One Friday Morning Short Story

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The video and the short story were about discrimination and hate crimes against those who have different skin color, ethnicity, religion, disability. In both the video and narrative this central idea is developed gradually and even though they are different stories they both come back to the same main point; hate crimes against those who are different. In the narrative “One friday Morning” a black girls enters and wins an art contest for a scholarship, but in the end she is told to school won’t accept her because of her race. In the video it walks you through the civil rights movement and looks into all the discrimination laws and struggled these people went through. In “One Friday Morning” the hate crime is not developed throughout the story,

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