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AP English Language and Composition 7.5 Passage Drill. What would be the best explanation for what the author means by "the coarser pains and pleasures which they carry in their train"?
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- 00:04
here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Frankenstein's monster
- 00:07
the reason the young doctor absolutely refuses to look under his bed all right [Young boy in bed scared]
- 00:12
check the following passage we're gonna check it out quickly skim one two three
- 00:16
all right one two three four five six we're done skimming okay what would be
- 00:29
the best explanation for what the author means by the courser pains and pleasures [Question appears]
Full Transcript
- 00:35
which they carry in their Train all right here the potential answers and
- 00:39
okay well before dissecting this quote let's
- 00:43
look back at what these lines are referring to since the first sentence of
- 00:47
paragraph five is still a bit vague let's just start a paragraph four well [Sentence highlighted in blue]
- 00:51
what we're talking about here is knowledge and according to the passage
- 00:54
the historian of every science or scientist as US less educated people [Man making a funny face]
- 00:59
called those fancy academics gets his smarts from the same place from within
- 01:05
whoa so in the good old days back when it was a simpler time knowledge was self [Man meditating on a cliff]
- 01:11
sown these fundamental emotions like pain or pleasure were the basis of our
- 01:15
interests me like me want me no like me no want monk sometimes we do things just [Man caring for an Xbox and man burning with a chore list]
- 01:21
because stuff seems interesting we've all been there well experiences in our
- 01:25
lives still shape the world around us even though we're wiser in this modern
- 01:29
future e interwebs day and age we still act on the impulse there's a little [Frankenstein's monster gets angry over video game]
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caveman instinct in all of us UNK reason something we've developed over the years
- 01:39
helps us to pursue the things we're interested in but only if we're
- 01:43
interested this common knowledge we call logic and reasoning is not something we
- 01:47
consciously seek simply because it'll benefit us instead the author argues [Man and woman arguing]
- 01:51
that our natural curiosity leads us to pursue knowledge thesis guy is deep now
- 01:56
back to our answer choices decisions we make are still based on desire so cut a
- 02:02
intense emotions don't necessarily control our every thought so get rid of
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C and E and acting on instinct doesn't mean our ideas are wrong though it could
- 02:11
lead to bad ideas from time to which means B is our answer basic [B answer circled in green]
- 02:16
emotions can lead to greater knowledge even though there might be a few
- 02:19
mistakes along the way [Scientist looking at man shaped hole in the wall]
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