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Texas EOC English 1: 2.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Texas EOC English 1: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 3, Problem 4

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

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jour brought to you by the meaning of life We

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tell you what that is but well that would ruin

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all the fun Yeah you gotta live it yourself baby

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So she was following passage Women world war two great

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depression's there picking out key words here thinking thinking just

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skimming quickly because we want to get right to the

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questions You have to go back When i'm wasting time

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reading stuff you don't have to All right what is

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the purpose of this selection And they hear the potential

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answers wave All right time to figure out this passages

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over all purpose in life If we could only narrow

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down our own purpose in life to just one of

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four possible choices while life would be a whole lot

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easier Okay so let's start by nixon choice a it

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doesn't feel like this passage is trying to persuade us

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about anything It's really not making an argument of any

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kind Instead it just takes a loan just back can

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approach We'll have to cut choice b to this passage

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fills us in on some interesting historical fact but we

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wouldn't necessarily call those facts entertaining Maybe a dramatic soundtrack

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would help Uh maybe not option b doesn't work either

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If the passage we're out to condemn something it would

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go on and on about how bad the thing is

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listing its many flaws to be like hanging out with

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a really cynical friend Even though the pastor tells us

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about prejudice against women in the workforce its purpose isn't

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to highlight these unfair practices Option sees the best answer

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This is an informative piece that's out to give us

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a little historical background about women in the workforce the

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author would later write a passage about retirees which focused

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mainly on the benefits of the early bird special You 00:01:38.46 --> [endTime] gotta live it yourself baby

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