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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.1 Reading Skills. What does Paine achieve by placing this statement after his argument?
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.3 Reading Skills. Despite the authors' different viewpoints, what does the material presented in this article suggest that Paine and Chalmers both assume about their audience?
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Lory And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by the assumptions people make about their audience Who will
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do that Like when all new york comedians assume well
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there in yankee territory doesn't always happen All right Checking
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the following passage and pains arguments comes in Man they're
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great friends It goes on and on and on and
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on but we're still reading Yes really And on and
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on increasing Flavoring Okay despite the author's different viewpoints what
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does the material presented in this article suggests that pain
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and chalmers both assume about their audience and when you
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assume you make a well all right our choices are
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readers behind you really great britain Well we've got two
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very different men making two very different arguments she's tomorrow
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no use come over here chalmers accuses paying of an
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indecent attack against the english constitution and his debasing monarchs
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with the butterflies so it's pretty clear chalmers is the
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on ly writer tapping into the audiences affinity for great
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britain meanwhile pains arguing pretty hard for starting a new
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government so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense
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if he assumed his audience would prefer great britain So
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answer a doesn't work pain does make some very illustrative
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comparisons about babies and meet way babies and me but
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chalmers isn't quite so metaphorical in his argumentation He pretty
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much just thinks britain is awesome So what are pain
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and chalmers shared assumptions Well payne admits that he's heard
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the value of the relationship with britain asserted by some
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and then he proceeds to argue against it Obviously chalmers
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assumes some of his readership has a positive opinion about
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britain so the answer is d both pain and chalmers
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assume at least part of the intended readership has a
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positive opinion of great britain But you see sometimes assumptions
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aren't actually a bad thing unless you're in mets territory
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and well you might wanna be careful there Thank you 00:02:20.198 --> [endTime] thank you
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