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Patriotisiom
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivety, we would watch the fleeting clouds, arid wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place where we would count the milli...
- by jagan.y
Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:55 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Patriotisiom
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1812
- by jagan.y
Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:36 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2660
Animal - life and locomotion
The most casual observer of Nature recognizes in almost every instance that comes under his notice in everyday life, without the aid of logical definition, the broad distinctions between an animal, a plant, and a stone or mineral. To him, the old definition that an animal is possessed of life and lo...
- by jagan.y
Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:35 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Animal - life and locomotion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2112
Thought and Evolution
The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the faculty of acting,...
- by jagan.y
Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:30 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Thought and Evolution
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1173
Fetal alcohol syndrome
One of the most dangerous drugs for pregnant women to consume is alcohol. Because alcohol is delivered quickly into the blood and passes quickly into the tissues and membranes, the human fetus is particularly vulnerable to its effects. In fact, the negative effects on a fetus are so pronounced that ...
- by jagan.y
Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:33 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2660
- by jagan.y
Tue Jul 09, 2013 4:01 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: HP case study
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1852
HP case study
During the late 1990s, HP, the second largest computer manufacturer in the world, faced major challenges in an increasingly competitive market. In 1998, while HP’s revenues grew by just 3%, competitor Dell’s rose by 38%. Also HP’s share price remained more or less stagnant while competitor IBM...
- by jagan.y
Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:56 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: HP case study
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1852
Stocks
Taken together, some 2,000 stocks recommended on a popular television show over the course of the past 12 years by the show’s guests, most of whom are successful consultants for multibillion-dollar stock portfolios, performed less successfully than the market as a whole for this 12-year period. So...
- by jagan.y
Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:06 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Stocks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1204
Eurozone
The 17 countries of the Eurozone are all united by one currency - the euro, but that doesn't mean that there aren't price disparities in the continent. A sum of 20 Euros can buy you 35 cups of coffee in Portugal but only 7 cups of coffee in Greece. The same amount of money can get you 16 cartons &am...
- by jagan.y
Thu Jun 27, 2013 8:48 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Eurozone
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1557
"We're given that per-person book consumption has fallen from 10 books per year to 3 books per year." My concern with the stimulus was that I feel there is an ambiguity in the stimulus about the statement you made. The stimulus states "the residents". How can this ambiguity be so...
- by jagan.y
Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:42 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Total books and average books
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2158
Total books and average books
30 years ago residents of Pandora County used to buy an average of 10 books every year. Today the residents of Pandora County buy an average of 3 books every year. Therefore it can be concluded that book sales in Pandora County must have fallen over these 30 years. The argument rests in which of the...
- by jagan.y
Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:56 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Total books and average books
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2158
Founders of this country
Too often we think of the founders of this country as infallible guides to our present dilemmas. Not only were they often at odds with each other about issues large and small, they could not have foreseen the huge growth and social changes that have made our country a far more complex place than it ...
- by jagan.y
Thu May 02, 2013 12:31 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Founders of this country
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1077
OA: C
I opted D as my answer.
The explanation indicates a modifier error in D.
What I fail to understand is the usage of in addition to X, is also Y in the OA
- by jagan.y
Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:39 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Growth Strategy
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3177
Growth Strategy
As a part of its growth strategy, the company is looking to apply global strategies using local insights along with expanding their geographical reach. A. the company is looking to apply global strategies using local insights along with expanding their geographical reach B. the company's plan is to ...
- by jagan.y
Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:15 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Growth Strategy
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3177