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The MacArthur Fellows

     Each person we've looked at have been spectacular in their own way. They all focus on a very different area but each are equally as ground-breaking. Jesmyn Ward talked about the real problems that happen but no one wants to mention, Kate Orff helped to build a connection between people and nature, and Lin Manuel Miranda opened opportunities for all different cultures in his musicals.        Out of the three people we are studying, my favorite is Lin Manuel Miranda. I feel like his musicals broke barriers in the Broadway world. He made it possible to all types of people to be represented on the stage. His play In The Heights represents a group of people that as far as I've seen hasn't been properly represented. Miranda found a way to merge all different types of people and based on the size of his audiences, the people loved it.       I never understood the magic of a Broadway show until I went to one. Knowing how amazing the ...
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My Love of Reading

     Anyone who knows me knows I that I love to read. Most of the time, I have a book in my hand. For years   this has been my main hobby. I love the feeling of opening a new book and seeing fresh words on a page. People put their life into writing these stories. They breathe life into the characters until they each seem like real people. I find it amazing that a person can create a whole new world.       To most people, this seems like a boring waste of time. To others, it may seem like I'm wasting my own life away by spending my time reading about the lives of fictional people. But to me, I see it as experiencing multiple different lives within my own. My life may be normal but I can always go to a place where magic exists, or where a romantic adventure awaits.       As a child, I always played pretend. I made up stories in my head and went off exploring everyday. Even just going down the driveway could be an adventure if ...
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