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Sorry Then here's your shmoop choose your brought to you

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by non conformity which might seem strange when every video

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starts with an a huge your shmoop du jour I'm

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sorry about that All right check out the following passage

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from self reliance Ralph waldo emerson man Flexibility is that

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can't be right What Pretty arkels children these voices we

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here in solitude Well based on the passage which sentence

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provides the best conclusion about the author ralph waldo emerson

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and hear the potential answers quiet of hens Browning reed

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Well this questions asking us to get to know the

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rial ralph waldo emerson Like where in the world is

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he Well he tried to facebook stock him but he's

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got his paid set private moment so we'll have to

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do it the old fashioned way and glean what we

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can from passage Well choice a is the first to

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go Emerson definitely is not being quiet about his ideas

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He's shouting them from the rooftops has all hoes all

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right while he's writing in publishing essays about him Anyway

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option c is half right Of course the trouble with

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being half right is that you're also half wrong Yeah

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emerson talked a lot but it's crazy to think that

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one of america's greatest writers didn't read even kicks off

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the essay by mentioning a book that he read choice

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t misses the point This essay is all about the

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power of the individual so emerson social life isn't all

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that relevant While emerson does say the great man is

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he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with

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perfect sweetness the independence of solitude The point is that

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we stick to our guns despite what the crowd might

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think A friendly suggestion it's A bad idea to take

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a gun into a crowd All right the correct answer

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is b teau emerson it's best to be the kind

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of person who is different from the crowd Chances are

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good that emerson is proud of his nonconformist lifestyle Check

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out this quote If you don't believe us who's so

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would be a man must be a non conformist Incidentally

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who so would be a man also needs x y 00:02:04.97 --> [endTime] chromosome

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