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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by condensed lessons in american history

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The nineteen twenties were fun and then everyone went bankrupt

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I went to the following passage you're a coy needed

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hands of lead Your friend looks today all right Not

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talking bowling here Which of the following best describes the

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purpose of this passage and here the potential answers All

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right Customs history political group twisted culture All right well

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remember it's important to distinguish between supporting details and the

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main purpose will the purpose of a toothbrush isn't to

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be long rectangular and bristly It's the brush your teeth

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consider option a All we learn about the era coy

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culture in geography is that they were based in new

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york and had ceremonial practices that's not even enough to

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distinguish them from the cast of jersey shore And those

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small bits of information are certainly not text main focus

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Option c is objectively wrong While the lyric oi confederacy

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did support the british during the revolutionary war the iraq

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oil were already established by the sixteenth century So unless

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the iraq oi we're planning way way in advance well

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this doesn't make any sense Let's Take a look at

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option d Yes the euro coins shared language is mentioned

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in the paragraphs first sentence but again this is just

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a single supporting detail in a passage that serves a

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larger purpose It's just a cog in a larger machine

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which leaves us with option b The passage provides a

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very brief history of the iraq oi people enough to

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feel like a tiny info pamphlet So v is the

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correct answer Our next brief lesson in history The civil 00:01:45.699 --> [endTime] war was that it wasn't so civil

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