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CAHSEE 7.5 Passage Drill. How is the author's background reflected in his speech on "votes for women"?

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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by mark twain's mom it came with some homemade cookies

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but we ate those already Sorry All right how is

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the author's background reflected in his speech on votes for

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women and here the potential answers poor people if we

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weren't paying attention when we read twain's speech on women's

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rights we'd better go ahead and give it another look

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Well we'll need a good grasp on it for this

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question choice b is just way off the mark Twain

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has nothing but good things to say about his mom

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who he claims has an admirable intellect do not even

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think about challenging this lady in words with friends way

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no choice d isn't anywhere close to right Twayne describes

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the political situation in whatever town he's in as awful

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so it's safe to assume he isn't all that pleased

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with the current politicians who is not only does option

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a insult our intelligence it insults the intelligence of poor

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people everywhere as if things weren't already hard enough for

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plane doesn't say anything about poor people or their education

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level in this speech Also we know that he was

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a champion of the common man So there's No way

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he'd go around saying they're dumb Answer C is the

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closest thing to a right answer We confined This speech

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is more about women rising up in taking power than

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it is about common people in general But the other

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answers aren't even close to right Sometimes in life you

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have to take what you can get like that level

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of angry birds where you only managed two stars no 00:01:36.138 --> [endTime] matter what you do

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