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Compare Tears Of A Tiger To My Own Life
I can relate the situation from the novel Tears of a Tiger to my own life. For example in the text it says that every 18 minutes of every day of the year someone is killed in a drinking and driving accident and then continues to say “When will we learn?”. This relates to my own life because the information is correct. Everyday of the year someone is involved in an alcohol related accident. They do not just hurt themselves, but they also hurt those around them. As much as statistics warn us and tell us about drinking and driving, we still do not learn. It’s like as if we think it makes us cooler or something to drink and drive but it really doesn’t. When you’re at an accident site that happened with normal cases it does not hit you as hard as
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