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They still think they can fix me.

See, I'm the kind of guy that likes to live in the moment. We can't always be looking back, now can we? And instead of putting me in prison, I'm put in Arkham Asylum. They thought it would be too dangerous having me around to mastermind those criminals. Ho-ho-he-he-ha.

As if my jokes weren't getting any worse.

No, see, now I can have even better people to work with. And it's all gonna lead up to when me and Bats can meet up again. And it will happen, don't worry, don't worry.

They say I'm crazy. I'm not crazy, I'm not. I'm ahead of the curve. Schemers are crazy. Planners. People who think that they can bend the world to their own will. Tell me tell me, how often, do your, uh, plans, work out? Do you really think that, for a moment, that harpy, Mother Earth, is gonna care about your plans?

See, I realize that planning is useless. Chaos, now that's a different story. Things naturally go towards chaos. I mean, look around you. Everything is hell. All I did was give it a little push, to start rolling. The rest it did by itself.

And now they hate Bats. Now, now they throw him out. I warned you, Bats, I told you. But no, not the unstoppable force, you wouldn't give up. That's why I'm around, to give you purpose. Just like you give me. It's amazing, isn't it? I mean, that's something to smile about, right?

And Harvey. Harvey, Harvey, Harvey. I didn't have to tell you to do anything. The coin was a nice touch, I must say. Thanks to you, I've won. See, Bats may have everyone else fooled. But we know, we know the truth. You, me, Bats, even Gordon. We know how good the people of Gotham really are. Harvey, Harvey, Harvey.

And the doctors here, they still think they can fix me. I tell them, I say, there is nothing to fix. But they try and try. They are terrified of me. That's good, that's chaos. There is one doctor here who isn't, though. Harleen Quinzel. Interesting woman. She isn't a schemer. I know the schemers when I see them. That's why I've always loved Bats. He isn't a schemer. He doesn't plan, he acts. I like that.

But this doctor, this squeeze, is intrigued. I know, I can tell. I've had enough doctors poking at me over the years to know when they are just doing their job, and when they are actually listening to me. She's curious. That's good, that's very good.

I have a surprize for you, Bats. I know you can beat him, I know. But that's not the point. The point is that you will have to try. Oh, and just to make it interesting, I haven't told him anything about your being Brucie. Oh, you didn't think I knew about that? Hehe-ho! I did, I do! But I won't tell him anything. Makes it a little more interesting.
Quin-something, doctor lady, is coming again. She visits me more and more often. I must be ready for her, right? Right, right.

Why so serious?

*(edit: "I'm the kind of guy that likes to think ahead" to "I'm the kind of guy who lives in the moment")

title: Thoughts of an InSane Mind (Joker Monologue)

question: What does the story say about Gotham city?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention the Joker's opinion of Gotham.

question: Summarize Joker's emotions towards Bats?

answer: Joker seems to have a love-hate relationship with Bats. He seems to have a lot of respect for him, as he says that he likes that Bats isn't a schemer. Joker also seems to be fascinated with Bats, as he says that he has had enough doctors poking at him over the years to know when they are just doing their job, and when they are actually listening to him.

critique: This is not the emotion the Joker has towards Bats. This should be omitted.

critique: The answer is incorrect. Joker does not seem to have a love-hate relationship with Bats.

critique: Joker doesn't seem to be fascinated with Bats.

critique: Joker does not say "I must be ready for [Harleen]," so this sentence should be removed

critique: It's not clear that Joker has a lot of respect for Bats.

critique: The answer is not clear about what the narrator is fascinated with.

critique: The answer is a bit off base. It should be more about the relationship between the two.

question: What does the story say about putting Joker being in prison?

answer: Joker is considered dangerous to society, so they send him to Arkham Asylum instead of putting him in prison. They believe it will be too dangerous to keep him with the criminals. Joker, however, believes that Arkham Asylum is where he can team up with better people and better criminals.

critique: The answer should mention that the Joker is happy about being in Arkham Asylum.

question: Summarize Joker's thoughts about Harleen Quinzel.

answer: Joker believes that Harleen is not a schemer. He knows that schemers are crazy and Harleen is not. He also knows that Harleen is a curious doctor.

critique: Does not mention the doctor's curiosity about him.

critique: The answer should mention that Joker is attracted to Harleen.

critique: The answer should mention that Harleen is the only doctor who isn't terrified of him.


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text:
[This is about open communications and the two biggest opportunities we have to disconnect as an organization; when we are overwhelmed by growth and when we are losing traction.]This is about open communications and the two biggest opportunities we have to disconnect as an organization; when we are overwhelmed by growth and when we are losing traction.  The first is easier to rationalize than the second but that doesn’t make it right…‘everyone’s so busy, I don’t want to pull them away from their priorities, we’re having such a great run I can’t imagine anyone has any concerns.’  And the second…‘they can see for themselves what’s happening, I just don’t have any good answers right now, let’s hold off a while longer, maybe we’ll have better news.’

My perspective in sharing these thoughts is derived from manufacturing and distribution environments where personal communications can be constrained by distance.  And, circumstances may not be any different in office and campus settings.  If we’re not front and center questions are bound to arise.

A number of years ago a machine operator came up to my office wanting to talk.  He wandered a bit but eventually focused on the new Chevrolet models that had just been announced.  I really didn’t know much about them and gently pressed him to his point.  He knew things were slow in the plant and was actually testing the waters as to whether layoffs were coming and he should delay buying a new car.  Heard some of these?  ‘Who were the people that toured the plant yesterday, why have we shut down three lines, people are saying we’re for sale, is that true, is our medical insurance really going to be increasing by 42%?’

Not exactly skilled management when we get behind the curve!  Here are some of the things I’ve seen done or done myself to get ahead of it.

Tried and true:

• Never close your door; if you can’t talk now promise to get back to the employee before the end of the day and keep your promise!

• Don’t refer, make the referral yourself. Example – if someone has an HR question don’t send them to HR, ask HR to go to them.

• Always answer a question. It doesn’t have to be in five minutes and the answer can be ‘no.’ No answer at all suggests ‘you’re not important’ or you don’t need to know.

And a non-social media option – closed circuit breaking news.  A nice addition to breakrooms and lunch rooms.  Scroll on the screen who will be touring today, incoming orders, new customers, awards, exceptional performance, upcoming meetings and especially the thoughts for the day, always to include safety.

Perhaps one of the most effective communication techniques I’ve ever been part of…employee roundtables; one per month per shift or department.  Management attendance was limited to the president, the COO and the director of HR joined by the first 7 to 8 interested employees.  There was always food, no rigid time constraint, and no subject off limits unless we were prohibited by active legal proceedings.

The expectation was that questions would surround ‘business’ matters, ‘how are we doing financially, is our bully competitor still trying to steal our customers,’ and on.  Instead, initially the queries were more parochial, ‘are we still looking at cushioned floor mats, will machine #36 ever be repaired, are we trying to find a better tape for packaging, can we add another vending machine?’  What an opportunity – and we seized on it, taking corrective action wherever we could and reporting it out, sometimes through closed circuit news.

The word spread and the process matured nicely.  We first primed the pump with such things as ‘does anyone want to ask about the plans for a new warehouse’ and soon enough our roundtables became all inclusive.  We talked about the GOOD AND THE BAD.  A moment not to be forgotten; a participant whose work colleague had been terminated for failing a drug test floated the idea that our policy should be amended to allow two strikes.  The management participants were all prepared to respond but we were boxed out before we could speak!  The employee’s peers pounced on his suggestion aggressively insisting they were not about to work around motion equipment being operated someone who had tested positive.

Lesson learned: stay connected, the ROI makes it all worthwhile.

Read more: The Value Of Key Stakeholder Feedback For CEOs

question: What does the author intend to teach the reader?

answer: The author is teaching the reader about open communications and the two biggest opportunities to disconnect as an organization.

critique: The answer should mention the opportunities to disconnect.

critique: The answer should mention the specific opportunities the author is talking about.

critique: The answer is too vague. It does not mention what opportunities to disconnect the author is referring to.

critique: The answer is too vague to be correct. The author is teaching the readers how to stay connected in order to avoid disconnecting.

question: What kind of news is the person in management attempting to break to his employees, and what does it imply about GM's welfare?

answer: The news that GM is planning to shut down several lines and the increase in medical insurance premiums by 42%.

critique: What was GM planning-negotiating a bailout or ridding themselves of responsibility for their employees. Change this.

critique: This is the wrong answer and the article does not provide this information.

critique: The article does not mention GM's welfare.

critique: The answer is wrong. The passage does not mention GM's welfare.


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Aaron took the stairs two at a time up to his apartment. The leftover rain on his coat slowly dripped onto the carpeted hallways as he walked on, casually and relaxed. He breathed in deeply and smiled. Nothing like the smell of rain. It had to be one of his all-time favorite smells, along with mint leaves and sticky raspberry yogurt.

