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AP English Language and Composition 10.8 Passage Drill. Based on the passage, what's the key mechanism that will bring about a new land ethic?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by social judgment it's
- 00:08
how we know mullets aren't cool yeah alright check out passage there we go [Man points to man with a mullet]
- 00:25
alright we're done what's the key mechanism that'll bring about a new land
- 00:30
ethic and here are the potential answers
- 00:37
right well it's important to distinguish between cause and effect a pool cue
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- 00:42
causes balls to scatter much like Adam Sandler causes audience to scatter at [Man strikes pool cue at balls]
- 00:47
least these days many of these answers are effects caused by someone else check
- 00:52
paragraph nine right there a mechanism operation Miller our approbation means
- 00:59
praise like approval as in no critics gave approbation to the movies a [Critic sitting in a chair]
- 01:05
waterboy I thought that was kind of funny basically the author saying the
- 01:09
social pressure fueled by a good ol sense of right and wrong will drive a
- 01:12
new land ethic this in turn drives the other stuff people will start using land
- 01:17
better maybe build fewer parking lots or something like that the economy might [Man in a park with a digger]
- 01:23
improve because we're not spending all our money driving to store's parking in
- 01:27
parking lots and just ordering everything through Amazon effective laws
- 01:31
will be passed and attitudes might change maybe even at the parking lot [Construction worker with blue print]
- 01:35
authority but well no that's probably not likely but this is all driven by the
- 01:39
cheers and jeers of the public which has a common conscience which knows that
- 01:43
ethical land use is good cash grab movies about 80s pop culture are bad and
- 01:49
ethical land use is an ever advancing frontier so b is the correct answer next
- 01:54
up in our discussion of social judgment will discuss the blistering condemnation
- 01:58
of Kim Kardashian [Man stood beside Kim Kardashian]
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