Tupac Shakur's Graduation Analysis

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A famous singer rapped about our society talking about things such as racism, that hold up to today once said, “We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.” Said by Tupac Shakur. We are all in the same position. As a matter of fact, we are all going to die eventually, but we are also graduating. And we are all going to graduate because we bleed from the same veins. Because of a school that works so hard for us to help us get the best education possible. As we graduate into high school, through trial and error, we will all have some sort of change in our lives. Our change will be from our education, and peers.
What our parents expect of us, and our education will change us. Since we are getting older, we are supposed to be more mature and

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