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AP English Language and Composition 10.3 Passage Drill. What will emancipate farmers from their slavery to the land?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too
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Sure brought to you by farmers growing the food you
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eat unless you eat lunchables All right well first read
- 00:12
this passage right here Taking from mid twentieth century book
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about conservation ecology All right Conceivable medical relation for happened
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- 00:20
crops grown in wool in the natural mechanization farming But
- 00:24
really we're just going to skim crap out of this
- 00:27
here yet so we're done Okay What will emancipate farmers
- 00:32
from their slavery to the land and hear the potential
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answers wise lenny's mechanization farmers have it tough Long hours
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hard labor Not a lot of money Spotty wifi as
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this author so colorfully puts it there slaves to their
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land So what will it take to set him free
- 00:50
from their chairs and let him run wild django style
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Well bad news because emancipation is a ways off now
- 00:58
The author does mention mechanization but its value is only
- 01:01
theoretical its usefulness up for debate kind of like the
- 01:04
theoretical value of cutting carbs As for the other answers
- 01:09
well we confined some references in the passage to unwise
- 01:13
use of land and stop building so many golf courses
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But there's Nothing in the passage that says wise land
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use will free the farmer nor will an adversarial attitude
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What does that do for you or a task oriented
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approach No as far as this passage is concerned former
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joe's pretty much up the creek without a paddle no
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one's coming to free him from his chains So e
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none of the above is the answer It's A good
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thing that farming doesn't form the foundations of our economy
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Oh wait you know maybe we wait could at least
- 01:44
get those guys some better wifi What do you think
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