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AP English Language and Composition 10.1 Passage Drill. Which of the following best describes the author's intention?

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your shmoop du jour brought to you by once radical ideas

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that now seems shady. like basically all of Sigmund Freud. I first check out this

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passage. [mumbling]

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all right which of the following best describes the author's

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intention? and here the potential answer. well in this text the author

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repeatedly uses the phrase land ethic. usually when someone says something four

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or five times well it's important. like the ninth time your mom asked you to [land ethic circled in a written passage]

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take up trash. now in this age of soybeans and vegan oxygen bars ethical

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land use may not seem radical but in the 40s it was revolutionary stuff. but does

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the author explicitly call for new environmental laws no not so much he's

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no lawyer just writes like one. and he's not telling people where to spend their

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money or promoting developmental mechanism, and although attention to

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farming methods could be a part of a new land ethic it's not the focus here. in

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fact the author seems to have a weird antagonism toward hydroponics. maybe he's

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got a bad batch of our lettuce once. and well as bad things can happen. really [man frowns]

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what we have here is more a general set of new ideas a new concept about how to

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use land ethically, so b is the correct answer. now if only the author were alive

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today you can see how far we've truly come. although you might not be happy

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about all the starbucks. [man yells in front of starbucks logo]

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