Thanksgiving Square Reflection

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We did our group project over the Thanksgiving Square which is located in the center of Downtown Dallas. I had honestly never heard of it, but once we looked it up I remembered that I had already seen it in person. I guess I just wasn’t really familiar to its name or the meaning that it contains. On Monday we went to take pictures of Thanksgiving Square and we also decided who was going to work on which slide of the presentation. I was the one that was in charge of finding the history. When we went as a group to the actual place on Monday there was actually a lot of information displayed as posters. I was able to learn the meaning of the place and also why it was named the way it is. It is a way of showing gratitude and the big heart that

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