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Front Of The Class: Character Analysis: Front Of The Class

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“ Front of the Class”

In this essay I will talk about disabilities. I started learning about disabilities because I have friends that have them and I saw a movie that is about that. I learned about a new syndrome that I saw in the movie. It’s very difficult to have that syndrome and very few people have that Tourette syndrome. Some symptoms are coughing, eyelid twitching, frequent throat clearing, repetitive blinking of eyes, or stuttering. This essay is mainly about people with disabilities. This is a very important matter because sometimes you bully them because they have that problem and they feel very bad. One example of Tourette Syndrome is Brad Cohen. They made a movie about him that later on I will show you. Brad is still alive …show more content…

One day he is at a gas station and meets Maxine who is a truck driver. Brad has an idea, he asks Maxine to come to his school so the children learn about trucks and geography. One day, he is in carpool in school and one parent looks at him in weird way. The next the parent goes to talk to the principal because he wants to move his daughter to a new class. He tells the principal that his daughter can`t concentrate in Brads class. Amanda goes to Brad class to see him every day because she likes his class very much. Another day one mother talk to Brad and tells him that her daughter Heather has cancer and she is going to miss school for a while. Heather tells Brad he is her favorite teacher. He also has a student named Thomas who gets out of class without permission and says bad words. Then one-day Heather dies and Brad doesn’t want to go into the church because he will make noises, so Heather’s mom tells him to come inside because Heather loved him so much. Brad helps Thomas with his reading during recess and after school. He started dating Nancy who is a nice girl and they fall in love. They go together to visit Brad family. She meets his mother and they like each other very much. Two years later, they get

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