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AP English Language and Composition 8.2 Passage Drill. Based on this passage, what is the author's principal theme?

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Sorry And here's your smoke to shore brought to you

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by a glorious sunny day in england way Get the

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wrong footage for this or is this er no uh

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okay then Glorious sunny day You take the following passage

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england eighteen thirty seven We're married already You're flying probably

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you in front of each other Awesomeness Honor and hander

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and and here's our question Based on this fasten what

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is the author's principal theme And here the potential answer

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Got it All right Well this is one of those

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questions that a grumpy teacher probably wrote at the end

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of a very long day At first glance every answer

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appears to be correct Which makes this a daunting question

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to answer It's appealing as it might seem to drop

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out and start a new life is a circus clown

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Well why don't we put down the clown nose for

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a second try and tackle the chance or one at

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a time All right fine You can keep the nose

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pretty cool Let's Start with answer x you author definitely

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compares americans to europe Ian so that part's correct But

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the question is whether or not is a point by

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point comparison so let's see what specific part of our

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culture did she compare to european culture Music No literature

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not so much about heart Not really In fact every

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comparison made is pretty general which is the exact opposite

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of going point by point Looks like answer is out

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now Let's Try answer b there's no denying that this

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lady believes european culture is superior to american culture Is

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that really her main point on didn't seem like that

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Kind of undermined the whole europeans Don't you feel to

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appear in other cultures where americans do five she has

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going on there So when you really be as well

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how about see the author definitely does use this passion

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to describe her interpretation of american mores which is another

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word for customs as well as american manners but is

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providing a description the main point of this passage Hartley

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the author is not content to simply provide a description

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she's determined to address a problem since have about themselves

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and their country She does provide some ideas for how

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americans can improve toward the end of this passage but

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they're mentioned is almost an afterthought and certainly not as

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the main point So that leaves us with the passage

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is all about the author's view of the attitude americans

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have toward america and how unhealthy she believes that attitude

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to be But since the author probably wakes up to

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this on a beautiful day maybe we should take her 00:02:41.345 --> [endTime] criticism with a grain of salt

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