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The theme of the passage can best be described as
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- 00:05
Okay Ap yngling people we got a whole new passage
- 00:08
just dying to be skimmed here it says adapted from
- 00:11
a recent essay on the history of drugs in america
- 00:14
Like just say yes until someone told us to just
- 00:17
say no All right so what's your skin This thing
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- 00:19
and picking out a few key words here at its
- 00:21
good customers developing products that coffee then with like a
- 00:23
drug to start about scotland and cocaine were going Wow
- 00:25
this thing is long It goes oh some eighty lines
- 00:27
and finally go back to the top It's okay we're
- 00:28
gonna start on cocaine and no one's really good with
- 00:30
capt Robertson cultivators going there's a billion people were getting
- 00:33
freaky with starbucks revolutionized american coffee You drink caffeine and
- 00:36
money and they just livers and unconditional peace Coffee place
- 00:39
marketing with those copies you understand Howard shelton Starbucks and
- 00:41
i got a got a million calories every sort of
- 00:43
shelter for taking on a freeway by taking cocaine Caffeine
- 00:46
to koga will hide behind this gallery regularly made A
- 00:49
big father told him that you could be right We're
- 00:50
just going down There are gonna be completely different now
- 00:52
We're going to be something that somebody probably framed him
- 00:54
Anything that could dream of our child Well the theme
- 00:56
of the passage can best be described as what Yeah
- 01:03
Although many of the options pertained a parts of the
- 01:05
passage While the question asked about the passage over all
- 01:08
the idea that all parts have in common though as
- 01:11
evidenced by the frequent citation of their financial impact is
- 01:14
that both legal and illegal drugs play a massive role
- 01:17
in our economy because the passage includes stuff about starbucks
- 01:20
While the overall thing doesn't center on illegal drugs specifically
- 01:24
so get rid of caramel macchiato knows her delicious enough
- 01:26
that they totally should be illegal But well they're not
- 01:29
The passage talks about the similar profitability of legal and
- 01:32
illegal drugs not similarities of the drugs themselves With people
- 01:36
who drink a lot of coffee to do that again
- 01:38
Some paragraphs do talk about the rise of some entrepreneurs
- 01:41
But the passage about the product's not people in the
- 01:43
producers Nothing in the passage not even the parts about
- 01:46
crack talk about the evils of corporations So get rid
- 01:49
of d Yeah it's the communist section of this book
- 01:52
So the answer is d How drugs became integral to
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the american economy that's it and be done there
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