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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by an iron fist Let's face
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it you can't cow the masses with a fist made
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of well say mashed potatoes Yeah that really wouldn't work
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You think lenin ruled russia with mashed potato Well they
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- 00:18
make a lot of potatoes in russia but different kind
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of face is the worst dictator of all time Adolf
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hitler josef stalin animated musical coming to broadway soon yet
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heavy subject So we're just going to move on to
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question Robert would like to rewrite sentence twelve to create
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a more sophisticated conclusion which of the following is the
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best revision and hear the potential answers with all right
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Well the original concluding sentence is no good because it
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doesn't refer to the thesis Hitler and stalin were both
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very brutal dictators but they committed evil in different ways
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If we don't do this then we've done a pretty
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sloppy job of wrapping up the essay and there's nothing
- 01:03
sophisticated about something that's well sloppily rap a gets unsophisticated
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when it starts talking about the point Well if the
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sentences written well we don't have to tell the reader
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what the point is it'll be obvious Option c is
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also trying to point out to the point again pretty
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unsophisticated Hitler and stalin were different in some ways but
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the main point is that they were both equally brutal
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dictators Yeah well man we can't take these out I
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will be is awkward and we've made our feelings regarding
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awkwardness and answer elimination Well known here already right It
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was uplifting So let's move on Yeah the correct answer
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is d despite their differences hitler and stalin equally deserve
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the title of the most brutal dictator in modern history
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it's structured well and it makes the thesis clear to
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boot Looks like the contest for mills Brutal dictator is 00:01:49.243 --> [endTime] a tie Congratulations yes coming to broadway soon
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