Equality In A Letter Home

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Freedom. Equality. Justification. All words relating to one common cause, fair treatment among civilians. These words can evoke powerful emotions, both negative and positive. Likewise, what emotions they do provoke, is a direct result of the context of their usage. Within both samples of text, these emotions are engraved deep within the protesters, leading them to make impactful decisions based on their egalitarian beliefs.
Within the text "A Letter Home", the narrator is recalling their first hand experience from an uprising within Kent State University. The protesters within this text clearly have a firm standing with their beliefs of the United State's involvement in the Vietnam War. As the text states on paragraph two, "Many students were

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