“Ravenna is a town that people don’t stay in. It’s OK to grow up in, but it’s not somewhere you stay.”
This shows Trinity reflecting on how Ravenna is a good place to grow up but not necessarily to stay forever.
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- Oct 2025
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“It kind of feels like when you’re in the band room,
Julia says this when describing how the band room feels like a safe space to her.
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“Every extracurricular a person can sign up for adds anxiety and stress, but few have given me the type of support system I gained from band,”
Here Julia is explaining how band gives her a support system even though it can be stressful.
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“There are very few anxieties I’ve felt more extreme than that of being a first-time freshman at band camp,”
Julia is talking about her experience with the high school band and how nervous she felt.
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“It felt like I was a part of something special and important.
Ashley talking about how being in band made her feel like she was part of something meaningful when she was a student.
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Finding a bargain is like scouring a beach for buried treasure.
This is a metaphor.
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A Pew Research Center study in 2020 found that only 7 percent of people in Nigeria believe that homosexuality should be accepted, and the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, passed in 2014, bans not just legal recognition of these relationships but also any outward displays of affection between partners of the same gender or meetings of official L.G.B.T.Q. organizations.
This stands out to me because I know of a lot of communities of where people are against homosexuality but its slowly starting to get more accepted and normalized.
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“I had been constantly told, ‘Oh, this is a thing for guys.’ I finally felt like I was around my people. I finally felt normal.”
This part stands out to me due to the feeling of finally being accepted and not judged for example getting judged for cooking as a man.
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In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was stuck indoors with her family and felt trapped
This sentence stood out to me because during the pandemic time we weren't really allowed to be outside we were forced to stay indoors making me and my friends feel trapped.
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“I don’t think it just fulfills my needs. I feel like it fulfills everybody’s needs,” said Marco.
This statement shows that Scrapes fulfills the needs of the community and not just one person, it brings many people from many cultures together for them all to enjoy.
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Sarapes is owned and operated by the Chavez Mellado family, who immigrated from Mexico in the 1980s.
This connects to me and my community because in my community there are a lot of family owned businesses and restaurants owned and ran by families who immigrated from Mexico as well.
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A restaurant isn’t just a place where people go to be physically fed. It’s an emotional and spiritual hub, bringing people into a space where they can connect and find community.
I agree with this statement that a restaurant isin't just a place to go eat it's a space where you connect with your community, connect with the culture, and just to enjoy the service.
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“Food brings people together. I think that’s the source of life.”
I agree with this statement food does bring people together for example it brings families together to make and create new recipes passing them down from generation to generation.
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