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so I slept and that happened over and to the pbat and panel. My question for
over. my pbat and panel was “should vio-
lence ever be used to fight injustice?”
In STEAM we did our science I argued that to some extent violence
fair project online which was so weird can be used to fight injustice when the
for me. I had to make a video of my injustice they are suffering is extreme
science fair project and present it to and taking over their rights as a hu-
everyone. It felt like I was in the gym man being. However, to a large extent
presenting my science fair project violence can lead to more cruelty and
just more cordial. I also got to see violence, we shouldn’t use injustice
other peoples videos which made to fight injustice. If we are always vi-
me feel like I was actually in school olent, we will be in a constant state of
walking around looking at peoples’ war. This connects to the philosopher
fair projects. Math online was so Thomas Hobbes who believed a state
iffy it sometimes felt like we were in of nature would be war if we always
class we had to read our math books use violence to fight injustice. Medea
together we met every week. It was no also used violence to fight injustice
change to me really. I was just more and ended up getting carried away
comfortable and more focused.
and hurting herself and her family
In humanities we were learn- even more. One last example is in
ing about dystopian fiction and then the dystopian story I wrote about a
boom Covid came and flipped our policeman who used violence instead
world into a dystopia. Our world was of getting justice in a fair way.
so different it felt fake. In a matter Spanish was even harder than
of months, we had a virus, we had to it was in class. It was harder because
stay home, we had protests, we had in class we would say things together
looters and a curfew.
to learn words. When we got Spanish
We met every week in a book work online it was more like here and
club to discuss our books. I got to do it. We did not meet every week to
write my own dystopian novel called do which made it even worse. Good
“Frank’s Story.”-- Frank’s story was thing my mom is Puerto Rican she
about police brutality but more dra- helped a little bit but it was enough.
matic. Frank had to kill 5 people a day learning a new language online is
until he couldn’t do it no more. hard when you couldn’t learn it in
class. Gym was pretty easy. I did one
After my dystopian unit I did exhibition on football, I didn’t know
my PBAT which was easy because we too much about football until after
had slides every week to help build up my exhibition. I didn’t get to make it

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