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Okay Aspiring members We have a whole new section for

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you This one on james meredith civil rights hero Yeah

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he's a super friend Okay we have one of twelve

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and we're just gonna dive right in here The focus

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key phrase right here Rights hero semi colon He just

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all right let's go to paragraph one We're gonna skim

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or zip on through here today many people recognized reverend

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martin luther king jr As are most venerated civil rights

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hero However in his nineteen sixty three letter from birmingham

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jail king named james meredith as the first in his

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list of real heroes of the south James meredith I

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didn't plan to be a civil rights hero He just

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wanted to attend college What's wrong with that Looks pretty

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good to me Well think about it That's right No

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change It's nice to see the aspire english assessment get

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it right every once in a while in a long

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long while because they usually get these things wrong with

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the semi colon properly separates two complete thoughts that are

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closely related That's it Everything is awesome This is so

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great All right Okay fine We feel kind of empty

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without a longer explanation here So here's a breakdown of

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the other loser bold choices a comma and the conjunction

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in and bring the two thoughts together But they make

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it seem as though the two thoughts are not that

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related to one another when they actually go in and

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like inbee get rid of that A period may work

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but not if the next sentence begins with but one

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t and a semi colon turns the second clause into

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a fragment with because which adds insult to injury by

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indicating a causal relationship which we don't have here So

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get rid of dia's Well a's fine eh Was just

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fine Don't touch it It's fine We're done far

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