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Being part of a friend group makes me feel important and special in away. We are not all the same, and that's what good about it.

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Stories help her understand her world by making the world more interesting by showing her perspective. For example, she uses all of the changes in her life to make her stories.

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Writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world by sometimes changing the way people think about the world. In Brown Girl Dreaming, Jaqueline said that her dad died in a car crash. Having your dad die rather than them still being alive but you're not living with them seems worse than their just being away.

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Being a part of a certain group, like living in a certain city or being a part of a religion can affect people a lot. For example, on pages 162 and 163 Jacqueline feels embarrassed that she has to stand outside the classroom when the kids there are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The other kids make fun of her and she wishes she could say the pledge with the other kids.

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1. The acts of writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world because those writings can include how others make sense of the world. The characters could be given a way of looking at the world. In the writing it could also way which ways of looking at the world are best or worst. One way of looking at the world is included in the book is by looking at colored people as you would to anybody else and not by their skin color. Rodrigo

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If you are a part of something like a group or a family that has religious beliefs it can define who you are and how you act just because your in it.

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In the book being a Jehovah ´ s witness makes it so that they cant stand for the pledge and I think that some kids think its weird. It kinda sets her apart from the others sometimes and maybe some kids have opinions about her because of this.

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peoples membership in various groups, families, religions, schools, etc effect how people think because of stereotypes.

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Most people perceive the world in the way that they have been told to. It takes an intellectual person to disagree with those kind of values. If rich people have a lot of money, some/most (trying to generalize) of them will see people with less income as lesser. This may be because of how they were raised, or because they've decided this in their self conscious. Again, generalization. To keep with this topic, I think people with less income might see themselves as different, obviously if a person who isn't actually motivated to become the 1%, they won't actively be trying to put themselves in a place in society where they are equal. We are all different, but I think we all think about our differences a little too much, we don't focus on our similarities.

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I think that being a member in a group can definitely effect how people see you. If someone in a persons family does something bad or something good then you will be expected to do something similar to them. If you live in a bad neighborhood then people would see you like they see the other people in that neighborhood.

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people that have spent time together will have similar opinions and ideas. others see different things as the others. our ideas and opinions form how others see us.

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I feel like this response in pretty similar to my first response. I think that stories are really important in Jaqueline's life because it gives her a chance to escape whatever is going on. Stories also help her express herself.

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Stories can help Jacqueline escape from her reality in NY. She can create a better reality in her mind. The stories are where she wants to be.

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It can effect how we think about people because they could say something about them. You could be good freinds with someone but then someone could say that they are really mean to other people. Then you might think something different about that person.

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Well, there tend to be two changes in perspective/bias that occur from these. The first is internal bias. The more time you spend around a group or community means the more it will matter in your life, whether positively or, at times, negatively. Either way, your perspective will end up wildly different from the general idea of that group that people have. Speaking of which, people's outside perspective is the other major thing that changes. Once they know you are in a certain groupl, their perspective of you will begin to become associated with that group's public idea, in a way. That's all for now, my computer is lagging a lot from this.

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Being part of a group definitely affects how others think of you. Especially if you're part of a minority, like Jacqueline. Many of these groups can be disenfranchised by governments or other groups of people, Now that sounds like affecting how others think of it.

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Stories have an important part in Jacqueline's life because she gets her information from books.

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Membership in various groups shapes your beliefs and values to line up or be similar to the group you are a part of because it is human instinct to fit in with a group. This shapes how you think and react to things. This can also make other people put you into a category and see you as only the stereotype that one would know about that specific group and over time that can change how you see yourself.

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Our membership in various groups affects other people's thoughts about us because if we are part of something bad, they might be scared of us or look down on us. If we are part of something good, then they might look up to us or respect us more. It can affect how we think of ourselves because if we are part of something with not many people, we might try to hide it.

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Well stories influance everyting, from the things we care about to the things we see in our imagination. If you want some one to care about somthing or raise some one a certain way the stories are one of the best routes to do that on.

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Storytelling can give people access to different perspectives of a story. People can gain information and opinions through storytelling. Storytelling is also a way to remember past events.

