Share in an event in your recent memory that had an unifying effect on your community. Offer a brief description and focus on how the event that you recall brought people together. We may define community anyway that we wish, from our city, neighborhood, our block to a camp or school group that we belonged. The event could have been planned or "just happened".
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One event that had a unifying effect on my hockey team was our tournament in D.C. It had a unifying effect because we all experienced the same activities together, so it created a shared memory and a shared experience. It meant that if we put the whole team into a Venn diagram, we would all have at least one similarity. This event gave us something to bond over and to share, so it created a strong unifying effect on our team.
ReplyDeleteI love sport team bot for the exercise and for the sense of community. Being on a team and especially traveling creates bonds you can get nowhere else and really unifies your group as you work together to win.
DeleteI've had similar experiences through soccer tournaments in nearby states and things like that. I agree that it can be very unifying since you're all bonding.
DeleteI think this is massive, sports teams create teams!(obviously0
DeleteYes, this was a very unifying effect like it didn’t matter who you were or what you believe in or support, seeing that happen is as crazy as it gets and every single person in the US experienced that and some bonded over it.
DeleteOne event that had a unifying effect on a group of friends from my elementary school was the pandemic. We hadn't talked in a while, and didn't go to the same schools or live close to each other. However, when the pandemic started, we talked more online and saw each other a lot more.
ReplyDeleteSimilar to my experience there are always silver linings to the bad in the world.Reconnecting with old friends is one of them and its great to see its happening to others too.
DeleteI relate to this because during the pandemic my class stopped seeing each other more online. But my experience compared to yours is we didn't see each other more we saw each other less instead.
DeleteYeah I agree with this because, I found that I was more in touch with friends during this.
DeleteAlthough this pandemic has distanced myself from my friends and posed as a challenge to making new ones it has unified my relationship with my middle school friends and family.I've always had a good relationship with my family but now I get a peak into their work lives and see what they do. In addition, we are making more memories and bonding. Furthermore, because its harder to make new friends in pandemic times my middle school friends and I have remained closer than I thought we would have. We are still in constant communication and this pandemic has truly unified us as a whole.
ReplyDeleteThe pandemic also strains the relationships we do have, and I talk with my friends even more now online
DeleteI agree I am fascinated in how much my parents work
DeleteThe pandemic, while keeping everyone inside, has ironically made me realize I should try to reconnect with some of my old friends. Communication and unity is important, especially right now, so I should try to reach out. It brought me closer to my friends, including my family. Sometimes there is some good in the bad.
ReplyDeleteI've also been able to connect with people that I haven't spoken to in a while. The pandemic sort of makes it simpler to talk to others because we're now more comfortable talking online
DeleteI also relate to this because I have been connecting with my friends all throughout summer and have been keeping myself entertained through that.
DeleteA unifying effect on my family was the pandemic. We got closer to each other because we were all around each other so often. Before the pandemic I rarely had the time to do simple things like have meals with them for instance but with many extra curriculars cancelled, I often sit and spend time with them.
ReplyDeleteA unifying effect on my class in 8th grade was all of shared the same funny experience before we got in trouble and while we were being punished. This experience brought us close together since we spent a lot of time together and became better friends as a whole.
ReplyDeleteAn event that has and undying effect on my family was the pandemic, and the especially the beginning when we really weren’t going anywhere. We spent basically the whole summer just the five of us, and it really brought us closer together.
ReplyDeleteA unifying effect was the pandemic. When the cases were at it's peak, and we were all forced to quarantine and stay home, it was funny in my household because we were all like "hey haven't seen you in a while!" and it was alarming because it just showed how as a family, we weren't close, but then since we were forced to stay home we began to eat meals together, and play board games as a family, and i believe this pandemic did have a very unifying effect on my family.
ReplyDeleteThis'll probably be a very common answer, but a brightside of the pandemic has been being able to spend time with family. Before last March, I wasn't very close with my stepbrother and stepsister, because they spent most of their time at college, but over the summer, my dad and stepmom decided to rent a house for the six of us to stay in. Because my dad and my stepmom had to work for most of the time, I spent it with my stepsiblings doing whatever we could think of, and we grew closer because of it.