Was sticky a smell? Aaron entertained that thought long enough to admit that it was, well, a stupid thought. He was beginning to think that he was recently having one too many of those. Taking out his keys, he quietly unlocked the door, grasping the smooth metal handle carefully as he did. Trying to sneak in on Bruce was always impossible, but he always tried anyways.

He opened his door to find his roommate waiting for him. Aaron smiled, white teeth contrasting with his dark complexion. “You know, one of these times I’m gonna do it.”	Bruce, wearing his typical bored expression, simply shook his head and sat back down on the couch to resume his game. Aaron also shook his head, still grinning, as he walked into his room. Dropping his backpack with college books with a muffled thump, he plopped down on his soft bed. He could already feel the energy draining from his body. It had something to do with the bed, he figured. In another minute he would be too tired to get up for anything.

“Amanda came over,” Bruce called from the other room. “She was looking for you.”	Aaron shot straight up, suddenly full of energy again. Amanda with the great legs. Amanda the woman from 3B. Amanda, the reason he had almost taken up dancing. Amanda with the great legs.

The legs were worth mentioning twice.

“What did she say?” he asked, trying to sound uninterested. He failed miserably.

“If you are so excited, why don’t you ask her yourself?” the blond haired Caucasian answered, his attention never leaving the game.

“What makes you think I’m excited?”

Bruce looked up at him for a moment. “Maybe the fact that you practically teleported from your bed to the couch when I mentioned her name.”

Damn.

Aaron leaned back onto the couch and let out a sigh. “Is it that obvious?”

“Only to people with eyes.”

Aaron rolled his eyes. “So what did she want?” He asked once more, his curiosity beating out his pride.

“Something about wanting ‘to see the world’.”

“... And?”

Bruce looked at his friend once more. “You don’t actually think I was paying attention to her words, do you Aaron?”

"You're an ass."

"I know."

“Did you at least get your eyes off of her body long enough to know where she is right now?”

Bruce thought for a moment. “I believe she was heading back to her room. That would be the first place I would check for her.”	Aaron was almost out the door by the time his friend finished talking.

Taking the hallway down to the elevator, he pushed the arrow a few too many times. It was only after he was inside did he realize how he was acting.	“Man, get a hold of yourself,” he mumbled, his palm on his forehead, as he tried to regain some composure. “She just wants to talk, maybe she saw your game last week. Or needs help with the writing assignment.”  He paused for a moment. “Yeah, she doesn’t need your help.”

When the elevator doors opened, Aaron was once again calm and controlled, with the exception of his extremely wide eyes. The sunglasses could fix that.

He knocked on the door, then rested back on his heels, trying to look as comfortable as possible. Two seconds later, it opened.	She was wearing volleyball shorts. At this moment, Aaron was very thankful he was wearing the sunglasses. Her long, blond hair ran just to the middle of her back, and was complimented by her beautiful blue eyes. Her whole figure was, well, amazing; not a toothpick, but athletic, curvy. Even her nose was attractive, and her lips looked great, smiling and forming words...

Shit, she was saying something.

“... said that you were out.” she finished, still smiling at him in that cute way, her eyes twinkling. She had one hand resting on her hip as she leaned against the door frame, looking like a model. Aaron stopped himself before going into another embarrassing lapse of attention.

“Yeah, I just got back from class. So what’s up?” he asked. He was getting better at this.

“Actually, I was just wondering what Mr. Hassle gave in our class yesterday. I missed it ‘cause of a dentist appointment.”  Aaron looked at her for a moment, then leaned onto his heels once more.

“Yeah, I’ll bring it over after dinner if you want.”  Stay calm, stay calm.

“Thanks,” Amanda said, her smile returning even brighter. “I appreciate it.”

“Yeah, no problem. Oh, and what was that you mentioned about seeing the world, or something?”

Amanda stared at him for a moment, confusion written on her face. “I’m not sure what you’re talking about,” she answered slowly, still smiling.

He was gonna kill Bruce.

“You know what, don’t worry about it. I’ll see you after supper,” Aaron called as he turned toward the elevator once more. Finally, a study date with Amanda, sort of. This day just got about a million times better.

Now all he had to do was find a way to hid Bruce’s body, and the day would be perfect.

Roommates.

title: Roommates

question: What does the story say about the relationship between Aaron and Amanda, and why was Aaron so attracted to her?

answer: Aaron is attracted to Amanda because of her great legs. He is also attracted to her because she is a model. Aaron is also attracted to her because of her blue eyes, her whole figure, and her lips.

critique: It is not stated that Aaron is attracted to Amanda because of her blue eyes, her whole figure, and her lips.

critique: There is no evidence that Aaron is attracted to Amanda because she is a model.

critique: The answer should mention that Amanda is a girl from 3B.

critique: The answer should mention that Amanda is a woman from 3B.

critique: The answer should mention that Amanda is a fellow student.

critique: The answer should mention Amanda's attractiveness in general, not just her physical features.

critique: Aaron isn't a model himself, he thinks she looks like one.

text: The answer omits that Amanda was the reason Aaron almost took up dancing. It should mention this.

category: coverage


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She made her way down a nameless street alone with her thoughts.  Not one other pedestrian lay in sight and every business had long since closed.  Occasionally a car would drive by, but to her it was but an empty shell.  Where had the time gone?  Her meditations always lasted longer than she planned.

The dry air scratched at her throat as it always did.  It was one thing in this desert town that she would never get used to.  “If only it could rain” she thought to herself imagining the fresh clean air that would come with it.  For a split second she forgot herself.  Her world was simply the soft pitter patter of rainfall.  No longer alone, no longer merely human, she became a multitude of raindrops.

“Why hello there miss lady” said a man with a very comically terrible southern accent.  She was startled as if woken from a dream, but she did not stop walking.

“Oh…hello” she barely whispered.  As she spoke she turned her head towards the voice to get a look at him.  Before facing forward once more she noticed a large jacket, a floppy hat, and scruffy facial hair.  “Homeless” was the first word to pop into her head.  Her eyes wide open she was obviously taken aback.  Slowly her thoughts crawled back into reality.  She was on her way home and a strange man had just spoken to her.

He stood up but did not follow her. “Pardon me ma’am, could you spare just a moment of your time” begged the homeless man while extending his arm and index finger.

She stopped and turned to face him.  Her furrowed brow gave away her curiosity as she looked him over.  The giant smile on his face seemed to show an inner struggle.  He was trying so very hard not to laugh at himself.  Her face softened and she allowed a slight smile.  This exact moment had crossed her mind so many times on these late night walks.  However she never imagined the homeless man to be so incredibly non-threatening.

“Um…can I help you with something?” she said barely resisting the temptation to laugh at his ridiculous form.  This man was lanky, and dirty, and it seemed that his face was permanently stuck in a goofy too big for his face grin.

“Well you see here, I was actually hoping that I could be of service to you.  You see I am quite famished and this empty stomach of mine has been preventing me from any truly peaceful rest.  I will do anything within my power to help and I will do it for a very small fee.”

“By fee you mean food?”

“Why yes of course.  An apple, a sandwich, whatever you see fit.” He paused here shoulders shrugged and with both arms palm up waiting for her response.

She stared at him trying to think what use he could be if any to her.  Still in thought she absent mindedly glanced at her watch to see what time it was.  “It’s late and I’m wasting time” she thought to herself.

“Walk me home and I’ll give you a sandwich.”

“Very well ma’am I accept most graciously” he responded with a deep bow.

Without warning she turned and continued on her way.  With a quick skip the awkwardly lanky man caught up to her and followed closely by her side.  “What are you doing out here so late?”

“I was meditating.”

“Is that some kind of East Asian voodoo magic?” answered the obviously confused homeless.

When she finally gained control of her laughter she answered, “No not really.  It’s kind of like praying while simultaneously controlling your breathing.”

“So you’re worshiping God?”

“I don’t believe in God and I’m actually trying to train my mind.  You see I’m trying to implant myself into a global conscience in order to live forever.”

“But everybody lives forever.  We are made out of matter.  And matter can neither be destroyed nor created.”

“Maybe not, but when you die your brain stops functioning.  You lose your identity as an individual.”

The homeless stopped for a second and gave her a questioning look.

“Look here missy.  Nobody has an ‘individual identity,’ we are one.  There is no you and me or mine and yours.  The entire universe is a collection of atoms randomly moving about.  It is only due to our ignorance that we perceive ourselves as individuals.”

At this point the girl had stopped as well.  She was staring at the homeless lips slightly parted in surprise.  “Then what happens when you die?”

“Death is simply an example of the dynamic properties of matter.  If you must look at us as individuals, then you can think of it as an evolution or even a realization.  We finally stop seeing a separation of things and lose all of our misguided thoughts and emotions.  The result is ultimate harmony with the universe.”

The homeless ended this with a smile.  He believed in his truth so whole heartedly that he saw no possible rebuttal.  This last statement had to have convinced this girl of the true nature of things.

“I’m sorry but that’s bull shit.  If what you say is true we should just nuke the world and kill every living thing so that we can bring harmony to the universe.”

