Personal Narrative: The Pains Of Oppression

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I know the pains of the oppressed, the rejected, the depressed and the deprived. I know what it feels like to always have ones dreams aborted for lack of advice and help. This always made me, in the past as in present, to fight assiduously against these economic and social odds so I can be in a position to help others. My fight to end poverty was never born out of selfish interest but to be able to seek for the betterment of others whose lives are also riddled with poverty, which is mainly occasioned by neglected and oppression. As a result of this, I struggled through high school and university, as I knew it is only education coupled with determination and hard work that can take me out of the fringe of society into which I seemed to

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