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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
- 00:10
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
- 00:19
skimming quickly because we want to get right to the
- 00:21
questions You have to go back When i'm wasting time
- 00:24
reading stuff you don't have to All right what is
- 00:26
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
- 00:38
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
- 00:55
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
- 01:01
wouldn't necessarily call those facts entertaining Maybe a dramatic soundtrack
- 01:05
would help Uh maybe not option b doesn't work either
- 01:09
If the passage we're out to condemn something it would
- 01:12
go on and on about how bad the thing is
- 01:14
listing its many flaws to be like hanging out with
- 01:17
a really cynical friend Even though the pastor tells us
- 01:19
about prejudice against women in the workforce its purpose isn't
- 01:22
to highlight these unfair practices Option sees the best answer
- 01:25
This is an informative piece that's out to give us
- 01:27
a little historical background about women in the workforce the
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author would later write a passage about retirees which focused
- 01:34
mainly on the benefits of the early bird special You 00:01:38.46 --> [endTime] gotta live it yourself baby
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