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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Identify a Theme in Walden
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Contemplating one's life is key to fulfilled happiness. Thoreau's theme revolves around the simple life well lived. He clearly never tried virtual...

What Does the Author Mean by "Front" in this Context?
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Thoreau uses "front" to mean "face". He wants to face The Facts of Life without shying away from our natural tendencies, roots, and the simply way...

SAT Reading: Using Context to Define a Word
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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...

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SAT Reading: Describing the Relationship between Two Social Science Passages 2 Views


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Did you know that written passages can have relationships? Why not. This SAT Reading video will have you analyzing their relationship like a wannabe shrink!


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all right Lauren psycho experiment land here we go question 8 of 11 we took my

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own bestest write the overall relationship between the two passages so [text on screen]

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yes probably d here we go one of the main ideas in passage one is that [hand writing on paper]

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laboratory and classroom settings where a lot of social science research is done [text on screen]

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lack the stakes of real life not those kind of stakes although Omaha Steaks are [raw steak]

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our favorite the experiments in passage 2 were full of high stakes people were [poker game]

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hurt physically and psychologically in fact the Milgram and Stanford

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experiments were almost too real in their outcomes there's no mention of

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ethical ramifications of experiments in passage 1 that's the domain of passage -

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people come on you knew this get rid of a student's make fine subjects but the [student walking by]

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research methods require changes so get rid of B and the results of the

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experiments in passage to actually support the idea that subjects feel

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pressured to please authority figures yeah go watch an episode of The Simpsons [text on screen]

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if you want a counterexample but it's kind of a different story [Bart Simpson lounging]

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