History Of Burma Rhetorical Analysis

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After reading these two passages, I felt angry and depressed. How could someone possibly live with themselves knowing that they rushed someone to their death. Not only that but tell someone how to live their lives or even what to believe in. In the passage of about the History of Burma By Thomas R. Lansner, it explained how Burma's people over many centuries were largely revoked of their authority after Britain's 19th century conquest of Burma. I say that no one should have the right to take anything from anyone who had struggled for it for so long. A scene that made me very angry was when the people or Burma tried to protest and fight for their equality the dictator ordered the soldiers to shoot, arrest, or torture them. As a read this,I tried

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