Personal Narrative: The Gay Straight Alliance

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For the past two years the Gay Straight Alliance has organized positivity weeks, we wanted to promote kindness and positivity at our high school. One of the activities we held throughout the week was students wrote encouraging notes to their peers and teachers. When someone got a note their day attitude completely changed and they were more inclined to send a note themselves. The message sending only lasted a week but it had an amazing impact on the climate at our school. I am very interested in social and political issues in our country. This past spring my friend and I organized a city-wide march against gun violence. One of the reasons I decided to do this march was because I felt as a country we need to be moving towards a more caring society.

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