The homeless lost control of his jaw.  It dropped open while his eyes simultaneously tried to pop out of his sockets.  He began to realize that this girl was simply another ignorant monster trying to disrupt his flow of positive energy.

After he didn’t respond for some time she started up again, “If death is an evolution than what is life?  Why does the universe allow us to continue to multiply and expand?  It should know what’s good for it and call it quits.”  She finished with her arms flailing and her own eyes bulging outwards.  But luckily the homeless realized what must be done.

He lunged forward and tackled her to the ground.  She landed face down with the homeless man on top of her.  Before she could scream or cry out for help he put both hands on the back of her head and grabbed two fistfuls of hair.  With his grip locked in place he began to smash her face repeatedly into the ground.  Every muscle in his body tightened.  His teeth were grinding away at each other, but he did not stop even when her body went limp.

After a minute or two he was out of breath.  He finally relaxed his grip, leaned back and sat on top of her with his arms hanging loosely by his sides.  After catching his breath he opened her purse and found the promised sandwich.  Payment in hand he walked into the darkness guided only by the eerie reflection of the sun.

title: [RF] Delusional homeless philosopher spreads word to one pedestrian at a time (he may have a few flaws)

question: Why did the homeless man attack the woman he was accompanying home?

answer: He was hungry and wanted to eat the sandwich she promised him.

critique: The answer could be clearer in that the answer comes from a critical point in the text. It does not have to detail everything about the homeless man.

critique: "He was hungry and wanted to eat the sandwich she promised him." - is only partly correct. The homeless man attacked the woman because she was being mean to him.

critique: "He was hungry and wanted to eat the sandwich she promised him." - while this is partly true, it is more important to mention that he was angry at her for speaking against his beliefs.

critique: The answer should include the reason the homeless man attacked the woman.

critique: The answer should mention that the woman was being rude to him.

critique: The answer should mention that the woman insulted him.

critique: The answer should mention that the woman doesn't believe in God and is trying to train her mind to live forever.


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Maya DeLeina is a multi-published Erotic Vampire Romance Author  with Siren,  Evernight, Ellora's Cave and Mystic Lotus Publishing.
 Her current series includes Ambrose Heights Vampires, My Naughty Vampire, Vampire Architects and Seasons of the Vampire.

Born and raised on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, Maya could be seen at her favorite beach, Lanikai, performing with an all-girl band where she played keyboards, guitar and provided vocals, working as editor in her high school's yearbook  and volunteering her time at a humane society through UH of Manoa civic groups.
 In 2006, Maya relocated to Colorado. Her crystal blue oceans, waterfalls and eighty degree year-round weather were traded for four season weather, enchanting forests and majestic mountains that led to her rekindled love for vampires.
In winter of 2010, she penned her first manuscript and by 2011, Flesh Fantasy was under contract and released by Siren Publishing. To date, Maya has published  _Flesh Fantasy, Veil of Seduction, Blood of Luna, Dark Companion_, Fire and Ice and Crimson Snow.
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question: What does the text say about Maya DeLeina's upbringing?

answer: She was born and raised on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. She attended high school. She is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and author. Now she performs with an all-girl band and has published over seven books.

critique: The response is incorrect and does not reflect Maya DeLeina's upbringing.

critique: Remove confusing sentence beginning "now" from the list because it doesn't help answer the question of what Maya's sideline careers are.

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RUSTAM ABDULLAH SANI (12 August 1944[1] – 23 April 2008) was a Malaysian politician, sociologist and political scientist. He was of Minangkabau descent from Salido, West Sumatera.

Born towards the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya in the Perak border town of Tanjung Malim, Rustam grew up in the shadow of his famous father, Abdullah Sani, who was better known as Ahmad Boestaman. Boestaman was a Malay nationalist and the founder of political parties Angkatan Pemuda Insaf and Parti Rakyat.

Rustam served as an associate professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Malaya and was a prolific writer in Malay and English. His anthology of poems, Riak-Riak Kecil, composed in 1977, was published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. Rustam won the National Literature Award for 1988/89.[2]

Education

Rustam attended the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur.[3] He later enrolled at the University of Malaya for a bachelor's degree before heading to the University of Kent for a master's degree, where he wrote a thesis entitled _Social Roots of the Malay_ Left which traced the origin of the Malay political left to the 1920s.[4] At Kent, he mentored a variety of undergraduates including PAS secretary-general Kamaruddin Jaffar, economist Ghazali Atan and publisher Lim Siang Jin.

Early career

Rustam joined the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia economics faculty in early 1977, then still at its temporary campus in Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur. It was here he befriended with many personalities such as Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Sanusi Osman, Ting Chew Peh and Shamsul Amri. He deepened his preoccupation with the challenges of Malaysian nationhood at the university, an enduring theme in his writings since the 1970s, and the subject of one of his two latest books, which was launched posthumously by his old friend from the 1960s, Anwar Ibrahim.

Later he embarked for Yale University, but after passing the tough comprehensive exams there, he lost interest, preferring instead to write a statistics textbook. Back at UKM, he switched to the Politics Department as his old Canterbury friend, then Abim secretary-general Kamaruddin, had left to join Anwar in the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the Government.

With Syed Husin at the helm of the Malaysian Social Science Association (PSSM), Rustam started a bilingual quarterly journal, Ilmu Masyarakat, to try to open new Malaysian debates under the dispensation of the then new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to which the former UKM academic as well as PNB and Guthrie chief executive Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim (later Selangor Mentri Besar) was an early and insightful contributor.

At the end of the 1980s, Rustam accepted Nordin Sopiee’s invitation to join ISIS. There, he helped to craft Mahathir’s historic February 1991 speech promising a “Bangsa Malaysia” as part of his Vision 2020 (thankfully translated by Rustam as Wawasan 2020, instead of the earlier Visi 2020), changing the terms of national discourse in one fell swoop.

Frustrated by its lack of serious commitment, he left ISIS in the mid-1990s to become a writer, translator and reluctant businessman.

Soon after, he agreed to become deputy president of PSSM, later inaugurating the biennial series of international Malaysian Studies Conferences in which we tried to reposition Malaysian studies as a national – and nationalist – discourse, rather than as post-colonial studies.

Political involvement

However, the events of 1997-99 with the sacking of the then Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim disrupted Rustam's plans and he rose to the popular national call for _Reformasi_ following Anwar’s incarceration and persecution, becoming its most thoughtful “participant observer”.

As deputy president of the Parti Rakyat Malaysia, a party his father had founded almost half a century before, he negotiated its principled unification with the political movement which had emerged around Anwar despite several high-profile defections. After the merger with Parti Keadilan Nasional to become the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), he became PKR information chief.

Death

Rustam died at his home in Gombak, Selangor on 23 April 2008 at the age of 64 due to respiratory difficulties.[5] His body was sent to a mosque near his house at Bukit Lela and he was later buried at the Taman Danau Kota Muslim cemetery after Zohor prayers.

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title: Rustam Sani

question: What was the subject matter of one of the two latest published books that Rustam wrote and when were they published?

answer: He wrote a book about the challenges of Malaysian nationhood and it was published posthumously by his old friend from the 1960s, Anwar Ibrahim.

critique: The answer should mention the title of the book.

critique: It is not stated that the book was published posthumously by Anwar Ibrahim.

text: The book is about the challenges of Malaysian nationhood at the university.

question: What part did Rastum play in the Malaysian Social Science Association?

answer: He started a bilingual quarterly journal called Ilmu Masyarakat.

critique: The answer should mention that he was deputy president of the association.

critique: Does not mention that he was deputy president of the PSSM.

critique: It is omitted that he was deputy president of the association.

critique: "He started a bilingual quarterly journal called Ilmu Masyarakat." - while this answer is true and Rustam started the quarterly journal, what PSSM was the journal part of was omitted.

text: It is omitted that he inaugurated the biennial series of international Malaysian Studies Conferences.

question: Why did Rastum lose interest in his studies at Yale

answer: Not answered.


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[School sign] BEIJING BISS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (BISS) ([1]) is an independent co-educational English-language day school located in Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China.[2]

Founded in 1994, BISS provides instruction for kindergarten to grade 12 students from the expatriate community of Beijing, using all three International Baccalaureate (IB) programs: the Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme.[3] As of 2012, 340 students from 40 different nationalities attend the school.[4]

Luo Wangshu of _Xinhua_ (printed in the _Shanghai Daily_) has reported that the school “has a reputation for providing high-quality education, with its graduates having been accepted by top universities, such as Harvard and Columbia.”[5]

History

Beijing BISS International School was founded in 1994 by its sister school, the International School Singapore (ISS), as an independent proprietary, co-educational, English-language day school offering an international curriculum for Kindergarten - grade 12 students from the expatriate community of Beijing.[6]

BISS was the first International School licensed by The Beijing Educational Commission, and the first school in Beijing to offer all three IB programs.

