The Outsiders Research Paper

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Different genres of literature can have great impacts on teens. Young adult books can have a great impact on teens, social media is riddled with inequities, and music can also have a significant impact on young adults. Books that target teens normally include some kind of discrimination between two or more different groups.. Social media is usually portrayed as being filled to the brim with cyber bullying and hurtful messages that can be traced back to social inequities. In music lyrics can be powerful ways to either encourage the end of inequities, or lyrics can glorify inequities.
Additionally, books written with a target audience of teens, often contain inequities. Some books, such as The Outsiders show how income inequities divide social

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