Once in a great while, just when you think there is no reason to get up in the morning and that there is no hope for humanity, and that people will just go on killing one another forever, and that tomorrow will be probably be even worse than today, then something happens to turn your world around. For me, that something was seeing a feature length documentary film called Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life, the brainchild of a special education major named Logan ...
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Monja09 says...
I showed Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life to my classes this past school year, and they loved it. It was such an inspirational story! Most of my students were in tears before the end of the movie. I will continue to show it in the future. Monja
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