In 2018 the school encountered a temporary closure, citing financial issues, and teachers went on strike as they failed to receive their wages in a timely manner. In response to ongoing non-payment of staff salaries and entitlements BISS teachers went on strike on September 20, 2018. Some current and former staff are owed as much as 120,000 yuan. Teachers wrote parents a letter stating that “Faculty contracts have not been honored and wages, health insurance.[7] and housing allowances have not been paid”. The Head of School, Mr. Randal Eplin then sent an email to staff stating that the school would be closed the next 2 school days for “internal business reasons”. He also wrote "During this time the business office staff will work with the owner of BISS (Mr. Elvis Tan) to bring stability to the financial challenges that the school is facing.[8]

Campus

The school's 11,000 square meter campus is located near major expatriate residential areas in central Beijing, just off the North Third Ring Road. The campus is close to central Beijing, the Asian Games Village and the Olympic Stadium, the Bird Nest.

The main building holds more than thirty classrooms, a central library, music, drama and art studios, science labs, design and technology lab, multi-purpose auditorium, cafeteria and administration offices. There is a five aside football (soccer) pitch with a newly constructed multi-sport dome for badminton, volleyball and basketball. Air purifiers are installed in every hallway of the building.

Program

Curriculum

BISS offers the Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) [9] to all students, from kindergarten through grade 12.

Accreditations, Authorizations, Memberships and Licences[10]

-   Authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB): BISS was the first school in Beijing and one of the first in China to be authorized to offer all three IB programs
-   Accredited by the National Centre for School Curriculum and Textbook Development (NCCT)
-   Licensed by the Beijing Education Commission
-   Member of the Association of China and Mongolia International Schools (ACAMIS)
-   Member of the East Asia Regional Council of Schools (EARCOS)

Students

BISS provides instruction for kindergarten to grade 12 students from the expatriate community of Beijing. As of 2012, 340 students from 40 different nationalities attend the school.[11]

Class sizes

BISS maintains a relatively low student to teacher class ratios, with classes typically having 15 students or less to 1 teacher. Luo Wangshu of the Shanghai Daily reported that “BISS believes that smaller class sizes make for better academic performance and communication.”[12]

Faculty

BISS faculty members hail from the United States, Canada, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, and the U.K. In 2017, Search Associates, the most reputable international schools' recruitment agency disassociated itself from BISS because of unpaid fees. As a result, BISS now recruits most of its faculty through its website.

Tuition

As of 2009 the school tuition ranges from lower for kindergarteners to higher for older students. Kindergarteners each had a tuition of 96,000 yuan (49,217 Malaysian ringgits ) while a high school senior had a tuition of 172,000 yuan (RM88,181).[13] For kindergarten and first grade classes, as of 2012 the school charged up to 109,800 yuan yearly per pupil.[14] In 2015 the tuition for the year was 300,000 renminbi ($48,330 U.S. dollars). _China Daily_ ranked BISS as the most expensive private school in Beijing.[15]

[1] “教育部公布经批准设立的外籍人员子女学校名单.” (Archive) Jiaoyu Shewai Jianguan Xinxi Wang (教育涉外监管信息网 _Jiàoyù Shèwài Jiānguǎn Xìnxī Wǎng_ “Education of Foreigners Oversight Information Network”), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. November 21, 2012. Retrieved on July 19, 2013. “5、北京BISS国际学校 (1996/06/11）”

[2] “Home.” Beijing BISS International School. Retrieved on June 19, 2013. “No. 17, Area 4, Zhen Xi Li, Chaoyang District, Beijing 1000029, People's Republic of China”

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title: Beijing BISS International School

question: What does the article say about the quality of education at BISS?

answer: Luo Wangshu of Xinhua has reported that the school has a reputation for providing high-quality education, with the graduates having been accepted by top universities, such as Harvard, Columbia, and Boston. The school states that they believe that small class sizes make for better academic performance and communication and provide instruction for kindergarten to grade 12. Their faculty includes staff from the US, Canada, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, and the UK. Several years ago, the Search Associates, the best school's recruitment agency, stopped providing recruitment services. Now, they employ staff via their own website.

critique: The last line of the response is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The answer is irrelevant to the question.

critique: "Boston" - remove the comma and add "United States"

critique: The school's reputation isn't explained.

critique: The last sentence is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The article doesn't say anything about Boston.

critique: The quality of education and class being explained, not the teacher's nationalities.

critique: The last sentence is not about the quality of education at BISS.

critique: The question asks about the quality of education at BISS, not the quality of the school itself.

critique: Several years ago the Search Associates stopped recruiting for the school. They didn't stop providing services for the school.

critique: The school states that they believe that small class sizes make for better academic performance and communication.

critique: This is irrelevant information that should be removed.

text: The last sentence is irrelevant and the article doesn't say anything about Boston

category: accuracy

refinement: Luo Wangshu of Xinhua has reported that the school has a reputation for providing high-quality education, with the graduates having been accepted by top universities, such as Harvard, Columbia, and Boston. The school states that they believe that small class sizes make for better academic performance and communication and provide instruction for kindergarten to grade 12. Their faculty includes staff from the US, Canada, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, and the UK. Several years ago, the Search Associates, the best school's recruitment agency, stopped providing recruitment services. Now, they employ staff via their own website.

question: What does the article say about the student riots at BISS?

answer: No answer

critique: There is no mention of student riots at BISS.

critique: There are no relevant details given in the article

critique: The response misses to answer the question.

critique: The article does not mention any student riots at BISS.

critique: No answer is incorrect. There is a mention of riots at BISS in the article.

critique: There is no specific evidence of student riots at BISS

critique: There is no mention of student riots in the article.

critique: There's a brief mention of the student riots in the article, which is important context for the information about BISS's temporary closure in 2018. The riots aren't the reason for the closure, but this is an omission that should be corrected.

critique: The answer should include that BISS encountered a temporary closure, citing financial issues, and teachers went on strike in 2018 and some current and former staff are owed 120,000 yuan.

critique: There are multiple mentions of student riots.

critique: There is no mention of student riots in this article.

question: What does the article say about the demographics of the students at BISS?

answer: Beijing BISS International School provides instruction at all levels from kindergarten to grade 12. As of 2012, there are over 340 students from 40 different nationalities attending the school. The school has a low student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1. They maintain a relatively low student to teacher ratio where kindergarten and first grade classes cost up to 109,800 yuan annually a pupil.

critique: This is irrelevant and should be omitted.

critique: The question is not about the demographics of the students at BISS. It is about the demographics of the students at BISS.

critique: The student-teacher ratio and tuition information should be omitted since it does not pertain to the question.

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

critique: 'They' used incorrectly; it needs to be 'It'

critique: The answer is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The answer omits the most important detail about the students.

critique: Doesn't mention the age ranges of the students.

critique: The last two sentences are superfluous and should be removed.

critique: The answer should mention the lack of diversity at BISS.

critique: The answer omits the fact that most of the students come from the expatriate community.

critique: Amount of tuition is not relevant to the question of demographics.


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A judge in Missouri ruled on Friday that the state’s only abortion clinic can continue providing the procedure, blocking Missouri from becoming the first state without an abortion clinic in nearly 50 years.

Planned Parenthood said in a statement Friday that St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer issued a temporary restraining order against the State of Missouri, allowing the clinic to keep providing abortions, and that he scheduled another hearing for June 4. The clinic, a Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis, had been set to lose its license to perform abortions at midnight on Friday.

Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an OB-GYN from Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, said that they will continue to provide patients with abortion care.

“This is a huge sigh of relief for the many patients who need access to safe, legal abortion in Missouri,” said McNicholas. “The fight goes on. While temporary, we celebrate today, and tomorrow we go back to work to ensure access to abortion does not go dark at the last health center that provides abortion in Missouri.”

Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday that Missouri looked unlikely to renew its license to provide abortion care at the health center. The group filed a lawsuit against Missouri and asked for a temporary restraining order that would allow the clinic to keep operating past May 31. M’Evie Mead, director of policy and organizing of Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri, said at a Friday press conference that the temporary restraining order will remain in place until the judge rules on whether to put a longer-term restraining order, known as a preliminary injunction, on the state.

On Wednesday, Gov. Mike Parson—who last week signed into law a bill that bans abortions starting in the eighth week of pregnancy—said Planned Parenthood had not met standards of care required for license renewal, and would not receive any special treatment for being the last abortion provider in the state. If the clinic corrected certain unspecified “deficiencies” uncovered by state inspectors before May 31, Parson said, its license would be valid for renewal. But without those adjustments, he said, “it would be reckless for any judge to grant a temporary restraining order.”

In its lawsuit, however, Planned Parenthood argued that the license renewal process had been unlawfully intertwined with a state investigation into an unspecified patient complaint. Parson said Wednesday that the organization was aware of issues at its clinic, and mentioned that patients at the health center had reported failed surgical abortions and at least one complication that required emergency surgery.

Dr. David Eisenberg, the clinic’s medical director, said the Missouri Department of Health failed to explain to the clinic the complaints the state is investigating, adding that the state holds the clinic to a higher standard of care than any other healthcare provider.

