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I just stumbled upon this subreddit and I'm sure this story has been told in some shape or form, but here's my version of it.

My junior year at university, I took a pizza delivery job in a small town in central New Jersey. The owner, my boss, was straight off the plane from Italy; he had become a fixture in the neighborhood as the standard by which everyone judged their Italian food, supplementing the palate-appealing pizzas and appetizers with a little home grown Sicilian charm. He was only a businessman to the extent he was a pizzaman, with his passion for casually conversing with customers as he cooked calzones and pizzas propped up only by his need to make a living. For years he ran that restaurant, coming to know everyone in the town - from the cops who wanted a slice between cutting tickets, to the regulars who just didn't feel like cooking after a hard days work, to the creeps and villains alike.

So it's Thursday, one of the busier nights, and the phone rings. I answer it and begin to take the order. I had only been working at the restaurant for about two weeks, and was unfamiliar with the area but finally catching on to how it worked.

"[Our Restaurant], this is [me], how may I help you."

"Hi, yes." Says a scratchy voice on the other side of the phone. "I'd like to order one large plain pizza." A cough rang out of the end of the sentence. It was a woman. Old, more than likely, probably trying to squeeze in a slice or two before her last episode of Murder She Wrote before bed.

"Great." I said, as I followed the textbook script informing her it would cost $18.12 and would be ready in 30 minutes, mindlessly jotting down her address and phone number.

"Excellent I'm looking forward to it... when are you getting here sir, are you the one who's going to make the delivery?" An odd inquiry I thought, but perhaps just a polite gesture of concern and amicability that still exists among older generations.

"Yes, ma'am, shouldn't be too long."

"Great, see you soon sweetheart."

*click*

I collected the ticket and walked it over behind the black and white tile counter, submitting the order to the already backed up docket of orders. My boss hadn't paid any particular attention to me as I slipped it in the order-rail pursuant to practice - Thursdays were always this busy, and he didn't want to lose concentration between kneading the dough and covering it with sauce and cheese. He looked up at the ticket as he always did to see what, if anything, special he had to prepare for a potentially different order, this time staring for a few seconds longer than he usually did. He glanced back down at the dough, a with a smirk forming on his face.

"This is a good one." he said, peering at me over his glasses with dough being pressed roughly between his knuckles and the cold tile counter.

I paid no mind to it and went about my business, serving the customers in the restaurant and taking more orders.

Thirty minutes passed, and he handed me the single box of pizza with the heater bag.

I drove to the address. It was part of an apartment complex with the doors to the apartments on the outside, duplexes with a main door opening up to a staircase that led to the second floor apartment and the first floor apartment door immediately to the left. I rang the doorbell and waited outside the main door, examining the various contents and decor of the house - a green wreath, withered from the cold, stared me back in the face.

That's when it hit me. My ruminations were interrupted by the overwhelming stench of cigarette smoke, filling my nostrils and my lungs like an unrelenting wave. Before I could register the overpowering scent, the door opened, and a figure stood leaning against the door frame. She was short, maybe 5'4", and I couldn't make out anything about her face because it was dark out and the light behind her was temporarily blinding me. She dragged her cigarette without breaking posture, leaning on the frame with one elbow tucked under the other in front of her waist.

"Well hello." I recognized the scratchy voice I heard on the phone, but face-to-face, it was different - it was sultry, or at least the best attempt at sultriness that an older woman's voice box would allow. Smoke exited her mouth as she tilted her head, beckoning for me to come inside.

As my eyes adjusted to the indoor lights, I could make out that she was wearing a robe. Blue. Sapphire Blue. With pink clouds sewn on the cotton, peppering the garment in a random pattern.

"Just put the pizza on that table over there." I did as instructed. "I'm going to the kitchen to get your money baby."

For a second I thought about what she had just said - did I hear that correctly? The self-questioning I put myself through was abruptly halted as she emerged from the kitchen, with the living room light finally illuminating her front enough for me to make our her features. 75, minimum, with great posture for such age. Her face was straddled with wrinkles and her walk was of casual demeanor, staring me down with two eyes that matched her gown. She got close to me, grabbed my palm and softly plopped a $20 bill and closed my hand, not letting go. What I thought was happening was actually happening.

She pushed me backwards, her fragile, pruny hands pressing against my sternum in the direction of the door. I turned around with the pizza heater sleeve and hurried out the front, failing to give the usual gesture that implied a $1.88 tip is bullshit, caught between a mix of feeling petrified and how fucking hilarious this story is going to be to tell my roommates when I get back home. I nearly ran outside down the two stairs that led to the sidewalk, noticing that a silhoutte was stalking me, cast taller than I against the sidewalk in front of me.

I turned around.

"Next time," she said, leaning in a similar manner against the frame she was when she answered the door, smoke billowing out of her nostrils as she stared at me like prey, "I'll have to order the sausage pizza." She winked, and slammed the door shut.

They say that when you're in shock you cannot really register anything. I drove back to the restaurant, unable to even engage in my favorite activity of flipping through the radio stations and expressing discontent at awful cocktail of commercials and shitty music DJs try to peddle to listeners; I ran the line through my head over and over. "Sausage Pizza."
I walked through the door and my boss started laughing hysterically as if he had a sense of clairvoyance that allowed him to witness the situation that happened only a few miles away.

"Have fun?" My boss continued to laugh, adjusting his glasses. "Did she ask for the extra sausage?"

I had repressed that memory until coming across this subreddit, and I'm sure it's happened to one of you guys before. But I hope you enjoyed hearing it as much as I did telling it.

title: Special Delivery [x-post from TalesfromthePizzaGuy]

question: Summarize the plot of the story.

answer: The narrator is taking a pizza delivery and is not used to the local area. The woman who ordered the pizza takes his phone call at her house as he doesn't know her. He goes to deliver her pizza and is surprised to see that she is much older that he would have thought. She beckons him inside to give him a tip and pays him the pizza. Folks don't tip delivery boys the amount expected, so he's a little suspicious.

critique: The response contains misleading information.

critique: It is omitted that the woman asks whether the pizza is normal and the narrator is confused on why she asks this.

critique: Inaccurate. She asks him to come inside and then pays him the tip.

critique: The woman is not much older than the narrator.

critique: The response is missing the part where the narrator is surprised to see that the woman is much older than he thought.

critique: It misses to mention that the older woman then asks for sausage on the next pizza.

critique: It is omitted that the woman is flirtatious and seductive and the narrator leaves quickly.

critique: The response misses to mention that the woman asks for the extra sausage.

critique: The text does not clarify why or how the narrator feels suspicious.

critique: "The woman who ordered the pizza takes his phone call at her house as he doesn't know her. He goes to deliver her pizza and is surprised to see that she is much older that he would have thought. She beckons him inside to give him a tip and pays him the pizza. Folks don't tip delivery boys the amount expected, so he's a little suspicious." - this is wrong, because the woman paid him $20 at her doorstep and slammed the door shut.  There's no evidence that she takes his call at her house and vice versa.

critique: The response is missing the part where the narrator is worried about what the woman is going to do once he's inside her house.

critique: The answer is too vague. It should be more specific.

critique: The model does not mention the woman's peculiar behavior when the narrator left her house.

question: Summarize the narrator's relationship with their boss.

answer: The relationship the narrator maintains with their boss is a difficult one secured by their lack of understanding of their boss' method of carrying out their job. The narrator states that their boss often has little to no eye contact with them and they are out of work so they are not passionate about the stories they relay. The boss' method was to not engage much with the narrator, he would rather take care of the transaction efficiently and quickly.

critique: There is no mention of the boss' method of carrying out his job.

critique: There is no evidence to suggest that the narrator's boss did not engage with them due to being out of work.

critique: "The boss' method was to not engage much with the narrator, he would rather take care of the transaction efficiently and quickly." - this is inaccurate. The narrator's boss is a very passionate person who loves to engage with customers.

critique: The narrator doesn't say anything about their boss' method of carrying out his job.

critique: "He would rather take care of the transaction efficiently and quickly." must be removed because it has little to do with building a relationship as it does with the narrator's assertion of power over his boss.

critique: The response contains some inaccurate details.

critique: "The boss' method was to not engage much with the narrator, he would rather take care of the transaction efficiently and quickly." - this is inaccurate. There is no evidence to suggest that the boss prefers to work quickly, as he usually took his time.

critique: The narrator states, "he was straight off the plane from Italy," thus he is Italian and native.

critique: "method was to not engage much" - is incorrect. It should be "method was to engage a lot".

critique: "The narrator states that their boss often has little to no eye contact with them and they are out of work so they are not passionate about the stories they relay." - this is incorrect. The narrator doesn't say anything about the boss' method of carrying out their job. This should be deleted.

text: The answer should mention that the boss rarely looks up from his work as he doesn't want to lose concentration while he works.

refinement: The relationship the narrator maintains with their boss is a difficult one secured by their lack of understanding of their boss' method of carrying out their job. The narrator states that their boss often has little to no eye contact with them and they are out of work so they are not passionate about the stories they relay. The boss' method was to not engage much with the narrator, he would rather take care of the transaction efficiently and quickly.

question: Summarize the narrator's job in the pizzeria.

