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Climbing up a hill can be like fighting an endless battle, and sometimes our democracy is like an endless battle.

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Climbing up a hill is like a metaphor for reaching the top and overcoming problems we face as a country

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The hill in our democracy represents climbing the hill of problems and getting to the top where we have came over obstacles and came on top.

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Hill means challanges

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The word "hill" is a metaphor for overcoming challenges and problems.

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Skinny, Black, girl. I think she uses those to signify weakness, even though none of those should symbolize weakness. Maybe its because of all of the racism.

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Sometimes you have to speak up to create peace, like in a protest. Like when people say nothing, bad things keep happening if you don't do anything.

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Quiet can also mean by-standing.

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She describes herself as a "skinny black girl" She uses this as something like even though I was a skinny black girl it was difficult because of racism I pushed through and did something great.

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Because being quiet, won't help our problems, in fact, it won't be peaceful unless we try to overcome those obstacles.

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She describes herself as being a "skinny black girl" She refers to herself as a skinny black girl because that might be what other people think of her. She also calls herself weak which could have to do with racism.

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The rules we make aren't allways good and they can hurt others.

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being quiet in times where you have to speak up, that is not always peaceful.

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like, the rules of what life is, aren't always fair for everyone.

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It mean that sometimes you have to speak up.

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She says something like how we are far from perfect, but that doesn't mean we can't form a peaceful union.

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a skinny, black, girl. we think  she is trying to say that it's impressive that the united states have come so far. since that beginning of this country.

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Sometimes rules can be bad and terrible and be made by corrupt people.

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Gorman says, "If only we dare it's because being American is more than a pride we inherit." We think she describes it that way because she wants it to be clear that we all have imperfections.

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She writes: "Being American is more than a pride we inherit.
It's the past we step into and how we repair it."  We think this means that American as a race, doesn't change who you are, however the attributes you have, like the ones she explained.

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That sometimes the rules are unfair to some people.

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And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn't mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect.
We are striving to forge our union with purpose.

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Now in this time, he wont be sent to the kitchen to eat.

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One similarity that we found was that they bring up racism and how they overcame it.

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They both have the same subject, and say how it was an obstacle.

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the the poems are similar in the way that they talk about the future being better then the present.

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Rules and laws aren't always the best for people and can backfire and hurt people or make people uncomfortable.

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they are simular becuse they both talk about samething