To Tell Or Not To Speak Analysis

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Would you stop something dangerous from happening even if it hurt your relationships with your friends? Many students face this question everyday and an alarming amount of them would say no. This is a very dangerous way of thinking especially in scenarios where people's lives are at risk. The reasons often revolve around how the students feel their friendships or reputations would be affected. Although some readers of “To Tell or Not To Tell” by Mary Kate Frank have argued students should not speak up, because of the possible damage to friendships there could be, closer examination shows that not speaking up has far more repercussions than not doing so, by not speaking out the problems have room to become more dangerous.
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