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AP English Language and Composition 3.1 Passage Drill
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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...

AP English Language and Composition 3.10 Passage Drill
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AP English Language: Why Include This Phrase?
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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...

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AP English Language: What Is The Author's Purpose? 33 Views


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The author's purpose behind writing this passage is chiefly to


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Okay Ap englanders another one for you almost done The

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author's purpose behind writing this passage is chiefly to what

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Don't think about it Well wouldn't be nice if this

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passage were made into a longer book We totally buy

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it and put it on our coffee table with all

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sorts of cool pictures of blues musicians Yeah imagine on

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the coffee table a text full of musical curiosities and

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all right there for consumption On that said we have

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no idea whether the author wants to write a book

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See all we know is that she wrote an interesting

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complex explanation of the history of jazz music including but

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not limited to white people's influence racism's role in its

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treatment in historiography So get rid of all those right

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answer here It's e The primary purpose is to discuss

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some of the complexities of the history of blues music 00:00:52.454 --> [endTime] and well the article did in fact do that

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