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Here are a few scenes from a revolution: In early February, Barack Obama ended a six-month press conference drought by taking questions from YouTube. When a madman crashed his plane into a Texas office building a couple of weeks later, the White House responded on its blog.
__________________________________
(a) A few months later, there was some whining in the press pool that the President wasn't doing enough press briefings.
(b) But the White House has proved to be a harder perch from which to dominate the conversation.
(c) During the 2008 campaign, Obama’s team had been able to exploit new technologies as no political campaign had before.
(d) And during the bipartisan summit on health reform, press secretary Robert Gibbs used Twitter to keep score.
- B
- C
- A
- D
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The following questions have a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. The problem of dealing with communal riots has been handled in an adhoc manner by all state governments who are primarily responsible for the law and order situation. Regrettably, as every vote counts in a democracy, all political parties look upon such incidents from the angle of votes. ________a)So even the handling of communal riots gets a political colour.b)So even communal riots get politicalised.c)So even communal riots have a bearing upon elections.d)So communal riots lead to vote bank politics.
1. ___ that man on the corner. He’s acting suspicious.
2. Have you ___ The Lord of the Rings? It’s a classic.
1. Look at/ Watch
2. Seen/watched
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Hello guys I'm going to start preparation for the MBA entrance exam 2017 suggest me the various exams and dates. Also suggest me the source of knowledge for verbal and English grammar...✍
Any idea how closely does the sample paper introduced by CAT resemble the actual paper?
As in type of questions and number of sets for DI? Asking based on if anyone compared the sample paper and paper last year
Small RC, Small Doubt:
Bennett’s law states that the ratio of starchy staple food consumed declines as incomes rise. Starchy staples, comprising mainly grain and root crops, are the cheapest form of food. As incomes rise, families diversify their consumption into dearer calories. The quality of food, measured by prices paid for it, rises with income. When income is calculated for the purpose of testing these laws, addictive expenditures (e.g. on cigarettes) and interest on loans may have to be deducted before determining available income, for they do not represent discretionary components of income. While Engel’s law refers to expenditure on food, relative to income, Bennett’s law refers to sources of food calories relative to income. A third law says that the average quality of food calories, measured by prices, rises with income.
Question: A pregnant woman is offered better quality food by her husband even though their income remains the same as it was before she was pregnant. This real life situation is:
a - negation of Bennett’s law.
b - negation of the third law mentioned by the author.
c - indeterminate.
can anyone suggest how one should divide the time and how to approach TITA question so that score can be improved in VA section.
PS - TITA constitute approx 33% of marks and I have a horrible accuracy in it
Despite his ten novels, Warren thought of himself primarily as a poet, and you can hear his ear for backwater prosody in Stark’s often-cruel populist rhetoric. In this sense, All the King’s Men serves as a kind of primer for approaching Warren’s earthy realism. The poems we find in volumes like Promises and Tale of Time are full of blackened oaks, birds of prey, unnamed fathers and ticking clocks. The “facts” of rustic America can seem backward or painful, but they can also give substance to poetry. For Warren, the honest poet confronts the world before him, without floating off into what Keats called the “egotistical sublime.” The freewheeling ego is a writerly sin he associated with Emerson’s Over-soul, Hemingway’s chauvinists and Jay Gatsby’s romantic fantasies.
Which of the following completes the given paragraph?
1. All lend a unique kind of beauty to their works by their unique way of observing their surroundings.
2. All are guilty of a “fluidity of selves” and the dangers that come with delusions of grandeur.
3. They were all self-obsessed people who were insensitive to populist rhetoric.
4. They were all merely fantasies, that had no connection with the harsh realities around them.
The term “political correctness” may be new but its foundations are not. For centuries, people of color have been expected to not offend white people—and were jailed, whipped, or murdered if they did. From the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century, African Americans were lynched by white mobs for all sorts of “reasons”—“but the biggest one of all was looking at or associating with white women.”
“Political correctness” only acquired a name when, relatively recently in American history, the idea of treating others respectfully was finally extended to include how white people treat black people, how men treat women, and so on. Prior to that, the idea that some people were owed deferentially considerate treatment—even in its most extreme, vicious incarnations—didn’t need a special term. It was just the way things were. If black people offended white people—however or whatever such “offense” was determined to be—black people paid dearly. In fact, they still do.
While white victims account for approximately one-half of all murder victims, they are 80 percent of the victims in capital cases. Since October 2002, 12 people have been executed in cases in which the murder victim was black and the defendant was white. But 178 people have been executed where the murder victim was white and the defendant was black.
