Answer:
I) The speaker is A P J Abdul Kalam, who is quoting what a girl told him in one of his lectures.
II) The person that claims to want to live in a developed India is a 14 years old girl who gave that answer when asked what her goal in life was. he uses that quote to engage the audience of his speech, to call them into action for that little girl. The vision he refers to is his strategy to make India emerge as one of the main economic powers by 2020.
Explanation:
Kalam, along with Y. S. Rajan, wrote the book India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, in which they present a strategy to make India emerge as one of the main economic powers by 2020.
Chapter 2 summary:
After coming back from Connecticut, Mitty had tons of homework, not to mention, ten pages of notes. At school the next day, his friend Derek, goes on and on about the anthrax murders. After school, Mitty starts on his notes, but decides to skip to his rough draft instead. Mitty continued to read about smallpox, everything happening to the people he is reading about could be happening to him too
Answer:
- A lack of preparation and adequate safety measures caused chaos following the collision.
- "The boats were swung out—slowly, for the deckhands were late in reaching their stations; there had been no boat drill, and many of the crew did not know to what boats they were assigned."
Explanation:
From the text of "R.M.S. Titanic", it can be seen and inferred that the chaos that occurred on the Titanic in the aftermath of the collision was mainly down to a lack of preparedness on the part of the ship's staff.
This was evidenced by the part of the text shown in the answer where the deckhands had been late to their stations and had gone through no boat drills which are very necessary things when a boat is on the high seas as the threat of sinking is never truly far off.
