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Now Is The Perfect Time To Talk About Damar Hamlin

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Now Is The Perfect Time To Talk About Damar Hamlin The social contagion of emotions around public events that shock. Good Citizen 11 3 They gathered the children around the portable boxy Televisions on wheeled platforms and made them sit “Indian style” facing the screens in anticipation of what they learned the day before about space exploration and landing a man on the moon. They didn’t mention Stanley Kubrick, strange shadows, portable cameras, radio wave transmission speeds, or a warehouse in the Nevada Desert. The children learned about the space shuttle, the booster rockets, and a school teacher “hero” from New Hampshire named Christa McAuliffe who would be on board the challenger the next day. It was to be one small step for women, one giant leap for school teachers. The excitement of the school teachers in anticipation of the televised event spread to most of the school children. And then something happened that wasn’t supposed to happen and the shock and horror on the school te