ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
ACT Reading Videos 80 videos
ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
Prose Fiction Drill 1.10. Which of the following best describes the narrator's attitude toward his father?
ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 2. Which of the following statements about the circumstances of the narrator's birth is not true?
ACT Reading 2.5 Social Science Passage 189 Views
Share It!
Description:
ACT Reading 2.5 Social Science Passage. According to the passage, why does Ferri believe the correctional school of criminal law is relatively ineffective?
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Reading / Author's Voice and Method
- Product Type / ACT Reading
- Complex Inferences / Persuasive
- Persuasive Texts / Clear Thesis
- Reading Informational Text / Cite textual evidence to support analysis
- Reading Informational Text / Cite textual evidence to support analysis
- Reading Informational Text / Cite textual evidence to support analysis
- ACT Reading / Cause-effect Relationships
Transcript
- 00:03
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Roeder...who would later start
- 00:08
a company with his friend Rooter, altering the history of plumbing.
- 00:22
According to the passage, why does Ferri believe the correctional school of criminal law is
- 00:26
relatively ineffective?
- 00:35
While he might disagree with them, Ferri is generally respectful of the guys from other
Full Transcript
- 00:39
schools; he's not afraid to point out the areas in which they get it right.
- 00:43
Choice (C) is incorrect.
- 00:45
Answer (A) is wrong for the same reason as (C). Ferri just wouldn't say anything quite
- 00:49
so radical.
- 00:50
He would certainly admit that punishment and rehabilitation had to have worked for at least
- 00:54
one person in the history of the world, so answer (A) is off the list.
- 00:58
He never mentions anything about correctional facilities, and definitely doesn't comment
- 01:02
on how full they are. (D) is wrong. The only option Ferri specifically mentions
- 01:07
with regard to the correction school is (B), which recognizes Ferri's sociological obsessions.
- 01:13
OK, we're pretty sure he wasn't that obsessed...
Related Videos
ACT Reading 1.5 Social Science Passage. Based on its context in the passage, which of the following would be the best definition for the word...
ACT Reading: Social Science Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. According to Freud, how were dreams understood in what he refers to as the "prescienti...
ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the main purpose of this passage?
ACT Reading: Natural Science Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?