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Liz Edwards: A Short Story

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What would life be like if you packed your bags and just left the comfort of your home and went somewhere to challenge who you are as an individual. Would life be better if you lived in a different country or would it make you more grateful of the blessings you have that others do not. What if someone walked up to you and said its time to test who you are? Would you accept the challenge or would you walk away. That’s where our story begins, with Liz Edwards, who had grown up in the same town her whole life. She was blessed with a privileged life that she took for granted because she never knew true struggle. Her parents were both successful doctors with lucrative practices. One day her parents come to her and said that they …show more content…

Liz believed that she would have no connection to the religions that were in this new place. As she asked the guide about religions of South Africa and was surprised to hear him say that protestants were the majority religion at 36.6% of South Africa as well. She thought that either Roman Catholics or Muslims would be the majority religions, but they were following Protestantism in percentage of followers. In reality, other Christians make up 36%, Catholic 7.1%, Muslim 1.5%, other …show more content…

She grew up in a tiny town and knew all the people around her. Liz did the research because she could not believe the population density. She realized that the country has a arithmetic density of 39.83 and the physiographic density of 403.57. Liz was wondering what the comparison was to the united states and she found the United States population density, which has an arithmetic density of 34.81 and a physiographic density of 213.67. Liz knew that there were a great number of people within South Africa, but the population density surprised her. However, she did like the fact that she now had privacy because know one here knew all of her secrets like back home. She felt as if she could be anyone her because she was coming in without the stereotype she was given back

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