore "not given".

— GPY

  • " does not in itself "depict a number of cultural aspects of Polynesians".
  • Therefore it comes down whether "Marveling at the ubiquity of this Pacific language and culture" implies that he expanded on this theme to the extent that the answer could be "true".
  • My feeling is that it doesn't, at least not with certainty, and that the answer is therefore "not given".
  • However, I think that this is somewhat open to interpretation, and therefore it is rather a poor question.
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It should be clear that "false" can be eliminated, and also that the sentence "How shall we account for this Nation spreading itself so far over this Vast ocean?" does not in itself "depict a number of cultural aspects of Polynesians". Therefore it comes down whether "Marveling at the ubiquity of this Pacific language and culture" implies that he expanded on this theme to the extent that the a

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