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Saving Fish From Drowning: Character Analysis

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Those who forget history are condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past. Those who never learn history in the first place do not have a chance to avoid even greater calamities. The characters in Saving Fish from Drowning are a group of fools who are ignorant of what has gone before and how they could have prepared to save themselves. This leads to their destruction. I want to take World History so that I will be able to participate in our society and help to avoid the mistakes that often led earlier people to war, famine, pestilence and

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