“Despite knowing that we provide the highest quality of healthcare in Missouri, the Department of Health has refused to be a fair partner and they are over-regulating abortion care to the point that it is nearly out of existence in the state of Missouri,” said Eisenberg.

Eisenberg addressed accusations that several people reported receiving failed abortions, saying that while abortion is safe, sometimes patients need to go to the hospital to remove residual tissue. He also referred to accusations that many people were transported to the hospital from the clinic, explaining that people come to the clinic for many different medical needs, and that sometimes hospital transportations are medically necessary.

“We’re not perfect, but we do provide the highest quality of care,” Eisenberg said.

The standoff also circled back to one issue raised by Planned Parenthood officials on a Tuesday call with reporters. Planned Parenthood President Dr. Leana Wen said state officials had requested “inappropriate and suspicious” interviews with seven of the clinic’s doctors, including medical residents and fellows not directly employed by Planned Parenthood, and threatened punitive action as a potential consequence of these interviews. Planned Parenthood officials said its two attending physicians in Missouri consented to interviews, but that it did not provide access to non-employee trainees.

Parson described the interview requests as routine, and said the state’s investigation could not be completed, nor the license renewed, without the remaining five interviews. Planned Parenthood said securing those interviews was beyond its control, since the remaining five doctors are not employees of the organization.

The controversy in Missouri follows several recent laws that have restricted abortion access in U.S. states. Alabama this month enacted a near-total ban on abortions at any stage of pregnancy, and lawmakers in states including Georgia and Louisiana have passed so-called “heartbeat bills,” which ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as the sixth week of pregnancy.

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question: What does the text say about abortion laws in Virginia?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not talk about abortion laws in Virginia.

critique: The text mentions several abortion laws, including the Missouri abortion law which is the focus of the article. All the states mentioned are supposed to be in VA.

critique: The text does not mention anything about abortion laws in Virginia.

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: The main news event is that Missouri is the first state to not have an abortion clinic in 50 years. Planned Parenthood is the only abortion clinic in Missouri. The clinic was set to lose its license to perform abortions at midnight on Friday, but a judge ruled that the clinic can continue providing abortions.

critique: It's omitted that the clinic was set to lose its license due to a complaint investigation by the Missouri Department of Health.

critique: The clinic was not the only abortion clinic in Missouri.

critique: The clinic is not the only abortion clinic in Missouri.

critique: The clinic was not set to lose its license at midnight on Friday.

critique: The clinic was not set to lose its license, it was going to lose its license.

critique: The line about Missouri abortion clinics is pretty unclear

question: What does the text say about the arguments made by Gov. Parson against Planned Parenthood?

answer: Gov. Parson said Planned Parenthood had not met standards of care required for license renewal and would not receive any special treatment for being the last abortion provider in the state. He also said that the clinic had to correct certain unspecified deficiencies uncovered by state inspectors before May 31. If the clinic corrected the deficiencies, its license would be valid for renewal.

critique: It's omitted that Parson claimed that the clinic had failed surgical abortions and at least one complication that required emergency surgery.

critique: The answer should mention the interview controversy.

critique: It's omitted that Gov. Parson said the license renewal and the investigation were being intertwined with the complaint investigation.

critique: The answer omits that Parson said the license renewal process had been unlawfully intertwined with a state investigation into an unspecified patient complaint.

critique: The answer omits the fact that Parson said that the license renewal process had been unlawfully intertwined with a state investigation into an unspecified patient complaint.

critique: The answer omits the state investigation into an unspecified patient complaint.

text: The answer should mention that Parson described the interview requests as routine.

question: What does the text say about the current anti-abortion laws in the U.S.?

answer: Several anti-abortion laws have been passed in American states in recent months. Many states have passed so-called "heartbeat bills", known as the "heartbeat bills" that ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as week six in pregnant. States such as Alabama and Georgia have also enacted near-total bans on abortions at any stage of pregnancy.

critique: Add in "Missouri" to include it for the sake of also including more places

critique: It is omitted that Missouri has attempted to become the first state without an abortion clinic in 50 years.

text: Only Alabama has the "near-total ban". Georgia and Louisiana have the heartbeat bills. This answer should correct this.


text:
Us four sat ensuring my stay.
In conversation, Rick was indirectly called a liar by Rob and Megan
because of me.
The price of being a father.
Any words spoken to him sounded like "Liar".
Any words spoken to me were in question.
As if I was being interrogated.
I had nothing to say unless asked.
The house was a mansion.
My cousin played the role of Keith Cozart.
I looked forward to good times as the house was left mostly
unattended.
As we spoke my mind wandered into flashbacks and daydreams.
Rob was showing me the room where I was going to stay.
There were many rooms and hallways.
Some rooms were connected by doors and weren't connected to hallways.
I opened a door to a bathroom and there was someone in the bathtub.
At first I laughed and looked away but Rob quicly put his arm around me and
led me away, and as he did I caught another quick glimpse of the bathtub and
noticed that it was a body. I was shocked and Rob started to remind me that I
didn't see anything that there was no one there. I instantly protested to
staying in the adjacent room which was where we were headed. I threatened to say
what I saw if forced to stay there. I was led away. The confusion and
unknowingness turned into fear and Plan. We returned downstairs and played it
off, acting as if that didn't happen. Later I spoke with Rob's sister about
what I had seen and she told me that it was not infact a body but pieces of
bodies that were created from insecurities. That she herself had created some
of the pieces that were in the bathtub. We walked and talked. I thought about
what I heard. Generations of insecurities brought about what was in the
bathtub. They all knew. Did Rick know? Did Megan know? I didn't know.
Who was it? Was it one of their own. We ended up back at the bathroom and I
looked in again and what I saw shocked me to the point that I couldn't clearly
make out what it was. Was it a body or was it pieces? It was entirely
underneath the water. I faked emotion and accepted the pieces of insecurities
and agreed to stay in the adjacent room. It was the only way to survive.
I spent most of the first week alone in the room.
I heard them speaking about me. About how I spent time alone.
I was genuinely afraid. The first chance I would take it.
It was a Saturday. I had stolen a few grams of Rob's cocaine and
over the course of 2 days had made it injectable with no one knowing.
The owner of the mansion, the famous Dr. Bob, had syringes in the
downstairs bathroom. Everyone left late in the night.
The only ones left were Rob and Megan. Who were passed out. I stabbed Rob with
the needle and injected it. As he woke and saw me he knew what my
intentions were but could not prevent them as the high almost instantly kicked
in and he fell into a euphoric state. Megan didn't even wake up.
The thought crossed my mind. Did she know about the bathtub? Had she noticed the
change in my behavior? I weighed the risk of foiling my Plan in my mind before
deciding to leave her behind as I escaped into the night. I stole a car from
the mansions garage and left leaving no trace of where I was going.
The insecurity of being insecure. Being insecure was my only security, the
only thing that led me to escape the fate that awaited me. Where all others had
failed and gave in to become part of the fate themselves I had broken free.

title: the fate that awaited

question: Summarize Megan's descent into madness.

answer: No answer

critique: Megan is not described as descending into madness.


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The most comprehensive archive of the artist Vaginal Creme Davis is on YouTube, where fans have uploaded hundreds of clips of her videos and performances. “That Fertile Feeling,” a video from 1986, follows Davis and her close friend, Fertile LaToya Jackson, after Fertile’s water breaks while the two women are watching television. At the hospital, Fertile is turned away because she doesn’t have state health insurance. Eventually, at the apartment of Fertile’s boyfriend (who is always naked), Davis coaches Fertile through giving birth to eleven-tuplets. After a successful delivery, Fertile rides away on a skateboard down a Los Angeles street, Davis calling after her.

“I was always too gay for the punks and too punk for the gays. I am a societal threat,” the artist Vaginal Davis, seen here in 2002, said.Photograph by John Vlautin

“Fertile!” Davis yells, “You’re so fertile! You’re the first woman in the world to give birth to eleven-tuplets!”

Fertile’s delivery is an ambiguous miracle: both because of the large quantity of babies, and how Davis and Fertile perform an uncertain womanhood. Are they mocking the fact that they have bodies that may not be able to give birth, and that are turned away at hospitals? Or are they mocking a cultural fixation on pregnancy as the marker of womanhood? Either way, the two artists parody an entire epoch of divine births. Maybe Mary was a virgin; just as possible, perhaps, is that she was trans.

Davis’s new exhibition at Invisible-Exports, “Come On Daughter Save Me,” includes sixteen blood-red wall sculptures. Like her performance and video work, Davis’s sculptures do not ascribe to distinctions between artist and hobbyist, sacred and amateur. She made these objects in Berlin, where she has lived for almost a decade, out of quick-drying clay and whatever else was lying around: red nail polish, hydrogen peroxide, perfume, witch hazel. Some are melted faces; others look like genitals that you’ve never seen before. All could be the work of an ancient-maker or an obsessive child. She doesn’t consider herself “a sculptress like Louise Nevelson” but has always made objects to keep herself amused.

