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What Issues have had a lasting impact on me in which I did not feel included or heard? As a freshman in college, you are placed into large living communities and classes that have large influxes of newcomers from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. With a large gathering of diverse people, communities can feel threatened and become loss about what to do with newcomers. This can become a high risk for varies kinds of confrontations. Through the beginnings stages of our LLC: Lead and Serve, we suffered, because we were not a very inclusive community. Since we all came from different backgrounds, we all had different ideas on how we can lead and serve our community. Meetings could sometimes be overwhelmed with certain ideas which

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