answer: The narrator arrived at the pizzeria from a busy university and started his pizza delivery job by week two. The other workers helped him out by then. The narrator was informed that the owner was a Sicilian and preceded to deliver many pizzas. However, one night a woman called him to deliver a pizza and he assumed it was a normal pizza order. Much to his surprise, when arriving at the delivery destination he meets the old lady who answers the door. The mon tells him to sit the pizza down and go back to the street - a request that shocks the narrator.

critique: "The other workers helped him out by then." - this is incorrect. The other workers didn't help him out.

critique: "The owner was a Sicilian and preceded to deliver many pizzas. However, one night a woman called him to deliver a pizza and he assumed it was a normal pizza order. Much to his surprise, when arriving at the delivery destination he meets the old lady who answers the door. The mon tells him to sit the pizza down and go back to the street - a request that shocks the narrator."

critique: The narrator was the writer's junior year of college, not the narrator's first year.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

critique: "The other workers helped him out by then. The narrator was informed that the owner was a Sicilian and preceded to deliver many pizzas." - irrelevant to the question.

critique: There is no evidence that the narrator worked in a pizzeria in a university.

critique: This is a summary of the events of the story, not the narrator's job.

critique: "The owner was Sicilian"^ is misleading. The narrator's boss is the owner of the pizzeria who was from Italy.

critique: The response is not related to the question.

critique: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

critique: It is not stated that the narrator was informed that the owner was a Sicilian.

critique: There is a lack of clarity in the second sentence. Rephrase to reflect the passage better.

question: Summarize the narrator's encounter with the old woman.

answer: The narrator was tasked to deliver a pizza to an old woman and rang the doorbell. She opened the door to let him in and greeted him with a kiss and smoke and asked for her money for the pizza. She gave him money and then asked for a sausage pizza. He reluctantly promised that he would. When he left she said that she would have to order a sausage pizza the next time.

critique: It is not stated that she greeted him with a kiss.

critique: The role of kissing fits well with the trigger warning and should be included.

critique: "and then asked for a sausage pizza. He reluctantly promised that he would. When he left she said that she would have to order a sausage pizza the next time." - this is inaccurate and irrelevant.

critique: The narrator was not tasked to deliver a pizza to an old woman.

critique: The narrator didn't promise to deliver sausage pizza. He just felt uncomfortable and ran away.

critique: The narrator didn't promise to deliver a sausage pizza.

critique: The old woman did not kiss the narrator.

critique: "She gave him money and then asked for a sausage pizza. He reluctantly promised that he would. When he left she said that she would have to order a sausage pizza the next time." - the narrator gave her a $20 bill, and she closed his hand. He didn't promise her anything.


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_TRUE TO MYSELF_ is the debut album of R&B singer Eric Benét, originally released on September 24, 1996 on Warner Bros. Records.[1] It was his first outing as a solo artist after the dissolution of his former group Benét, which he formed with his sister Lisa Jordan and cousin George Nash, Jr.[2] Benét received his deal with Warner Bros. Records from former EMI Records executive Alison Ball-Gabriel after corporate shakeups caused his former group to be dropped by the record label.[3]

Benet produced most of his debut with Demonté Posey and George Nash, Jr.- who would work with him on his later recordings. In 1995, he released the song “Let's Stay Together”, which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 1996 Martin Lawrence film _A Thin Line Between Love and Hate_.[4] The music video to the song was directed by Charles Stone III.[5] The second single released from _True to Myself_ was the McG directed “Spiritual Thang”.[6] The album's biggest hit was the third single “Femininity”, which was directed by a then-unknown Francis Lawrence.[7] “Femininity” also featured an appearance from then-unknown rapper Tiye Phoenix, who played a pregnant woman in the music video.[8]

The title track was the fourth and final single released from the album with a video directed by Joseph Kahn.[9] The song was featured on the soundtrack to _Batman & Robin_, released on June 10, 1997.

Track listing

-   All songs are written by Eric Benét, Demonte Posey and George Nash, Jr., except as noted.[10]

1.  “True To Myself” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr.)
2.  “I'll Be There” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr.)
3.  “If You Want Me to Stay” (Sylvester Stewart)
4.  “Let's Stay Together (Midnight Mix)”
5.  “Just Friends”
6.  “Femininity” (Eric Benét, Christian Warren)
7.  “While You Where Here”
8.  “Spiritual Thang”
9.  “Chains”
10. “All in the Game”
11. “More Than Just a Girlfriend” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr.)
12. “What If We Was Cool” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr., Roger Troutman, Dale DeGroat)
13. “Let's Stay Together”

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[11]

-   George Nash, Jr. – Guitar, Drums, Clavinet
-   Demonte Posey – Keyboards, Drums, Melodica
-   Mark Lomax – Drums
-   Warren Crawford – Bass
-   Rio – Bass
-   Skeeta – Bass, Guitar
-   Gumby – Guitar
-   Eric “Kenya” Baker – Guitar
-   Christian Warren – Keyboards, Drums, Fender Rhodes, Piano
-   Curtis “Sauce” Wilson – Drums
-   Roger Troutman – Keyboards, Bass, Guitar, Vocoder
-   Tyrone W. Griffin – Trumpet
-   Fernando Harkless – Saxophone
-   Steve Baxter – Trombone
-   Barbara “Bobbi” Schneider – Violin
-   Paul Gminder – Cello
-   Eric Benét, Lisa Jordan-Weathers – Background vocals
-   Alison Ball-Gabriel – Executive Producer
-   Recording engineer – Eric Benét, Demonte Posey and George Nash, Jr., Roger Troutman, Hilary Bercovici, Skeeta
-   Mixing: Eric Benét, Demonte Posey and George Nash, Jr., Kevin “K.D.” Davis, Roger Troutman, Hilary Bercovici, Skeeta
-   Mastering: Brian Gardner
-   Brad Hitz – Photography
-   Terry Robertson, Stephen Walker – Art Direction
-   Stephen Walker – Design

[1] Amazon.com

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[10] Eric Benet - True To Myself (CD liner notes). Warner Bros. Records. 46270-2

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title: True to Myself

question: What does the article say about the most influential people on the album?

answer: The most influential people are those that took part in the recording sessions.

critique: The answer should mention the people who were most influential on the album.

critique: The answer omits the one big influential figure-Alison Ball-Gabriel.

question: What does the article say about the development process of the album?

answer: The album was released in 1996. It was produced by Eric Benét, Demonté Posey, and George Nash Jr. The album's biggest hit was the third single "Femininity".

critique: "The album's biggest hit was the third single "Femininity". - this is irrelevant and should be removed.

critique: The answer should mention that the album was released after the dissolution of Benét's former group.

critique: The answer should mention the song "Let's Stay Together" and the film it was in.


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(First chapter of my up and coming story)

  *Beep Beep Beep Beep Bee-*

  With a crash, the small alarm clock was sent tumbling abruptly down to the floor. With a groan, a hung over and ill tempered figure pushed the covers back, squinting at the light just now creeping through his window. He sits up and swings his legs over the edge of the bed, rubbing his face with one hand. With a grunt, he hoists himself upright and shuffles into the bathroom, rinsing his face and staring at himself in the mirror.

  “James Marshall, you look like hell.”

  He grunts to himself. He always looked like hell, just varying shades, depending on the day. The middle of the week was often unkind at any rate. He strips down and draws a warm shower, stepping in to cleanse the sweat of another fitful night away, relaxing his tense muscles and exhaling slowly. Slowly, he soaps himself, shampoos his unkempt shoulder length hair, and lets the water take the stress and worry away if just for a moment.

  After a scant five minutes, the shower cuts off, his allotted shower ration for the morning expiring. With a short huff, he carefully steps out of the shower to towel himself off. Just as he finishes. The communication console, commonly referred to as a Com-Con, lights up with an incoming message. Reluctantly, the newly washed man makes his way to the screen, keying the green 'Answer' prompt. Immediately, a very irate and very fat man flashes onto the screen, cigar chomped firmly between yellowing teeth.

  “Marshall! Station, thirty minutes! Don't keep me waiting. I mean it this time boy. Do not keep me waiting!”

  A groan and a nod was his answer. He hangs up the Com-Con and dresses quickly, donning a pair of pressed black slacks, a cheap white button-up shirt, a shoulder-strap holster, and his black waistcoat. He grabs his revolver and badge from his nightstand, pocketing the metal and leather shield and slipping the heavy handgun into its holster, securing it into place. He laces up his pair of polished black boots and slips a thin blade into a hidden sheath in the ankle of the boot. Standing, he dusts his pants off, grabs his pack of nicosticks, and heads out the door of his dingy two room apartment.

  With swift feet, he makes his way down two flights of stairs to the parking garage. The lift was busted for the fourth straight month. He felt like he needed the workout anyways. He throws the door to the garage open, nearly smacking a tenant on his way back in directly in the face. James utters an apology and keeps on his way, despite the string of foul words from the other tenant. Quickly, he files down the rows of shining metal and stops at the spot that held his old roadster. He opens the door and lowers himself into the drivers seat.

  Detecting a change in occupancy, a panel slides open, revealing a small glass pane, reading “Identify”. He presses his thumb to it and speaks.

  “Marshall, James Augustus. Civil Identification Oh Three One Two Nine.”

  “Identification confirmed. Welcome back, James.”

