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This SAT Writing video analyzes and important day for George Washington. To find out more press play.


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All right remember his number two of eleven Here we

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go We're still editing this awesome piece of writing which

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i don't sense to sort of the best example of

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the symbolism of that important day mentioned in since one

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item incense to investing sample of let's go cruise on

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up to sentence to there which is right here People

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don't sit around america Fine Broadcloth white silk stockings Choose

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whichever bottles and address we're gonna steal Scabbard Okay interesting

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writing there So what's an example of the symbolism Well

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that's Interesting A note that he called the broadcloth there

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is it cotton against american spun right made in america

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not made in china or russia or brazil or wherever

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we make that stuff these days Well george washington face

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of the dollar bill and the first u s president

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Yeah that guy There are no dollar bills available here

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but there's some good old american spun broadcloth who's american

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made if origins make it a fine symbol of the

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then new country like we had just po'd a decade

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earlier Of all the items in the siri's only the

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broadcloth based on the information given is particularly american It

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would be some years until stockings be silver Buckled shoes

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is either in a dress Swords would become part of

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our collective image of a founding father That time they

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were just normal and the like american made was not

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really a thing back then Maybe if he'd had red

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white and blue boxer shorts on or some political scandal

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Well then that would really be truly an american thing

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