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In society today there are many obstacles on this long journey that we have to face in order to succeed in life. Whether these obstacle builds or breaks us we tend to learn from it and some of those are stereotyping, criticism towards gender and appearance, racism and social responsibility. I found these pacific issues in this story that not only talked about each one but the way it was told left me interested because I would of thought different about what these kids were doing and how they treated the situation.
In The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara it shows a lot of stereotyping towards the new neighbor Ms. Moore when she moved in to the neighborhood and this one girl and her friends are really disrespectful towards her there saying all these

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