<p>I choose diversity</p>
<p>I didn’t pick up on the past/future at all, I immediately crossed it off. To me the entire passage after the intro discussed the effects of homogeneity. Therefore, I believed the beginning of the 2nd paragraph was meant to set up the future discussion about diversity.</p>
<p>i know, but that specific line in the passage did not mention diversity at all. The first paragraph was about the past, it was about the past life of the nomads, then it transitiioned to future speculations… AFTER the tone shifted to the future, the narrarator worried about losing diversity in the future. However, diversity is not the main point of the passage. The main point was to contrast to different thinking styles. Diversity was just something the narrarotor appreciated and did not want to see it dissapear in the future. Also, the 1st line of the second paragraph typically connects the 1st paragraph with the rest on the passage. The line served as a transition… a transition from tlkn about the past and started tlkn about future possibilities</p>
<p>xs0itg0esx, I respectfully disagree. The passage first described the nomads’ ways of navigation, then it went on musing about whether anyone would care if the nomads assimilated, then it stated its reason for keeping the nomads around (diversity) and then from there, it went into more detail about diversity. </p>
<p>That answer, past/present, is wrong because EVEN IF that were true, it’s not the primary effect of the passage. But then again, it wasn’t really switching from past to present. The description of the nomads was, in fact, of HOW THEY DO THE NAVIGATION AT THAT TIME, so your whole argument for past would rely on the nomads’ assimilation to have already occurred, which it didn’t. </p>
<p>It’s diversity.</p>
<p>I have to agree that it was NOT past -> future.</p>
<p>Like Arachnotron stated, the first paragraph was not describing something in the past. It was describing the way of life of the sea nomads. The author declared that that is how the sea nomads live, but with the influx of specialized scientific uses, the sea nomads may eventually lose their acute sea senses and be normal land dwellers.</p>
<p>^^^ “even if it were true it was not the primary point of the passage” Yes, you are right that it was not the primary point of the passage HOWEVER, it was not asking for the point of the passage. It was merely asking for the function of sentence one of passage two. That sentence that it was asking about mentioned nothing whatsoever about diversity==== the function of that sentence therefore cannot set the tone of diversity.<br>
-Now, pass to present was in fact the function of that sentence. The first paragraph was nostalgically remmenissing about an almost out-dated way of life THAN the second paragraph startes (where it asks about the 1st sentence of the second paragraph) the function of that specific sentence was to transition from remenising about an almost outdated perspective to the modern way of specializing that endager’s the nomads way of life. College board tried tricking you with diversity, but, it was not mentioned at all in the sentence they were asking about</p>
<p>In fact, diversity was not mentioned, I think untill paragraph 3</p>
<p>oh, and just in case one disagrees… the 1st pragraph HAD to be in the past… its pure logic… cuuz the narrarotor tlks how the nomads are not flourishing like they used to in modern age and paragraph one tlks about when they prospered … It is pure logic that 1st paragraph was about the past</p>
<p>i haven’t really been following the conversation, but i agree with past to future for that stupid nomad question. i know there could have been confusion about whether the first paragraph was actually in the past, but it without a doubt was, stating the way things were done a hundred years ago, for centuries, etc. the second paragraph talks specifically ABOUT the future. there was absolutely no mention of diversity in either of those passages, and up until that point, the passages are just comparing two different ways of life. the thesis about the need for diversity was introduced after the second diversity.</p>
<p>does anybody remember putting anything related to commercial for the rock and roll passage</p>
<p>like…the qs was wat is the diff bet. passage one and passage 2</p>
<p>one choice said passage 2 talked about the commercial aspects</p>
<p>yes i remember the commercial … i think it was commercial vs social
i don’t think i picked that thoughh… i THINKK that was the question where another answer was the one with demographics? but i could be wrong</p>
<p>passage 2 was clearly talking about marketing</p>
<p>how rock and roll marketed to kids through mtv</p>
<p>how they got adults to want rock and roll all through their life</p>
<p>they said like they attracted the people at their wealthiest ages…(adults)</p>
<p>passage 2 was clearly talking about marketing</p>
<p>how rock and roll marketed to kids through mtv</p>
<p>how they got adults to want rock and roll all through their life</p>
<p>they said like they attracted the people at their wealthiest ages…(adults)</p>
<p>you’re probably right, those 2 passages are completee blurs to me</p>
<p>what was the first part of the answer with demographics?</p>
<p>i honestly have NO clue!</p>
<p>Okay I’m gonna say this for the third time, demographics and social/implication were answers to two different questions. Stop arguing!</p>
<p>i didn’t even know we were talking about social/implication
do you remember other answers for the demographics one then?</p>
<p>sorry not at all. I think the social was paired with commercial.</p>
<p>what about cultural? was that one of them? it could be completely in my head though hahaa</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>The question, if I recall, was something about “what if the nomads were to lose their way of life” and then it talked about how, if anything, it would be analogous to something which had to do with diversity. </p>
<p>We’ll see what the real answer is when I get my QAS booklet.</p>