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SAT Reading: Why Does Thoreau Use the Phrase "Mechanical Aids" in this Passage?
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Who is the mystery solitary invetor that was overshadowed in this SAT Reading passage? Sounds ominous enough.


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okay just two more in Ike here we go refers to the solitary infant or being

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overshadowed definitely a trivia primarily to what I do what all right so [text on screen]

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let's go back to 78 here and just see what their yammering about okay let me

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to date a solitary inventory tapering in his job is been overshadowed by task

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force the scientists in laboratories in testing field okay so the big answer

00:22

it's C Eisenhower's a fan of the underdog not the over cat his reference [president in the white house]

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to the solitary inventor being overshadowed by giant government funded

00:32

task forces sounds that way at least you know he's rootin for the crazy one in a

00:37

million lottery ticket shot right instead of a billion dollar investment [hand scratches lottery ticket]

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to make the new yeah well he was probably a fan of wacky inventors like

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Ben Franklin and Nikola Tesla and a few others we could name hello Elon Musk [famous people]

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yeah you'll be in that group someday too he has tons of respect for the underdog

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which is why he's a little sad that his underdog didn't win big science did ya

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sorry there pal 10,000 brainiacs and a billion dollars wins against whoever the

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most clever farmer is these days sorry just keeping it real eisenhower [farming equipment]

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doesn't feel like big science is necessarily an improvement yeah have a

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little farmer make the bomb which the reader can infer from the negative [barn explodes]

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connotation of overshadowed there oh poor farmer he also doesn't go so far as

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to say that it's totally a bad thing he likely feels it's similar to the

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military issue it's ugly but necessary you know sort of like those late-night [a-bomb]

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talk show host

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