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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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Relating Information in a Table to the Rising Price of Tulips 9 Views


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Why did people in Holland pay so much for tulips? Buyers remorse must have run rampant once the flowers wilted...


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all right Shmoopers more tulipmania coming your way not in the Octagon this [tulips boxing]

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time which claim in the passage is supported by the table which information [text on screen]

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lines all right so we got a whole bunch of line ranges we're looking at got 11

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through 14 and 16 through 19 and I'm through 20 to 30 here so we're just

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gonna go one by one and kind of see where we are here well the table shows

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the high value of items delivered as payment for a single tulip and

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illustrates the extreme prices people were willing to pay at the height of the [hairy cow eats tulip]

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bubble for a while people were willing to pay whatever price was asked this [text on screen]

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table really only has one data point it shows the extreme high end of the

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prices but it doesn't contain enough information to show any fluctuation in

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prices so it can't be a it doesn't show the aftermath when the bubble burst so

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it can't be see and it doesn't suggest why the bubble burst so it can't be d

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you know like mama shmup climbing Mount Everest this table is all about peak so [woman climbing mountain]

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the answer is B it's right there line 16 through 19 you know everyone blah blah [text on screen]

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blah blah blah blah blah for them that's it

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