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AP English Language and Composition 5.9 Passage Drill. Which best describes the theme of the second paragraph?

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Sorry and here's your shmoop toos your brought to you

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by philosophical goals The kind you think about a lot

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but never quite gets done Checking the following passage there

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there Come on sing a traditional system human destiny that

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much learning to compare the lord god attention right And

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we're done which best describes the theme of the second

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paragraph and here your potential answers thinking thinking way well

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we'd better refresh ourselves on the themes of the second

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paragraph before we get into this one and you know

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that paragraph is pretty dense definitely not the most refreshing

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refresher we've ever had right here right Okay so unfortunately

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options angel seem to have no idea what the paragraph

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is saying Nowhere does the paragraph mention taking risks as

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a claims and it never says that material success is

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lead people down the road to immorality As c tells

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us rich people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief

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We can eliminate choice b as well The paragraph doesn't

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say that not pursuing philosophical goals is a good way

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to achieve that I wish that were true then every

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slacker on earth and be like what the paragraph does

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say is that philosophies that doesn't impose its own ideas

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of right and wrong we'll end up finding higher truth

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option is getting there but it doesn't quite make it

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the speaker tells us that both religion and science acknowledge

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the limits of human power so that means that we

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shouldn't think too much of ourselves but we do have

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some control over our lives Well choice is the best

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answer because it's the only one that captures the essence

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of the passage it's basically trying to say that we're

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not going to find truth by getting all cocky and

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assuming we've got universe figured out then trying to make

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our laws of morality fit into that neat tidy little

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box we've built for ourselves Just look at how drastically

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popular views change from one century to the next on

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civil rights acceptable types of public behavior religious freedoms and

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so on It's easy to be short sighted and pretend

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that our generation is the one that's got it all

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figured out but odds are good that well we've still

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got some figuring to do oh yeah it's really all

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about owning up to our own shortcomings and admitting we

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don't know everything only then can we start to approach

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something even remotely resembling the truth Hopefully we'll get there 00:02:31.22 --> [endTime] before the robots take over

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