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When could the military get too powerful and out of control? Watch this SAT Reading video to continue this political debate.
Transcript
- 00:03
alright more on Ike SAT reading here here we go
- 00:06
which choice gives the strongest evidence worthy cancer to the previous [text added]
- 00:08
question okay so two four here and we got to scroll back take a look and it
- 00:11
was watchin was that using 153 phrase unwarranted influence mostly needs what
- 00:14
and we decided it meant excess of power so they're asking us for the strongest
Full Transcript
- 00:18
evidence like where does he say it's basically that the military could get [magnifying glass]
- 00:23
too powerful and out of control and that would be a bad thing just watch [transformer car]
- 00:26
transformers so we got a bunch of paragraphs to read but let's just think
- 00:30
about it and we're gonna kind of skim note that all the potential answers here [text on screen]
- 00:34
all in the 60s so we're just gonna read kind of from 65 maybe to 70 and or kind
- 00:41
of cruising back here and see if we find anything
- 00:43
so yeah depends for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
- 00:45
persist the way the foundation endanger our liberties or democratic a morning go
- 00:49
through there should take nothing granted we can compel the property so
- 00:56
that's it we're back to our question here and let's think about this
- 00:58
yeah the potential that's powerful that a thing is really kind of grabby isn't
- 01:03
it well the paragraphs second sentence there contains a fantastic synonym for [writing on chalkboard]
- 01:07
misplaced power by saying the influence is unwarranted
- 01:12
Eisenhower's saying that it's misplaced or undeserved or shouldn't be there
- 01:16
NIC's it well the lines that follow all focus on explaining what the American
- 01:20
people should do to prevent that kind of dangerous growth so you get rid of all
- 01:24
of them it's the first one the potential of that unwarranted stuff but could [man taking out trash]
- 01:28
exist so yeah
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