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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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