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AP® English Language and Composition: Purpose, Rhetoric, Style, and Organization Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker cites all of the following as ben...
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In lines 33–34, the author writes that "ambition would induce them to aspire to office, and commands and honors, to form cabals against their com...
AP English Language: Using Evidence to Prove a Point 5 Views
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The author uses multiple sets of numbers in the first paragraph in order to show
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Okay p language people Next question for you The author
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uses multiple sets of numbers in the first paragraph in
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order to show what okay well we can tell that
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the person who wrote this research paper did their statistics
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homework pretty well All the numbers in the first paragraph
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referred to the value of various drugs The whole point
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of the first paragraph in fact is summarized in its
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first sentences which are good places to look You know
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when searching for a paragraph overall theme and message we
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know the drill make the main argument in the first
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sentences and then use the rest of the paragraph Teo
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prove it Well drugs have been long some of the
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most valuable products on earth You know second sentence there
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and the other goes on to provide numerical proof Right
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He's pointing out the numbers What a show off Well
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the purpose of the first paragraph is more important than
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just providing a foundation for an equation to get rid
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of a and the staff's presented well don't exactly actually
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indicate a limit for american consumption Get rid of see
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the enormity of the american economy Beer logic behind spending
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The isn't accurately represented from the staff because while there
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are too many unknown factors and variables in the whole
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thesis here so the answer is e just how valuable 00:01:12.798 --> [endTime] legal and illegal drugs can be
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