Under The Surface: Empathy Vs Short Film

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The empathy and short stories have helped me look at the world in a differently in many ways. Such as the the short film we watched called “ Under the Surface”. This film helped me realize that everybody has something going on that you don’t know about. It also taught me that nobody is perfect and that you should never judge anybody because you don’t know what their life is like outside of school. It was a film that had pictures of people at school and what is going on outside in their life. The second thing was the book called the hundred dresses. It was a book ops out a girl named Wanda who got made fun of because she said she had 100 dresses. In that group of girls was a girl named Maddie who didn't make fun of Wanda but she never said anything

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