What Are School Wars: Does It Really Doing The Right Thing?

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School Wars: The Return of the Sixth by “Charles Chong” illustrates that doing the right thing isn’t so bad after all. Parents around the world try to teach their kids the right way to do things by telling them to do their homework, get good grades, always follow the rules, do your homework, and always do the right thing.
In the film School wars: Return of the Sixth Luke and Anna were headed to school when Anna begins to talk about how she wonders what life would be like if she stopped doing the right thing and doing what she is told. Luke immediately tells her she is wrong and he likes her the way she is and should never change. Anna drops her homework on the way and gets detention for passing notes in class. She meets Rita who tells her to
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This all started with Anna dropping her homework on the way to school, if this would have never happened things would have been different. Of all the characters in the movie Luke reminds me of myself a lot. My mother was constantly asking me why I couldn’t be like my Eric, get good grades, do my homework, do my chores, and dress like him. She just ultimately wanted me to do the right thing like Eric and to be humble about it. One story that really connects with this is Percy Jackson and the Lightning theft. Percy arrives at camp and meets Luke, the star camper who everyone looked up to. Luke however wanted to leave camp to take out Olympus for his father. Luke used the “power of words” to get percy to travel to Hades with the lightning bolt in the shield given to him by Luke. When Percy realized he wanted to make things right, but Luke found out and they entered an epic battle around New York. The only thing that sets these stories apart is the fact that Luke in the Lightning theft was doing it for revenge rather than being curious. What if no one in the world was ever

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