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CAHSEE 6.4 Passage Drill. Based on the passage, which sentence provides the best conclusion about the author, Ralph Waldo Emerson?
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Sorry Then here's your shmoop choose your brought to you
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by non conformity which might seem strange when every video
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starts with an a huge your shmoop du jour I'm
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sorry about that All right check out the following passage
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from self reliance Ralph waldo emerson man Flexibility is that
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can't be right What Pretty arkels children these voices we
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here in solitude Well based on the passage which sentence
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provides the best conclusion about the author ralph waldo emerson
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and hear the potential answers quiet of hens Browning reed
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Well this questions asking us to get to know the
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rial ralph waldo emerson Like where in the world is
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he Well he tried to facebook stock him but he's
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got his paid set private moment so we'll have to
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do it the old fashioned way and glean what we
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can from passage Well choice a is the first to
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go Emerson definitely is not being quiet about his ideas
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He's shouting them from the rooftops has all hoes all
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right while he's writing in publishing essays about him Anyway
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option c is half right Of course the trouble with
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being half right is that you're also half wrong Yeah
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emerson talked a lot but it's crazy to think that
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one of america's greatest writers didn't read even kicks off
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the essay by mentioning a book that he read choice
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t misses the point This essay is all about the
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power of the individual so emerson social life isn't all
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that relevant While emerson does say the great man is
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he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with
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perfect sweetness the independence of solitude The point is that
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we stick to our guns despite what the crowd might
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think A friendly suggestion it's A bad idea to take
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a gun into a crowd All right the correct answer
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is b teau emerson it's best to be the kind
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of person who is different from the crowd Chances are
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good that emerson is proud of his nonconformist lifestyle Check
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out this quote If you don't believe us who's so
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would be a man must be a non conformist Incidentally
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who so would be a man also needs x y 00:02:04.97 --> [endTime] chromosome
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