Example Of A Subtheme

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The main theme of this article is to create at least a possibility of changing the world because of sudden crumbling of institutions. Zinn also mentions how the young people in the world are giving hope into changing the world a step at a time. This sentence from the passage is very well said. “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world (3).”
A subtheme or example that supports the main theme is how no one foresaw the disintegration of the old Western empires happening quite fast after the war. Also the societies that would be created in the newly independent nations. This subtheme or example illustrates the main theme by telling us how unpredictable the world can be and that we have to be on top of things to

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