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The author uses the phrase "Nebraska's version of a big city" (lines 41–42) in order to
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- 00:05
Okay a peeing lingers Next up the author uses the
- 00:08
phrase nebraska's version of a big city in order to
- 00:12
what Will someone call nebraska Because they're going to need
- 00:19
some ice for that burn According to the author corruption
- 00:22
was rampant all across the country from new york city
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- 00:25
to san francisco to even tiny little oma ha Yeah
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by saying that omaha is nebraska's version of a big
- 00:31
city The author suggests that well it's not in fact
- 00:33
a big city yet it's still experienced the same problems
- 00:36
with corruption that you get in the big city Well
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judging from the snarky tone of the parenthetical eh the
- 00:42
author's certainly doesn't love the midwest which she characterizes as
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provincial Yes i'll get rid of me to the suggestion
- 00:48
here is that corruption was endemic regardless of population size
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So give it to be And it's doubtful that she's
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holding up Oh ba ha is a model for urban
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development So you go to see there we know that
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fact both from the passage and from our last trip
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Teo Yeah omaha for the answer here It's e emphasize
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how pervasive political corruption wass
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