Personal Narrative: Can One Person Make A Difference Without Violence

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This is the last best essay I did This also was fun to learn about people and what they did too. This was a cool one to do. Also It was just so fun. Can one person make a difference! One person can make a difference without violence. Their a tons of people that have made a difference without violence like during the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King made a difference he made the whites and blacks friends without violence. Same as Rosa Parks she was tried after a hard day of work and she sat down in the front of the bus and a white man wanted her set and she said no and she got put in jail. So if Rosa Parks or Luther King can make a difference without violence other people can. So what I am saying is if you have something you

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