Groundhog Day Research Paper

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Last year when I was in 8th Grade and before I moved to a public school, I had a few Groundhog Days. I was at the private school “Peniel Baptist Academy.” That private school was very sheltered and every time that you did ANYTHING wrong they would punish you severely.

The school was a very religious and a “holy” place. We would always have chapel on Wednesdays and if you came not dressed in your “church clothes” they would lecture you about how it is “unGodly” and how you are severely disrespecting him. Or if your parents come to pick you up, and they had a tattoo or said any “profanity,” they would call them “unGodly or Non-Christians” which is absurd, even my pastor in Ormond Beach has tattoos.

So being with all that stress I had

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