The author states, "While this country cannot dictate to the government of Singapore, no one should fail to exhort it to behave mercifully." Both dictate and exhort have to do with telling another person or group what to do. What shades of meaning distinguish the two words as used in this sentence? Look the words up in a dictionary if you need to clarify their meanings.

SIMPLIFIED: Both dictate and exhort are about telling someone what to do. How are the words different, especially thinking about how they're used in this sentence? Use a dictionary or the internet to see the exact definitions, and then discuss how the two different meanings are important here.

TIPS:

What does dictate mean? What does exhort mean? Reread each sentence, substituting the definition for each word.

Why can’t we dictate the behavior of another government? What obligation might we have to "exhort" it to behave decently?

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the answer is somber

explanation:

it refers to the definition of full-contact sports, where the condition is that the sport must have athletes must "purposely collide with each other

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”