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Whats the best way to differentiate btw a judgement and an inference?

35% lol accuracy in AIMCATs RCs

around 70% on rcprep.com

reason to worry? 

  • hell yes
  • yes bhi ho toh ab kya ukhaad lega?
  • not really

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LOL

my cousin ask me " bhai yeh IIM C kasa college hai" with weird expression on her face !!!!!!

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Now let us turn back to inquire whether sending our capital abroad, and consenting to be taxed to pay emigration fares to get rid of the women and men who are left without employment in consequence, is all that capitalism can do when our employers, who act for our capitalists in industrial affairs, and are more or less capitalists themselves in the earlier stages of capitalistic development, find that they can sell no more of their goods at a profit, or indeed at all, in their own country. Clearly they cannot send abroad the capital they have already invested, because it has all been eaten up by the workers, leaving in its place factories and railways and mines and the like; and these cannot be packed into a ship's hold and sent to Africa. It is only the freshly saved capital that can be sent out of the country. This, as we have seen, does go abroad in heaps of finished products. But the British land held by him on long lease, must, when once he has sold all the goods at home that his British customers can afford to buy, either shut up his works until the customers have worn out their stock of what they have bought, which would bankrupt him (for the landlord will not wait), or else sell his superfluous goods somewhere else; that is, he must send them abroad. Now it is not easy to send them to civilized countries, because they practise Protection, which means that they impose heavy taxes (customs duties) on foreign goods. Uncivilized countries, without Protection, and inhabited by natives to whom gaudy calicoes and cheap showy brassware are dazzling and delightful novelties, are the best places to make for at first. But trade requires a settled government to put down the habit of plundering strangers. This is not a habit of simple tribes, who are often friendly and honest. It is what civilized men do where there is no law to restrain them. Until quite recent times it was extremely dangerous to be wrecked on our own coasts, as wrecking, which meant plundering wrecked ships and refraining from any officious efforts to save the lives of their crews, was a well-established business in many places on our shores. The Chinese still remember some astonishing outbursts of looting perpetrated by English ladies of high position, at moments when law was suspended and priceless works of art were to be had for the grabbing. When trading with aborigines begins with the visit of a single ship, the cannons and cutlasses carried may be quite sufficient to overawe the natives if they are troublesome. The real difficulty begins when so many ships come that a little trading station of white men grows up and attracts the white ne'er-do-wells and violent roughs who are always being squeezed out of civilization by the pressure of law and order. It is these riff-raff who turn the place into a sort of hell in which sooner or later missionaries are murdered and traders plundered. Their home governments are appealed to put a stop to this. A gunboat is sent out and inquiry made. The report after the inquiry is that there is nothing to be done but set up a civilized government, with a post office, police, troops and the navy in the offing. In short, the place is added to some civilized Empire. And the civilized taxpayer pays the bill without getting a farthing of the profits. Of course the business does not stop there. The riff-raff who have created the emergency move out just beyond the boundary of the annexed territory, and are as great a nuisance as ever to the traders when they have exhausted the purchasing power of the included natives and push on after fresh customers. Again they call on their home government to civilize a further area; and so bit by bit the civilized Empire grows at the expense of the home taxpayers, without any intention or approval on their part, until at last although all their real patriotism is centred on their own people and confined to their own country, their own rulers, and their own religious faith; they find that the centre of their beloved realm has shifted to the other hemisphere. That is how we in the British Islands have found our centre moved from London to the Suez Canal, and are now in the position that out of every hundred of our fellow-subjects, in whose defence we are expected to shed the last drop of our blood, only 11 are whites or even Christians. In our bewilderment some of us declare that the Empire is a burden and a blunder, whilst others glory in it as a triumph. You and I need not argue with them just now, our point for the moment being that, whether blunder or glory, the British Empire was quite unintentional. What should have been undertaken only as a most carefully considered political development has been a series of commercial adventures thrust on us by capitalists forced by their own system to cater to foreign customers before their own country's needs were one-tenth satisfied.

QUESTION 1


 According to the author, the main reason why capitalist go abroad to sell their goods is
(A) that they want to civilize the under developed countries of the world by giving them their goods.
(B) that they have to have new places to sell their surplus goods some where in new markets.
(C) that they actually want to rule new lands and selling goods is an excuse.
(D) None of the above

QUESTION 2


 Which of the following may be called the main complaint of the author?
(A) The race of people he belongs to are looters and plunderers.
(B) The capitalists are taking over the entire world.
(C) It is a way of life for English ladies to loot and plunder.
(D) The English taxpayer has to pay for the upkeep of territories he did not want

.QUESTION 3


 It may be inferred that the passage was written
(A) when Britain was still a colonial power.
(B) when the author was in a bad mood.
(C) when the author was working in the foreign service of Britain.
(D) when the author's country was overrun by the British.
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possibility of getting 7 sentences in PJs wherein one would be the odd one out and the rest 6 have to be arranged in the sequence?

  • AIMCATs have screwed your mind
  • possible

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saints emphasized that it is/was duty of all to live in harmony with each other.

I wonder if  tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor and think ,"damn i'd tap dat".

In the library, Vijay observes a woman sitting at a table by herself. A man comes up and sits at the other end of the table. The woman frowns and shakes her head "no." The man gets up and moves to another table. Vijay concludes that the woman did not want to share a study table. The theoretical perspective Vijay is using


  • The interactionist perspective
  • NOTA
  • The functional perspective
  • The conflict perspective

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Lengthy protection, it is argued, increases the incentive to create. Digital technology seems to strengthen the argument: by making copying easier, it seems to demand greater protection in return. The idea of extending copyright also has a moral appeal. Intellectual property can seem very like real property, especially when it is yours, and not some faceless corporation's. As a result people feel that once they own it - especially if they have made it - they should go on owning it, much as they would a house that they could pass on to their descendants. On this reading, protection should be perpetual ._____________________________________

  • a)However, the notion that lengthening copyright increases creativity is questionable.
  • e)Ratcheting up the time limit on a regular basis becomes a reasonable way of approximating
  • d)Copyright protection is needed partly to cover the costs of creating and distributing works in physical form.
  • c)But tools are not ends in themselves.
  • b)And overlong copyrights often limit, rather than encourage, a work’s dissemination, impact and influence

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Want some tips on how to deal with facts, inference and judgementsquestions? Plz help

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On a sum compound interest for two years is Rs410 and simple interest is 400 Find the rate of interest.

1. 4% 2.3% 3.5% 4.6%

Logical Deductions CONFUSION . Pls someone elucidate.

1. If x  then y    -->  if Not y then not x

2. only if x then y ----> y then x --> not y then not x --> not x then not y ???   (Im very confused in this, different books claim different deductions)

3. Either x or y . --> X and Y both? (is this true or they have to be exclusive of each other??

Out of 90 articles 40 articles were sold at profit of 10% and 50 at profit of 20%. If all the articles were sold at a profit of 15% Rs 40 would have been less received. Find cost price of each article.


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60% of 35 is what percent of 300?

1.7%  2.6% 3. 8%  4.5%

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Urgent query

The signautre produced on my cat admit card and my passport are not identical. will i be allowed to write exam. i have signed my full name in one and only first name in other.

Please helpHey

Urgent query

The signautre produced on my cat admit card and my passport are not identical. will i be allowed to write exam. i have signed my full name in one and only first name in other.

Please help

http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/cat-2014-saturday-22nd-november-2014-day-2-exam-experience-30188...


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Are they providing any sachets to keep mobile phones safely?