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SAT Reading 1.1 Long Passages
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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 1

How Does Thoreau Feel about Commerce?
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SAT Reading: Classifying the Relationship Between Two Passages
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How was the Beanie Baby era parallel to the Tulip Bubble? Similar events, only the TulipMania almost bankrupted Holland. Bean Babies only bankrupte...

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How was the Beanie Baby era parallel to the Tulip Bubble? Similar events, only the TulipMania almost bankrupted Holland. Bean Babies only bankrupted a few obsessed housewives with way too few hobbies.


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okay Shmoopers more on the mash-up of beanie babies and tulip mania let's see

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we go with this question I get asked which choice best states the [text on screen]

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relationship between the two passages the answer is D economic trend similar

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economic trend yet bubblicious baby well the tulip bubble and the beanie

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baby bubble were similar events the beanie baby bubble took place on a [beanie baby and tulip balloons]

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smaller scale at least relative in the population but it followed the same

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trajectory way high and then not like a century stock like it's down a hundred [bell curve]

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percent they're both examples of a single economic phenomenon the economic [soap bubble floating]

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bubble this is why you should stick to soap bubbles you know because when they

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burst the only consequence is that everyone nearby gets a little cleaner

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well economic bubbles are defined in passage to not passage one so it would a [text on screen]

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they're both passages describe specific markets that experience the bubble

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effect so there's no contradiction in sight so get rid of B both passages also [old dutch painting]

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give examples of the events from the beginning to the end with neither one

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really focusing exclusively on outcomes or origins so I'll get rid of C and the

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answer is D it's an economic trend on both the ends and sometimes well the [text on screen]

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trend it's just not your friend [bully hitting kid]

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