Which detail in Passage 1 introduces information irrelevant to Reagan's
argument?
"we're going to make further reductions in
spending
"you've been told by some that we should do
away with the tax cuts in order to reduce the
deficit.
"while the political process always requires
some compromise, government this time
intends to stay the course
"we're going to come out of this recession not
with a temporary, quick fix that leads to
another recession down the road"

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When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.