  The engine spins to life, the turbine emitting a low whine as it comes to speed. He eases backwards and turns to exit the garage. The gate lifts to allow him to pass, and he steers his way onto the busy highway carefully, heading into the belly of the beast that was Crimson Main, one of the largest cities on the planet of Mir. The city itself held a certain archaic feel, reminding one of the Chicago of the twentieth century, back on Earth, before the trans-planetary acceleration gates failed.

  Ten minutes of driving brings him to the towering spire that was the Central Justice Union. He navigates the aging vehicle into the parking building, nosing it into his assigned space, narrowly avoiding trading paint with the car of fool next to him, who was parked almost a foot off center, almost encroaching into his space. He grumbles loudly to himself as he finishes parking, having needed to realign once to park straight. Still fifteen minutes to go. He makes a quick jaunt down the street to a busy coffee shop. The girl at the counter knew him at once and called an order back to the elderly man making orders for half a dozen people.

  “You're early, Jay. McHanson have something 'Important' for you?”

  She emphasizes  the word important with actual finger quotations. James nods solemnly and sighs slightly.

  “Old bastard probably needs me to investigate his wife for being a harlot. Again.”

  This earns a high pitched giggle from the girl. She turns to accept something from the elderly man and sets it on the counter. A steaming pastry and a cup of scathingly hot coffee, black as night, and sweet as sin. He digs in his pocket and lays a handful of bills on the counter. He always over-payed for this indulgence. The girl was of ill fortune, barely of age to work in the city, but already two years on the job.

  “Be careful today, guy. Talk on the street is nowhere near good. That Ishikawa-Murray blowhard has been stirring up trouble again. Damn corporate backers can't leave the issue alone!”

The girl had slammed her hand down onto the counter, causing a lock of bright green hair to slip out of her cap, gaining a sly grin from James.

“Green this time? That's new.”

  “Shut up, you. I got tired of black again.”

  He answers with a shrug and grabs his coffee and pastry. He takes a sip back and grimaces from the scalding heat.

  “Take care, Mare”

  “You too, old man”

  He chuckles and shakes his head as he departs. He was barely mid-way through his twenties, but still had ten years on the girl. What a sad ordeal, such a young thing forced to earn a living for a deadbeat mother. A story he himself knew all too well. Without much more hesitation, he makes his way into the spire, taking a vertical lift to the investigations department floor, midway up the lofty structure.

  He had barely stepped off the lift when he was bombarded with the bellowing shouts of the massive man who held domain over him, and signed his paychecks. Impassively, he takes another sip of coffee. It was going to be a long, long day.

title: [SF] Eternity Served Cold: Chapter 1

question: What does the story say about the relationship between James and the girl at the coffee shop?

answer: James is a regular at the coffee shop. The girl at the counter knows him and calls him Jay. She asks him if he has something important for him. James says that the old man probably needs him to investigate his wife for being a harlot. The girl giggles and tells him to be careful. James pays for his order and leaves a generous tip.

critique: The answer should mention that James is a detective.

critique: The answer should mention that James is a cop.

critique: The girl at the coffee shop is concerned for James, which is why she warns him of possible danger.

critique: It is omitted that James is a detective.

critique: It is omitted that James is a regular at the coffee shop. The girl at the counter knows him and calls him Jay. She asks him if he has something important for him. James says that the old man probably needs him to investigate his wife for being a harlot. The girl giggles and tells him to be careful. James pays for his order and leaves a generous tip.

text:
-'She asks him if he has something important for him.' This lacks clarity and should be rewritten.
-The answer omits that James knows that the young girl is forced to earn a living for her deadbeat mother. It should state this too.

category: other

category_text: Coverage and accuracy.


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You come home every night to the same thing. Refuel, recharge, return to work the next day. It's a simple living, and you don't mind. You've settled nicely into this life.

Every dinner is a bowl of soup and a crust of bread. Some may say that it's a depressing meal, but you enjoy it. It's warm, it's easy, it's satisfying. It isn't as boring as people think when there are thousands of varieties of soup in just one grocery aisle nowadays; there are twenty-two kinds of the brand you eat. The sodium may be your eventual downfall, but you probably get in more veggies than the fast food junkies. All in all, there are worse things to be eating for dinner.

You pop the top off your soup of choice (they've even eliminated the need for can openers now), pour it in a bowl, and microwave it while breaking off a piece of bread from the loaf you pick up weekly. You grab a spoon, sit down at the counter, and flip on the television sitting in the corner of the kitchen to catch up with the nightly news as you eat your dinner.

You do not notice when one day your spoon begins to leak.

Watching the news and eating at the same time comes naturally to you by now. You don't even look at it after you smile in anticipation down at the bowl as it comes out of the microwave hot and steaming. A bite of bread, a spoonful of soup, over and over until you're finished with both and the weather is on. You do not notice that you begin to dribble more soup on the counter as you eat, you do not notice the soppiness of the napkin on your lap. We are all prone to spilling a bit of soup, so you don't think much of it, just mop it up when you clear the table and bring your bowl to the sink.

A few weeks later, you notice that your trousers are looser. A few drops of soup adds up day after day, unnoticeable but significant. You wonder what has happened, utterly perplexed because, to you, nothing has changed. You begin to worry since your weight has been stable since you finished college. Was somebody messing with your pants? Another few weeks and another belt notch down, you begin to look gaunt and you throw yourself into investigating the matter. Something is happening to you.

Still, nothing has changed. Same job, same walk back and forth to and from work, same bowl of soup for dinner. You wonder, is someone poisoning you? Someone at work? Someone who, for some reason, has a vendetta against you and is trying to kill you slowly? Is someone putting something in your coffee mug while you retrieve milk from the fridge in the break room? You begin to guard your cup closely in the mornings.

You buy a scale and keep records as the pounds keep coming off, week by week. One day you inspect the soup as you decide between Minestrone and Creamy Mushroom. It is the same soup as always, same label, same nutrition facts, same woman with an apron and curls smiling at you on the logo. But maybe they've changed their formula. You write to the soup company. They send a polite letter back, thanking you for enjoying their soups, and no they have not changed their time-honored recipe since their inception in 1972, as always, keeping their soups 'Just how Mom used to make it!'. They include a coupon for 75 cents off your next purchase of their soup.

The mystery is on your mind day after day. Maybe it's a tumor on your small intestine, you decide, and you book an appointment with your doctor. He runs the test and says everything is normal - the weight loss is not fast enough to be alarming - to come back if things do not improve.

Maybe a vampire is sucking out pieces of your soul as you sleep. You stay up an entire night waiting for him to appear and regret it the next day at work. You look increasingly bedraggled and people begin to worry about you, but you wave them off, blaming it on the flu.

One day, you are eating dinner as breaking news flashes across the screen. Somewhere in a town far away dozens of people have been shot by a man on a rampage. The manhunt is still on, and they describe him as someone who is possible mentally ill, or a terrorist, or a kid who has played too many video games, or all of the above. You are frozen as they show stark images of people bleeding on stretchers, police lights flashing, your spoon poised midair as a woman wails about her husband, who has been shot in the stomach. You feel an inexplicable warm trickle along your belly. When you look down, you begin to panic. There is blood on you too! You leap back from the counter, toppling your bowl of soup, and suddenly there is hot blood splattered across your entire kitchen, you are stepping in crimson, my god what have you done?

No. You catch your breath. It's only the borscht you chose for dinner. The beet soup is the exact color of blood in the low thrumming light of the television set. You try to relax, but your knuckles remain bone-white around the spoon you are still holding in your hand. Suddenly, you notice something. There is a pinhole at the bottom of your spoon, a hole just big enough for you to see the images of the scared people in Wherever, Missouri if you squint while holding it in front of you. Aha! You've solved it! At last, it's all clear. Now that you look back, you realize you hadn't noticed that your Italian Wedding soup had been drier, your Chicken Noodle closer to salted pasta than to soup. It wasn't cancer; it wasn't the soup company trying to sneak cheaper ingredients in for profit; it all made sense. You're ecstatic! You laugh aloud at the ridiculousness of it, the ridiculousness of how you have been acting.

Suddenly you stop and wonder, *who drilled a hole into your spoon?*

title: [RF] How to tell your spoon is leaking

question: Give a summary of the circumstances that led to the protagonist's weight loss and the cause.

answer: The protagonist, a man, has been eating the same bowl of soup for dinner every day for a long time. He has been losing weight but does not know why. He wonders if someone is poisoning him, or if he has a tumor on his small intestine. He visits the doctor, who says that the weight loss is not fast enough to be alarming. He tries to blame it on the flu, but people at work are worried about him. One day, he sees news of a mass shooting while eating dinner, and he notices a pinhole on the bottom of his spoon. He realizes that the pinhole is the cause of his weight loss and he is ecstatic.

critique: It is omitted that the spoon has a pinhole.

critique: The answer should mention his conclusion about the spoon.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist does not know who drilled the hole in the spoon.

critique: The answer omits the fact that the protagonist is eating a spoonful of soup and watching the news at the same time.

critique: The man has a hole in his spoon that allows him to see imagery from the news.

critique: The answer omits the fact that the protagonist is eating a spoonful of soup every time he eats.

question: What does the story say about why the protagonist liked eating bread and soup every night?

answer: The norm of the protagonist's life was to have a simple life. He has settled nicely into the habit of having the same meal every day. He doesn't mind the habit because he's used to it and it gives him confidence knowing what to expect every day. He also knows that there are limitless choices of soups at the supermarket. The only downside of having the same meal every day was the sodium, which may affect his health in the future.

critique: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist enjoys eating bread and soup every night.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist doesn't mind the monotony of his dinner because he enjoys it.

critique: The response is not related to the question.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist is not concerned about the sodium.

critique: The narrator liking the same meal every day is true but the other points are not supported in the article. The article talks more about why the narrator thinks he is losing weight. Notes should be added to talk about what is discussed in the article as it is and omits some significant details.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.


