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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Genghis Khan one

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of the fiercest warriors of all time even when he was writing her enough [Genghis Khan appears on a field]

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pretty horses all right take a look at the following two sentences Genghis Khan

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was one of the most feared conquerors of all time and Genghis Khan was a great

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strategist and military leader too thrilling sentences all right here's one

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question what's the difference between how the author's present information in [Question appears]

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the two sentences and here are potential answers all right....

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right even though Genghis might get mad

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at us we're going to give you a hint when two different authors write about [Authors holding books]

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the same subject they can do it in very very different ways sometimes to the

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point that you might even wonder if they're actually writing about the same

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thing let's take a look at our options and see which one is the best fit

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starting from the bottom with D the first author sets up a discussion of

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Khan's economic policies well if we look at that first sentence and try as we [Magnifying glass hovers over sentence]

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might we don't see anything about economic policies so it is an easy no

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what about C the second author is critical of Genghis Khan well let's take

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a look at that second sentence the author calls Khan a great strategist and [Great strategist and military leader highlighted]

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military leader we don't know about you but when someone says we're graded stuff

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we tend to take it more of a compliment than criticism so I mean si has gone as

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well I would be the first author portrays Genghis Khan positively hmm

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well let's go back the first sentence for a second the author calls Kant a

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feared Conqueror sure that means he was really good at conquering but being [Woman reading to son in bed]

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feared isn't exactly positive in fact we'd say it's downright negative so be

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is down what about a the second author seems to admire Genghis Khan well as we

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mentioned that second author called Khan a great strategist and military leader

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which sounded pretty complimentary we tend to compliment those we admire so [Genghis holding a book]

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it's pretty fair to say that the second off it really does seem to admire

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Genghis Khan we have our answer so we don't quite know if the second author [Genghis plunges sword into book]

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and Genghis Khan would actually get along for betting No

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