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Stories and imagination help Jacqueline help express what she's thinking. On pages 175 and 176 she is telling her uncle a made up story. Her mom is saying that she's lying, and that if she keeps this up she'll become a thief. But her uncle seems to be entertained by this story. Stories can help entertain both Jacqueline and those around her.

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I think they definetly have a positive affect on her. Jacqueline mainly understands the world throgh writing and it's very important in her life. Heck, there's like 5 poem's about her learning how to write. As for me thought, My imagination is um a little too weird sometimes and I'm also probably too artistic for my own good but i'll be fine probably. :pensive:

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Membership in community's can extremely affect how you look at the world in general. People can influence you to think a certain way. Some communities can bring others lots of happiness in life. Maybe that community is their only outlet of a way to escape stress. This can also influence collaboration and ideas, leading yo into a good path. Not all community's are good but once someone finds where the "fit" they can go from there. I think its important to find your people or your "thing".

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Stories are hugly important to her, it acts as a sort of get away/fun past time. It also lets her tap into differant posibilitys that the world holds for her.

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In Jacqueline's life, she uses her imagination to make up stories she can't write down or uses storytelling to make people laugh or trick them. I think this helps her understand how lying is bad but lying is different than making up a fictional story.

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The role that stories play in Jacqueline's life and the way she sees the world is giving her an outlet for her thoughts. She writes down her memories and the way she feels. She also uses her imagination to think of metaphors for her experiences.

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I think that if you are in a club or an organization that donated to causes, for example, people will think you're a good person. You would also think that you're a good person, or you would be happy because you know you did something good. I think that it can go the opposite way if you're in a club that is known for doing something bad.

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I think that our memberships in families, schools, groups, etc, make us part of a community and might helo shape our beliefs. A lot of times we think what our family and friends think or just tend to agree with them and that’s why you might be friends since you share the same values. We also might have certain obligations like meetings, games, or events that we attend in our free time, sometimes its something we like, sometimes it isn’t. This affects us in positive and negative ways.

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Writing and storytelling can influence the way we make sense of the world by giving multiple perspectives on something. There are many ways you can write things; Jacqueline wrote Brown Girl Dreaming with poems, for example. When multiple people write about the same topic, they can offer different information others may not. On page 223, she is entranced by the poem the teacher is telling. It unlocks her imagination, and influences her a lot.

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The people a person spends time with shapes their personality. After all, who would we be without other people to provide outside insight and mold how we think? We are defined by the ideas we spend the most time around. Culture and language play a huge part in our thinking process, so when someone participates in culture and takes it to heart, it shapes the way they see the world around them.

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In Jac's life, stories often play a very calm but important role. They're her anchor, what she uses to keep tethered to the world. You can see how she processes her ideas and views into a fantastical story. Without stories she would most likely be much sadder and much more anxious.

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2. Jacqueline uses stories to help her understand things she doesn't understand. For example, like what it will be like in New York or how she misses SC. She also uses stories to express herself. She really feels like writing words is powerful.

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3. People from the same groups and neighborhoods have things in common. People who are not in those same groups can see them as different. That might affect how others see us. It also might affect how we think about ourself.

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1. through out the book Jaqueline likes to explain everything a lot of times about how she feels or how she misses something. she like to always make up stories and tell them to people. writing can influence people thoughts on how they look at the world .

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Stories play a huge role in Jacqueline's understanding of life. Her life is bland, its boring. She has no friends, goes to school, then she spends all her free time preaching the lord to other people for money. The stories are her only way to have any recreation, so no wonder she makes up so many stories. The stories are about what she wished she could do, like going to the park herself. Like I've said before, the stories are her life, the life she wishes she could live...

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On page 156, Jacqueline says that she can write anything, and she can write about things that happen in the real world and use them to help her story tell. On 170, she says about how sometimes she takes real life events and changes them in her imagination. So I think that this shows that she can use her imagination in powerful ways.

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I think that when you are associated with a certain group you can have different perspectives on ideas because you have certain values so you think differently.

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Jacqueline loves to read and tell stories. She learned to read and write very young because she loved her books so much and this gave her an imagination and interest. She sees the world in a different ways than others because of this. She has opinions and perspectives that other kids her age don’t because of the books and stories she reads.

