The video included a mock lesson on what it takes to talk like a Minnesotan.
By contrast, the commercial during the Winter Games, promoting a Presidents' Day sale, offers a mock history lesson about how George Washington bought his first car, a Charger, when he was 16, then after meeting "Martha Washington and her kids" bought a Grand Caravan minivan.
Even those that clear the scoring threshold have to survive a phone interview and a mock GMAT lesson via Web video.
Lieutenant Vance said troopers, even veterans, trained regularly for "active shooter" situations, using classroom instruction, mock situations and lessons from the numerous American shooting sprees, like the one at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.
The training incorporated didactic interactive lessons, mock sessions with feedback, and in-vivo observation followed by debriefing.
"The belief that the United States can insulate itself from peril by standing aside or by waiting for others to act is an illusion mocked by the lessons of history," she said.
Grant underplays savage battles to escape the pretensions of heroic rhetoric; Adams overdramatizes his internal "lessons" to mock the earnest pretensions of intellect to master the commercial world.
Trainings will take place over several sessions; each session will provide a combination of classroom-style didactic lessons and mock group sessions where coaches lead activities while trainers and trainees act as participants.
Or in Mr. Baldessari's billboard-size text painting "Terms Most Useful in Describing Creative Works of Art," from 1966-68, whish is comically large given its mock-pedagogical vocabulary-lesson content.
Avalanche beacon lessons and a mock rescue followed.
