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This fun video goes over the word "dual" - as in swords fights and pistols right? To find out watch this SAT Writing on The Treasury's Beginnings.


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Okay Essay writing shmoop furs Here we go Duel as

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in you know fighting with guns All right Well here's

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the paragraph that one You know i learned that lesson

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the first hand for my father Yeah gotta An advocate

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of arts education he promoted the university's annual folk music

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festival He cared deeply about student growth like intellectual growth

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But he was even more committed to a dual mission

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for teachers to not just educate students but to help

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prepare them for a lifetime of learning no matter their

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background Yeah and we're thinking about jefferson and hamilton and

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all the guys who were dueling with maybe swords or

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pistols or something back in the day when they had

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a disagreement and throw the white glove and the other

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guy's face that's wrong So here we go Don't get

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too excited We're not talking about a mission to pit

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teachers against each other in those kind of epic battles

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although that would be kind of cold Safe What follows

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the colon in this sense are the two pieces of

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the teacher's mission since their mission aimed for two things

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that want it's a dual mission Alex can i buy

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In a for two hundred duel that's two things going

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on same time though do well and you al are

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pronounce his name They mean different things A duel is

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what people are challenged to An old timey westerns to

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allen's to folder double it follows then that duelling means

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battling a rather than anything to do with numbers I 00:01:20.164 --> [endTime] do and that's a different number two we're done

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