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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out our most popular articles of the week on a variety of subjects, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

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Nicole:

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Giulia:

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Gina:

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“Chop Shop” - Dreams In a Place of Despair

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Kerry:

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the opening night screening of Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop where the director Ramin Bahrani, and young stars, Alejandro Polanco and Isamar Gonzales were all present. The film is about a young boy named Alejandro who is living in Willets Point in Queens, a neighborhood that F. Scott Fitzgerald called “The Valley of the Ashes.” He lives and works in a piecemeal auto body repair shop - a “chop shop.” His sister Isamar lives with him and works in a nearby taco van. We never learn much more about their past and instead spend the journey learning about their dreams for the future.

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