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Stories and imagination play a HUGE role in her life. For her, her life is not very interesting. It's just the basic storyline of a day, like in Free City, the movie. She just wakes up, goes to school, and she doesn't really have any friends. Her imagination helps her life be more interesting to her.

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I feel like one very big role in Jacquelines life is her ability to imagine and where that takes her. Imagination can take you to so many different places and I feel like this book represents that very well. She comes to understand her world by a lot of observing. She's very good at knowing her surroundings in a very calm way.

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I think that Jaqueline likes making and tellings stories. It gives Jaqueline a chance to express herself and share her experiences. It also gives her the chance to escape whatever is going on. Stories can share opinions and can influence how people see the world.

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I think that her entire point of writing stuff down is so that she can have a jorunal for her entire childhood. She understands from a young age that she is sometimes living in unfortunate circumstances so he wants to document them. I think storytelling is somewhat therapeutic for her and she likes to reflect on her life by documenting her life

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Acts of story telling influence us by giving us an escape of sorts from the outside world. Whether you are telling or listening to a story you have to admit it grants some sort of escapism. J often tells stories not only to communicate with others and have conversations, but as a way to vent her creativity and escape the mundanity and stress of everyday life.

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Q1:Story telling and writing greatly influence our perspectives about the world. For example for Jacqueline, she makes up stories about the world and her life, like about how she went to the park. Her entire personality is about making stories (At the moment I'm sure she will grow out of it). People can be inspired by things that they see or read, and it can make them do great things. (pasha is the best)

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Jacqueline has a very big imagination so she can picture things so I think that helps her understand the world

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I think that the acts of storytelling can influence us because it is the story of someone else which can really inspire someone, and this could make many differences. Even is the story is fake, or just a children's novel, it can be very helpful for people to not only view the world as they see it, but find other points of view so that the world can be more connected.

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storys can make the world make more sense by making us see more things around us like the curent events and unjust or just things that are happening

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By writing, storytelling, and also reading, we can learn about others experiences and those can influence what we do. It can teach us things about the world around us and also let us understand what others are going through/can let you relate to the story. She has become really into telling stories, reading, and writing, and if she hadn’t read books she might not have been a writer.

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-I think that when you simply story tell or write down stuff you are simply being productive. What I mean but that is whe-I think that when you simply story tell or write down stuff you are simply being productive. What I mean but that is when you write something down about your day, or a story or a thought It is good to reflect on your day & write about so you can come back to that stuff later on.

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Well, The more you make up/story tell, the more you may start to believe things you make up in the real world. It could also be the more you stay in your head and story tell, the more you start to perceive the world differently. Story telling can also influence the way you perceive the world differently from others.

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The acts of writing and storytelling have a HUGE influence on everyones individual perspective of the world. These things can inspire a person to do so many great things but at the same time can cause lots of very negative environments. I think a lot of people forget about that side of it, the negative side is still out there and a lot of the time, overpowers the positive side. When you think about it, writing and storytelling is the basis of how everyone gets their ideas.

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I think if people read about most things usually they will believe it

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-Jacob Writing and storytelling can build character, personality, opinions, emotion, and information. In writing and storytelling, you can influence the way people see the world by giving them information about the world, through your lens. You can inspire people and build peoples opinions and feelings ny the message the author is trying to bring across. It is difficult to explain, but hopefully this makes sence

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-Jacob Writing and storytelling can build character, personality, opinions, emotion, and information. In writing and storytelling, you can influence the way people see the world by giving them information about the world, through your lens. You can inspire people and build peoples opinions and feelings ny the message the author is trying to bring across. It is difficult to explain, but hopefully this makes sence

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If you're part of a group, your connection to said group may (by choice or not) define you. Just because you're a part of a certain religion or are a certain gender, people will assume (typically incorrect) things about you. Because these are the stereotypes, the "normal", it can be really hard for people to escape believing what they perceive to be true.

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Whatever one spends a lot of time on naturally causes bla bla bla IM OUTTA TIME AAAAAAA

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Stories play an important role in peoples lives especially children. They play an important role in how Jacqueline sees the world and how she thinks and acts.

