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No And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the reign of terror Enjoy it More All right

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check the following passage Scarlet pimpernel family barry Like historical

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scholarship Creation now fish that's a mammal is really smart

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all right we don't We're done Which of the following

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would be the best source of information about the french

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revolution and the reign of terror and hear the potential

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in Okay well this one's pretty straight forward All we

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have to do is figure out which of these sources

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is the most legit and we need to cross out

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choice a fast before any of our college professors catch

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us even considering it Wikipedia and they have good intentions

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but we never know if the article were reading is

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written by a super genius are a troll We apologize

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if that statement offended any super genius trolls out there

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but well you know we do the best we can

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All right choice D isn't the best answer either No

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doubt some websites can be reliable sources like oh say

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schmuck like we actually have phds who writes this stuff

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but this answer option doesn't specify what kind of website

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we're talking about You can find lots of great information

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about anything you want to know on the internet but

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sometimes you've got to navigate a jungle a nonsense to

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find Anything that's actually accurate option c looks really good

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A scholarly article is about as reliable as it gets

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unless the scholar in the herd of editors that pre

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v article are totally incompetent This kind of publication is

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usually a great source for any essay Oh but wait

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Choice b manages to top option c rather than one

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little article choice Be breaks out a whole book which

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has a lot of room for more detailed information while

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more information than just one measly article He also specifies

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that the book is written by an expert on the

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french revolution and the reign of terror So we know

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this book is going to be about as accurate as

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possible So even though choice see is decent we're gonna

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have to put it on the chopping block Or should 00:02:06.758 --> [endTime] we say guillotine oh your head over

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