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Which of the following best describes the theme of the passage?
Transcript
- 00:04
Okay Ap england learners we've got another essay for you
- 00:08
and if we skim down the first question here it
- 00:10
asked which of the following best describes the theme of
- 00:13
the passage Well it's just kind of skimmed down here
- 00:19
We're gonna read the first sentence of each paragraph in
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- 00:21
tennessee if we can figure out what the theme is
- 00:23
Fashion is not implying americans in close We pay out
- 00:25
of a closet morning and after world war two veterans
- 00:30
retained their medals and insignias is records of their service
- 00:33
bills American medical You change your khaki uniform with a
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white collar suits a male american blue collar working class
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Everything ok At same time commercials and fads had beamed
- 00:41
across country and in people's living rooms and a new
- 00:43
wildly popular television the eco tv Alright skimming down skim
- 00:47
and meanwhile throughout second half twentieth century american maryland textile
- 00:50
may have begged you to expand their innocence Everything cost
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dealing effectively A foreign business Interesting Ok so then what
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kind of parenting dreaming Yeah it's professor and former black
- 00:59
panther party member and activist angela davis is noted The
- 01:02
same iconic images after a hairstyle from for example have
- 01:05
been simmering Stereotype moon in the past Interesting All right
- 01:08
well let's think about this The passage takes a broad
- 01:10
look at events in american history and for each period
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sites ways in which issues of the period were reflected
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in fashion It's likea fashion history timeline that also makes
- 01:19
us wonder what our favorite hello kitty leggings you know
- 01:22
say about our times Well the objective of the passengers
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to link fashion to various cultural upheavals not show that
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fashion is unimportant so get rid of b Passage also
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shows fashion changes happen alongside cultural shifts Get rid of
- 01:34
c they don't predict or cause them get rid of
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it as evidence By the careful point by point analysis
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the author would hardly describe fashion as frivolous so get
- 01:43
rid of de the right answer here It's a fashion
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is a unique signifier of american cultural choices That's it 00:01:49.534 --> [endTime] That's the answer
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