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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 2, Problem 3. The subject of the passage can best be described as what?
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The phrase "a spider web of railroads" (line 14) is used in order to
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Okay Peeing langer's a next question for you The phrase
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a spiderweb of railroads online fourteen there is used in
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order to what No All right let's go to fourteen
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And cruz and spider you go gotta gotta a spiderweb
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railroads and soon telephone lines stretched across country created new
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opportunities for entrepreneurs and cheaper goods for consumers Well let's
- 00:28
think about this A spider web is a beautiful complicated
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thing right That as many strings which may or may
- 00:33
not be perfectly in line But they all connect to
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form a cohesive network which is exactly how a railroad
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system looks The figurative language here helps the reader better
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imagine what's being described right So those spiders maybe vicky
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to some and totally married our traditional run screaming in
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the other direction Strategy There's nothing to suggest that the
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author dislikes the railroad system how it contributed to industrial
- 00:56
development So get rid of a or how it was
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financed Get rid of b In fact this transportation created
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new opportunities for entrepreneurs and cheaper goods for consumers which
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is a good thing and says nothing about its safety
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So get rid of sea or cramped cars Get rid
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of e right answer here Yeah it's d depict the
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expansive transportation network writes That makes the country smaller and 00:01:16.377 --> [endTime] better and more connected so that's it It's deep
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