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Citing Evidence of the Connection Between Two Passages 2 Views


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From garden decor to a precious tradable asset...but why tulips??


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okay Shmoopers last one of this tulipmania beanie baby mashup set

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question which choice gives the strongest evidence where he can surf to [text on screen]

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the three question can so yet again we got a scroll back it asked how do you

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like that lost their infant god is reading passage one after definition

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developers end in a second a graphic passive to alright so saying which

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choice gives strongest evidence for the answer so we got to actually skim the

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passage all these lines twenty nine thirty forty one thirty five yeah we're

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gonna skim all those areas and just go a-hunting alright well hmm looking like

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a lot of defaulter here defaulters were yeah and the correct answer is in fact C

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well we know rich people love their gardens so if they're digging them up [garden of tulips]

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well something is definitely going wrong people forgot the pride of placing

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tulips in their gardens and instead bought them solely as investments [tulip garden]

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flowers had become an asset to be treated rather than a possession to be [painting of people buying tulips]

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admired and envied and loved like a dog this sentence shows that loss of value

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so yeah that's it it's C and the others well foreign investment came because the [text on screen]

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flowers had lost their intrinsic value a so get rid of that investors were

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interested in them because the bubble had already started the prices of other [soap bubble burst]

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items or grows in tandem with tulip prices over the beef and yeah these [rockets in space]

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items already had their own value though the defaulters ruined by the tulip mania

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Oh may have regained their appreciation of the beauty of flowers so after all [man with empty pockets]

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they were left with nothing but tulips and dirt what a great way to end this

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