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Thoreau was all about simplicity; anything that took away from his vision was the enemy. Mechanical aids were one of them. Guess he had to train a...
Thoreau wants our lives to be simplified. He claims that we gain less from life when we over-complicate things.
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SAT Reading: Analyzing the Purpose of a Scientific Passage's Conclusion 10 Views
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What is the purpose of a paragraph? What is the purpose of life? Jk, but this SAT Reading video will at least help you analyze the purpose of the former.
Transcript
- 00:02
Irish bumpers next question this is an easy one the purpose of paragraph 7 is
- 00:07
do with what alright so we go through 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 then 5 and 6 then 7 [text on screen]
- 00:15
look if you wanna rush into they can do or is it great know what everything Rob
- 00:19
think I'm gonna information about both the right answers gotta be to dismiss
- 00:23
the significance of the tides and volcanoes theories it's all pretty much [ocean tide]
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- 00:27
kind of comes out and say that neener neener so how does that work well [text on screen]
- 00:31
like grandma shmoop used to say correlation is - causation as a turkey [turkey and asteroid]
- 00:36
is - an asteroid it isn't the correlation with tidal maximums while
- 00:40
significant doesn't mean that title maximums are guaranteed to cause [text on screen]
- 00:44
eruptions the explanation suggests that volcano must be primed to burst for a [smoke coming out of volcano]
- 00:49
title squeezing to have an effect like that it's got to be right there kind of
- 00:53
crustal e on the surface just waiting for a trigger well the whole article is [zit on person's cheek]
- 00:57
dedicated to the tides and volcanoes theory perhaps unsurprisingly the author
- 01:01
does not dismiss her theory in the final paragraph so I'll give her the a minimal
- 01:05
tides are left out of final paragraph entirely get rid of C and the passage [volcanic landscape]
- 01:09
does suggest that there are other factors involve AR so get rid of D and
- 01:16
that's it the main purpose of the paragraph well just to dismiss class
- 01:20
dismissed [students walking on campus]
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