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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure brought to you by the sun Why is the

00:07

sun so conceited Because the world actually does revolve around

00:12

Check out description of a desert and two one shortly

00:15

to die and answer the question beloved Case No distinction

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Matthews dying George i think we could be an auction

00:27

sales guy Sound like one charlie but and let me

00:32

know his game All right what is the main similarity

00:36

between the essay and the poem and hear the potential

00:39

answers Okay here we go it's time to compare these

00:44

passages if we need to skim through him again with

00:47

these options in mind Well that's okay but from the

00:49

looks of it that probably isn't necessary Answer c is

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the easiest to eliminate someone get rid of it first

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Sure the first passage mentions the you're eighteen o five

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and most people know that walt whitman wrote in the

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eighteen hundreds but the information given doesn't verify when both

01:02

pieces were written We can't make any assumptions in any

01:04

way we're in serious trouble if the time period in

01:06

which the pieces were written is the best thing we

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can come up with when comparing and contrasting to uncle

01:11

walt would not approve of choice is also wrong If

01:14

we carefully read through both passages we see that there

01:17

actually isn't any figurative language even in a poem there

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aren't any similes or metaphors to be seen and then

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we have option a it may look corrected first glance

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but it just isn't both pieces do refer to the

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sun but the first piece mentions the sun's heat while

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the second alludes to the sun's brightness neither one talks

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about both heat and brightness both of these pieces have

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darker things on their mind Choice be the correct answer

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picks up on the theme of the inevitability of death

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in both passages Cherry right Well in the first piece

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we're all about how the scorching desert inevitably brings death

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Everybody who forgot to pack a water bottle death has

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made you seem a little nicer in the whitman poem

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but still the reaper is coming and there's no stopping

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him for reefer Everybody says death is lonely from the

02:00

dying but did anybody ever stop to think that death

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himself might be lonely Do that's Why he's always taking

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people away The guy needs some company Uncle walls would 00:02:09.99 --> [endTime] not approve

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