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In a season full of holiday spectacle, the rarely performed _The Second Shepherds’ Play_ stands out for its sweet simplicity. With only a small three-piece band of expert musicians and modest, yet effective, staging and design, director and adapter Mary Hall Surface and her cast create a gentle bit of Christmas magic that is uniquely their own.

Dating back to the Middle Ages, _The Second Shepherds’ Play_ is a piece from the mystery cycles, a series of European liturgical dramas that followed the events of the bible. Members of craft guilds performed these plays once a year over the course of several days, with each guild responsible for one section of the cycle. _The Second Shepherds’ Play _is one of the most famous of the surviving mystery plays, due to its unusual focus on everyday people (rather than biblical characters) and mix of low farce and high religion.

[Ryan Sellers and Tonya Beckman in the 2016 production of The Second Shepherd's Play at Folger Theatre (Photo: Brittany Diliberto)]
Ryan Sellers and Tonya Beckman in the 2016 production of _The Second Shepherd’s Play_ at Folger Theatre (Photo: Brittany Diliberto)
The play follows the journey of three shepherds in the hours before the birth of Christ. They are searching for one of their finest and fattest sheep, which has been stolen by the comically scheming Mak (Ryan Sellers). Mak, who has stolen the sheep to feed his family, and his wife Gill (Tonya Beckman) hide the sheep from its owners by putting it in a cradle and pretending Gill has just given birth (mirroring the image of infant Jesus in the manger). The ruse is discovered, but rather than have Mak severely punished, the shepherds opt to show him mercy. Here, the tone takes a sudden serious shift. As if summoned by the shepherds’ choice to be merciful, an angel (Emily Noël ) appears bringing news of  Christ’s birth. The shepherds journey to Bethlehem to meet the child and offer gifts and blessings.

[Matthew R. Wilson (left), Megan Graves, and Louis E. Davis sing along to a medieval English tune played by musicians Robert Eisenstein, Daniel Meyers, and Brian Kay in The Second Shepherds’ Play. at Folger Theatre (Photo: Brittany Diliberto)]
Matthew R. Wilson (left), Megan Graves, and Louis E. Davis sing along to a medieval English tune played by musicians Robert Eisenstein, Daniel Meyers, and Brian Kay in The Second Shepherds’ Play. at Folger Theatre (Photo: Brittany Diliberto)
Likewise, the farcical elements (which are of the “take my wife, please” variety) may not appeal to modern audiences, especially those interested in plays that better represent women. These scenes read like less sophisticated versions of The Honeymooners or the Marx Brothers. Which is both delightful, in that there is such familiarity in a script from the Middle Ages, and difficult in that the humor is casually misogynistic and a bit too under-developed to be out-and-out hilarious in contemporary times. But for those who are interested, you could hardly find a better introduction to medieval era theatre and music.

The key to the success of this production is the warmth and affection the artists bring to the material. Surface and ensemble balance the low farce with sincerity and modest production elements that feel at home in the world of this play. The set (Tony Cisek) has just a few key elements that suggest the outdoor stages and wagons on which the mystery plays were originally produced. The costumes (Adalia Tonneyck) look homespun. Simple and clever effects, such as using ribbons to represent wind, and the use of puppetry provide just the right touch of theatre magic.

_The Second Shepherds’ Play_ is produced by Folger Consort, the Folger Shakespeare Library’s early music ensemble, and right from the beginning when the trio of musicians and their period instruments (Robert Eisenstein on fiddle, viol and recorder, Brian Kay on lute, lyre and komuz, and Daniel Meyers on recorder, flute, bagpipe, and other instruments) take the stage it is clear that music will be central to this production. Surface and music director Eisenstein have interspersed the text with medieval-era music, both instrumentals and carols. The carols are sung with spirit by the cast, though not always with perfect pitch. Most notable is the lovely voice of the featured singer Emily Noël who also brings her soaring soprano to the role of the Angel. The music of the era is rhythmic and features multiple interwoven melodies at the same time, similar to rounds. It is the kind of celebratory music that beckons you to clap, sing and dance along – perfect for the holiday season.

_The Second Shepherds’ Play_ may not appeal to all contemporary theatre-goers, but it is a delightful holiday present to audiences looking for a Christmas play that is warm-hearted and sincere.

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_The Second Shepherds’ Play,_ adapted and directed by Mary Hall Surface. Music Direction by Robert Eisenstein. Featuring Tonya Beckman, Danny Cackley, Louis E. Davis, Robert Eisenstein, Megan Graves, Brian Kay, Daniel Meyers, Emily Noël, Lilian Oben, Malinda Kathleen Reese, Ryan Sellars, Matthew R. Wilson. Scenic Designer: Tony Cisek. Lighting Designer: Andrew Cissna. Costumer: Adalia Tonneyck. Puppet Designer: Aaron Crombie. Choreographer: Emma Jaster. Produced by Folger Consort. Reviewed by Amy Couchoud.

question: What does the article say about the play's appeal to a modern audience?

answer: Ultimately, the play lacks sophistication and contains casually misogynistic humor. However, it features medieval era music which can be entertaining.

critique: The play's humor is not casually misogynistic.

critique: The play is described as having a sweet simplicity. It has warmth and affection. This should be mentioned.

critique: The humor is not casually misogynistic, but underdeveloped.

critique: The play is not described as lacking sophistication, but the farcical elements of it are.

critique: "the play lacks sophistication and contains casually misogynistic" - doesn't make sense since the entire production was saccharine simple, with the caveat that certain scenes fell short of expectations. Add "quiet" to "simplistic" and delete "quiet" to modify what the play is missing.

question: Summarize everything relating to religion.

answer: The Second Shepherds' Play, a piece from the mystery cycle, is a Middle Ages liturgical drama. The play focuses on everyday people rather than biblical characters. In the play, the shepherds opt to show the thief Mercy. Those who are religious can be forgiving and have compassion.

critique: It is omitted that the play is about the birth of Christ.

critique: The play focuses on everyday people rather than biblical characters.

critique: The play's focus on everyday people is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The play focuses on everyday people rather than biblical characters. This is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The play focuses on everyday people rather than biblical characters. In the play, the shepherds opt to show the thief Mercy. Those who are religious can be forgiving and have compassion.

critique: The second sentence doesn't concern religion

question: Summarize everything relating to the play's origins.

answer: The play dates back to the Middle Ages. The play is one of the most famous of the surviving mystery plays. It is a piece from the mystery cycles, a series of European liturgical dramas that followed the events of the bible. Each guild was responsible for one section of the cycle.

critique: The answer should mention that the play is a mystery play.

critique: "The play is one of the most famous of the surviving mystery plays." - this was never implied anywhere in the passage and should be deleted.

critique: The answer should mention that the play is from the mystery cycles.

critique: The answer could mention that the play follows the story of the three shepherds.

critique: The answer should mention the play's focus.

critique: The answer combines various elements that are not necessarily linked.

critique: The play is one of the most famous of the surviving mystery plays, not the most famous.

question: Summarize everything relating to the play's original cast.

answer: The play is directed by Mary Hall Surface. The cast includes Tonya Beckman, Danny Cackley, Louis E. Davis, Robert Eisenstein, Megan Graves, Brian Kay, Daniel Meyers, Emily Noël, Lilian Oben, Malinda Kathleen Reese, Ryan Sellars, and Matthew R. Wilson.

critique: The cast also includes Adalia Tonneyck and Aaron Crombie.

critique: The answer should mention the puppet designer.

critique: The answer could mention that the cast is the original cast.

critique: The answer omits the play's original cast.

critique: The answer omits the names of the musicians.


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HONG KONG SEA CADET CORPS is a youth organization based in Hong Kong and formed in 1968 by former Royal Naval Reserve officers by the creation of Hong Kong Law (Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps Ordinance)[1]

The HKSCC was linked to British Armed Forces' Combined Cadet Force and Sea Cadet Corps. Since the handover in 1997, the HKSCC is mostly a government funded organisation and does not have any links to the People's Liberation Army Navy. It also receives financial support from Hong Kong Jockey Club and The Community Chest of Hong Kong.

Based at Diamond Hill, Kowloon, the 1800-strong HKSCC has 16 training units and two nautical centres (Stanley Bay and Sai Kung).

