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SAT Reading: Citing Textual Evidence to Support an Analysis 5 Views


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To Eisenhower, increased military spending was imperative. Watch this SAT Reading video to find out more.


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alright next one in me I like Ike saga there we go

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which choice gives the strongest heaven for the answer to the previous question [text on screen]

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and again let's go back here another man throws in the passage can best be stride

00:12

is wide so which gives the evidence for piecing out we're gonna have to cruise

00:19

through all these lines 8 through 10 we face a method and we have no contagion

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but luck I mean okay so let's think about this broadly Eisenhower's overall

00:29

stance here is one of caution he's convinced that the increased military [soldiers in field]

00:33

spending is imperative you got to do it but he wants the nation to be on high [text on screen]

00:37

alert for its grave implications like think about you know global

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thermonuclear war or something like that that ain't no Disney animated musical so [nuclear explosion]

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yep that line pretty much sums up his entire position and you find it right [writing on chalkboard]

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there so it's right there 59 through 61 the grave implications so yes it's

00:58

totally true that with the cold war looming the Communist Soviet Union [Soviet Union map]

01:02

sounded like hostile ideology and taken by itself though this line is solidly

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pro-military growth and that's only half the story [text on screen]

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same goes for the line about how the military is vital in keeping the peace

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on the other hand the way Eisenhower explains just how much the u.s. is

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spending on the military makes it sound like he's against it and again well it

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doesn't cover all the bases so that's what it is it's just grave grave

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implications you [tomb stone]

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