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Texas EOC English 2: Revision Drill 3, Problem 4

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Thank you We sneak in and he is sure some

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of you sure brought to you by murder way recently

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solved the mystery of who killed our neighbours Cow It

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was a really mood on it That way We're stretching

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on that one All right Worst dictator of all time

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were skimming Not also reading Worst question of all time

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Or worse the toc of all time That's Different contest

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Equally brutal them All right Robert wants to add two

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sentences after sentence eleven and provide more supporting details Which

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of the following sentences should he ad and hear the

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punchline All right zones on hitler Rosie Guilty killed All

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right well yep Sentence eleven is pretty light on detail

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right here Both killed many millions of people so let's

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see what these other options have to offer Well beat

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hitler and stalin Both caused the deaths of millions of

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people by murdering them either for ethnic or political reasons

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we'll be Sounds pretty good The only problem is that

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it doesn't make clear each dictators individual motivations for mass

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murder Like there's Ever a good reason See goes wrong

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in the same way both hitler and stalin murdered people

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But one did so in the base of ethnicity while

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the videos on the base of politics well we need

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to connect each evil dictator to his evil motivations Yeah

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we heard about it earlier in the passage but were

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summing things different in this final paragraph Since the whole

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point is comparing the two dictators we can't gloss over

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their particular crimes here as much as their mothers might

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like it If we did that you like to be

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hitler's mother Anyway at this point d is easy to

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nick's Millions of people were killed by both hitler and

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stalin ear because of their religion or race or because

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of their opposition to the dictator Why Because it yet

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has the same problems as the other options It's ones

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even a little worse since its phrasing is just awkward

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Well the correct answer is a because it nicely distinguishes

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between the two dictators Murderous motivations nicely being a relative 00:01:58.977 --> [endTime] word in this case

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