Why Do People Come Together

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People come together for many different reasons. In the days since my Uncle Ricky got hurt on his motorcycle and found out he had cancer people have really come together and been there for him. People have gathered together and thrown him a “Celebration of Life” party that over 150 people came together to celebrate. My Uncle Ricky was a truck driver so we brought in the trucks and blew the horn for him one last time. Just like in the movie Freedom Writers, how the black people came together with the Mexicans and Cambodian people and had parties.

My Uncle was also a part of a motorcycle gang called The Hells Angels. In the movie, almost every person was involved in a gang. Being in a gang is like being in a family, everybody comes together and has each other’s backs no matter what. In the world today there are many things that make people come together. For example, shootings. Michael Brown got shot and killed by a police officer and that was when people
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They came together because they all had something in common with each other. This is a really good example of why people come together.

Everybody in the movie came together because they all had a life struggle that made them stronger. They all had at least one of these struggles: gang violence, lost love ones, drugs, homelessness, physically assaulted, and/or verbally abused. The more struggles you have with life, the stronger person you become.

Mrs. G helped them realize that it is possible to like people even though they are different from your family and friends. Mrs. G reassured the students that if they worked hard as a team they could do just about anything. For example, they worked hard to get a hold of Meip to come speak at Woodrow Wilson School in Long Beach, California. Meip housed Anne Frank from the Nazi’s during the Holocaust, so she was a survivor of the

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