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The author uses the phrase "Nebraska's version of a big city" (lines 41–42) in order to


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Okay a peeing lingers Next up the author uses the

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phrase nebraska's version of a big city in order to

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what Will someone call nebraska Because they're going to need

00:19

some ice for that burn According to the author corruption

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was rampant all across the country from new york city

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to san francisco to even tiny little oma ha Yeah

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by saying that omaha is nebraska's version of a big

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city The author suggests that well it's not in fact

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a big city yet it's still experienced the same problems

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with corruption that you get in the big city Well

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judging from the snarky tone of the parenthetical eh the

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author's certainly doesn't love the midwest which she characterizes as

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provincial Yes i'll get rid of me to the suggestion

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here is that corruption was endemic regardless of population size

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So give it to be And it's doubtful that she's

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holding up Oh ba ha is a model for urban

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development So you go to see there we know that

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fact both from the passage and from our last trip

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Teo Yeah omaha for the answer here It's e emphasize

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how pervasive political corruption wass

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