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SAT Reading: Tracking a Shift in Focus Throughout President Eisenhower's Speech 31 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.


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okay next up in the saga of Ike and here we have a different style of question

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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]

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B here which is not easy so you really have to read the passage carefully so go [text on screen]

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back and mumble through it again when you are in the mood yeah we know you're

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never in the mood of course all the passage the main focus shifts from and I

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can patient problems military growth your proposal of solving problems we

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increase government funding of technology ethically show the need for a

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strong military to an address of concerns about how the technology is

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created such military girl examination of current military funding practices in

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corruption do analysis of how penalties are causing problems write an argument

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or decrease military funding and drowse I've become proclaim the technology

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research has written her ike is all about balance throughout this passage he [woman in yoga pose on mountain]

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starts by talking about military and defense growth yeah paragraphs you know [text on screen]

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kind of five through a or lines and writing and all that yeah and says that

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a strong military is vital then he shifts to talking about

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technology in paragraph nine the tie-in happens when he explains that the

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technology industry is largely responsible for the sweeping changes in [writing on chalkboard]

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the US military standing from there Ike warns the audience to be alert to the

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dangers of the government-funded research model hmm endless spending well [money thrown own toilet]

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Eisenhower doesn't really cite technology as a solution to a problem

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instead he explains that it's one of the reasons why the military became as

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strong as it was at a time he also doesn't say that technology caused the

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problems because the corruption issue is just a potential one yeah since he [president plunging toilet]

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thinks the military is vital well Ike is definitely not arguing for decreased [writing on chalkboard]

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funding either so get rid of that so yeah the answer here is be here an

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explanation of the need for a strong military to an address of concerns about [military men]

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how the technology industry aids such military growth all right well here's

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one for peace

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