The Similarities Between Taking Sides And Mcfarland USA

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These are differences and a few similarities between Taking Sides and McFarland U.S.A.

First, in Taking Sides Lincoln went from a poor community to a new rich community. In McFarland U.S.A, coach white went from a rich community to poor community.

For example, in Taking Sides Lincoln had just move from a school full of Hispanics and poor and the kids there were always getting I fights and the school and there trash everywhere, but when he left to a new school it was full of whites and no one fought and was a clean school. In McFarland U.S.A when coach white moved h had just moved from a rich white school and can afford things for the school, but when he moved to McFarland it was a poor community that could not really afford anything.

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