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alright people were still on the Obama inauguration speech 2013 and let's just

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pop on to the next question all right so it's asking as it is using [text on screen]

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the passage steeled 161 right there most closely means what okay well let's see

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where is it all right this generation of Americans has been tested by crises that

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steeled our resolve and proved our resilience aren't sealed it to suffer

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well let's see what's the right answer here yeah reinforced and that sounds

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pretty good there the whole speech is about the strength of the good ol US of [Uncle Sam weightlifting]

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A after enduring crises we came back stronger than ever

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steeled in our ideals in fact this piece of figurative language is pretty [Uncle Sam pulling truck]

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straightforward think of it this way when you add steel to something well you [text on screen]

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make it stronger another word for having made something stronger is to yeah [man bicep curling a log]

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having reinforced it that's how it works well Obama spends a lot of time

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connecting our strengths today with the strength of those who came before us our

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newest crises didn't create American strength so we can't say that our

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resolve has recently been built so we get rid of a that's not like brand new [text on screen]

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likewise forging C something also a means forming it for the first time the

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struggles we've faced definitely didn't take away our steel or any of our [blacksmith doing his thing]

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resolve so that's the answer it's D reinforced and just go enforce and then

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do it again or week

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