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Canyon Springs HS and Leadership & Law Academy

Nevada

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“The Marginalized”

These are struggles we are exposed to in our communities in everyday life.

The Land of Opportunites

Junot Diaz shares his experience of privileges he was able to have due to the place he immigrated to. The author establishes a problem within a nation and hints at the disproportion of equality in the United States.

Change In America

My friend Giordan and I made a slide show describing the hardships for Americans in "marginalized areas". In the slides we described how there still is hope for America and how these hardships can be changed. With us coming together in Unity, we can change America.

Mass Incarceration in America

The issue of Mass Incarceration in America by Ayanna Samuels-Francis

American Dream

By ignoring and isolating the marginalized areas in our society, the United States does not give everyone a fair opportunity to have the American Dream. Instead, it places these people in a never ending cycle.

Marginalized Citizens

Junot Diaz observed that a nation reveals its true colors not by the way they present themselves, but by the way they treat those individuals who are in the farthest edges of society. This essay is in response to Diaz's observations.

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