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I was born in New York Queens and 2 months later i moved to Africa I love Africa its literally the best place in the world i didn't want to live in the U.S  but I had too because it gave me a chance  of going to a good university. The U.S changed my life because it thought me how to be independent, how to do chores and how to live away from my family for a long amount time. My  life in the U.S is aight but i do prefere Africa which is where I am right now buut America thought me a lot and I will forever be grateful

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When I found out about this story it made me realize how cruel people can be and how much hate they can have wanting to intentionally hurt innocent people. It hurt to see how much the people were affected with New Zealand's first worse mass shooting. Worshippers were in the mosque hurting no one and they didn't deserve to be victims of such hate crime. Racism has taken too many lives all around the world.
(Elena Ruiz)

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Nevaeh Lugo
This story took place right here in Connecticut. I was about six years old when I'd heard that an elementary school had been the target of a shooting. At the time, I was confused and made almost nothing of it, but once I saw the first memorial (there might have been some before it, but the fist one I saw was at a joint birthday party for me, my sister, and my cousin), I knew that things were serious. There were kids about my age at the time getting hurt and dying that day. Since then, schools have implemented lock down (among other) procedures, and even though I know that it's just a drill, I still feel uneasy. I can't shake the feeling that that can happen to me or my friends. I even remember the amount of times that we've had moments of silence for the traumatic event. It's a sad and scary thing that horrible things like this can be headlines next to the wholesome and happy things that we like to read. That was probably the first time that I ever caught a glimpse of how cruel some of our fellow human beings can be.

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Naz Daniels
This story gave me an idea on how to handle being a citizen in the middle of a pandemic. I went to the gym, grabbed food, and went home with no protective face wear, at the time the virus wasn't at large in CT. A half a week later I was experiencing a fever of 107 degrees, had trouble breathing and a loss of apatite. I went to the doctor and diagnosed with COVID-19. It was the worst experience I was coughing up blood, having a hard time breathing, and sweating uncontrollably. 2 weeks later I finally felt better and realized how serious this virus was and how it was affecting my live and the others around me.

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This story was about a shooter that took 17 student lives in Parkland high school.
This led to multiple anti gun protests around the USA.
It also made all students in school feel less safe at all times because it means that a shooting can happen at any time .
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Ossama Abdelhamid

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March 2020 the I was leaving school it was the first day I got to drive to school and I was going home to get my gear for practice . AS i leave my house I get a text from my coach that said "CALL ME" . when I seen that my head started to go places that I wish I never thought about . I Called him and he said that our season was canceled by the CIAC . I had 7 scouts coming to my games to see if I was good for their team. Three of them where from D1 schools. all that went down the drain now.

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Covid 19  changed my life because we had to end school early and had to switch with online school and I was already having  trouble  and corona messed it up more and I was confused on half of the work and  I would just sit at the kitchen table confused staring at the  screen with a blank face and now when eve went went out we would have to wear a mask and that took a little time to get use to because I was having  hard time breathing with the mask on. Now since we had to be  quarantined we had to celebrate my little brothers birthday.my moms birthday ,my dad birthday, and my birthday in the house .Before covid I would always stay in the house and not wanting to go outside but now every single time my parents ask m if I want to come with them to the store I  would always say yes  so I  won't be stuck in the house

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CIAC cancelling the hockey state tournament.                                           Nick Boanno

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CIAC cancelling the hockey state tournament.                                           Nick Boanno

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Every time I think of this day it makes me feel sad, because on that day I was in school getting prepared to face Greenwich in first round of states. It might of been towards the end of 4th block and I was on my phone excited to play until I saw articles on Twitter about possibly postponing the tournament of not having fans. Never in a million years did I think they would cancel it completely but that's what they did, I was in math class and saw the news the news on twitter and was completely devastated. It hit me that I won't be playing hockey with the seniors again, and just a chance to win states went right out the window.

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Joshua Ofori-Attah: I woke up ready to tackle this very important day that will effect the school year for the better. On July 24, 2020 Governor Lamont was coming to West Haven high for a meeting with some of the teachers and the principles of our school to talk about the school year, little did I know he Lamont wanted to talk to us students. A group of Peer Advocates and myself came to school thinking we were going to listen to the adults but Lamont wanted to talk to us and we started the meeting and it went great.

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Kaylee v
The sandy hook shooting will forever change my life. At a very young age, I was taught how to go into a protective place and how to defend myself from any danger. The sandy hook shooting had taken place during the middle of the school day, and my elementary school had went into a full lockdown. I wasn't able to move from my hiding spot until school had ended. My parents weren't allowed to come into the building to get me because no one knew who the shooter was. This story will always stick with me because I never thought something like this could happen to me or in my state. This shows that a tragedy could happen at any place or time.

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This crisis  changed completely my life and my security in the place i used to live, Cucuta, Colombia. Venezuelan crisis brought millions of their citizens to my country, especially, my city. Now we have no security, delinquency is extremely high, we cannot be outside with our phone or just a purse, and probably someone will break your window while you are doing grocery shopping. around 5 years ago, this crisis affected my city in a huge factor, economy. And now I would say that is extremely difficult to survive.
Catalina Casanova

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Fatima
The Coronavirus has affect me and my family very much. First it was very hard for my mom because she was not able to work for a while. We were worried about not being able to pay our bills and rent. Then for me personally it affected my school life since now we had to do online learning. Since I was not used to this new way of learn I found it really hard to focus on my school work. So as of a result my final grades were kind of lacking. I hope that soon we can get back to our regular lives.

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I've been looking into this for a while now and I'm not sure why but I have this strong feeling that we recycle most of our waste but where do they put the other stuff that can't be recycled. They probably do a landfill and throw it in a pile. what happens when we have too many? not sure but from my knowledge of this they burn it or dump it in the ocean. Christopher Rattray

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Jonathan Lovera covid-19 and the protest for George Floyed death and this will be with me, i will tell my kids that in 2020 was important because of two thing covid-19 and a protest that happen that three dirty cops neld on George floyed  for no reason and he died because of suffocation and covid-19, we had to be in our house for 5 to 6 months because we need to control this virus and they still didn't had a vaccine for it, so i had to go to school with mask and stay 6 feet always from people .

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This story changed the sense of security I had as an American. I was the news editor of UConn's student newspaper when this happened. We were up all night laying out the paper for the following day. When I hear this date, I'm reminded of a quote I read once, "It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.”

("Goldfinch," by Donna Tartt.)