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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the roman empire

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did you know the masculine the caesar salad was invented yes well maybe take [Julius and Antony in roman gowns appear outside colosseum]

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that with a grain of salt and happen alrighty let's say you're doing a report

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on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire you found two articles both written by [Boy picks up Roman Empire book from shelf]

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experts on this time period one author says Christianity was a key player in

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the end of the Roman Empire which he thinks was a tragedy the other author [Roman columns falls on the ground]

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barely mentioned early Christians at all so here's our question judging by this

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information it is likely that what and here are potential answers all right

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finish your sentence right......well

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we'll give you a hint since these are articles by experts we can assume that [Man in suit reading article]

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the authors are trying to be as objective as possible they're probably

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not acting like huge fanboys are haters even if their Twitter handles might be

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Roman Empire forever x-33 and LOL early Christians who cares nothing so let's

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check out our options starting with a as the hint mentioned we can expect the two [Girl and boy sitting on park bench]

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authors to keep their opinions out of their article and even if one of them

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isn't the biggest fan of Christianity we hope they can keep their manners in

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check being an expert in those you said to be rude anyway eh doesn't seem right

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what about B well since these authors are supposed to be experts we can assume [Man standing by book shelf]

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that they won't get all forgetful when writing your articles after all these

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are thoroughly researched articles not a nursery store list the thing is these

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are experts they probably bring through a research list to the grocery store to [Man in store with grocery list book]

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reason though B is gone how about D another case of authors holding opinions

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that shouldn't get into their articles it might be fun making pro Roman Empire [Girl appears holding Go Roman Empire sign]

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banners but experts can only have that kind of fun off the clock so he gets the

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boot what about C now we're talking this option compares the two experts

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opinions on the same topic and explains why they might have presented

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information differently even experts on the same topic can disagree so C is our

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answer and just like that we're done time to have a toga party and chow down [Men in Roman togas at a party]

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on to use greatest contributions women yeah

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