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SAT Reading: Inferring Information from a Passage 12 Views
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Thoreau moved to Walden - now what? He... ate only a few, simple meals. No 3 meals a day schedule for him. He wanted to diet complexity and calories at the same time.
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Ok people next question We're going to eat first before
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looking into text You can be mostly inferred that after
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thorough moved to welding he what All right well there's
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not much reading to go back through so you can
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go skin the passage if you want but we're just
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gonna dive right in Okay well the correct answer here
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Yeah it's b he ate few simple meals like good
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and that seem apropo to his character Did henry dave
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practice what he preached in real life before he split
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for the woods Well we'll have to take his word
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for it In his call for simplicity he specifically mentioned
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eating simply says instead of three meals a day if
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it be necessary eat but one instead of one hundred
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dishes five will combine that with fact that well he
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didn't have a job and it's safe to assume throw
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wasn't eating a lot of caviar in truffles solitude is
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a major theme in walden but it's impossible to tell
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from this excerpt whether thoreau had much company Well he
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certainly never talks about never talking a and this excerpt
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also fails to mention anything about where hdtv lived or
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what he lived in a teepee or nowhere and not
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to mention his work schedule Like checking in on google
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calendar getting those alerts there not gonna happen All right 00:01:15.873 --> [endTime] he is the answer A few simple meals Yeah
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