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

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jour brought to you by navigation You don't have to

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be a ship captain to know that the end on

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a compass stands for not south Check out this passage

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there Kind of cabinets narc in a fifteen thousand coming

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in and getting hot saltwater dollars captain reckons narc assuming

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the feed these amateur from and we're already an attitude

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from hawaii v a chronometer annapolis everything's fine quarter mouth

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captain willing captain william henry jacqueline in the context of

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the passage the author's use of the phrase the snark

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has had to call her navigators from the beach in

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the first paragraph is used to convey the idea that

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what and hear the potential answers All right remember Okay

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so our attention's being directed a one line in particular

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and we're being asked to determine why it's there but

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what's it telling us what information are we supposed to

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glean from it Where's the beef You know all the

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important questions here's that line again the snark has had

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to call her navigators from the beach Okay first of

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all what's call Even if we didn't know the definition

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of the word we should be able to get the

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gist of it from the context Clues are narrator is

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talking about the ship having a tough time hiring from

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within all the men on board Already have positions So

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when it comes to bringing navigators into the mix that

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cruise forced a color or obtained from a larger group

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any new talent from the beach e own Sure So

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now that we have a rough idea of what it's

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saying let's look over our answer choices A the expedition

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was hastily put together in a crew chosen upon departure

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Well they might have been in a hurry but we

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sure weren't told about it If they were the paragraph

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makes no reference to the speed with which the navigators

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were selected Just that they weren't in house So next

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how about sea expedition was under funded so they hired

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an inexperienced crew We can gather from the rest of

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the paragraph that this flock of doofus is or indeed

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in experienced but again nothing about the expedition being underfunded

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Far as we know these folks are swimming in the

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blue Then there's d the expedition set sail from a

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beach instead of a typical harbor No not necessarily Our

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narrator isn't using the word beach literally but rather to

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refer to everything that isn't ocean And besides it hardly

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seems as if this line is focusing on their location

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So option deacon shovel which means our answer is beat

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The expedition selected crew members who were unattached to other

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ships Yep these guys were land faring bums with no

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better offers on the table Sounds like the makings of 00:02:38.083 --> [endTime] a killer resume Doesn't it You mom love

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