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The book I read was Refugee. Refugee was about three family's hometown who was transformed into a war zone. All the conditions cause them to flee their home, to try and find a safer place for them to live. Joseph was a character that stuck out to me in the book. Joseph was a Jew whose house was invaded by Nazi soldiers. They were told by the Nazi soldiers that they had two weeks to leave Germany or there hole family would be thrown into a camp. So they set off on a ship to Havana, Cuba. The captain of the ship knew they may encounter problems with letting the passengers into Cuba, but they decided to set sail anyways. The assignment was to write a reflection about how our story is related to Newton's first law. The text I wrote was
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