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The organization of the fourth paragraph (lines 24–32) can best be described as


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Okay ap engl angers next up the organization of the

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fourth paragraph can best be described as what All right

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so in line twenty four during these years american politics

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rhyme Exciting voter registration extraordinary high national elections on a

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razor thin margin Corruption planner um international level and grant

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was cesspool of graft and mala administracion succeeding president Less

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corrupt But many politician breaking governing flossie really improved economic

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You'll each be a lot of pursuits that never minimal

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government interfere Fear rinse All right so let's think about

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this Well in this paragraph the author uses the same

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pattern as in the previous She describes the positives of

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a trend this time how dynamic and exciting politics were

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and then shows it's putrid underbelly the corruption will This

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strategy helps to reveal that the era was both positive

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and negative What a levelheaded lady She should start a

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blogger or something I don't think well throughout the piece

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The author never uses empirical data so get rid of

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a like the number of miles of railroad track laid

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or the growth rate of the economy Like wise she

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doesn't give her own opinion about the events so get

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rid of b or include herself on the writing so

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get rid of either and personal narrative instead She lays

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out what was good and what was bad in this

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paragraph Her initial hypothesis is that the politics were dynamic

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and exciting which is consistent with the rest of the

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paragraph So get rid of c the right answer here

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Yeah it's d a listing of prose followed by a

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listing of cons Very very simple And yeah a whole

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lot of cons came out of the corruption scandals in 00:01:31.184 --> [endTime] that era for sure

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