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The second paragraph (lines 5–15) serves primarily to
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- 00:05
Okay More ap laying for you Here we go The
- 00:07
second paragraph lines five or fifteen search primarily to do
- 00:11
what All right so line five Let's go back to
- 00:17
the second biography that frenchman visits england He is a
- 00:20
beam Don't we really bored interstate leading traditionally korbel a
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- 00:25
lapse of any ongoing dips a year that are putting
- 00:28
i think returns visit and it doesn't arrive in paris
- 00:31
The hastened development a lot But this is so french
- 00:35
Okay well let's think about this The author here is
- 00:38
a coy little minx She starts by explaining how tyrannical
- 00:41
the americans are But then transitions to another topic completely
- 00:45
the frenchman in england by explaining how europeans act with
- 00:48
each other while she establishes what is in her mind
- 00:51
as the ideal dynamic between countries which is a little
- 00:54
bit of love and a little bit of hate Well
- 00:56
the second paragraph actually leaves the first idea behind completely
- 01:00
So just get rid of a right away The frenchman
- 01:02
is a generic person like you know saying one must
- 01:05
always eat the caviar before the liver Never after not
- 01:08
a full fledged character So get rid of be the
- 01:10
adorable french phrases never come up again And i think
- 01:13
goodness get rid of sea and the function of this
- 01:15
paragraph is to show the inter european dynamic not to
- 01:19
catalogue the differences between french and english culture So the
- 01:23
answer Yeah it's deep Provide context for the author's argument
- 01:27
and note how very generic in general de is It's
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hard to be wrong when something just says you know 00:01:32.904 --> [endTime] the air is good and war is bad
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