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

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your brought to you by social issues At least they're

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more fun than anti social issues All right felons were

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reading and citizens going on violent from prison possibly voting

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for five million Okay which sentence should be used to

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start paragraph seven senses twenty two twenty seven and hear

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the potential answers Which said all right well it seems

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that the best way to tackle this question is to

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revisit each suggested sentence and imagine it opening the paragraph

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if it makes sense while the ending ding ding we

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have a winner if it makes zero sense Well the

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winning ticket to the curb so let's get to it

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Option b is obviously wrong Sentence twenty three starts with

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phrase over three million of them them who if this

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sentence kicked off paragraph we'd have no idea whom the

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pronoun them was referring tio it's a bad idea to

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leave readers in the dark They get confused and they

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might call you know they'll cross us off the list

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Choi sees not so great either The paragraph needs a

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little time before it gets around to the subject of

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minorities so we can't start off with topic and then

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there's choice d which makes the same mistake of see

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paragraphs not quite ready for the subject of disenfranchised minorities

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This sense puts cart before the horse And while that

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expression just bubbled up from our subconscious let it our

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grandma say that or something Well whatever the case we've

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now whittled our answers down to choice A which is

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the correct answer Looks like jordan's original opening sentence did

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the job just fine so he's got nothing to worry

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about except maybe war worldwide pandemics and heartbreak But okay

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turns out he's got a lot to worry about Really

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