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AP English Language and Composition 9.5 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 9.5 Passage Drill. Which of the following does the author not imply or assert in paragraph 3?

AP English Language and Composition 10.5 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 10.5 Passage Drill. What does the author state that a land ethic must be a process of?

AP English Language and Composition 8.3 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 8.3 Passage Drill. What most accurately describes the effect the author achieves by including several French ex...

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AP English Language: Identifying the Intended Audience 10 Views


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The most likely intended audience of this piece is


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Okay Ap ingle angers here Go next up for you

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The most likely intended audience of this piece is well

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whom Well The author's focuses how blues evolved because of

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the specific historical social and cultural experiences of african americans

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In essence this piece investigates those experiences through the lens

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of music which is why there's so much information about

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events that wouldn't normally be discussed in a piece about

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music such as the slave trade and jim crow south

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Well the passengers not actually about the music specifically like

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how it sounds lyrics its rhythm and so on because

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that's only mentioned briefly in the first paragraph So get

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rid of a likewise The passage briefly mentions the radical

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reconstruction that followed the civil war but only to provide

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background for the blue So get rid of b Marini

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gets a shout out and see there with a semi

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racist tirade But there isn't enough information here for her

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biography And the passage talks about well racism E only

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in the context that blues was created in response to

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prejudice So the right answer here is the those interested

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in african american culture

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