What Is Normal Research Paper

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What is normal? Dictionary.com defines normal as “conforming to the standard or common type. Normal for us is going to school 5 days a week, its talking to our friends in the hallway, it's what ruins our day if someone I care about says that i'm not. The word normal has a lot of power in our everyday society, it could mold a society sick with power because we have the ability to assess if someone is normal or not. Normal can make humans numb to the fact that there are shootings happening everyday in our own backyard.

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