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African American, that meant
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Aspiring remembers two of twelve Next Right here We're
- 00:06
focused from right here African american comma That meant let's
- 00:11
go the first paragraph and see what our superhero james
- 00:14
meredith has to say about it Today many people are
- 00:17
running around looking for villas Mentoring is a terrible and
Full Transcript
- 00:19
a little bigger Him jail kenyan news for the heroes
- 00:22
of the south The inference didn't plan to be a
- 00:23
civil rights hero He just wanted to attend college He
- 00:27
was african american comma That meant he would certainly face
- 00:32
racial discrimination when he applied for admission to the university
- 00:36
of mississippi in nineteen Sixty one Okay well let's see
- 00:40
We got problems here because this summer alone in feeling
- 00:43
it the first part of the sentence provides to fax
- 00:49
It was nineteen sixty one and meredith was african american
- 00:53
and then goes on to explain what those two facts
- 00:56
meant in terms of meritus desire to attend ole miss
- 01:00
Well the comma followed by that creates the dreaded comma
- 01:04
slices in a like that Ready I knew it was
- 01:06
wrong which obviously hasn't received all the shmoop rage mail
- 01:10
that we've been sending Well instead we need to make
- 01:13
an effective connections between the two parts of the sentence
- 01:17
and being so connects the two clauses But it's awkward
- 01:21
and ambiguous like we are like be there Give it
- 01:24
to be that meaning scores even higher on the awkward
- 01:28
and ambiguous scale as indeed there but well below the
- 01:32
awkwardness of our middle school days We kind of hope
- 01:35
on ly see avoids the dreaded it's complicated status and
- 01:39
makes it clear that the second part of the sentence
- 01:41
directly refers to the first So it's c right there
- 01:45
and the sentence should read Uh let's see Go back
- 01:48
here James meredith didn't plan to be a civil rights
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hero He just wanted to attend college He was african
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american which meant that he would certainly face racial discrimination
- 01:59
You got together so that's it The answer is c
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