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One way that stories, and imagination play a role in Jacqueline's life, is when her grandmother tells her stories. For example, the stories in her religion played a large way in shaping her as a person, because she was thought to listen to god,mand follow the rules he created. However, sometimes her imagination got the best of her, for example when she lied about where her family was from, and where her dad was.

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I think being involved in religious work or community service can really change a persons life (for better or for worse). I know being involved in religious work can really make you believe in your religion more and can connect you to said religion and beliefs.

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If someone is a member in a group, a part of a certain family, or has a religious belief it can affect how people look at you. If you dont relate to someone they will automatically look at you. If you have different beliefs then someone they wont necisarely make fun of you but they will probobly think different. If you are part of a different group against someone else, like a team. They probobly wont like you.

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The acts of writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world because we can form opinions about the world. It contributes to what you believe in, like what religion you practice(if any), or what politician you would vote for. Jacqueline has made stories up to entertain her uncle that her uncle may or may not believe is true.

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The acts of writing and stortelling influence how you see the world because everyday when you see anything or anyone you're instantly perciveing the thing by writing your own story about them. Like, when I see a man with short brown hair that's not walking with flair I'm like "oh it's straight" no offence to my straight people btw that's just the conclusion I draw. I think that's similar for Jackie, not the straight people part, but the making her own stories about people. It kinda relates to bias, being a black woman in the South seeing all the white people as weird or something like that.

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books is where Jacqueline gets her information. books also form her opinion on things. i also think that it is the way that she expesses herself.

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To put it simply, naturally having a creative and imaginative mind means the world you experience will naturally feel full of imagination and creativity.

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Stories help Jacqueline escape from her reality in New York, a reality that she doesn't favor. Since she's not able to explore her New York environment, she'll create stories so that her MIND can explore (that sounds very spiritual, but I don't mean it like that) her environment. By creating her stories, she can develop her perception of the world.

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stories and imagination take place in Jaquilens life because they're a way for her to express herself. for example, she tells a lot of stories to her uncle and her mom. her mom says she is lying and she will become a criminal because of it but she is just trying to express herself.

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The acts of writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world by showing us different points of view. If we only know how we feel about things and we don't know how others feel, it could be harmful. Writing and storytelling influence the way Jacqueline sees the world by letting her tell others about her childhood experiences. She also says that she loves the feeling of her pencil on paper.

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The act of re-telling reality through these acts can change our perspectives on things by presenting alternative ones to us. In a way, these are alternate, more creative forms of communication than, say, talking with a friend. For example, a mental inquiry of mine may begin with an concept given by a friend, but the end is revealed by an art piece, or perhaps even mental re-iteration via writing what one is thinking of. Did you make any sense of what I just said?

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Jacob- Stories play an important role in how jaqueline sees  the world in the way that she gets her information and opinions from the books and stories she reads. Books and stories are a source of information, but also feeling and emotion. 

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Jacob- Stories play an important role in how jaqueline sees  the world in the way that she gets her information and opinions from the books and stories she reads. Books and stories are a source of information, but also feeling and emotion. 

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The acts of story telling can influence the way we make sense of the world because stories and writing have a tendency to tell events that happened in the past, and come up with ideas for the future. Stories, can also be spread by word of mouth. And when this happens, stories that were once crystal clear start to become foggy as time goes on, and as people make different variations of stories. These stories help us make sense of the world because it can advise us as to what to do, and also advise us as to what we should not do.

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Storytelling and Imagination play a large role in Jacqueline´s life because she makes up stories all the time. For example on pages 175-176 Jacqueline is making up stories about going to the park getting bit by a spider just because its fun. Her mom gets mad at her because Lying=Stealing but her uncle tells her to keep telling stories. She does this a lot in the book.

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The acts of writing and storytelling can definitely influence the way we make sense of the world. If we are writing or storytelling you can make the characters look at the world differently. You are also expressing yourself a lot more. Reading can change how the reader sees things.

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Writing is really important to all of us because it expands our imagination which can make us see the world differently. Imagination is what created a lot of the inventions we have today.

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Consuming and creating media can change your perspective on how you perceive people/events. By reading other peoples work, you're able to see their perspective, and by creating your own stories, you can expand and develop your own perspective. Jacqueline will create and tell stories to entertain herself, and it also expands her perspective from outside of her New York apartment.