Rank & Rates

[ Ceremonial Guard of the HKSCC participating in a parade commemorating the end of World War II] HKSCC adopts the ranking system from the Royal Navy and their Sea Cadets program:

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  RANK       Captain (Capt)   Commander (Cdr)   Lieutenant Commander (Lt Cdr)   Lieutenant (Lt)   Sub-Lieutenant (S/Lt)   Midshipman (Mid)
  INSIGNIA   []               | []              | []                            | []              | []                    | []
  ---------- ---------------- ----------------- ------------------------------- ----------------- ----------------------- ------------------

  : Ranks and Insignia of HKSCC Officers

  ---------- --------------------------- -------------------- ----------------------------
  RANK       Chief Petty Officer (CPO)   Petty Officer (PO)   Acting Petty officer (APO)
  INSIGNIA   []                          | []                 | []
  ---------- --------------------------- -------------------- ----------------------------

  : Ranks and Insignia of HKSCC Instructors/ NCO (Non-commissioned Officer)

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  RANK       Leading Cadet (LC)   Able Cadet (AC)   Ordinary Cadet (OC)   Junior Cadet (JC)   New Entry (NE)
  INSIGNIA   []                   | []              | []                  | []                |None
  ---------- -------------------- ----------------- --------------------- ------------------- ----------------

  : Ranks and Insignia HKSCC Junior Rates/ Cadets

Source: Ranks and Ratings of the Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps

Uniform

Officers, instructors and cadets wear dark navy berets (peaked, white caps for the instructors and officers), blue shirts, dark navy blue trousers and black boots named the Action Working Dress (AWD) during routine trainings. Its equivalent is the No.4AWD worn across the Royal Navy.

On occasions of ceremonial duties, parades or other public events they will wear white (No.6) or blue (No.1) dress uniforms in summer and winter respectively, similar to the Royal Navy uniform worn by officers, senior and junior rates.

Source: Uniforms of the Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps

Weapons

The Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps Ceremonial Guard parade out with the replica Enfield L85A1/ (known as SA80 in Royal Navy) rifle.

In the past, they drilled with the Lee-Enfield L59A1 Drill Rifle but rarely do so today.

Facilities

Training Ships or TS are land base training units for the HKSCC around the territory. Some are named after Her Majesty's Ships of the Royal Navy.

-   TS Ark Royal - named after HMS Ark Royal
-   TS Brilliant - named after HMS Brilliant
-   TS Cornflower - named after HMS Cornflower
-   TS Drake - named after HMS Drake
-   TS Eternity
-   TS Hero - named after HMS Hero
-   TS King Ling
-   TS Lightning - named after HMS Lightning
-   TS Ma Ko Pan
-   TS Mountbatten - named after Lord Louis Mountbatten, Former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy
-   TS Nelson - named after HMS Nelson / Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
-   TS Neptune - named after HMS Neptune
-   TS Royalist - named after HMS Royalist
-   TS Somerset - named after HMS Somerset
-   TS Unicorn - named after HMS Unicorn
-   TS York - named after HMS York

TRAINING CENTRES

-   Administration Headquarters, Diamond Hill, Kowloon
-   Jubilee Centre, Stanley, Hong Kong Island
-   Tang Shiu Kin Nautical Centre, Sai Kung, New Territories

TRAINING LAUNCH

-   Supertee

DISBANDED UNITS

-   TS Anson - named after HMS Anson
-   TS Collingwood - named after HMS Collingwood
-   TS Courageous - named after HMS Courageous
-   TS Chatham - named after HMS Chatham
-   TS Rodney - named after HMS Rodney
-   TS Swallow - named after HMS Swallow (P242)
-   TS Talent - named after HMS Talent
-   TS Victory - named after HMS Victory
-   TS Zulu - named after HMS Zulu

Awards

Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps issues their own awards to their members and are not part of the government issued Orders, decorations, and medals of Hong Kong. The medals and clasps are modelled after the ones awarded by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence:

-   Best Cadet of the Year
-   Best Unit of the Year
-   Cadet Forces Medal (before 1997)
-   Hong Kong Sea Cadet Forces Medal
-   Hong Kong Sea Cadet Forces Long Service Medal

[1] Introduction of the Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps - History

title: Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps

question: What does the story say about the uniforms and weapons of Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps members?

answer: The members of the Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps wear dark navy berets, blue shirts, dark navy blue trousers, and black boots. On occasions of ceremonial duties, parades, or other public events, they will wear white or blue dress uniforms in summer and winter, respectively. The members of the Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps parade out with the replica Enfield L85A1 (known as SA80 in the Royal Navy). In the past, they drilled with the Lee-Enfield L59A1 Drill Rifle, but rarely do so today.

critique: The answer should mention the medals and clasps.

critique: The answer should mention the medals of the organization.

critique: The response should include the name of the weapon.

critique: Add a hyphen after "dress" and change "A1" to "L85".

critique: The answer omits the weapons used by the cadets.

question: What does the story say about the number of members of the Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps?

answer: The story mentions 1800 members and 16 training units.

critique: The question is asking about the total number of members, not just the number of training units.

critique: The answer should mention the two nautical centers.

critique: The answer could be more specific about the number of members.


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Every year since 2009, Bill and Melinda Gates have written a letter about the issues and innovations most striking to them. The goal is to bring important global issues to people’s attention so that more minds can work to create solutions and improve life for everyone on the planet.

Their newly released 2019 letter, which is themed “We Didn’t See This Coming,” includes examples of cutting-edge technology — like self-contained toilets that don’t require connection to a sewage system — as well as efforts to address social challenges like domestic violence.

“Bill and I travel a lot locally and globally, together and often separately,” Melinda Gates tells TIME. “What we wrote in this year’s letter are things that when we come [together] after traveling separately, we describe to one another.”

Here are five of the nine innovations and issues highlighted in this year’s letter from Bill and Melinda Gates.

Low-tech violence prevention

One initiative that caught the Gateses’ attention this year is a school- and neighborhood-based behavior program called Becoming a Man, which helps young men in high-crime areas learn skills for avoiding violence and controlling potentially dangerous impulses. Programs like this, says Bill — who participated in one in Chicago — show the power of even low-tech solutions like teaching basic coping skills in changing people’s lives. Studies of the program find that men who learned from the program have about half the arrest rates of men who don’t do the sessions.

Africa’s young population

Africa — while an ancient continent with man’s earliest evolutionary ancestors — is today one of the youngest in terms of average age. “Africa has such an enormous youth population, with a median age of 18,” says Melinda. This demographic phenomenon is a huge opportunity, she says, “to help them not only survive but thrive and add to the global economy.” Though the Gateses anticipate challenges with development, improving infrastructure, introducing stable governments and economies are critical for raising opportunities for people in low resource countries, they write.

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Climate change fueled by building

Another surprise they highlight is the fact that the equivalent of a new New York City is being built every month globally, and this rate of development will continue for the next 40 years. That’s furthering concern over climate change, Bill writes in the letter. Manufacturing produces about 21% of the greenhouse gases emitted around the world, much of it from producing the cement and steel required to erect the buildings that form the cornerstone of urban development. “If we’re going to solve climate change, we need to get to near zero emissions on all the things that drive it — agriculture, electricity, manufacturing, transportation, and buildings,” he writes. “Solar panels are great but we need to be hearing about trucks, cement, and cow farts too.” Already, the European Commission is investing in research to lower emissions in each of these industries.

Public health at the global level

By encouraging people to think globally, the Gateses also make a globalist case for nationalism, noting that peace and stability around the world contribute to security at home. Investing in the health of the world plays a critical role in that stability. What experts learn from improving public health in the developing world can also be used to improve health issues in developed nations as well, like premature births. “The work on prematurity will be equally beneficial in the U.S. to understand how to detect the risk of premature births early to make sure there are advanced services in place for those at high risk,” Bill says.

Sexist data

To do almost anything to improve global health requires solid and reliable data, and that’s still lacking in a number of key areas, especially women’s health. For Melinda, the most surprising of the nine issues they highlight is the fact that data is still sexist, and critical information on the state of women’s health is missing. “When I got into this work, we couldn’t make investments without good data. We think data is objective, but it’s not. If we don’t collect data about women, about women’s lives, and if we don’t ask the right questions, we inadvertently bias the data. Then we don’t know where to invest on behalf of women,” she says. The Gates family is part of a coalition advocating for a gender data revolution, teasing apart existing datasets by gender and ensuring that future studies include women in order to expose their needs and the best programs for addressing them.

Those types of efforts — and the results they produce — make Bill and Melinda Gates optimistic about the future and hopeful that investments in the right programs, whether they’re high tech or not, are worthwhile. Bill points to the progress made in improving nutrition for people around the world, and in the discoveries scientists have made about how the body’s microbiome is affected by what people eat — and therefore affects the diseases to which humans are vulnerable. “Whether we’re improving outcomes for everyone or driving toward better equity,” he says, “that stuff excites us.”

