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SAT Reading: Using Implicit Information to Determine Why Twain Can't Get His Dream Job 2 Views
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And we continue in this SAT Reading video to indulge Mark Twain's fetish for the Mississippi River.
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- 00:03
all right people last one in this section on Mark Twain and his fetish for
- 00:08
the Mississippi River so here we go it can be inferred from the passage that [text on screen]
- 00:11
Wayne couldn't get position about because all right well the correct
- 00:14
answer here is the boldness thing Twain suggests that he wasn't bold enough to [picture of Twain]
- 00:18
land a job by using words like meek and humbly to describe how he unsuccessfully
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- 00:23
applied other boys managed it but pora Markie there was laughed off the boats [writing on chalkboard]
- 00:29
market when not marky-mark he would be tough enough right well there's no
- 00:33
mention of Twain's Father stepping in to prevent the job hunt and there was [kid bounces off adult man]
- 00:36
certainly no shortage of applicants but there was not enough evidence to suggest [text on screen]
- 00:40
that it was a lack of open positions you know putting the kibosh on Twain's
- 00:44
dreams Twain's shy manner gets him a cold shoulder and short words so he
- 00:49
never had the time to flex his muscles before seeing his way to the door and [Twain as a kid walking on docks]
- 00:53
yeah why do you think he became such a good writer
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