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Vince Lombardi's The Wave
Vince Lombardi once said, “If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win”. In The Wave, the wave itself was a great example of that. The members of the wave didn’t accept the kids not a part of it and, in turn, bullied them. Then when it was revealed that the wave was kin to the Nazis, the wave members didn’t know what to do being the losers. The kids not a part of the wave got to be winners since they accepted not being a part of the wave because of its negative effects. The losers, the wave members, learned more than Laurie and the other kids not in the wave. They learned how easy it is to get involved with something like the Nazi party, while Laurie and the other kids didn’t because they saw early on it’s negative effects and got away
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