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19-year old Nikolas Cruz activated a fire alarm in a Florida high school on February 14 which caused many students come out of their class. Then, Nikolas Cruz to open fire on unarmed, innocent students “with a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle.”http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/23/florida-school-shooting-timeline.html People aren’t truly good at heart. Accordingly, most of the human race is egoistic. Many people can be despicable. People can be mean on the outside, but, they can cruel on the inside.

Accordingly, most of the human race is egoistic. On page 767(on the online book)“And you… you’re worse than he is! You’re a mother, and yet you sacrifice your child to this man… this… this…”(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rvt3ucBxchEmbJQ9_0oRpshfU21rLuay/view) Mrs. Frank would rather give her food to her youngsters than, to give food to her husband and let her children starve unlike Mrs. Van Daan. On page 767 “It was you and, all this time we thought it was the rats! Mr. Van Daan how could you. I’m hungry. We’re all of us hungry! I see the children getting thinner and thinner. Your own son Peter… I’ve heard him moan in his sleep, he’s so hungry. And you come in the night and steal food that should go to
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On page 777 “It was the thief… the thief who told them.”(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rvt3ucBxchEmbJQ9_0oRpshfU21rLuay/view)What happened was that when the thief was taken capture by the Green Police. The cat burglar redeemed himself by telling the location of the hidden Jews.(Many people during WW2 wanted to show how loyal they were to the Gestapo.) On page 733 “The Green Police! They brown down the door and grabbed me and started to drag me out the way they did Jopie.”(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rvt3ucBxchEmbJQ9_0oRpshfU21rLuay/view) During World War 2 a frequent amount of German citizens believed Hitler(who sat on the throne of lies). He made them believe that Germans with blue eyes and blond hair were the master

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