100 questions worth 2 marks each = total 200 marks. Penalty for wrong answer= Minus 0.67 (=1/3rd of the mark allotted to correct answer.) time limit 2 hours If you cannot solve some of these question‚ don’t get demotivated. In UPSC there will be always some question from outside of what you’ve prepared‚ but you’re not required to tick 100/100 to crack prelims. Question 1 to 20 1. Which of the following concepts can be used to study the rate of acceleration of the Universe? 1. Supernovae Explosions
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Throughout Seeing Race in Modern America‚ scholar Matthew Pratt Guterl explores how cultural “sightlines” (Guterl 2) resist change over time in the way we see race as he argues that race is a “social construction of color” (Guterl 3)‚ dependant on visual cues. Guterl uses a myriad of visual culture‚ such as advertisements‚ movies‚ and popular culture as evidence that making race visual is what causes its longevity. In his analysis of “sightlines that challenge the eye‚” (Guterl 128) he turns to movies
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Professor Michael Garbarini Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor What is your perception of the poor and less fortunate in society? Would you say that you have a low perception of them or do you regard them in the highest? Would you do your social duty to reach out to the poor and impoverished to assist them‚ or help assist‚ in establishing programs that would aid in leading them to a brighter future? These are the questions that I ask of myself as I read‚ “Seeing and Making Culture:
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Throughout all these diverse cultures of art‚ I was questioning myself and started to wonder how I could understand art beyond others’ opinion about them. Moreover‚ I realized that it was a question John Berger‚ critic of art and author of the Ways of Seeing‚ raised in his essay‚ and it is a question that will always be raised while demanding how to understand a certain art. Walking through a room where various French artists had their paintings exposed‚ I fell in front of the artwork (see above) painted
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brought harm to the inhabitants of the land they controlled by destroying their traditions‚ cultures‚ and sense of self. As a former subject of imperial England‚ Kincaid critiques this parasitic relationship that dominated her childhood memories in “On Seeing England for the First Time.” Kincaid employs diction‚ imagery‚ and repetition to portray her shifting attitude from conformity and slight doubt as a young girl to resentment towards England’s fabricated appearance as a grown adult. In her childhood
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Thames River and listens to Marlow recount his journey. Explain the significance and impact of the frame narrative to the story. Identify three shifts within the novella between this narrator and Marlow who narrates most of the story. Why are these particular points of change significant? 2. Chiaroscuro is the contrasting of light and shade. From Italian‚ meaning “bright dark‚” it is a term referring to the effect obtained in a painting or literary work when light and dark images or patterns of imagery
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1) Calculate the value of the gas law constant R when pressure is in atm‚ volume in Liter and temperature in Kelvin. Given R = 8.314 Jmol‐1K‐1‚ 1 atm = 1 .01325x105 Nm‐2‚ 1m3 = 1000 L J R = 8.314 mol x K = R = 8.314 2 m x mol x K R = 0.082 atm x L mol x K 1.01325 x 10 2 m x mol x K 1 x Nxm = mol x K 3 Nxm 3 Nxm 5 atm Nm-2 x 1000 L 3 m Reporting computed data • Multiplication and Division 5.02 x 89.665 x 0.10 = 45
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What is linguistics? Linguistic is the scientific study of human language. It can be broken into three categories of studies language form‚ language meaning and language in the context. Who are the ancient Greeks? The first problems that interested the ancient Greek thinkers were concerned not only with language‚ but with the composition of the physical words. Moreover the ancient Greek was very interest in philosophy and this interest leads them to investigate the nature of existence. They
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For the conduct of elections to the National and Provincial Assemblies‚ the Election Commission appoints a District Returning Officer for each District and a Returning Officer for each constituency‚ who are drawn from amongst the officers of the Judiciary‚ the Federal/Provincial Government and Local Authorities. Returning Officers are mostly Additional District & Sessions Judges. The list of polling stations is prepared by the Returning Officers and approved by the District Returning Officer. No
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Case on Discomfort in a factory and Management Decision MakingMohan remembered the call from the head office as he puts down the telephone receiver. His boss fromhead office he said‚ "I just read your analysis and I want you to go down to our plant in Kollakal near Mysore right away. You know we cannot afford this plant any more - the costs are just too high. So godown there‚ check out what would be our operational costs would be if we move‚ and report back to mein a week."Mohan knew the challenge
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