America Gift To My Generation Analysis

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“America’s Gift to My Generation” Amy Tan, a American writer said, “Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.” There's always someone that tries to take away our rights and destroy our foundation. For all generations we always had people that protected to our civil rights. The gift America gave to my generation was the free will to write. The freedom of writing is very limited around the world. But our country gives it even though bloodshed comes on the ride too. Overall it's worth the bloodshed because of the history and stories that we can write down and share with fellow people. Writing is essential to life of the people because if we couldn't write

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