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CAHSEE 7.5 Passage Drill. How is the author's background reflected in his speech on "votes for women"?
Transcript
- 00:00
Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
- 00:05
by mark twain's mom it came with some homemade cookies
- 00:08
but we ate those already Sorry All right how is
- 00:13
the author's background reflected in his speech on votes for
- 00:17
women and here the potential answers poor people if we
Full Transcript
- 00:26
weren't paying attention when we read twain's speech on women's
- 00:29
rights we'd better go ahead and give it another look
- 00:32
Well we'll need a good grasp on it for this
- 00:34
question choice b is just way off the mark Twain
- 00:38
has nothing but good things to say about his mom
- 00:41
who he claims has an admirable intellect do not even
- 00:44
think about challenging this lady in words with friends way
- 00:47
no choice d isn't anywhere close to right Twayne describes
- 00:51
the political situation in whatever town he's in as awful
- 00:55
so it's safe to assume he isn't all that pleased
- 00:57
with the current politicians who is not only does option
- 01:01
a insult our intelligence it insults the intelligence of poor
- 01:04
people everywhere as if things weren't already hard enough for
- 01:08
plane doesn't say anything about poor people or their education
- 01:11
level in this speech Also we know that he was
- 01:14
a champion of the common man So there's No way
- 01:16
he'd go around saying they're dumb Answer C is the
- 01:19
closest thing to a right answer We confined This speech
- 01:22
is more about women rising up in taking power than
- 01:25
it is about common people in general But the other
- 01:27
answers aren't even close to right Sometimes in life you
- 01:30
have to take what you can get like that level
- 01:33
of angry birds where you only managed two stars no 00:01:36.138 --> [endTime] matter what you do
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