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Summarize the main idea of the following selection about women during WWII. 

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

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jour brought to you by world war two proving once

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again that making a sequel bad idea All right check

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it Falling passage home You know it's been a while

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longer The number of cities after the war which statement

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best summarizes the main idea of this selection and hear

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the potential answers Well the thing keep in mind here

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is that we're looking for the main point of the

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entire passage We gotta focus on the forest here People

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not trees will begin with option a this one's definitely

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more of a tree Then a forest Though the first

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paragraph does touch on the fact that women were treated

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unfairly before world war two while the rest of the

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passage goes on to talk about other stuff So there's

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no way this could be the main idea of the

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whole passage It's The same deal of choice be We

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do indeed hear about how women helped keep the factory's

01:00

running during the war But passage is making a bigger

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point We have to keep saying yourselves forest not trees

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forest not trees and room We have to be careful

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and not talked ourselves in public places because we might

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get honey Look option c gets the award for the

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answer That's most wrong This one's not even a tree

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within a forest It's like some deformed cactus in the

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desert beyond the woods The passage never says that women

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were the cause for high male unemployment It just says

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that some people thought women ought to give up their

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jobs Toe unemployed men especially during the great depression No

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chivalrous ghostie is far and away The best answer Well

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the main point of the passages that women kept america

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going by working at traditionally male jobs during world war

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two And since both men and women fighting the military

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these days and it looks like we'll have to rely 00:01:41.738 --> [endTime] on trained monkeys during world war three

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