ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


PSAT Reading Videos 22 videos

PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic
1006 Views

PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?

The Curiosity Rover Terrain Preferences
207 Views

PSAT 1.1 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. The passage excerpt most strongly suggests that the Curiosity rover performs best on which of the following...

"Current" Most Nearly Means... What?
189 Views

PSAT 1.2 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. As used in line 2, "current" most nearly means...what?

See All

PSAT 2.1 Reading Diagnostic 194 Views


Share It!


Description:

PSAT 2.1 Reading Diagnostic. President Kennedy refers to the United Nations in the first paragraph primarily to...what?

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:00

Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

00:05

jour brought to you by the united nations Except for

00:08

belarus we're not sure what you did to take them

00:11

All right check out this past it Do that world

00:13

simon invitation of nation You not here present Well that

00:19

is being of feet both sides here Aswell in your

00:28

hand my fellas haven't down trump Can we forge an

00:30

alliance with long histories So my fellow americans thank you

00:34

jeff All right president kennedy refers to the united nations

00:39

in the first paragraph Primarily tio what And hear the

00:42

potential answers annoy opponents deflect highland All right well here's

00:48

the scenario us is in a nuclear arms race with

00:51

the soviet union You've just been elected president And now

00:54

you get to give a speech to the entire country

00:57

in the whole world's gonna be listening in an attempt

00:59

to calm their nerves so that mass hysteria doesn't spread

01:02

like wildfire Yeah uh good luck with that And yet

01:06

that was exactly the situation john f kennedy was faced

01:09

with when it came time to deliver his inaugural address

01:13

Of course he killed it with a mic drop at

01:15

the end Less than ten words In his speech he

01:19

mentions the united nations Why the shout out and why

01:22

so immediately Well let's take a gander at our options

01:25

shall we First we've got a to annoy opponents in

01:28

congress who undermined the united nations Well hopefully the us

01:31

hadn't just elected a president Who's super Objective was to

01:35

annoy that doesn't seem like a really powerful choice In

01:38

fact kennedy was hardly interested in picking on anyone besides

01:41

congress back then wasn't what it is today It wasn't

01:44

always one harsh word away from an all out fight

01:47

Yes he did guys they're all coming What about b

01:50

to deflect criticism facing the united states for his role

01:53

in foreign wars Well this also seems like a negative

01:56

way to kick things off he's deflecting criticism right off

01:59

the bat I don't think so great leader wants to

02:02

start off on a positive note so will impeach ocean

02:05

b see toe highlight his own accomplishments is a senator

02:08

before he was president How braggadocious do you think this

02:12

guy wass already gotten the job Generally people don't start

02:15

bombarding their co workers with their fast list of accomplishments

02:18

Their first day leaves us with d show that america's

02:23

goal is toe work with the international community Heck yeah

02:27

what better way to make the country feel more at

02:29

ease than to make it clear immediately that it's not

02:32

alone any new just the right button A push And 00:02:36.163 --> [endTime] fortunately it wasn't the red Yeah

Related Videos

PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic
1006 Views

PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?

PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic
379 Views

PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?

PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic
282 Views

PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?

PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic
239 Views

PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the underlined portion?

PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic
239 Views

PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?