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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 2, Problem 3. The subject of the passage can best be described as what?
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AP English Language: Analyzing The Final Paragraph 2 Views
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The final paragraph (lines 66–74) serves primarily to
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Ok next up The final paragraph line sixty six through
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seventy four serves primarily to do what Well Earlier in
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the passage the author mentions that farmer's share of the
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national wealth had precipitously declined and their iconic place in
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the american imagination was at risk While here though she
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turns that idea on its head by introducing social darwinism
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she takes something that had been bad or at least
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had seemed bad like tons of farmers losing their livelihood
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and suggest that maybe that was an unfortunate but necessary
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part of progress By presenting another idea the author herself
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doesn't disparage the work of twain Get rid of a
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or support social darwinism get rid of d She just
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gives both playtime in the sandbox which is something we
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never experienced as children Life is unfair but sand box
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should be social Darwinism also recognizes that economic inequality was
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huge so get rid of b and that major changes
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were occurring So get rid of e But it doesn't
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necessarily see those as bad things like f y I
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Social darwinism isn't the most compassionate viewpoint Ayn rand would
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be so proud Yeah so the answer here is see
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it recast the rest of the passage in a new
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