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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWG6apzIWAk   - This is a link to the song Stick Season by Noah Khan. In unit 2, I wrote about my Vermont community and what it meant to me. This song directly represents what it feels like to live in Vermont. The artist Noah Khan was born and raised in Vermont. As a rising artist, he would play at small venues across Vermont, but now he is an extremely popular artist performing tours all over America and having big artists featured on some of his songs. In Vermont, you will not find a single person who dislikes this song. When he came to perform in Vermont, it was amazing to see the community there come together and experience something that we are all passionate about. For me, this song reminds me of my former home and makes me feel involved in my home community, even from afar. 

  https://youtu.be/baDX8zXbgIA  

  Unit 2 paper In Unit 1, the class was introduced to the idea of our individual communities. I wrote about my swimming community; having been a swimmer for the past fifteen years, I consider being a swimmer part of my identity. Though I chose to write about this specific community, my identity comprises different skills that I have learned in all the other communities I indulged in in my hometown. In my hometown are my family, friends, familiarity, and larger communities that shaped my identity. Growing up in Burlington, Vermont, is a community of itself and is why I am the way I am. However, I no longer live there; my home is now Syracuse, New York. Living is also a part of my identity, meaning it is my home. The difference is that Burlington is Familiar; it has all my memories and my childhood home, and Syracuse has nothing that has shaped my identity in the past. The tension is not between my two communities but somewhat internally because it's hard to call Syracuse my home. Af...