The show’s title, “Come On Daughter Save Me,” is taken from a phrase the artist’s mother said to her often when she was a child. According to Davis, her black Creole mother—then forty-five years old—met her twenty-year-old Mexican-American father only once: under the table at a Ray Charles concert at the Hollywood Palladium, sometime in the early nineteen-sixties. The artist was born from this encounter.

Davis was born intersex, at a time when doctors assigned children with her anatomy a gender of “male” or “female” through surgical intervention. (These procedures persist today, though at lower rates.) Her mother refused to let doctors operate. So Davis grew up with the word “male” on her birth certificate but with her mother and four older sisters referring to her by female pronouns. Their household in South Central Los Angeles, Davis said, was a “Druid Wiccan witches’ coven” where her identity as a daughter was not questioned but affirmed.

Davis got her start in L.A.’s predominately white punk scene as the front woman of an art-punk band called the Afro Sisters, where she referenced and drew inspiration from iconic black radicals like Angela Davis, after whom she named herself. Throughout the eighties, Vaginal Davis developed multiple personas and performed incongruous identities. She was a black revolutionary drag queen, a teen-age Chicana pop star, a white-supremacist militiaman. These characters often referred to one another: against her better judgment, Vaginal Davis pined for Clarence, a rabid white supremacist; Clarence, too, harbored secret affections. Their dynamic caricatured that illicit desire that exists despite—or, perhaps, because of—racism. This kind of political critique, simultaneously absurd and hyper-real, made Davis a muse to a generation of queer writers and critics, like the late José Esteban Muñoz, who died in 2013.

Muñoz was the first person to use the term “terrorist drag” to describe the work of Davis—in particular, the way she interrogated rather than obscured her cultural otherness. Referring to herself as a drag queen, a hermaphrodite, and a “sexual repulsive,” Davis used her performances to critique the many contexts in which she was undesirable. “I don’t fit into mainstream society, but I also don’t really fit into ‘alternative culture,’ either,” she told me recently. “I was always too gay for the punks and too punk for the gays. I am a societal threat.”

“Terrorist drag,” as performed by Davis and theorized by Muñoz, feels especially relevant in a security age when people continue to be surveilled due to their gender identities. In 2003, amid post-9/11 overhauls, the Department of Homeland Security warned the Transportation Security Administration that “male bombers may dress as females in order to discourage scrutiny.” In airports, trans people continue to be pulled aside at far higher rates than cis people: body parts like a trans woman’s penis or a trans man’s chest-binder register on body scanners as “anomalies.” Just last week, the Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz incorrectly suggested in a press conference that the attacker behind a recent mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood was “a transgendered leftist activist.”

Concurrent with this rhetoric and policy, a generation of gay Americans appears to be benefitting from rights and protections that were an impossibility for previous generations. The laws that didn’t save the elders, it seems, are going to save some of the children. The title of Davis’s show, “Come On Daughter Save Me,” is a bittersweet plea, and a cautionary warning. As she told me last week, “You can’t change institutions from the inside, as they always wind up changing you.” This is why she is content with her place as an outsider of the institutional art world, and of culture at large. She does what she wants, makes what she wants, and mocks who she wants; she rejects inclusion, and its limiting factors.

Davis continues to be prolific: in addition to the sixteen wall sculptures, “Come On Daughter Save Me” included a radical re-staging of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at N.Y.U.’s 80WSE Gallery, in collaboration with the director Susanne Sachsse. “The Magic Flute” was the first opera Davis saw, at the age of seven, at the famed Shrine Auditorium, in South Central Los Angeles. Around this time, she was an active youth member at the Theocratic Ministry School, a division of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. There, she learned what she liked (the historical significance of the Bible, the principles of rhetoric) and rejected what she didn’t: namely, any doctrine that did not make room for her entire existence. Davis is not religious, but her work is a sacred mythology for the outsider.

question: Summarize a very important message found in this article.

answer: This article relays an important message in the model of dangerous snakes and apples - basically, that everything has both advantages and disadvantages. Discrimination against people who are not cisgender or heterosexual seems to be a big problem in the world today. The fear of outsiders has led to the creation of policies to protect the privilege of white heterosexual men and women, while people who are not white or heterosexual, as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community, experience discrimination, violence, and inequality. Single-issue activist rhetoric has divided these so-called tiers of rights and privilege, creating an unhealthy, toxic environment.

critique: The model of dangerous snakes and apples is not mentioned in the article.

critique: The model of dangerous snakes and apples is not found in the article.

critique: The article does not mention "dangerous snakes and apples".

critique: The model of dangerous snakes and apples is unattested.

question: Summarize how Davis's work was perceived.

answer: Her work got numerous cultural critiques. Herpersona challenged cultural norms and ideas about gender. She was also spoofed by Ted Cruz in a press conference.

critique: The response mentions that Davis was spoofed by Ted Cruz. However, it is not mentioned in the text that Cruz was the one who made this statement.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that Davis was spoofed by Ted Cruz in a press conference.

critique: The article does not mention Ted Cruz ever mentioning Davis's work. It is false to assume so as a result of loose mentionings of the term 'terrorist drag'. The article states that "terrorist drag" is used to describe the work of Davis, not the other way around.

critique: I added the part about the terrorist drag.

critique: The response misses to mention that Davis's work was seen as a political critique.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that Davis was spoofed by Ted Cruz in a press conference. However, the article mentions that Davis was spoofed by Cruz in a press conference.

question: If Davis was to have children, how would she encourage her children to accept their gender identities?

answer: She wouldn't. She advocates for rejecting inclusion and its limiting factors.

critique: Doesn't really add in regard to acceptance of gender. The overall message from the entire passage is that Davis doesn't believe that the institutions of music, art, or culture will ever support or fully respect her or her grandchildren for whatever identities they choose to live.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

critique: "She wouldn't. She advocates for rejecting inclusion and its limiting factors." - Davis advocates for rejecting inclusion, but she would encourage her children to accept their gender identities.

critique: The answer is inaccurate. Davis would encourage her children to accept their gender identities.

critique: She would encourage acceptance of their identities, she doesn't advocate rejection.


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AVA is a feminine given name in the English and in other languages. Its recent popularity may be linked to a number of celebrity babies of the 1990s, who were ultimately named after American actress Ava Gardner (1922—1990).

Origin

The medieval name _Ava_ is an abbreviation of a Germanic name containing the first element _aw-_, of uncertain meaning. Old High German (8th to 9th centuries) dithematic feminine names with this element include _Avagisa, Avuldis, Awanpurc, Auwanildis_.[1]

Saint Ava was a 9th-century princess, daughter of Pepin II of Aquitaine. Ava was also the name of a medieval German woman poet. This name is the origin of the Norman French name of Aveline, which in turn gave rise to the English given name of Evelyn.

As evidence for the name is lacking between the later medieval and the modern period, the _Oxford Dictionary of First Names_ supposes that it was coined anew as a modern innovation, presumably as a variant of Eva,[2] or (like _Eva_) used as an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife.[3]

Āvā is also a feminine given name in the Persian language, meaning “voice, sound”.

In the Russian language, Ava () may be a diminutive form of either the female names Avelina,[4] Avenira,[5] Aventina,[6] Avgusta/Avgustina,[7] Aviafa,[8] Aviya (a form of Abijah),[9] Avreliya,[10] Avreya,[11] and Avrora (a form of Aurora),[12] or the male names Avdey,[13] Avel,[14] Avenir,[15] Aventin,[16] Avgust,[17] Avim,[18] Avram (a form of Abram),[19] Avrelian,[20] and Avrely.[21]

Modern use

[Ava Astor (portrait of Giovanni Boldini 1910s)] [Ava Alice Astor (photograph circa 1920)]

The name was popularized in the United States by socialite Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), who married John Jacob Astor IV, and their daughter, socialite and heiress Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–1956).

[Ava Gardner in the trailer to “My Forbidden Past” (1951)]

Ava Gardner (1922–1990) signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and gained Hollywood stardom with her performance in _The Killers_ (1946). She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses during the 1950s to 1970s and is the ultimate reason for the given name's continued popularity.[22]

Recent popularity

The name is increasingly popular in the United States, where it was the most popular name given to baby girls in several states in 2006 and the fourth most popular name nationwide in 2007, and in Canada, where it is among the 10 most popular given names for baby girls in several provinces.[23]

The name has been rising in popularity in the United States since the mid-1990s, but had its most dramatic jump in popularity in 1998, when it was the 350th most popular name for baby girls, jumping 268 places up the chart from 618th place in 1997.[24] In the year 2010 it was the fifth most popular baby girl name in the United States.[25] One factor in its increase in popularity in English-speaking countries may have been the naming of the daughters of actress Heather Locklear and musician Richie Sambora,[26] [27] in 1997, and of actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe in 1999.[28]

Phillippe said in a recent magazine interview that he and Witherspoon named their child after actress Ava Gardner.[29] It was the ninth most popular name for girls in Australia[30] and eighth in New Zealand[31] in 2013.