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people write book from their POV or opinion and people read that. Reading this can change how the reader sees things. People write their opinions and those books or any form of writing will go out into the world and could maybe get decently popular.

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The acts of writing and storytelling can influence the way we make sense of the world by changing how we see things. some characters see the world differently than others. for example, if one character is a different religion then another they might see the world diffrently.

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Jacob- It affects how people think about you in the way that they consider certain things of you because you are in said group. For example, being in a religious community people could build a profile on you based on your religion. Wether it is biases on certain things or not you cannot be sure, but this is a part of everyones life. This can be good and be bad

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Jacob- It affects how people think about you in the way that they consider certain things of you because you are in said group. For example, being in a religious community people could build a profile on you based on your religion. Wether it is biases on certain things or not you cannot be sure, but this is a part of everyones life. This can be good and be bad

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I think that writing and storytelling influence us because it makes us see different points of view. When ever I read the news or a book different people are telling different story's about the same subject. If Jacqueline is being taught about Jehovah's witness by her grandma that's what she is going to believe in.

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Jacqueline writes stories and sometimes draws pictures to make people think that she's "the best." When she makes these stories it influences people because they think she's just making this for fun but it's mostly to feel secure.

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All of the stories Jaquelene makes up are to make herself seem cool. Her mother says that Jaqueline is lying. I think that storytelling and writing can help influence the way we make sense of the world is that when we read or hear some things about the world or other people you can believe those things even if they're not real.

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The acts of storytelling can influence your perspective on the world by changing how you see things through your imagination. You can interpret things differently when you change the story or write something a little differently. Storytelling teaches kids about the world around them. Stories told to kids usually have lessons in them and teaches children right from wrong or instills values in them that changes how they think and see the world.

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Writing and story telling can influence the way the way sense the world because she likes to make up stories. When she likes to make up stories they have some sort of influence. If it is from a book or if it is from something that she saw.

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The acts of writing/storytelling can affect anyone in various different wats such as opinions and many other things. Jaquelines Mom saying that she's flat out lying (which is half true) is annoying because it can demotivate ones passion. Storytelling has mostly made me annoyed because I dont like it and its broing to me, others have thier opinions though and thats fine.

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People will make assumptions about you if you are part of a certain group. For instance if you are part of a motorcycle group people might assume that you are a violent testosterone booster taking high blood pressure maniac. However you could just like riding bikes with your friends, and be a professor of poetry at Harvard. We might want to make ourselves more like other people in your group. Or you could want to distinguish yourself from a label that you are branded with.

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Having membership in certain groups could negatively impact how you are viewed by others. Stereotypes about certain groups could also affect how you are viewed by others. The views of the membership could be reflected when we think about ourselves.

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1. The acts of writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world because those writings can include how others make sense of the world. The characters could be given a way of looking at the world. In the writing it could also way which ways of looking at the world are best or worst. One way of looking at the world is included in the book is by looking at colored people as you would to anybody else and not by their skin color. Rodrigo

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Well it totaly depends, if people like your group then everything is fine and if they don't then you can run into problems. For jaquelin she says that she feels left out because her religion bars her from saying the plege of aligance. She said that she felt left out and wanted to take part in it. I think that that was in section 3

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1. Jakie feels the need to explain through her stories. She makes up stories and her mom got mad once about the story she made. Her mom doesn't like when she makes up stories but her uncle does. Her mom thinks that will make a thief and the uncle seems to understand that she is just making uo a story. Jackie likes to make up stories to understand or dram about the world around her

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Jaqueline makes up stories all the time. She does this to seem cool, or make other people not seem cool. Her uncle just says she's making things up, but her mother says that she is lying.

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1. How can the acts of writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world?

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1. How can the acts of writing and storytelling influence the way we make sense of the world?

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2. What role do stories and imagination play in Jacqueline's life and how she comes to understand her world?

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2. What role do stories and imagination play in Jacqueline's life and how she comes to understand her world?

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3. How does our membership in various groups- families, religions, schools, neighborhoods- affect how others think about us? How does it affect how we think about ourselves?

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3. How does our membership in various groups- families, religions, schools, neighborhoods- affect how others think about us? How does it affect how we think about ourselves?