Rabbit Proof Fence Persuasive Speech

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Choices are what life is all about. It is important to make your own choices. The text, “Words Do Not Pay”, the excerpt from the novel, Rabbit Proof Fence, and the speech by Aleeza Kazmi show how it is important to make your own choices.
First, in the text, “Words Do Not Pay,” the author, Chief Joseph, Wrote a letter to the white men saying that “words Do Not Pay for his dead people. They do not pay for my country now overrun by white men” in this story Chief Joseph makes a decision by
Second, in the piece from the book, Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, three sisters run away from home to find out about their heritage. The result of this choice ended up being bad. They had no food, water and could never find a spot to cross the river. In the

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