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The second paragraph (lines 5–15) serves primarily to


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Okay More ap laying for you Here we go The

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second paragraph lines five or fifteen search primarily to do

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what All right so line five Let's go back to

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the second biography that frenchman visits england He is a

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beam Don't we really bored interstate leading traditionally korbel a

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lapse of any ongoing dips a year that are putting

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i think returns visit and it doesn't arrive in paris

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The hastened development a lot But this is so french

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Okay well let's think about this The author here is

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a coy little minx She starts by explaining how tyrannical

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the americans are But then transitions to another topic completely

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the frenchman in england by explaining how europeans act with

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each other while she establishes what is in her mind

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as the ideal dynamic between countries which is a little

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bit of love and a little bit of hate Well

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the second paragraph actually leaves the first idea behind completely

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So just get rid of a right away The frenchman

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is a generic person like you know saying one must

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always eat the caviar before the liver Never after not

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a full fledged character So get rid of be the

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adorable french phrases never come up again And i think

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goodness get rid of sea and the function of this

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paragraph is to show the inter european dynamic not to

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catalogue the differences between french and english culture So the

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answer Yeah it's deep Provide context for the author's argument

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and note how very generic in general de is It's

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hard to be wrong when something just says you know 00:01:32.904 --> [endTime] the air is good and war is bad

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