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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Identify a Theme in Walden
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SAT Reading: Why Does Thoreau Use the Phrase "Mechanical Aids" in this Passage?
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SAT Reading: Inferring Information from a Passage 12 Views


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Thoreau moved to Walden - now what? He... ate only a few, simple meals. No 3 meals a day schedule for him. He wanted to diet complexity and calories at the same time.


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Ok people next question We're going to eat first before

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looking into text You can be mostly inferred that after

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thorough moved to welding he what All right well there's

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not much reading to go back through so you can

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go skin the passage if you want but we're just

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gonna dive right in Okay well the correct answer here

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Yeah it's b he ate few simple meals like good

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and that seem apropo to his character Did henry dave

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practice what he preached in real life before he split

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for the woods Well we'll have to take his word

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for it In his call for simplicity he specifically mentioned

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eating simply says instead of three meals a day if

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it be necessary eat but one instead of one hundred

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dishes five will combine that with fact that well he

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didn't have a job and it's safe to assume throw

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wasn't eating a lot of caviar in truffles solitude is

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a major theme in walden but it's impossible to tell

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from this excerpt whether thoreau had much company Well he

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certainly never talks about never talking a and this excerpt

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also fails to mention anything about where hdtv lived or

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what he lived in a teepee or nowhere and not

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to mention his work schedule Like checking in on google

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calendar getting those alerts there not gonna happen All right 00:01:15.873 --> [endTime] he is the answer A few simple meals Yeah

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