Analytical Essay: Trust And Deception

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There are many themes in the book: the one we love will find us eventually, secrets will come out of the dark at some point, and most importantly, when you can trust it gives hope and a better chance of getting through life. This holds true for our society in 2015. In the society we live upon today, police officers and young African Americans, go through racism and excessive violence. In 201,4 the death of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, and Freddie Gray have evidence of this long-standing problem. Today the fight is still on about racism in our country. Trust is something very hard to accomplish in the world we live upon. The trust between all cultures have still not been accomplished by the heroes that fought in history. Police

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