ReplyDeleteOne unifying event during the pandemic is that I've developed closer relationships with family and friends. I've been home much more so I've been around my family more. Also, I've became much closer with some friends.
ReplyDeleteA unifying event that has really helped me develop closer relationships with other people are the clubs. The people that are in my clubs all share at least one passion with me that I also have. I really feel like these clubs have helped unify some of the students at HSAS.
ReplyDeleteA unifying event for my family was quarantine. I live with my parents and siblings everyday, but being forced to see them with no other kind of human contact has made us grow closer and become more communicative. It has also given us more time to contact other family members to see how they are doing and making sure everyone is safe.
ReplyDeleteRecently a unifying event for my family was getting to know my family better in quarantine, I didn't realize how little I knew about them until I spent so much time with them
ReplyDeleteOne event that had a unifying effect on my community recently was when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got elected POTUS and Vice President. This brought our community together because it was a very important day for everyone in our country, and for the majority, it was a celebration. There were people cheering all over the country, but specifically on the streets of New York City. It was a day that will definitely be written down in history, and we all went through it together, giving us a shared memory that will be with us for the rest of our lives.
ReplyDeleteAn event in your recent memory that had an unifying effect on my community ( in this meaning of community I will use the community of my family because that can be defined as a community) is the pandemic and it’s not for the reasons you may think. This needs some context but basically because of how my family were raised, three different generations grew up together and we loved each other so much and we always were together but way before the pandemic probably in the early to mid 2010’s, my family started to excel in life and moving away until everyone was basically alone, but the thing is that when the pandemic happened we all realized that we should hang out more in the future because any of us could get infected or die at anytime and we started speaking more and for Christmas we all jumbled up and we had small celebrations on how we are starting to speak again, celebrating a new fourth generation with my second cousins new baby, and celebrate how we will later in life always stay connected. The unifying effect on my family basically was that this pandemic made us realize our love for each other and made us realize that we should spend our whole lives together because one of us will be gone one day. This whole pandemic has made my family so close and every single day we get closer and closer just like the days that we all basically lived together way back then.
ReplyDeleteI think because I went to a school that was mostly asian and when the first cases of coronavirus started in china there was some kind of like uncomfortable air around the school. it brought the school together because some of our teachers were asking for donations of masks and just things that were being restricted for their family members in Asia. my school did join together and did some fundraising and that did help with uniting our school and I do think that we started wearing masks before it was required just because we felt that it was better since my teachers felt much more comfortable, especially a math teacher that was pregnant. it was something really little but it did Brin the school together.
ReplyDeleteA recent event that had a unifying effect on my community was the fact that I communicated with my friends from elementary school and met with them. It was fun to see them in real life, during the chaos of the pandemic, as I was once very close to them and it also helped me stay connected when I am in quarantine.
ReplyDeletea unifying event that happened between my friend Oscar and I was when I kicked him in the face and broke his nose. It was in theatre class, ad we were practicing fake kicks. I accidently swept my foot across the bridge of his nose and broke it. We both started crying, me out of guilt and him probably out of pain, because I did have a pair of Doc Martians on at the time. I spent the afternoon at his house, making sure that I didn't have any permanent damage to his nose. It was an accident of course, so he wasn't that mad, but I still felt bad. It bonded us as friends even more so than before for some reason, a reason that I don't quite know.
ReplyDeleteA unifying event that happened in my community Hampton Court, (the apartment buildings I live in) was when our building porter who I have known all my life had a heart-attack recently. It brought my community together because my mom had a fundraiser in which I helped collect money to pay for his hospital bills. All in all, we ended up getting over $750 for him all because our community was extremely generous and it impacted all of us.
ReplyDeleteLike most people here, the pandemic changed me. My close friend group was drifting apart but then we all joined a single group chat and had a bunch of fun over the last few months. I also talked to 3 people I never thought I could ever thought of talking to in places other than school.
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