Notable people

-   Saint Ava, ninth century Roman Catholic saint
-   Ava (poet) (c.1060—1127), the first named female writer in any genre in the German language
-   Ava Lowle Willing (1868—1958), American socialite
-   Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902—1956), American socialite, daughter of Ava Lowle Willing and John Jacob Astor IV
-   Ava Gardner (1922—1990), American actress
-   Ava Barber (born 1954) American country singer
-   Ava DuVernay (born 1972), American film director
-   Ava Ohlgren (born 1988), American collegiate swimmer

[1] Förstemann, _Altdeutsches Namenbuch_ (1847), 190 adduces OHG _awa_ “flowing water” and Gothic _awō_ “grandmother”

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[3] http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=Ava

[4] Petrovsky, p. 33

[5] Petrovsky, p. 34

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[25] http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

[26] Satran, Pamela Redmond and Rosenkrantz, Linda. (2008) Cool Names for Babies, p. 71. St. Martin's Press.

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[28] Satran, Pamela Redmond and Rosenkrantz, Linda (2007). The Baby Name Bible: The Ultimate Guide by America's Baby Naming Experts, pp. 27. St. Martin's Griffin.

[29] [http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_03-23-2008/In_Step_With...Ryan_Phillippe “In Step with Ryan Philippe”. _Parade Magazine_. 3-23-2008]

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[31] http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Births-Deaths-and-Marriages-Most-Popular-Male-and-Female-First-Names?OpenDocument

title: Ava (given name)

question: Summarize everything relating to the United States.

answer: Ava Lowle Willing (1868-1958) married John Jacob Astor IV, and later became a socialite in the US. Their daughter, Ava Alice Muriel Astor, was a socialite and heiress. The name first gained popularity in the US due to them, and was further popularized by actress Ava Gardner in the 1950s. It was a popular name for girls in several states in 2006 and the fourth most popular name nationwide in 2007.

critique: The answer should mention that the name was also popularized by actress Heather Locklear and musician Richie Sambora's daughter.

critique: The answer omits that the name was also popularized by actress Heather Locklear and musician Richie Sambora's daughter, and then by actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe's daughter.

critique: The answer should mention Ava Gardner's influence.

question: Summarize everything relating to Ava Gardner.

answer: Ava Gardner was an American actress of the 20th century. She was born in 1922 and died in 1990. She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and gained Hollywood stardom with her performance in The Killers (1946). She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses during the 1950s to 1970s and is the ultimate reason for the name's recent popularity.

critique: The answer should mention that Gardner was the inspiration for the name's recent popularity.

question: What does the text say about Germany?

answer: An Anglo-Saxon tribal name included the Scandinavian word for ava, giving the sense of "water" or "river". Its origin may have been brought to England by settlers. Its usage has died out, replaced by ō E OVA (ō E MWO, ō E WO). There are several other mutations of the letters A and O, including Ava Aleva and Ava Alewa. It has been a feminine given name in the English language and other cultures since at least the middle ages, linking to sainthood and feminine poets.

question: What does the text say about the name Ava's popularity in 2020?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not provide any information about the name's popularity in 2020.

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not mention the name's popularity in 2020.

critique: The answer should mention that the text doesn't say anything about the name's popularity in 2020.


text:
So I needed to write a short story about a mundane task and wanted to know if people actually liked it.  So here it is.

Putting Away Groceries

Ok, so you just got home after a long day’s work and went to the store when all you really wanted to do is go and flop on the couch unconscious for the next 8-10 hours and start it all over again the next morning; but not right now.  You had to go to the store and buy some more canned dog food because apparently the dry stuff doesn’t cut it anymore; and you regretfully can’t keep trudging on without feeding yourself either, so to the store it was.
You park the car and grumble to yourself as you straighten out your back, feeling every sinuous inch of muscle protest as you force it into straightness, preparing yourself for the two flights of stairs that you now have to brave because you live on the second floor.  As you lock the door and shuffle around to the back of your car you look up at the sky and think to yourself “Why is it 80 degrees in January? Someone broke Florida.” You pop the trunk and look at your loot from your own personal treasure cove also known as Wal-Mart, and consider whether to make one trip or two; and you know what?  You’re only youngish once and you decide to use what’s left of your depleted energy to hike yourself up the stairs only once.
After all of the groceries are loaded up to your elbows, you shut the trunk with your chin (because you’re that committed to use as little energy as possible) and make your jolly way towards your apartment.  At the base of the stairs you observe a moment of silence for the muscles in your legs that you are about to murder on the long and torturous climb to the top of mountain.  The first five steps go without any extreme discomfort; and the next five; and the next five… Ok, so you really aren’t as young as you once were and now the creaky joints and popping muscles in your arms and legs are starting to laugh at you.
You reach the top of the stairs, wheezing and puffing as your heart is racing in your throat, and all you want to do is give up and lie on the concrete that is the top of the stairs… This loaf of bread looks like it would make a good pillow… SNAP OUT OF IT!  You shake yourself and limp the last twenty feet or so.  Why are you limping?  You really are dramatic aren’t you?  Now that the door is in front of you, you use your knee to push up your grocery laden arm and bring up the key that is still in your hand, unlocking the door and pushing it open in one expert move.  The dog flies out the door to release the pee that he has probably been holding in for the better part of the day; he’ll probably come back.  He knows who feeds him.
That’s when the smell hits you; garbage everywhere!  That’s probably why the dog ran like the devil was on his heels.  It’s annoying and the last thing you want to deal with right now, but you get on with your life and begin to maneuver the mine field that is now your living room/den/dining room area.
You swing your arms up and the groceries clear the edge of the counter by an unmeasurable distance.  Feeling how light your arms are now, you enjoy the moment of bliss.  Yet you still need to take care of the garbage, remember?  Ah yes, your frisky Fido decided to redecorate while you were out selling your soul to feed his lazy ungrateful carcass… you did however find the remote you assumed was eaten last week under the ottoman.  Good, at least your wood chipper of a dog didn’t get to that yet.
After the battle field was cleared, you turn your attention back to the thousand pounds of stuff that is now spread all over the kitchen counter.  You grab the icy cold gallon of milk and feel as though it’s about to cut your fingers off where the sharp edges of the plastic mold joins as your hand slides from the base to the top of the handle.  Why do you always do that?  You know it’s going to happen, why don’t you just grab it from the top?
After you finish putting away all the groceries, you grab a can of dog food and step out the front door.  You hold it out at arm’s length and yank the top open as forcefully and loudly as you can, give it about ten seconds, and there he is tearing across the lawn to eat his brown mush.  You dump it in his bowl, or at least you tried, because he caught it in his open maw as you wiggled it out of its slimy metal cocoon.
Now that everything’s taken care of, you kick off your shoes, and don’t even bother to get changed out of your work clothes as you flop down into bed.  The dog runs his head under your hand in an attempt to get you to pet him, which you do.  It was just then that you remembered you forgot to get paper towels at the store.

title: Short Story For School.

question: What does the story say about the dog's breed?

answer: The dog is a male dog with a brown coat. His breed is unique. He is able to run because he has longer limbs. The narrator doesn't mind because he does get other things done with ease. The character finds the smell of the dog's waste unappealing.

critique: The answer is a bit long and includes unnecessary information.

critique: The fact that the dog is able to run because he has longer limbs is irrelevant.

critique: The answer is a little far-fetched and incoherent.

critique: The story says nothing about the dog's breed.

critique: The dog's breed isn't mentioned; only that it's a dog. His breed isn't unique.

critique: The narrator doesn't mind the smell of dog waste because it just means the dog is fed.

critique: The dog is a male dog with a brown coat.

critique: There is a lot of missing information in the response and it is hard to understand what the narrator means by a brown coat.

critique: It is omitted that the dog presumably has long hair, which is why he had a little more difficulty ascending and descending the stairs.

question: What is the story's theme?

answer: Putting away groceries.

critique: Putting away groceries is only implied, the story is about how the narrator's day with all its burdens intersects with their dog Fido.

critique: The answer is too vague. It should be about a more general theme of the story.

critique: The author notes that the story is mundane, but it still needs to be identified as such.

critique: The story's theme isn't just putting away groceries. It's about a day in the life of a person.

critique: The theme is more about the mundane task of putting away groceries.

critique: "Putting away groceries" doesn't summarize the story, which is about a man who is overwhelmed with a mundane task.

question: What does the story say about the protagonist?

answer: The protagonist has just come home with freshly bought groceries. They shut their car trunk with their chin, as they are exhausted after a long day's work. The protagonist is struggling to climb up the stairs, but finally reaches their front door. They take note of the garbage scattered all over their house, and it seems their dog has disrupted the house when their master wasn't around. Feeling aggravated, the protagonist goes to tidy their house, wash the dog, and finally sleeps the night.

critique: It is not stated that the protagonist takes note of the garbage. It is a possibility, but does not happen.

critique: The protagonist is a woman, but it's not clear that the narrator is a woman.

critique: "The protagonist is struggling to climb up the stairs, but finally reaches their front door." - the narrator paid no attention to climbing the stairs as they were too busy lamenting about how tough the task was. Rewrite this entire sentence as it is wholly inaccurate.

