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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour Brought to you by dioxins when toxic chemicals contaminate

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the herd's water supply These bloodthirsty mutant oxen are born

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all right we're reading were skimming where the awning you

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are fascinated by this awesome paragraph it's just simulating we're

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done Yeah yeah okay We're not all right Which of

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these revisions would make the paper mohr effective and hear

00:28

the potential answers So we've got to give this essay

00:32

some advice on how to improve itself Since when are

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we qualified to be motivational speakers Went well that's Okay

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it's not like most motivational speakers have sterling qualifications Either

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option a is the first to go the papers about

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the harm that toxic chemicals from elektronik can cause if

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they're left in landfills So it's safe to say paragraph

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two which focuses on the chemicals president electronics and how

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they impact the environment is relevant to the essay team

01:02

so the paragraph stays But this answer option has two

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d'oh option c also gives the essay some poor advice

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There's no need to switch the order of paragraphs two

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and three unless we think it's funny that purposely confuse

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our readers as it is the flow from paragraph paragraph

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is just fine Option d isn't totally terrible advice Not

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that we wouldn't like to know if our lunch was

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harboring dioxins and those things but it's hard to see

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where a sense that focuses on dioxin contaminated food would

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fit in the essay And anyway there are definitely more

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significant ways this paper can step up its game The

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correct answer is b The main subject of the essay

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is the harm Toxic chemicals from elektronik scan cause if

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left in landfills Favorite tells us a lot about how

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recycling can help fix the problem but it doesn't talk

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about how the existing damage can be repaired We'd love

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to know so that we can have a dioxin free 00:01:59.679 --> [endTime] experience next time we go dumpster diving

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