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AP English Language: Why Did The Author Include That Backstory? 11 Views


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The author most likely provides Ricky Ross' backstory in lines 64–65 in order to


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Okay Ap english readers here we've got another one for

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you Nine of gets eleven here The author most likely

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provides ricky ross back story in line sixty four through

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sixty five in order to do what Well by reading

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the last line of same paragraph we see that the

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author is explaining how incredibly profitable the production of crack

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was from an illiterate poor small time dealer Ross became

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well a big shot A big v i p s

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sort of like you know what you two did for

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the beep Yeah well taken by itself The passage could

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mean any number of things but the author isn't trying

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to make any statement about the ingredients of success in

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america so get rid of a nor does he say

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ross wasn't an experienced businessman You know just a small

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time One get to be Plus nothing is said about

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illegal drugs being mainly a lower class occupation So get

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rid of see the fact that ross did become rich

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after experiencing poverty Yeah that's true enough But the author

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isn't glamorizing or congratulating ross So get rid of e

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The juxtaposition is used more to you know give scale

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to drugs economic impact So the answer is d explained

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how ross development of crack was well life changing for

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him and like for a zillion other people who died

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from it no

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