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As school comes to the last week, we take a walk, one that leads us back to the beginning of our schooling, one where we picked books based off how many fingers we held up when we couldn't understand a word's, one that lead us to reading those Shakespeare books, that well most of us dread. As the first afternoon class of kindergarten set upon us, we were first told to grab a seat on the rainbow mat, and read along to the Hungry Caterpillar. Middle school began a phase of students running around holding up three fingers representing the death in the middle school beloved book The Hunger Games. As we grow up we realize that race of one person becomes an issue, The Help, a touching book leaves us to learn how those women felt as they were told they had to take care of rich white womens homes. Fair minded that we all began with one simple book to get at the complexity level we are now at.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar this book left a mark on me, to this day can remember the first time we read it as a class, a simple book filled with color, learning experiences, and words most kindergardeners are clueless on the definition. The simplicity of color, additive words that when younger sound
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Therefore if the question is asked what plays a larger role on one's life making them who they are, I would choose environment. Katniss would never think about killing those around her just to keep the act of a game. The game allowed her to make them herself known for her quick actions. While in life our environment controls how we make decisions, we have promptly learned how to control our environmental aspects in our lives to become who we want, but without a social aspect all humans would never care what others think, although we spend hours a week doing our hair and

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