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CAHSEE 6.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the main theme of the passage?

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Sorry then here's your smoke Does your brought to you

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by pure genius Okay it's about fifty percent pure and

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probably diluted with wikipedia but it'll do tricks All right

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zel for lions ralph While though everything Great work I'm

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sorry For me in a minute Okay Yeah we skimmed

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that's How It's kim All right which of the following

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is the main theme of the passage And here the

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potential answers Okay we're done Sometimes important clues are right

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in the title Like with film classic snakes on a

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plane Sometimes the title tells us all we need to

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know All right well let's take a look at the

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title of the essay shall we Self reliance Wow this

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is almost like cheating Even if we didn't read the

00:57

passage we could get this one Right Choi si is

01:00

obviously wrong If we're relying on a mentor then we

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definitely aren't relying on ourselves Sooner or later our obi

01:07

wan's and yoda's are gonna bite the dust and we

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have to face the bad guys alone or become them

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It's hard to argue with option Hey riel intelligence is

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rare among people If you need proof sitting the mall

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and eavesdrop on any passing conversation or just check out

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congress so it may be true and today still doesn't

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make the cut Humanity's general dimness is a good reason

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to be self reliant But that's just not what This

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essay Is all about emerson would roll in his grave

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if we pick choice d One of the major points

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in this essay is that society makes it really hard

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to be self reliant In paragraph five he says self

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reliance is its meaning societies A version Well this leaves

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us with choice b which correctly sums emerson's idea that

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in order to be self reliant we have to listen

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to our inner voices Unless our inner voices are telling

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us to rely on others so well then it gets 00:01:58.083 --> [endTime] confused Good

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