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How was the Beanie Baby era parallel to the Tulip Bubble? Similar events, only the TulipMania almost bankrupted Holland. Bean Babies only bankrupte...

Obama hates income inequality. He argues that the nation is much more similar in talent and drive and deserved income versus The Red State candidat...

What do we share as Americans? What traits? What is our national character? Obama defines it as a map to the trajectory laid out regarding change f...

SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 5

SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 6 

SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 7

SAT Reading Passage Comparison Drill 3, Problem 4

SAT Reading Passage Comparison: Drill 4, Problem 1

SAT Reading Passage Comparison Drill 1, Problem

This sci-fi passage is about what? We pick out keywords and phrases and glean that it's about a single theory: Maximal tides squeeze Earth like it'...

Liquid hot magma! Learn more about it in this volcano-themed SAT Reading video.

This SAT Reading video has you inferring something in the first paragraph. Such life skills!

SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1

Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 2

SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 3

SAT Reading Short Passages Drill 1, Problem 2

SAT Reading Short Passages: Drill 3, Problem 1

SAT Reading: Short Passages Drill 1, Problem 1

Contemplating one's life is key to fulfilled happiness. Thoreau's theme revolves around the simple life well lived. He clearly never tried virtual...

Thoreau was all about simplicity; anything that took away from his vision was the enemy. Mechanical aids were one of them. Guess he had to train a...

What does "frittered away" mean in this context? Wasted. Wasted by the way. Thoreau claims we fritter away our lives praying to modern complex dist...