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Sears Tower, Not Willis Tower

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This spring break was quite eventful for me, which is something new. Usually, I don't really do anything over breaks except hang out with my sister or something, but this break was different. I suggested that we should go downtown, and my sister is the one who suggested that we go to the Sears Tower. We were all talking about it, to see if we should actually do it. In the end, we decided to, and we were on our way. We got there, and we were waiting in line. Surprisingly, the first line moved quickly. As we were going further up, I was getting really anxious but also excited at the same time. When we brought the tickets, we thought that was going to be it, and that we could finally go. Turns out, we were wrong. There was still another 45 minute wait! So, we decided to just sit down and wait. The line finally moved, and we were getting closer. When we finally got to the elevator, they out like 20 people in one small elevator. I was so uncomfortable. Since we were going up really high

Life Is Beautiful

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The movie, Life Is Beautiful , is touching. In the movie, it gives us the experience of a Jewish man and his familys life during the Holocaust. There were many similarities between the movie and actual events in the Holocaust. The idea of how the Jews got to the gas chambers were similar, the trains. Also, what happened to them at the camps were similar. How they were treated was very bad which was, sadly, the harsh reality of how they were treated during that time. All in all, there were many similarities between the movie and the events/literature that I read about were similar. In the movie, the main character tried to make the best out of bad situations. He would do funny things to make his son laugh, so he wouldn't be scared. The father was the only one trying to make the situation better, and not made it out to be the horrible thing that it was. If you were to compare the fathers tone to anyone else's, you would see that there is such a different, . Everyone else was s