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Discrimination And Discrimination In Society

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Many of us would agree we live in an accepting and tolerating country or even world. We then remember how we ended up here, through wars, hate and discrimination. People can only assume the world has not improved completely, three authors/director had the same thought. Ursula K. Le Guin, Justice Brennan, and Lisa Gossels all agreed there were issues with our society and this included discrimination. Their books/documentary touches on aspects of tolerance and hate through fictional and real stories; “The Wife’s Story,” “Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion,” and “My So-Called-Enemy” all deal with acceptance and discrimination. Discrimination and equality through race and other's opinions can be represented by court decisions, fictional stories, and documentaries about teenagers. In “The Wife’s Story” you are introduced to racism in fictional aspects. We are introduced to a narrator who is in distress over her husband. We do not find out much about her husband at first, we learn pieces of information during the story. At first a background of the wife’s relationship is portrayed. She keeps going on about how he was a nice man and would never hurt anyone. “ I saw it happen but it isn’t true. It can’t be. He was always gentle.”(Le Guin 1) In the story their is no mention on what directly happend just vague descriptions. We do learn later on the husband was not who she thought he was, he was a look of evil. “He stood up then on two legs. I saw him, I had to see him, my own dear

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