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What happens to tulips after they die? Was Holland haunted by tulip ghosts? Watch this video on analyzing text to find out!


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all right Shmoopers were still in Holland 17th century selling tulips or at least [text on screen]

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buying them or doing something with them maybe taking a commission sell them how

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about that all right question as using the passage

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fearfully like 38 Ronnie their most nearly means what let's go to line 38

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and I'll zoom in here and at last however the more prudent began to see

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that his folly could not last forever people no longer bought the flowers to

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keep them in the gardens but to sell them again at a hundred percent Rafat it

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was seen that something he must lose fearfully in the end well the correct

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answer is a no Holland wasn't being haunted by terrifying tulip ghosts a lot [tulip ghost in field]

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had to be cool and we hear that's the plot for Paranormal Activity 12 this

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time we put cameras in our garden and that's a thing that's a movie watch for

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it well the word in question is in the part of the passage that describes how a

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loss in confidence led to an economic meltdown a loss in trust bad for the [text on screen]

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economy right fearfully modifies the economic losses which would have been

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very large because of well how much everyone had invested in this whole [burning tulips]

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tulip thing people sold their houses to buy tulips calm or actually just tulips

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and that's a pretty massive loss over a flower there wasn't any real concern [house for sale]

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about the future of the market and apprehensive levy means a worrying about [woman biting nails]

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what's gonna happen it's a type of fear but the wrong type impressively sea has

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a positive connotation that's hard to justify considering the damage the [woman bursts chewing gum bubble]

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bubble caused and finally the investors were threatened by the consequences of

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the collapse but it's the size of the losses that made them so threatening so

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yeah a-and beware of those paranormal activities the next bubble that comes [text on screen]

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around because one will be around in your lifetime we're thinking maybe it's [traffic]

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a driverless cars or freezing corpses for the afterlife let me think [frozen people in pods]

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