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The Wave Mr Ross Analysis

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Introduction
This is an essay about the wave in which many people have to overcome their own personal challenges. In this essay we will look at three characters, ben ross coach schiller and the wave members. Each of these people overcome their challenges and this is an analysis on how they do it.
Paragraph 1 The Wave does not only affect the students in Mr. Ross's history class. It also effects Mr. Ross. After the students embrace his ideas about discipline, community, and action, he has even more power over them. This new found strength over the students goes to his head, and Mr. Ross begins to think more about his himself than what is best for his students. All the while, he justifies this by assuming that the students "want" to be led.

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