CONTACT US at letters@time.com.

question: What does the text say about the theme/title of the letter Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in 2010?

answer: No answer

critique: It is omitted that the theme/title of the letter Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in 2010 was "Ups and Downs."

critique: The response misses to provide an answer to the task.

question: What does the text say about the Gateses' interest in low-tech crime prevention?

answer: The Gateses are interested in low-tech crime prevention. One initiative that caught their attention is a school- and neighborhood-based behavior program called Becoming a Man. The program helps young men in high-crime areas learn skills for avoiding violence and controlling potentially dangerous impulses. Programs like this, says Bill, show the power of even low-tech solutions like teaching basic coping skills in changing people's lives.

critique: The answer should mention the results of the program.

critique: Doesn't mention that the program also has lower arrest rate as a result of the program.

critique: The answer should mention that the program has been found to have reduced arrest rates.

critique: The answer should mention the arrest rates.

critique: The response should include that the Gates believe that teaching basic coping skills has been shown to reduce arrest rates.

question: What does the text say about the Gateses' views on Africa's young population?

answer: Because Africa is an ancient continent with man's earliest evolutionary ancestors, the Gateses see a huge opportunity here, to help them survive and thrive, to add to the global economy. That is why they anticipate challenges with development, and improving infrastructure, introducing stable governments and economies.

critique: The Gateses believe that the African young population is a huge opportunity to help them survive and thrive and add to the global economy. The response should include this.

critique: The answer omits that the Gateses see the youth population as a huge opportunity.

critique: The Gateses don't anticipate challenges with development, infrastructure, introducing stable governments and economies. They anticipate challenges with development, infrastructure, introducing stable governments and economies.

critique: This would be the appropriate place to quote the proper source material as well. This can either be done in the second half of the sentence or in a subsequent sentence.

critique: The Gateses anticipate challenges with development, and improving infrastructure, introducing stable governments and economies, because of the enormous youth population.

critique: The answer omits the challenges that the Gateses anticipate.

critique: The answer omits the challenges the Gateses anticipate.

question: What does the text say about Climate Change fueled by building and construction in the Gateses' letter?

answer: The equivalent of a new New York City is being build every month globally. This rate of development will continue for the next 40 years. Manufacturing produces about 21% of the greenhouse gases emitted around the world, much of it from producing the cement and steel required to erect the buildings that form the cornerstone of urban development. "If we’re going to solve climate change, we need to get to near zero emissions on all the things that drive it — agriculture, electricity, manufacturing, transportation, and buildings," Bill writes.

critique: The "rate of development" can be removed without consequence

critique: The answer omits the Gates' solution to the problem.

critique: The answer should include that the Gateses are concerned about the construction's effects on climate change.

critique: The answer should mention the European Commission.

critique: The answer should mention that the Gateses are hopeful about the future.

critique: The answer should mention the European Commission's research.

critique: The answer should mention that the Gateses are concerned about climate change.


text:
I woke up feeling surprisingly normal. There were none of the usual aches and pains that I felt sometimes, and my mind was oddly clear. I figured that I might as well take advantage of my peculiar situation, so I reached over to my nightstand and tried to pick up my iPad so I could read the morning news. Then I saw my hand.

I leapt out of the bed, recoiling in terror. Only too late did I realize that I had never hit the ground. Eyes wide, I chanced a look down. Instead of the familiar confines of my tiny bedroom, I saw the floor of the apartment above mine. My right leg was floating half in, half out of the brown-speckled tile, and I was further surprised to see it whole. I had lost it below the knee in combat ten years ago, but it was all there, despite the fact that I could feel none of it. I testily moved the limb, and it silently emerged from the floor. I was forced to stifle another shout of alarm when, out of the corner of my left eye, I saw the occupant of the apartment. She was sleeping, her slight back to me. I tried to stand, only to find that I slowly floated upwards. Desperately, I stared at the floor, and I sank down, landing silently. I couldn't help it. Before I realized what I was doing, I grunted in satisfaction at my minor accomplishment. Horrified, I literally melted into the wall. I could still see inside, however, and noticed that the woman hadn’t even stirred, and was still sleeping soundly. Emboldened, I stepped back into the apartment. I cleared my throat, and said, “Oi! Can you here me?” The woman continued sleeping. “Hey!” I practically shouted, growing more terrified. Nothing happened. I impulsively stepped towards the bed, reaching for the woman’s shoulder. My hand went straight through. I pulled it away, and fell back into the floor. With a silent flash, everything went white.

I opened my eyes, and found myself in the basement of my building. I tried to stand, but once again, I floated through the ceiling. The floor above was the lobby, and I came up just in front of the reception desk. I expected the people in the lobby to recoil at the sight of my scarred visage appearing from the floor, but no one seemed to notice me. This was starting to seem like a trend, so I began to walk towards the door. I found that, if I concentrated, I could prevent myself from falling through. I stepped right through the glass doors, flinching as my feet hit the sidewalk. It was then that I realized that I was dressed in nothing but my boxers. While I seemed to be invisible, my embarrassment won out and I decided to return to my room. I turned to face the building, and jumped.

I flew up much faster than I had earlier. My apartment was on the ninth floor, and I reached its window within a second. I reached out and grabbed the balcony, my hand passing right through a potted plant. Focusing, I was able to stand on the cracked concrete and look through my window. I walked through the screened glass door into my small kitchen. I went into my room via the wall, and noticed that I was lying on the bed. I looked surprisingly serene, but the fact remained that my dead body was lying less than ten feet in front of me, and I was standing there looking at it. I took the news that I was dead pretty well, considering the circumstances. Death had been around the corner for me since I joined the Service, and I was almost glad that I had gone while I was sleeping peacefully, as opposed to, perhaps, having a knife shoved through my gut. I turned, shrugged my shoulders, and opened my closet. I grabbed a pair of jeans, a black t-shirt, and a leather jacket and found that, as I put them on, they became translucent, allowing me to see the floor through the fabric. I walked over to my nightstand and pocketed my phone, wallet, and pocketknife. I took one last look at my apartment, and then I jumped through the ceiling and left.

I came out on the roof, squinting in the morning Los Angeles sunlight. The view from my building’s roof was spectacular, with the Pacific Ocean easily visible on the horizon. The wind was blowing, but I didn’t feel it like I normally would. The air passed through me, leaving behind only the soft feeling of a light breeze. The smog, normally the most dominant smell in the air, was even worse than average. I decided to get away from it, and jumped again. The roof of the building receded in a flash, and I was above the clouds. I threw my arms apart, slowing my upward momentum and eventually stopping me. I looked down, and could see the entire city. The cars on the 101 were like ants, crawling along with the speed of molasses. The Port was bustling, with enormous container ships plying the shining blue carpet that was the water. I could see LAX, with what looked like toy planes taking off, landing, and disgorging their human cargo into the airport. As I gazed out over the great city, I heard approaching engines. I whipped my head around, and saw the blue nose of an airliner hit me in the chest.

I shot downward, but it was too late. I phased through the plane’s aluminum skin and entered the cargo compartment. I focused on stopping my tumble, and forced my hand to grab onto a navy-blue suitcase. Having slowed down sufficiently, I let go of the suitcase, and sat on the floor of the plane. Despite the air moving past at 500 miles per hour just inches from my rear end, I felt nothing. Despite my long career in the field of clandestine operations, I had somehow never found myself in the cargo compartment of any passenger jet, much less a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737. I figured that, seeing as I was dead, I could afford to get away from things a little. I settled in between a bulkhead and some odd-smelling luggage, concentrated on not falling through the plane, and wondered where I was flying off to.

title: A Slightly-Different Morning

question: Summarize the narrator's death.

answer: No answer

critique: The narrator's death is described in the passage.

critique: The narrator is dead, but the summary should still give a sense of the circumstances of their death.

critique: The narrator's death is not described in the passage, but it can be inferred that he died in his sleep.

critique: The narrator's death is not described in the passage.

question: What does the passage say about airplanes?

answer: The protagonist is able to fly through the sky, and he is able to enter the cargo compartment of a passenger jet. He is able to phase through the aluminum skin of the plane. He is able to grab onto a navy-blue suitcase while he is in the cargo compartment.

critique: The protagonist is not able to fly through the sky.

critique: The protagonist is able to phase through the aluminum skin of the plane.

critique: It's omitted that the protagonist is killed by a plane's engines.

critique: The protagonist is able to phase through the aluminum skin of the plane when he's falling.

critique: The protagonist is able to fly through the sky because he's a ghost, not because he's able to fly.

critique: The protagonist is able to fly through the sky, and he is able to enter the cargo compartment of a passenger jet. He is able to phase through the aluminum skin of the plane. He is able to grab onto a navy-blue suitcase while he is in the cargo compartment.

question: What does the passage say about the afterlife?

answer: No answer

critique: The response misses to provide an answer to the task.

critique: The story has an answer and so does the question, as asking for a story is asking for a plot event. It relates the protagonist returning from a war and finding his spirit hovering over his own dead body.

critique: The passage does have some information about the afterlife.

question: Summarize the people the narrator encounters.

answer: The woman sleeping in the same building is unaware of the narrator's presence. The receptionist at the lobby is also unaware of the narrator. The people in the lobby also seem not to notice the narrator.

critique: The woman sleeping in the same building is unaware of the narrator's presence. The receptionist at the lobby is also unaware of the narrator. The people in the lobby also seem not to notice the narrator.

critique: The narrator doesn't encounter anyone in the lobby.

critique: The people in the lobby have noticed the narrator.

critique: The narrator is not encountered by the receptionist.

critique: The narrator encounters no one in the lobby.

critique: The narrator is not encountered by the woman sleeping in the same building.

text: While there are people in the lobby who fail to notice the narrator, there is no mention of a receptionist.

category: accuracy

question: What does the passage say about the narrator's generosity?

answer: No answer

critique: There is no evidence in the text that the narrator was generous.

critique: The question is asking about the narrator's generosity, not their lack of it.


