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What happens to tulips after they die? Was Holland haunted by tulip ghosts? Watch this video on analyzing text to find out!
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- 00:02
all right Shmoopers were still in Holland 17th century selling tulips or at least [text on screen]
- 00:08
buying them or doing something with them maybe taking a commission sell them how
- 00:11
about that all right question as using the passage
- 00:14
fearfully like 38 Ronnie their most nearly means what let's go to line 38
- 00:19
and I'll zoom in here and at last however the more prudent began to see
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- 00:23
that his folly could not last forever people no longer bought the flowers to
- 00:25
keep them in the gardens but to sell them again at a hundred percent Rafat it
- 00:27
was seen that something he must lose fearfully in the end well the correct
- 00:31
answer is a no Holland wasn't being haunted by terrifying tulip ghosts a lot [tulip ghost in field]
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had to be cool and we hear that's the plot for Paranormal Activity 12 this
- 00:40
time we put cameras in our garden and that's a thing that's a movie watch for
- 00:44
it well the word in question is in the part of the passage that describes how a
- 00:48
loss in confidence led to an economic meltdown a loss in trust bad for the [text on screen]
- 00:54
economy right fearfully modifies the economic losses which would have been
- 00:58
very large because of well how much everyone had invested in this whole [burning tulips]
- 01:02
tulip thing people sold their houses to buy tulips calm or actually just tulips
- 01:07
and that's a pretty massive loss over a flower there wasn't any real concern [house for sale]
- 01:11
about the future of the market and apprehensive levy means a worrying about [woman biting nails]
- 01:15
what's gonna happen it's a type of fear but the wrong type impressively sea has
- 01:20
a positive connotation that's hard to justify considering the damage the [woman bursts chewing gum bubble]
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bubble caused and finally the investors were threatened by the consequences of
- 01:28
the collapse but it's the size of the losses that made them so threatening so
- 01:32
yeah a-and beware of those paranormal activities the next bubble that comes [text on screen]
- 01:37
around because one will be around in your lifetime we're thinking maybe it's [traffic]
- 01:41
a driverless cars or freezing corpses for the afterlife let me think [frozen people in pods]
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