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SAT Reading: Tracking a Shift in Focus Throughout President Eisenhower's Speech 38 Views
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Next up in the saga-of-Ik. Here's a different style of question that goes from A to B and you need to figure out the pattern of A to B. Not easy.
Transcript
- 00:02
okay next up in the saga of Ike and here we have a different style of question
- 00:08
because it's going from A to B and you're trying to get the pattern of A to [question mark moves from A to B]
- 00:12
B here which is not easy so you really have to read the passage carefully so go [text on screen]
- 00:16
back and mumble through it again when you are in the mood yeah we know you're
- 00:19
never in the mood of course all the passage the main focus shifts from and I
Full Transcript
- 00:22
can patient problems military growth your proposal of solving problems we
- 00:24
increase government funding of technology ethically show the need for a
- 00:26
strong military to an address of concerns about how the technology is
- 00:28
created such military girl examination of current military funding practices in
- 00:30
corruption do analysis of how penalties are causing problems write an argument
- 00:33
or decrease military funding and drowse I've become proclaim the technology
- 00:35
research has written her ike is all about balance throughout this passage he [woman in yoga pose on mountain]
- 00:41
starts by talking about military and defense growth yeah paragraphs you know [text on screen]
- 00:45
kind of five through a or lines and writing and all that yeah and says that
- 00:50
a strong military is vital then he shifts to talking about
- 00:53
technology in paragraph nine the tie-in happens when he explains that the
- 00:57
technology industry is largely responsible for the sweeping changes in [writing on chalkboard]
- 01:02
the US military standing from there Ike warns the audience to be alert to the
- 01:07
dangers of the government-funded research model hmm endless spending well [money thrown own toilet]
- 01:14
Eisenhower doesn't really cite technology as a solution to a problem
- 01:17
instead he explains that it's one of the reasons why the military became as
- 01:21
strong as it was at a time he also doesn't say that technology caused the
- 01:25
problems because the corruption issue is just a potential one yeah since he [president plunging toilet]
- 01:29
thinks the military is vital well Ike is definitely not arguing for decreased [writing on chalkboard]
- 01:33
funding either so get rid of that so yeah the answer here is be here an
- 01:37
explanation of the need for a strong military to an address of concerns about [military men]
- 01:42
how the technology industry aids such military growth all right well here's
- 01:47
one for peace
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