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AP English Language and Composition 10.3 Passage Drill. What will emancipate farmers from their slavery to the land?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure brought to you by farmers growing the food you

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eat unless you eat lunchables All right well first read

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this passage right here Taking from mid twentieth century book

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about conservation ecology All right Conceivable medical relation for happened

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crops grown in wool in the natural mechanization farming But

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really we're just going to skim crap out of this

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here yet so we're done Okay What will emancipate farmers

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from their slavery to the land and hear the potential

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answers wise lenny's mechanization farmers have it tough Long hours

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hard labor Not a lot of money Spotty wifi as

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this author so colorfully puts it there slaves to their

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land So what will it take to set him free

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from their chairs and let him run wild django style

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Well bad news because emancipation is a ways off now

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The author does mention mechanization but its value is only

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theoretical its usefulness up for debate kind of like the

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theoretical value of cutting carbs As for the other answers

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well we confined some references in the passage to unwise

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use of land and stop building so many golf courses

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But there's Nothing in the passage that says wise land

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use will free the farmer nor will an adversarial attitude

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What does that do for you or a task oriented

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approach No as far as this passage is concerned former

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joe's pretty much up the creek without a paddle no

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one's coming to free him from his chains So e

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none of the above is the answer It's A good

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thing that farming doesn't form the foundations of our economy

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Oh wait you know maybe we wait could at least

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get those guys some better wifi What do you think

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