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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by camels What do you call a
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camel without a hump I'm free i'm free i'm free
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the camera We thought that was pretty good All right
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well maybe not quite at their cricket Weii done reading
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All right what is important about the multiple meanings of
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the word distinction in the first sentence of the second
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paragraph Distinction sting all right near the potential answers Okay
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All right Well a distinction is something that makes one
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thing different from another The sentence in which the word
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appears introduces a paragraph about how both masters and servants
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die of thirst in the desert when there's no water
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Well if there's nothing to drink it doesn't matter if
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you're rich or poor Kind of hard to buy some
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water when there's no quickie mart option a is way
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off base there's nothing in this answer choice that's marking
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a difference between two things is just saying one thing
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about one thing Clouds like this option barely even tried
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let's move on before this lack of motivation It's really
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depressing option b doesn't even come close So it does
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show that water has two distinctive sides to it Water
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khun save lives or take him depending on how much
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of it there is And what kind of mood it's
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in that day remember that i will However this essay
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doesn't say anything about water as a destructive force it's
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on ly the lack of water that's the problem flash
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flood might even be welcomed to the thirsty caravan While
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option d does talk about a distinction it's not a
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distinction that's present in the passage We only hear the
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author's opinion of the desert so as far as we
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know her opinion does represent reality we'll have to watch
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real housewives of the caravan teo find out if the
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author knows what she's talking about All right option c
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is the only one that gets the author's multiple meanings
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Besides being a noun that mark's differences distinction also can
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be used to show rank or honor as in he
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has earned several distinctions as a military strategist Well the
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author is telling us that in the case of dying
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of thirst there's no distinction difference between distinctions Rank rich
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people poor people everybody's dyna thirst in the desert desert
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doesn't care about class distinctions Nor does it accept visa 00:02:21.34 --> [endTime] or american express Oh buggers
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