<p>Championed rationality as a noble “faculty” but still valued “emotion.”</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think talking out of the navel was a taunt… it was more of a parody.</p>
<p>@notanengineer nope, that was a different question. the faculty and emotion was ayn rand.</p>
<p>A parody of?</p>
<p>I don’t think that the answer is “vehement” because the passages were on nuclear facilities and not on coal. If anything, the talk on coal was a digression where he just showed his criticism. AKA: caustic.</p>
<p>caustic
capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
severely critical or sarcastic</p>
<p>vehement
Showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense</p>
<p>I think the answer is pretty obvious…not sure why this one is being debated so heavily</p>
<p>^correct …</p>
<p>@immadino - the answer was ‘rationality - eschewing’</p>
<p>Section 1:
<em>Short: woman who could have become a president</em>
- Attitude of RESPECT toward woman.
- Showed her strong influence</p>
<p><em>Short: nature writing</em>
3. Walden is fundamentally human-centered
4. Both gains and losses of focusing on nature </p>
<p><em>Nuclear Power Passage</em>
5. Tone: emphatic
6. Tone: vehement
7. Three mile island: pivotal turning point
8. Both authors invoke “collective interest
9. Alternative energy has been tried and found wanting (ARE YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT)
10. Primary concern: Less harmful to the environment
12. The passages both agreed that nuclear plants were controversial
13. Both passages are concerned about the negative impacts</p>
<p>Section 2:
<em>Blogging</em>
15. Some would consider the claims overly optimistic
16. Explain a phenomenon.
17. Passage one says that bloggers get a chance to attract attention
18. Something about people being “irked”</p>
<p><em>Art in Life</em>
19. The highway represents everyday life
20. Detour: different from life?
21. Concrete reality vs abstract art
22. Art’s place in life
23. Tone: Personal and reflexive
24. Analogy with a lawyer reusing ideas from a previous case.</p>
<p><em>Roommate</em>
25. Drew = attracted
26. Dean = killjoy
27. Forehead: pride?
28. Roommate was Paranoid
29. Roommate’s behavior was eccentric
30. “I just wanted to be friends: Disappointed
31. Ideas are independent of human consciousness
32. Thinking from his navel was a “taunt.”</p>
<p>Section 3:
<em>Ella Baker passage</em>
33. Most important topic: Baker’s political philosophy
34. Quote called for an alternative approach
35. Self-admonition…maybe?
36. Biographer like an archaeologist
37. Treatment = Handling
38. Shaping Baker’s life
39. Most interested in human complexity
40. Weighing: considering deeply
41. Biographer shared Baker’s political goals
42. Walking through muddy water is analogous to acting “apprehensively.”
43. Marginalized people must participate</p>
<p><em>Sentence completion</em>
44. Clever debater even the opponents praised him
45. Advanced ages: longevity
46. Scientists: edify…reticence
47. Ameliorate social injustice
48. Faculty….Emotion
49. Exacerbate
50. Recondite
51. Compelling…formulaic
52. Mercurial
53. Fickleness
54. Rebutted
55. Digress
56. Poisonous/deadly</p>
<p>We’re only missing 11… which ones???</p>
<p>Alternative energy has been tried and found wanting (ARE YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT)</p>
<p>What does this mean (the found wanting part)?</p>
<p>I put something about $$$ and I was fairly sure.</p>
<p>What do you think -7 will be (on reading)?</p>
<p>Probably a 690-710</p>
<p>Found the article online</p>
<p>“As with so many endeavors, nature writing has become specialized and polarized. On the one hand there is the generally healthy movement from the anthropocentric to the biocentric, from human-focused to world-focused, a movement that Thoreau anticipated late in his life with his more scientific writing. This movement has led to some fine objective writing, but it has also led to many dull pages, exhaustive and occasionally exhausting works. The problem is that most readers are human beings and therefore naturally interested in the human. The driving youthful question that enlivened “Walden” – “How to live?” – has been all but forgotten.”</p>
<p>Walden can not be human centered as Thoreau was part of the movement from “from human-focused to world-focused.” Walden is now dry and boring because “The driving youthful question that enlivened “Walden” – “How to live?” – has been all but forgotten.”</p>
<p>I skipped 18 or more questions on my Critical Reading sections! T<em>T Cause I didn’t finish. I never got to read like two or more passages. I was taking more time to make sure my answers were right for my other answers for the short passages…which i regretted later T</em>T
But I think I got some others wrong for Critical reading…
But for math section I think I did better maybe 2-3 wrong?
For writing section I think it was worse than math but like 5-8 wrong? But omitted some questions like 2-3
For my essay…mediocre maybe a 8 or 9</p>
<p>If I want to get at least a 2000, would I get at least 2000? What would my score be about?
Should I cancel it? My friends said that 18 was too much to omit… T_T</p>
<p>This is my 2nd time taking SAT and I’m a senior… 
When should I take it again? December? Nov? would it be bad to cancel my score and have a bad score like 1780 for colleges to see when maybe this test may be higher than 1780?</p>
<p>first time I got 1780… bad…</p>
<p>I also may take SAT II in nov instead…or should i not?
want to get into great colleges…</p>
<p>PLEASE HELP ME T_T so troublesome these SATs and college stuff :|</p>
<p>[Boston.com</a> / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Sick of nature](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/08/01/sick_of_nature?pg=full]Boston.com”>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/08/01/sick_of_nature?pg=full)</p>
<p>^ here’s the link if you want to read the entire article as well</p>
<p>That implies walden was in human centered because it poses the question why live.</p>
<p>Thing is I don’t even remember seeing that passage. maybe I never got to that one</p>
<p>the choice didn’t say dull and boring, it said long and exhaustive… Plus didn’t it also ask for the author’s perspective of it? if it didn’t to both points, then that’s the right answer</p>
<p>I don’t remember what I put, but I think I mostly referenced this phrase:</p>
<p>“The driving youthful question that enlivened ‘Walden’”</p>
<p>@Mitduke</p>
<p>1) Thank you for finding that.
2) Do you recall what the specific question was?
3) What did you choose?</p>