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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.5 Reading Skills. What seems to be the author's purpose in comparing the scene in this excerpt to the present 200 years later?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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the subjective lens of history turning their pain into our

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pleasure in a mere two centuries All right we'll check

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out the first paragraph of the passage Quakers forage on

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the town like man's running right show better tearing life

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meter I look all right What seems to be the

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author's purpose in comparing the scene in this excerpt to

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the present two hundred years later Well the choices are

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And mumbling All right well we know for aggressive can

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have a lot of meanings depending on who you talk

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to but probably none of them involve whipping post score

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jing and dying on the gallows so let's go ahead

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and write off answer c from the get go now

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considering answer d there's not really any description of technology

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in the passage unless maybe you consider iron clamp broken

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doors to be the height of technological progress in the

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day but that's far short of a semi conductor So

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now the only answer still left on the island our

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hands our a and b looking back in the tax

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there isn't much mention of political structure Instead the passage

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deals mostly with crime and punishment and as is abundantly

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clear in the description those punishments were very severe So

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what do we get from comparing this circus of historical

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horrors So they're not quite as bad sideshow of misery

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that was eighteen fifty it's a comparison emphasizes thie appalling

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severity of the earlier society because frankly these puritans just

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weren't all that nice although we suppose judgment comes easy 00:01:41.147 --> [endTime] when looking down from a city on the hill

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