Student And Prisoner Similarities

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Have you ever thought what the differences and the similarities between the lives of a student and a prisoner are. A student is a person who goes to school to get education, and a prisoner is held in jail because of the crimes he or she committed. In this paper, you will be informed about the similarities and the differences between the lives of them in terms of daily life and effects on society. Firstly, there are some similarities in that a student and a prisoner have monotonous lives. For example, students have to wake up early, and they must go to school. Prisoners are in the same sitiuation like students. They have to wake up early, and go to work to do something the jail manager gives them. Secondly, both students and prisoners are

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