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Which of the following lines best summarizes the passage's overall theme?
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Okay Next up Which of the following lines best summarizes
- 00:08
the passages overall fema All right We're presuming we've skimmed
- 00:15
it enough now teo get a sense for this What
- 00:18
do you think the gilded age was An era of
- 00:20
enormous growth and prosperity for some and exploitation and misery
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for others Well this is the ambivalence that runs throughout
- 00:27
the piece regardless of the winners and the losers though
- 00:29
what everyone can agree upon is that america was in
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the process of extreme change simply defining this time period
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as the gilded age a or mentioning how that label
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has struck will be get rid of that doesn't do
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justice to the nuance and depth of the peace Likewise
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focusing on lee on the widespread corruption get rid of
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d or decline in agriculture Get rid E ignores all
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these other events that were happening at the time anyway
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The right anterior Yeah it's see some americans celebrated the
- 00:55
new wealth Others lamented it all could agree that profound
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changes were taken place in the country That line that's 00:01:02.008 --> [endTime] the heart of the piece here that's it
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