The Influence Of Reading March

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Mid-Term Reading March books 1 and 2 have made a huge impact on my life and the way I view things. When I first saw the books, I really thought what are we reading? They had pictures in them and they looked quite boring. These books have taught me things I didn’t know and made me step back and look at things from a different perspective. March teaches you things about life you may have not known before.
Many parts of March were meaningful to me, every part of this book touched me in a different way. The most meaningful thing really got me was the racism throughout the book. I have always known that racism was a thing and that black and whites and other races have had a problem with each other. Racism is not as bad as it was back in that

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