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CAHSEE 10.1 Passage Drill. The author uses "mandatory" to suggest that...what?

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Sorry and here's your smoke too Sure brought to you

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by foreign countries We had to hire a coyote to

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get this one across all right checking the following passage

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Read this excerpt from the selection After my experience this

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summer with international travel i've come to the conclusion that

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international travel should be mandatory for all american high school

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students The other uses the word mandatory in this sense

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to suggest that what and hear the pendulum Yeah Well

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most of us know the definition of the word mandatory

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right Revolving told things like attendance is mandatory or it's

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mandatory that all guests where a banana suit it has

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appeal I am mortified so most of us are aware

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that mandatory means absolutely required if we say whatever to

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something that's mandatory Well we're breaking a rule and we'd

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better be ready to face the music I immediately regret

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this decision However the thing with the quote in question

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is the author doesn't literally mean that all students should

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be forced to go abroad Kids and chains being forced

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on airplanes Well it's not a pretty picture I'll stay

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in my seat i swear So if the author isn't

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using the literal meaning of the word what is she

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going for here Good choice d have it right Yeah

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not so much though the word mandatory does put us

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in a disciplinary frame of mind The author doesn't say

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anything about travel making kids better behaved Anybody who's seen

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what goes down in an international dorm after hours can

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quickly dispel that notion Options being c are in the

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same ballpark so we'll get rid of them in one

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fell swoop While the author is all about international travel

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she doesn't say that it's funny or that it's necessarily

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a fun topic of conversation and anyway neither of these

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ideas has anything to do with the word mandatory Once

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having fun becomes mandatory well it's not all that entertaining

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anymore looks like answer a is the way to go

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The author is using the word mandatory to show how

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strongly she feels about international travel She may not quite

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mean it literally but she gets her point across with

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a little exaggeration Of course if somebody had made it

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mandatory for us to spend a year in south of

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france well we wouldn't have complained It's nice down there 00:02:39.478 --> [endTime] I'll stay in my seat i swear

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