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AP English Language and Composition 5.8 Passage Drill. Which of the following does the author use as an example of the "distorting medium"?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the distorting medium.
- 00:07
At least it's not as big a problem as the distorting extra large. [Man shopping for blazers]
- 00:12
All right, check out the following passage.
- 00:13
[ mumbles ]
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- 00:19
[ mumbling continues ] All right, we're done.
- 00:25
Which of the following does the author use as an example of the distorting medium?
- 00:29
Line 12 there.
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And here are the potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right, well, let's start by taking a look at the full sentence
- 00:37
in which the quote appears. Right here.
- 00:39
"In thought, at any rate, those who forget good and evil [Quote from the passage]
- 00:43
and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good
- 00:47
than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
- 00:51
Got it.
- 00:52
So the complete phrase is "the distorting medium of their own desires."
- 00:57
And it refers to people projecting their own conceptions of good and evil onto the universe. [Image of Space/Universe]
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That's a big projector.
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Our job is to find out which of these choices is
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talking about the same idea. [Man standing on a giant projector]
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We have to say no to choice E.
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Pleasing dreams are products of the distorting medium, not examples. [Shopkeeper waving his hand]
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Word of advice: never buy your products from distorting mediums.
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Things get wonky.
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Option B is also a no.
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The speaker tells us that it takes an element of submission to get [Two men playing chess at a park]
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rid of the distorting medium of ethics.
- 01:24
That's rough. Can we just call an exterminator? Come on, guys.
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Choices C and D are all related to the opposite of the distorting medium. [someone spraying a can]
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Ethical neutrality, scientific philosophy -
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these are the cures for all the pesky morality that's holding us back. [Man buying something from a store]
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The correct answer is A.
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The speaker specifically says
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"friendliness and hostility" (A)
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"are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood."
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Sounds like we've found ourselves another distorting medium.
- 01:51
Let's keep looking. It'll be like a philosophical Easter egg hunt. [Newton, Marx and Voltaire looking for Easter eggs]
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[ clicking ]
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