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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Identify a Theme in Walden
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Contemplating one's life is key to fulfilled happiness. Thoreau's theme revolves around the simple life well lived. He clearly never tried virtual...

What Does the Author Mean by "Front" in this Context?
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Thoreau uses "front" to mean "face". He wants to face The Facts of Life without shying away from our natural tendencies, roots, and the simply way...

SAT Reading: Using Context to Define a Word
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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Represent the Central Claim of a Social Science Passage 18 Views


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Oh look! A video on psychological testing 101...courtesy of the SAT Reading section.


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All right Moving on down the road Psychological testing one

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o one courtesy of the way to the following line

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from the text Best represent the central claim of passage

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to what's The central plains has it too Well let's

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go back to pass it to t forty forty three

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for the third time you were in shock And i

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don't think that every person is probably gonna be shut

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down for a little thing with a garden and i

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finally feel like i'm gonna bring everything okay So what's

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the basic idea here Yeah people suck Where is that

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where's That a choice And i can't find that once

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the answer is instead of stating the central claim in

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the first paragraph this author sneaks it in at the

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end by saying the experiments showed that more precise control

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is needed in the field of social science Experimentation duh

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Although it's a great introductory sentence the first line of

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the passage fails to make any debatable claim This one

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is already proven saying that the experiment caused suffering is

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helpful but it doesn't take a real position because while

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anyone would agree that it caused suffering being willing to

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torture strangers for science that sure sounds like the limits

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of social science They're right but we're still missing an

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arguable claim So yeah we go with d people suck 00:01:15.059 --> [endTime] Oh wait no that's a different one

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