Folk Tales have an important role in personality development and knowledge. It also has power to influence many factors that are important to human life and society. Ex: Attitude and behavior. The purpose of folk tales is to create unity or, a sense of, in cultural groups. These stories are passed down through generations to help groups remember values and beliefs. The telling of these tales reinforce the group’s identity and where they are placed in society.
The Vietcong set up checkpoints around the nation, so that would've definitely been a literal and figurative roadblock to any refugees. Hope this helped.
Away from the bullet, I would assume...
The meaning of this oxymoron refers to the hypocrisy of the government and its corporate governance by claiming that all citizens are created equal but continuously provide special privileges and power towards the elites, implying that true equality is a false ideology that doesn’t genuinely exist regardless of the fabricated lie that those in power claim is there.
C: suffering often builds character
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