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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Identify a Theme in Walden
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Contemplating one's life is key to fulfilled happiness. Thoreau's theme revolves around the simple life well lived. He clearly never tried virtual reality games.


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All right we're back to the passage The rose finest

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young was going to be awaken into marcel's awake while

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reading a book You liked working with your doubt Railroads

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Which line provides support for the answer to the previous

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question Which of the following best describes the theme of

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this passage And we're going to say the answer is

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b why Well thoreau says what he's saying which is

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good because if he weren't saying it then someone else

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would be saying it and this wouldn't be feroze book

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Alex can i buy the word dove for two hundred

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Hdtv advises people to keep their affairs and accounts down

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Teo no more than a handful were sure he would

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have made an exception for people who aren't very coordinated

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And you no need to use both hands though making

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every moment of one's life worthy of contemplation is not

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really all that simple Yeah goodbye eh It actually sounds

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pretty difficult Living simply does provide the time to accomplish

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such a feat Self The way commerce rolls over human

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lives is a good reason toe move to the woods

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but taken on its own while the quotes about the

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dangers of modern conveniences not embracing simplicity at like oh

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those indoor toilets well they explode all the time right

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Well similarly the level of complication in everyday life distracts

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people from what they could accomplish if they lived simply

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but well that's part of the support for throws theme

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here it doesn't encapsulate the theme itself So Yet okay 00:01:21.905 --> [endTime] that's it good luck answer was b the internet

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