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AP® English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker would agree with all of the following statements except what?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 3. What can the "personality" that the speaker describes be characterized as?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 10. The metaphor used in lines 62 and 63 is best interpreted to mean which...
AP English Language: THIS IS SPARTA-N 3 Views
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In line 21, "spartan" most likely means
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Okay Next up in line twenty one Spartan most likely
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means what All right twenty one Cruise up here and
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see it The cold war against international communism only of
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promotional in battery and trumpet American prosperity Consumerism is a
- 00:22
glorious counterpoint to the spartan existence of the soviet economy
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- 00:26
All right interesting Well in this sense a spartan existence
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is contrasted to american prosperity and consumerism If americans are
- 00:34
buying lots of things well then the soviets presumably aren't
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The soviet economy did not allow citizens all glittery seductive
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fancy options at least not the way the american economy
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offered that to consumers And especially when they have big
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fat credit cards Well mostly all consumers received the same
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thing The same apartment food clothing and someone like that's
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what you get in the soviet union in that era
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The whole idea was to have the garbage man live
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in the same manner as thie Neurosurgeon It went over
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really well with lots of people Yeah just check the
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history books So culturally of course the soviet union was
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ideologically repressed So get rid of a is a choice
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here because it's not spartan and their society was communist
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He get rid of that and never fascist get rid
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of sea and rather military like so get rid of
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deep Their fashion itself though was spartan disciplined frugal no
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frills no much like kanye west fall two thousand fifteen
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Easy line Actually fashion goes in weird directions We know
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we know But here the answer is spartan means basically 00:01:32.412 --> [endTime] be no frills
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