How Do Suspicions Affect People

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We live in a world full of suspicions. We constantly make accusation in our mind, and judge. That is how our world has become. We someone tells us that there is a spy or saboteur among us we immediately take any mistakes and dislike to a person and blame them. We take our dislikes to a person and spread the thought to other people that the saboteur is this person. Suspicions affect everyone. In the card activity when Mrs. Ball old us there was a saboteur we assumed it was the person who had made the “mistake”. When in reality they had just messed up and made the cards fall. When we had our suspicions for the saboteur we blamed them for the rest of the day. We were saying in sixth and seventh period that this person is the saboteur and they

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