In 1904 in Reevesville, South Carolina, a black man named General Lee was lynched for allegedly knocking on the door of a white woman’s house. In 2013, a black man named Jonathan Ferrell was in a car crash near Charlotte, North Carolina. He crawled out of his car and knocked on the door of the first house he saw. When the white woman who lived there saw Ferrell, she slammed the door, hit her alarm button and called the police. Ferrell was shot 10 times by a police officer.
Those who insist the history of slavery and lynchings are too far in the past to be relevant to America’s present (“But that’s so long ago!”) often simultaneously want to use the relative atrocities of the past to set a lower threshold of expectations for the present (“But look how far we’ve come!”). Yet to watch the video of a white police officer rip a black high school student out of her desk and throw her across the room, allegedly for the offense of being “disrespectful” in class, is to remember that past is always prologue. Sure it happens less now, perhaps. Or less severely, maybe. But it shouldn’t happen at all.
Indeed, what students from Yale to the University of Missouri and beyond are protesting is a pervasively one-sided definition of offensive behavior that these colleges and society in general still propagate. To this point, as the historian Jelani Cobb noted in The New Yorker, “the student’s reaction elicited consternation in certain quarters where the precipitating incident did not.”
Consider, for instance, those in the chattering class who have readily bought into the idea that police feel under attack (as the result of the Black Lives Movement) and at the same time express deep skepticism—if not outright mockery—of people of color who feel under attack by police and by society. This divergent tendency isn’t about evidentiary standards. It’s about race—and the inclination to believe in the righteousness and inherent goodness of white people while perpetually doubting and demeaning people of color.
One of the more infuriating phenomena of the past year or so has been the rise of the accusation that black leaders and their allies are “playing the race card” when they try to expose structural racism and implicit bias in America. It’s as though the possibility of being called a racist—or at least being held personally accountable for structural racism—is somehow more offensive than the instances of racism themselves. Behold the acrobatics of defensive whiteness!
Political correctness is a good thing—the idea that we should treat our fellow human beings with equal respect, despite their race or gender or sexual orientation, and the idea that we might all learn and get better at doing so because of feedback and changing norms. Whatever “force” is in this equation has generally been applied against people of color—often irrationally, often violently. And now communities of color want to end that injustice and ask white people to finally show some simple respect. Is that proposition, whatever it’s called, really so offensive?
Q.1
The intention of the author in the passage is to1 assert that political correctness, as demanded by minorities, is only fair.
2 show that blacks are still persecuted despite slavery having become a thing of the past.
3 complain that it is too much to ask white people to treat blacks like human beings.
4 show that people tend to believe in the inherent goodness of white people while disregarding that of the blacks.
SPOT THE ERROR (if any):
In the twelfth century the custom grew of passing on the device from father to son, like the shield with the golden lions that GA received at his knighting from his father-in-law, HI, an emblem inherited by GA’s grandson WL, earl of Sonepat.
FIF TITA :: Doubt b/w inference and fact.
A. Modern scepticism is embodied in the scientific method, which involves gathering data to test natural explanations for natural phenomena.
B. A claim becomes factual when it is confirmed to such an extent that it would be reasonable to offer temporary agreement.
C. But all facts in science are provisional and subject to challenge, and therefore scepticism is a method leading to provisional conclusions.
D. The key to scepticism is to navigate between the extremes of ‘know nothing’ scepticism and ‘anything goes’ credulity by continuously and vigorously applying the methods of science..
Q27
He was sent to _____________ prison for fourteen years .
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(1) It, in fact, takes place one windy winter day spent exploring the preserved Portuguese houses at Taipa Houses Museum. (2) Behind me, excited soon-to-wed couples pose theatrically against the charming backdrop of white and green houses, a cobble-stoned walkway and tall trees billowing in the mid-morning breeze. (3) The guide informs us that the boat has been put on display for effect, but the picture-perfect sight leaves me blissed-out. (4) I settle on a solitary bench, facing a still mossy lake, disturbed only by a fisherman's boat. (5) My favourite moment in Macau has nothing to do with its much talked about night-life, gambling culture, uber expensive malls or the greyhound races.
The enemy, beaten at every point, fled from the field. (A) having been beaten (B) was beaten (C) to be beaten (D) No improvement ...
No par is a jar.
Some cars are pars.
Some cars are not jars.
Can statement 1 and 2 imply 3 ?
if yes, Can some X are not Y be treated as no X are Y ?
The qualities which have supported Tilak and given him his hard- earned success have been rare in. Indian politics.
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