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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by unusual fighting styles the

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passive-aggressive pillow fighter is strange but oddly effective. Check out the [A scope focusing on a man wearing glasses]

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following passage Aikido is a Japanese martial art Aikido is often translated

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as the way of unifying with life energy Morihei Ueshiba created Aikido as a

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synthesis of his religious beliefs, philosophy and martial studies Aikido

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is intended to allow the practitioner to defend himself or herself without

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harming his or her opponent like judo Brazilian jiu-jitsu hapkido and

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wrestling Aikido is classified as a grappling art well the word synthesis

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most nearly means what and here are the potential answers.....

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well we've been looking for a way to unify our life [Girl stood on the edge of a canyon]

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energy while still being able to kick the snot out of people maybe Aikido is for us

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it's a synthesis of religious beliefs, philosophy and martial studies but does this

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mean religion, philosophy and martial studies are all competing at once to see [Fists from religion, philosophy and martial studies appear]

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which comes out on top that doesn't sound very unified in fact it sounds

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pretty chaotic so we can eliminate B and if we read the sentence aloud option

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C just doesn't make any sense Aikido is a philosophy of religious beliefs

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philosophy and martial studies... philosophy of philosophy is getting a [Man holding a portrait of himself]

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little meda even for philosophers so C is out and while Aikido is classified as

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a grappling art this doesn't literally mean that it's an art form composed of

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religion philosophy and fighting that would be the book Fight Club great book [Brad Pitt preparing to fight]

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you should read it so it's not D here either instead going along with our

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theme of unifying themes Aikido brings together or combines multiple areas and

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seeing how synthesis means a blend or combination option A is correct but it

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still couldn't defeat the passive-aggressive pillow fight because well,

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nothing can. [Scope focused on a girl]

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