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

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by the reign of terror Enjoy it or else all

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right check the following passage mob screen scarlet pimpernel his

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family like historical scholarship Good gretchen Now firms rescue fish

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that's a mammal it's really smart way or not Which

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of the following would be the best source of information

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about the french revolution and the reign of terror And

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hear the potential injury with media here Booth Okay well

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this one's pretty straight forward All we have to do

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is figure out which of these sources is the most

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legit We need to cross out choice a fast before

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any of our college professors catch us even considering it

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Wikipedia and they have good intentions but we never know

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if the article reading is written by a super genius

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or a troll I apologize if that statement offended any

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super genius trolls out there but the way the best

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we can All right choice D isn't the best answer

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either No doubt some websites can be reliable sources Like

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oh say shmoop but this answer option doesn't specify what

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kind of website we're talking about You can find lots

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of great inflammation about anything you want to know on

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the internet but sometimes you've got to navigate a jungle

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of nonsense to find anything that's Actually accurate Option c

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looks really good A scholarly article is about as reliable

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as it gets unless the scholar in the herd of

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editors that approve the article are totally incompetent Thiss kind

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of publication is usually a great source for any essay

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Oh but wait Choice He breaks out a whole book

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which has a lot of room for more detailed information

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while more information than just one measly article be also

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specifies that the book is written by an expert on

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this french revolution and the reign of terror So we

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know this book is going to be about as accurate

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as possible So even though choice see is decent we're

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gonna have to put it on the chopping block or 00:02:07.068 --> [endTime] should we say bridge

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