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The average worker receives 124 emails a day, but if you’re a leader, you may want to back away from your inbox. Keeping up with your messages can prevent you from achieving your goals and being a good leader, according to new research from Michigan State University published in the _Journal of Applied Psychology._

Managers spend at least 90 minutes a day recovering from email interruptions, and this distraction can be harmful, says Michigan State management professor Russ Johnson. “In some ways, managers are the nerve center of the organization,” he says. “All information comes through them and is disseminated to teams. On days when they’re overloaded by email, they scale back leadership behaviors, such as motivating and inspiring their team, talking optimistically about the future or explaining why work tasks are important.”

Stress narrows your attention, and managers who feel overwhelmed and unproductive because of email demands recover by focusing on smaller tactical duties like assigning tasks or setting goals, says Johnson.

“They focus on what’s happening right now, and there’s an evolutionary ring to it,” says Johnson. “If you were being chased by a lion, you wouldn’t be thinking about tomorrow or next week. Being overwhelmed causes managers to buckle down and focus on the most familiar, day-to-day stuff. They stay in their comfort zone, and future-oriented thoughts suffer.”

The manager’s team suffers from the lack of motivation and inspiration they need to thrive. As a result, employees’ performance, work satisfaction, organizational commitment, intrinsic motivation, and engagement decrease, while their stress and negative emotions increase, says Johnson.

Why email is a problem

Unlike other forms of communication, email causes stress because it’s more invasive, says Johnson. “When you’re face to face, it’s easier to say you don’t have time,” he says. “It’s easier to hit the send button than walk down the hallway or call someone.”

Email also seems harmless; seeing a message in your inbox provides the brain with a hit of dopamine, which is addictive. But most of us don’t realize the cognitive demands that happen when you switch between primary work activities, says Johnson. “It takes upwards of a minute or more after responding to an email to get back into whatever you’re doing,” he says. “You have to rediscover your train of thought before the interruption.”

And because email is quick and instant, many of us believe we have to respond immediately, says Johnson. Instead, reduce the amount of time you spend on email, and turn off notifications so you won’t be tempted or distracted, he suggests.

For example, use email settings to put your inbox on pause, says Aye Moah, chief of product and cofounder of the productivity software provider Boomerang. “Essentially you’ll have no email interruptions until you decide you’re ready,” she says. “You can set a schedule and pick two, three, five times a day to have email delivered—whatever works for you.”

Moah recommends pausing your inbox for at least 90 minutes. “This is the amount of time it takes to get into a state of flow, feeling creative, and making progress on something hard,” she says.

You also need to communicate your email patterns, because managers often feel chained to their email worrying that their staff might ask questions or need clarification.

“Their progress is blocked if you are not responding,” says Moah. “It’s great to pause interruptions, but set expectations. Let your staff know you are focusing on something and will get back to you in an hour or two. People will get to know your cadence, and when they can expect a response.”

question: Why do answering emails such a drain on a manager's time and resources?

answer: Most managers are deadlocked and strapped to their email and desk. Case in point a manager of a retail store claims to be able to answer every email no one can perfectly keep on top of all the emails.

critique: The manager of a retail store is not mentioned in the text.

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critique: The article doesn't say anything about managers being strapped to their desks.

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JAMIE LINDEN (born September 3, 1980) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of 2006 film _We Are Marshall_ and the writer of 2010 film _Dear John_. He also wrote and directed the film _10 Years_, starring Channing Tatum.

Early life

Linden grew up in Winter Park, Florida[1] near Orlando, where he attended Lake Howell High School.[2][3] He attended Florida State University's College of Communication, majoring in marketing and media production.[4] After graduating from college in 2001, he and three friends traveled to Hollywood, California with tickets for game show _The Price Is Right_.[5] Upon arriving, he was individually called up to compete and won US$5,000 and a Tuscan wine server cart, which he saw as a sign to stay in Hollywood: “I thought, well that's a sign, 'I should stay.' What you want to do, finds you.”[6]

Career

Before Linden became a screenwriter, he worked at Mirage Enterprises as an assistant to directors Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella.[7] After reading in a 30th anniversary article in _FSView & Florida Flambeau_, Florida State's student newspaper, about the 1970 Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University football team,[8] Linden says he became “obsessed” with the story.[9] After moving to Hollywood, his first job involved reading feature film screenplays. After being fired from several assistant positions, he decided to write his own screenplay.[10] His first script was titled _Things to Do Before I Die_, co-written with University of Florida alumnus Cory Helms, and Warner Bros. gave the pair a blind deal to write another script.[11] Linden says the aftermath of the Marshall University tragedy was the very first story he ever thought of.[12] In 2004, he pitched the story to Warner Bros. with film producers Basil Iwanyk[13] and Mary Viola.[14] When Warner Bros. bought the script, Linden and other film crew met with many family members of the plane crash victims including Keith Morehouse, whose father was killed in the crash, to collaborate on the honesty of the script and the dignity of the victims.[15] The film became _We Are Marshall_, released in 2006 and directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol.[16]

In 2006, it was reported that Linden was writing a biographical film about Olympic gold medalist downhill skier Bill Johnson to be produced by Basil Iwanyk, as well as an adaptation of _The Dogs of Babel_ to be produced by David Heyman and a television pilot titled _Flash Back_ to be directed by McG.[17]

Personal life

In April 2013, Linden was a groomsman at the wedding of _Friday Night Lights_ actor Scott Porter. They were schoolmates at Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Florida.[18][19]

In 2018, Linden had a son with actress Rachel McAdams.[20]

Filmography

Feature films

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  2006   _We Are Marshall_   Screenplay by, story by, co-producer                                                                      Screenwriter; Co-story writer (with Cory Helms)
  2010   _Dear John_         Screenplay by, co-producer
  2011   _10 Years_          Director, written by
  2016   _Money Monster_     Screenplay by                                                                                Co-screenwriter (with Alan DiFiore & Jim Kouf)
  2021   _Chaos Walking_     |Co-screenwriter (with Charlie Kaufman, Patrick Ness, Lindsey Beer, Gary Spinelli and John Lee Hancock)

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question: Simmarize everything relating to We Are Marshall.

answer: After reading about the 1970 Southern Airways Flight 932 crash, He became obsessed with the story and screenwriting about it. He pitched the idea for a film to Warner Bros. They loved the idea and hired both him and the families from the crash to work on enriching the story with accuracy. We Are Marshall is the film based off of this crash, released in 2006.

critique: "We Are Marshall" is not the name of the film.

critique: Does not mention the crew members in question.

critique: The answer should mention that he wrote the screenplay for the film.

critique: The answer should mention that the film was directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol.

critique: "They loved the idea and hired both him and the families from the crash to work on enriching the story with accuracy." - this is inaccurate. Warner Bros. bought the script, not the idea.

critique: "He became obsessed with the story and screenwriting about it." - this is inaccurate. He became obsessed with the story after reading about the crash in a 30th anniversary article in Florida State's student newspaper.

question: What does the article say about Linden's interpersonal relationships?

answer: He attended Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Florida. He served as a groomsman at the wedding of Scott Porter. He became friends with Porter at that time. He had a son with actress Rachel McAdams in 2018.

critique: The answer omits that Porter and Linden were schoolmates.

critique: "He attended Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Florida." - this is irrelevant and should be removed.

critique: The first two sentences are not relevant.

critique: It is incorrectly stated that he attended grade school with Scott Porter, who passed the age requirement to his high school. Hence, this should be corrected.

question: What does the article say about Linden's career outside of screenwriting and directing?

answer: No answer

critique: The article does talk about Linden's career outside screenwriting and directing.

critique: The article mentions that Linden worked as an assistant to directors Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella.

critique: Note that prior to his career as a screenwriter and director, he has worked as an assistant to directors Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella.

critique: The article doesn't mention anything about Linden's career outside of screenwriting and directing.


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[10 Laws of Social Media Marketing]

Image credit: Picjumbo

Apple, the Apple logo and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

[Susan Gunelius]

Entrepreneur Leadership Network VIP

Marketing, Branding, Copywriting, Email and Social Media Expert

April 23, 2019 4 min read

Opinions expressed by _Entrepreneur_ contributors are their own.

Leveraging the power of content and social media marketing can help elevate your audience and customer base in a dramatic way. But getting started without any previous experience or insight could be challenging.

It's vital that you understand social media marketing fundamentals. From maximizing quality to increasing your online entry points, abiding by these 10 laws will help build a foundation that will serve your customers, your brand and -- perhaps most importantly -- your bottom line.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Listening

[The Law of Listening]

Success with social media and content marketing requires more listening and less talking. Read your target audience's online content and join discussions to learn what's important to them. Only then can you create content and spark conversations that add value rather than clutter to their lives.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Focus

[The Law of Focus]

It's better to specialize than to be a jack-of-all-trades. A highly-focused social media and content marketing strategy intended to build a strong brand has a better chance for success than a broad strategy that attempts to be all things to all people.

