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The Cruelest Journey Analysis
Throughout the units we have read about people who challenge expectations in the stories ''The Freedom Writers Diary'' with Erin Gruwell, "The Cruelest Journey'' by Kira Salak, and ''La Vida Robot'' by Joshua Davis wen witness various people overcome their struggles. challenging expectations is worth the struggles and sacrifices they faced. Also when overcoming challenging expectations the outcome can be very rewarding and the challenges they faced made them who they are and helped them succeed. TO begin with, in the article "La Vida Robot'' by joshua Davis the four students faced different obstacles when trying to complete in the robot competition "despite the donations, they were still on a tight budget.'' this means that they had low
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