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SAT Reading: Suggesting a Reason for Thoreau's Word Choice 9 Views
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Thoreau wants our lives to be simplified. He claims that we gain less from life when we over-complicate things.
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Okay the question Here we go The author describes the
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nation as cluttered primarily due to what let's cruise up
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tio aligns forty eight through fifty seven The nation itself
- 00:11
with all its so called internal improvement is just unreal
- 00:13
you know that included with the internet based on trafficking
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- 00:15
littering the expense I wanted calculation and we're the same
- 00:17
as a million household in the land so we're moving
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down here to the explanation Well what's the answer the
- 00:22
answer is d we hear it shmoop don't like the
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word cluttered We prefer to think of our piles of
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paper as organically organized yeah throw would like that throw
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on the other hand might be a little judgy don't
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you think He's not saying that the nation needs to
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learn howto file properly This complicated metaphor refers to the
- 00:39
nation's direction the nation is too focused on growth and
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building things no one really needs clutter in his mind
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is another example of over complications Well the reference to
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the german confederacy is another metaphor A get rid of
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it You don't need to be a historian to guess
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that germany at the time had you know a complicated
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political situation Htt would never use complicated politics as a
- 01:04
favorable thing or favorable comparison We'll throw never specifically mentions
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Overpopulation is a problem like where that come from So
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get rid of be and he's not a big fan
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of trains and telegraphs because they represent organized society and
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complexity right So he's probably not too concerned if they're
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overburdened So screw him Yeah and obviously throw never needed 00:01:24.638 --> [endTime] to catch a train during rush hour in beijing
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