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Gertrude Chose to keep swimming even though her leg had stiffened.

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Never to quit

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She entered the olimpic team

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She chose to swim the Channel for a second time.

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Lastly Gertrude decided that she would join the Olympics

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She had put into the effort to win a swim race and beat the mens record of swimming over 17 miles

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She chose to learn how to swim because she was passionate about it. She almost ignored how she almost drowned when she was a kid.

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Even after the newspaper said that women would always be the weaker sex, but boy did she prove them wrong.

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Started to swim after fell in a lake and nearly drone

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Gertrude decided to learn how to swim instead of being afraid of the water

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To continue her dream to be a great swimmer even though she almost died

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She still kept going even tho people said she was the weaker sex but she knew that woman were not the weaker sex

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Another decision that Gertrude made was to learn how to swim

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She chose to copy the strokes of the other girls when they were swimming.

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To show people that women are not the weaker sex

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She was strong and didn’t let people make her weak, she also was determined to swim after she almost drowned when she visited her grandmother in Germany.

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She chose to prove the people who said that women were the weaker sex

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She had almost drowned and yet she had kept practicing swimming so it wouldn’t happen again and she became better than all her family.

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To swim the English Channel

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She didn’t care about the people who was telling her that she can’t do it because she believed herself

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To never give up

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n2She started  to swim and she loved it

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She kept trying to swim the English Channel even though many people thought that women were weaker than men, and others didn’t believe she could do it. But she did.

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Gertrude didn’t let the sexist people in the world get to her. She didn’t care.

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A decision that Gertrude made was to try and stand up for women’s rights by swimming the English Channel and to prove that women can do anything that men can

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To swim the English channel

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She kept swimming the English Channel even tho she could’ve died-drowned

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Gertrude had ignored her trainer while she was telling her to get out and she had a stiff leg in strong tides.

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To ignore the fact that no woman had ever done this feat before.

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Gertrude swan even if she was scared of the jellyfish and sharks she still swan.Even when her leg stiffened up in the middle of the swim.

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Gertrude decided to stand up for woman’s rights

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Gertrude made the choice of pushing herself just for the men notice what woman can do.

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She chose to ignore the people who said she could not do it

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Gertrude chose to stand up for women's rights, no matter what the newspaper or other people said.

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To continue to swim even after she almost drowned when she was younger.

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Who wanted to prove that girls are not the weaker sex

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Gertrude want to swim the English Channel.

Why?

To prove that women wasn’t the weaker sex

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Gertrude decided to never give up in trying to swim the English Channel

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To have women rights

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Gertrude tried again to swim the English Channel even after failing once.

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To swim the English Channel or drown.

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Face her fear of the ocean like sharks, jellyfish, fish, and the channels big current

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Gertrude chose to not give up even though there were really strong waves and when her leg went stiff.

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A choice that she made was trying again and not giving up

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Gertrude chose to swim the English Channel