critique: This summary is a bit sloppy and does not describe the protagonist clearly.

critique: It misses to mention that the protagonist is youngish.

critique: The protagonist does not wash their dog, it is implied that they are feeding the dog.

critique: Doesn't mention the narrator's immaturity toward their own personal tragedy, that is implied by their exaggeration of their simple task of putting groceries away.

critique: The protagonist doesn't take note of the garbage scattered all over their house, the dog does.

critique: The protagonist does not go straight to sleep when putting away the groceries.

critique: The narrator is male. He should be referred to as 'he/his'.

question: What does the story say about the dog?

answer: The dog is a stray dog the protagonist took in. The dog is named Lucky; they call the dog Fido. It appears the protagonist has to clean up after the dog when he defecates in the house. In the grocery store, the protagonist uses the dog's urine smell to track its whereabouts when it runs away from him at the top of the stairs. Apart from being a cleaner - the protagonist feeds it, gives it baths, and possibly takes it to the vet - the dog has earned the title of one whom the protagonist loves very much.

critique: The dog is a stray in the beginning of the story but by the end the protagonist is feeding him.

critique: The dog's name is not mentioned in the story.

critique: The story does not specify the protagonist owns the dog. It is just implied that the protagonist does.

critique: This is not an accurate response. The dog is not a stray. It's unclear if it's male or female. The protagonist does not clean up after it. The protagonist feeds it and takes care of it.

critique: The input doesn't really say anything about the protagonist taking in a stray dog or naming the dog Fido.

critique: The information about him loving it is not from the story.

critique: The dog is fed dog food, not given baths.


text:
_FLYING COLOURS_ is the third album by Australian hip hop group Bliss n Eso. It was released by Illusive Sounds on 26 April 2008.

At the J Awards of 2008, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year.[1][2]

The album was recorded in three different continents over twelve months, and features Illmaculate (World freestyle and Scribble Jam champion), a 20 piece African Zulu Choir (The Zulu Connections Choir), Debaser (US), Hyjak and Phrase. In an interview with The Age newspaper Jonathan Notley (Bliss) explained that the band's previous albums were recorded on the fly, in sporadic periods whenever they could score some studio time, whereas with Flying Colours, the Sydneysiders relocated to Melbourne for three months of dedicated writing and recording at Richmond's Sing Sing Studios[3]

  “We decided to get out of Sydney and go somewhere where we could get up every day and just focus on making the record. It was great. We weren't worried about the pressure of what people would think, or forcing it or trying to make hits” - Notley[4]

The cover of the album features artwork by tattoo artist, Steve Cross from Melbourne. It depicts a man with blazing coloured wings leaping off a cliff.

  “With this album we wanted to do something a bit different than just pictures of us. We kinda wanted to go a little bit more creative and imaginative. We thought of this concept of this guy like leaping off this cliff with these flaming colourful wings, and it kind of really worked with the context of this album and obviously the title.” - Notley[5]

The first single from the album, a reworking of Citizen Cope's “Bullet and a Target”, gained major national commercial radio and television airplay. _Flying Colours_ features production from Bliss, Phrase and Hattori Hanzo, the album was mixed at Sing Sing Studios (Melbourne) by Noam Dishon and Andy Baldwin (The Cat Empire, Spiderbait, Killing Heidi).

The third single off the album “Eye of the Storm” uses the main riff and idea from folk rock duo Angus & Julia Stone song “Paper Aeroplane”.

It was featured as the Triple J feature album in the week leading up to its release.[6] The album debuted a week after its release at the No. 10 position on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.[7][8] and reached the No. 1 position on the ARIA Top 40 Urban Albums chart.[9]

The album was nominated for a J Award in August 2008.[10]

The album was also nominated for an ARIA award for 'Best Urban Release' in 2008.[11]

In an interview with Xpress magazine Notley indicated their surprise at the album's success.

  “To tell you the truth it smashed any of my expectations. The reception for the record has been fantastic so we couldn't really be happier at the moment.” - Notley[12]

Following the group's successful appearance at the Sound Relief concert on 14 March 2009 at the MCG,[13][14] “Field of Dreams” featuring Paris Wells was officially released to radio as a single.[15]

On 14 June 2009 the album became only the second Australian hip hop record to be certified gold, after being in the ARIA charts for 58 weeks.[16] In October 2010, _Flying Colours_ was listed in the book, _100 Best Australian Albums_.[17]

Track listing

All songs written by Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon and Noam Dishon, except where noted[18]

_FLYING COLOURS_

1.  “The Beginning” – 1:41
2.  “Woodstock 2008” – 4:27
3.  “Eye of the Storm” (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, A. Stone, J. Stone) – 3:27
4.  “Bullet and a Target” (featuring the Zulu Connection Choir) (Clarence Greenwood) – 4:15
5.  “Happy in My Hoody” (featuring Hyjak and Phrase) (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, J McCarthy, Harley Webster, Vester) – 4:19
6.  “Destiny Lane” (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, Mark Landon) – 3:41
7.  “Zion Bash” (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, Mark Landon) – 2:51
8.  “The Sea is Rising” – 5:36
9.  “Gorilla Militia” (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, Mark Landon) – 3:14
10. “How to Listen, Part 1” – 3:02
11. “Climb These Cliffs” (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, Noam Dishon, Mark Landon) – 3:41
12. “At Midnight” – 5:21
13. “Royal Flush” – 3:52
14. “$5 Steak” (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, Noam Dishon, Etheridge, Montgo) – 5:35
15. “The Truth” (featuring ILLmacuLate and Sapient) – 4:41
16. “Never Give Up” (featuring Changes) (Jonathon Notley, Max MacKinnon, Noam Dishon, Mchunu, Mhlongo) – 4:31
17. “Field of Dreams” (featuring Paris Wells) – 3:24

_FLYING COLOURS_ LIMITED EDITION BONUS DISC

1.  “The Dark Tower” – 5:49 (features a sample from the 1947 radioplay The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice)
2.  “Lonely Streets” (featuring Debaser) – 4:33
3.  “Bullet and a Target” (acoustic version) (featuring the Zulu Connection Choir) – 3:58
4.  “Mexican Spit Fire” – 2:30
5.  “Choof Choof Train” – 4:09

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title: Flying Colours (Bliss n Eso album)

question: Summarize everything relating to Bliss n Eso's goals regarding the album.

answer: Bliss n Eso wanted an album recorded in three different continents. The band also wanted to bring their music to the next level. They felt that the only way to do this was to get away from Sydney and relocate to Melbourne. They wanted to make sure that they wouldn't be pushed to make hits or forced to do anything regarding the music or style.

critique: The answer should mention the album's reception.

critique: The band wanted to get away from Sydney and relocate to Melbourne in order to focus on making the record. The band wanted to get away from Sydney and relocate to Melbourne in order to focus on making the record.

critique: The band's goals are not mentioned in the text.

critique: The band wanted to get away from Sydney to focus on making the record.

critique: It would be more accurately stated to say the band wanted to focus on recording rather than making the album about broader themes.

critique: The response does not mention that they wanted to make sure that they wouldn't be pushed to make hits or forced to do anything regarding the music or style.

critique: The band wanted to get away from Sydney to focus on the album, not to bring their music to the next level.

question: What does the article say about the album's reception?

answer: Despite claims that it may be a "three pieces and out" album, which typically alludes to lower quality, Flying Colours by Bliss n Eso was nominated for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards of 2008. The album was recorded in a span of a year in different continents, and includes an African Zulu choir. The first single off the album achieved national commercial radio and television airplay. The album was certified gold in Australian hip hop music.

critique: The album wasn't necessarily "recorded in a span of a year in different continents"

critique: The album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year.

critique: The album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year, not the J Awards.

text: "Despite claims that it may be a "three pieces and out" album, which typically alludes to lower quality, " - this was never mentioned in the article and should be removed.

refinement: Despite claims that it may be a "three pieces and out" album, which typically alludes to lower quality, Flying Colours by Bliss n Eso was nominated for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards of 2008. The album was recorded in a span of a year in different continents, and includes an African Zulu choir. The first single off the album achieved national commercial radio and television airplay. The album was certified gold in Australian hip hop music.

question: What does the article say about the inspiration for the album?

answer: The band's previous albums were recorded in sporadic sessions whenever the band had studio time. The band decided instead to relocate to Melbourne for three months to work on the record. Artist Steve Cross from Melbourne designed the album cover. The idea was to do something a little different.

critique: The answer omits the band's inspiration for the album.

critique: All of the album was not worked on in Melbourne. The specific studio work was.

critique: The answer should mention the album's title.

text: The response is incorrect because the inspiration for the album was never mentioned.

category: coherence

refinement: The band's previous albums were recorded in sporadic sessions whenever the band had studio time. The band decided instead to relocate to Melbourne for three months to work on the record. Artist Steve Cross from Melbourne designed the album cover. The idea was to do something a little different.