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

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by twitter if it can be said in one hundred

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forty characters well and she said it Okay check out

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following passage past take from nineteen hundred british journal Wait

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a minute L am not a treatment interruption generally and

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they're in there picking out the fun in buying locomotive

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titanium Think of them all right And here's Our question

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Which of the following best describes how the author of

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use art in general And here are the potential answers

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Following okay enough mumbling Now just clarify the question is

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asking us to figure out how the author feels about

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art not how the author literally views it We want

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to find the authors believe within this passage It's probably

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best if we start by looking at his stated purposes

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for this article he lets us know what those purposes

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are when he starts laying out what he desires in

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line seventeen number one find by what rules some art

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is called good in other art bad number two to

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find the conditions of character in the artist which are

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essentially connected with the goodness of his work Number three

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find water the methods of practice which formed this character

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or corrupted And number four how the formation or corruption

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of this character is connected with the general prosperity of

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nations each that's a lot of stated objective way don't

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think our author would have done too well in the

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brave new world Twitter All right well looking through these

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objective the words character good or goodness and corrupt or

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corruption show up repeatedly let's See if those words appear

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at all in our answer Well answer it has character

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And servi has virtuous which is a synonym for goodness

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Well is the work good and answered He has character

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and the word good in it twice so let's zero

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in on the answer with the most promise See if

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it closely aligned with one of the stated objectives in

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the article Well answer d states that good art and

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good character are connected The author's second stated objective is

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the desire to find the conditions of character in the

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artist which are essentially connected with the goodness of his

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work What the author is basically saying is that he

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believes good character found within the artist is directly related

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to the goodness of the artist's works or set another

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way The author believes good art and good character are

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connected can't answer day There we go and that's it

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and hey if he had just said good art and

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good character are connected it totally would have fit in 00:02:36.77 --> [endTime] tow One tweet Whoa

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