Select the correct answer. What is an advantage of discussing a topic or complex task with a group? A. It makes you maintain a specific role throughout the discussion. B. It shows you how to follow group discussion instructions. C. It allows you to explore points of view that differ from your own. D. It gives you an opportunity to have a conversation with friends.

I think the answer may be C) It allows you to explore points of view that differ from your own.

Explanation:

Although A sounds like a really great answer, I don't exactly agree with it because maintaining a specific role throughout a discussion doesn't seem like a benefit to me since someone may be assigned a role that they don't personally fit with. For example, I'm not much of a talker unless I'm really interested in a topic and I'm not great at starting conversations most of the time. So if I were assigned the role to start a conversation, I would have a really hard time with my role, which is why I don't think A is the answer.

B sounds okay, but discussing in a group doesn't exactly show you how to follow group instructions; it helps you practice them. Say, you teach a toddler how to correctly hold and drink out of a cup so they can integrate from using a sippy cup to a regular one for children (or a universal cup). You can spend forever showing them how to use a cup, but they won't master it until they practice. And with discussions, people go over the rules first and then have the discussion later to practice them.

And D isn't the best answer because a group discussion should stick to the main topic(s) and there are times when you won't be having a discussion with friends. Like in school, teachers often assign students group members to work or have a group discussion with. Most of the times, they are not your friends because friends will usually go off topic.

Hope this helps! And I'm sorry if I'm wrong!

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.