RELATED: THE 6 HIDDEN LINKEDIN APPS THAT CAN TAKE YOUR BUSINESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Quality

[The Law of Quality]

Quality trumps quantity. It's better to have 1,000 online connections who read, share and talk about your content with their own audiences than 10,000 connections who disappear after connecting with you the first time.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Patience

[The Law of Patience]

Social media and content marketing success doesn't happen overnight. While it's possible to catch lightning in a bottle, it's far more likely that you'll need to commit to the long haul to achieve results.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Compounding

[The Law of Compounding]

Image credit: GongTo | Shutterstock

If you publish amazing, quality content and work to build your online audience of quality followers, they'll share it with their own audiences on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, their own blogs and more.

This sharing and discussing of your content opens new entry points for search engines like Google to find it in keyword searches. Those entry points could grow to hundreds or thousands of more potential ways for people to find you online.

RELATED: FINDING YOUR IDEAL JOB CANDIDATES IN MINUTES

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Influence

[The Law of Influence]

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Spend time finding the online influencers in your market who have quality audiences and are likely to be interested in your products, services and business. Connect with those people and work to build relationships with them.

If you get on their radar as an authoritative, interesting source of useful information, they might share your content with their own followers, which could put you and your business in front of a huge new audience.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Value

[The Law of Value]

If you spend all your time on the social Web directly promoting your products and services, people will stop listening. You must add value to the conversation. Focus less on conversions and more on creating amazing content and developing relationships with online influencers. In time, those people will become a powerful catalyst for word-of-mouth marketing for your business.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Acknowledgment

[The Law of Acknowledgment]

You wouldn't ignore someone who reaches out to you in person so don't ignore them online. Building relationships is one of the most important parts of social media marketing success, so always acknowledge every person who reaches out to you.

RELATED: 4 SIMPLE WAYS TO UP YOUR MILLENNIAL MARKETING GAME

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Accessibility

[The Law of Accessibility]

Don't publish your content and then disappear. Be available to your audience. That means you need to consistently publish content and participate in conversations. Followers online can be fickle and they won't hesitate to replace you if you disappear for weeks or months.

10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

The Law of Reciprocity

[The Law of Reciprocity]

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You can't expect others to share your content and talk about you if you don't do the same for them. So, a portion of the time you spend on social media should be focused on sharing and talking about content published by others.

RELATED: THE NEW STRATEGY FOR LIFETIME LOYALTY: BALANCING 'PRODUCTS' AND 'SERVICES'

question: What is the best way to connect to your audience according to this article?

answer: The best way is to listen to your target audience and join discussions to understand what is important for them.

critique: While the answer is correct, it should be stated that it is the first law of social media marketing.

critique: The answer could be clearer in its pronoun use.

critique: The answer should mention the importance of quality content.

critique: It is omitted that you should create content and spark conversations that add value.

critique: "The best way is to listen to your target audience and join discussions to understand what is important for them." - this is just one way to connect to your audience. There's no need to overcomplicate things by trying to answer a question that was never asked.

critique: The answer is a bit vague. It should be more specific about what to listen for.

question: Why is reciprocity an important factor in online marketing?

answer: The article says that you can't expect others to share your content and talk about you if you don't do the same for them.

critique: "The article" is not a necessary detail in the answer.

critique: The answer could be phrased as a complete sentence.

critique: The answer is missing the part about reciprocity.

critique: The answer is redundant, because it restates the question.

critique: The answer should mention the reciprocity law.

critique: The answer should point out that reciprocity is important because it's a social factor.

critique: The answer should mention that reciprocity is important because it's a social norm.

question: What is the key to making an audience happy with your content?

answer: The key to making an audience happy with your content is to listen to them.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

critique: It is omitted that you also need to add value to the conversation.

critique: The article does not mention that the key to making an audience happy with your content is to listen to them.

critique: Doesn't mention additional key points: creating value, not being a jack-of-all-trades, specializing, quality, patience, compounding, influence, value, acknowledgment, and accessibility

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THE BLACK TOWERS
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The swirls of sharp orange dust etched their way across his eyes as they blew by.
The frayed edges of his tattered hood licked frantically into the air.
He was done with this life.
Done with everything.

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There was no help coming now, not from anyone. Not ever.
It had been months since the last drop of food had been created.
Rumours of hidden stashes, lifelines for another week, faded into memories.
We are all just scavengers now.

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He stood before one of the Black Towers.
Assembled as a last act of a government long crumbled.
It's pinnacle hidden from sight.
It's treasures untold.

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There where many of them.
One for every district rumours had said.
No one knew why they were built.
Just that they suddenly existed.

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They were long and towering.
Like a thinly stretched rectangle.
Jabbing their way up from the crusty earth.
And up through the heavy red pollution above.

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Thin metal rods protruded from all four sides of the Black Towers.
Disorganised and unsymmetrical.
Sharp and rough.
Edged for cutting and dissuading.

&nbsp;

He'd known a few climbers in his time.
Seeking a seat beside God.
Seeking an escape from the drainage.
From the burning famine.

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The moment his hand first touched the lowest rod he knew he was committed.
Their touch was rough and uninviting.
On every one, small strands of invisible metal needled outwards.
They burrowed deeply into soles of his worn bare feet and raw hands as he ascended.

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He didn't bother looking down.
There was nothing for him there any more.
The wind and searing heat had dissipated at this height.
He felt only the slick wetness of his blood as it leaked from him and trickled back down towards the ground.

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Above the clouds he climbed.
The silence of freedom at last.
At this level the rods where smooth and new.
The sky blue and clear.

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His hands slipped weakly on each rod above.
His feet slapped wetly on those below.
A crimson drip on each rung.
A testament to the unbound future.

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Eventually there were no more rods to grab.
A sharp flat edge lay above him.
One more heave and he would be on top.
One final push to glory and his questions would be answered.

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He stood on the flat sleek surface of the Black Tower.
The rats were far below. Oblivious.
In the centre of the floor was a large square hole.
That descended as far as he had climbed.

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No further way up.
No alternative route.
His hands and feet too badly damaged to return the way he came.
One final hope passed through his mind as he stepped gracefully into the hole.

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He never screamed as he descended into the darkness.
Never reached out for safety.
All roads had led to this.
Far below ground level, his death was instantaneous.

&nbsp;

In this civilised society.
It doesn't take long to process the offerings from above.
All you had to do was debone and wash the meat.
And there were always offerings from above.

title: [SF] The Black Towers

question: What does the text say about the architect who built the towers?

answer: No answer

critique: The story says nothing about the architect.

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not mention the architect.

critique: The answer is incorrect. The text does not say anything about the architect.

critique: There is no answer, but the text does mention that the towers were built by a government that had crumbled long ago.

critique: The answer should mention that the text doesn't mention the architect.

critique: The text does not mention the architect.

question: What does the story say about the protagonist?

answer: The protagonist had been living for months without food. He was done with this life and wanted to die. His last option was to climb the Black Towers, hoping to reach God. He started climbing and defeated the first tower, but he was unable to make it to the second tower. He climbed until he reached the sky, but there was no way back. He saw that the last tower had a square hole in the center and jumped in. He died instantly.

critique: The response is incorrect in saying the protagonist was defeated by the first tower. It also doesn't mention that he was unable to make it to the second tower.

critique: The protagonist's last option was to climb the Black Towers, hoping to reach God. He started climbing and defeated the first tower, but he was unable to make it to the second tower. He climbed until he reached the sky, but there was no way back. He saw that the last tower had a square hole in the center and jumped in. He died instantly.

critique: The protagonist was never defeated. He made it to the top of the tower and jumped into the hole.

critique: This detail of him losing his hope to reach God is fictional. It was never stated in the passage.

critique: The protagonist did not defeat the first tower. He was unable to make it to the second tower.

critique: The answer is missing the part about him dying instantly when he fell into the hole.

critique: "He saw that the last tower had a square hole in the center and jumped in. He died instantly." - this is incorrect. The protagonist was never able to reach the last tower and never saw the hole in the center.

text: To say that the narrator defeated the first tower and was unable to make it to the second tower is inaccurate, and so is the mention of "the last tower." These are unattested details.

question: What does the story say about the Black Towers?

answer: The Black Towers were built by the government to house their people. They were created for the district in which they were built. The people will die without food. The government had crumbled and there was no food left.

critique: The response is missing the part about the people climbing the towers for food.

critique: The answer is incorrect. The Black Towers were built by the government as a last act of a government long crumbled. They were built as a last act of a government long crumbled.

text: The answer inaccurately suggests that the Black Towers were created to offer people food and shelter—they are not. These towers have a hole at the top where people jump to die.

question: What does the story say about the significance of the square hole in the center of the tower?

answer: The square hole in the center of the tower leads to a deep, dark abyss. It is a death trap for those who try to climb the tower to escape the burning famine. The square hole was a last act of a government long crumbled. It was built as a last-ditch effort to save the people of the world, but it didn't work. The people are now left with nothing but the Black Towers to cling on to for survival. The people are now left with nothing but the Black Towers to cling on to for survival.

critique: The answer is a summary of the story, not the significance of the square hole.

critique: The answer should mention that the hole is a way for the people in the society to process the offerings from above.

critique: The significance of the hole is unclear.

critique: The answer is a summary of the story, not an explanation of the square hole.

critique: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

critique: The answer is not related. It should only include the information about the hole in the tower.