The session that I attended at The Anne Frank Project on September 11‚ 2009 was Beyond the Diary: Behind the scenes of a Jewish Family in Hiding with Sophia Veffer. Even though I learned some things about the Holocaust during middle school‚ there still were things that I did not know. The reason why I attended this session is because I wanted to know how some of the Jews were able to survive the Holocaust and I also wanted to know what Sophia’s experience was like actually being a child during the
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The Franks The History Channel documentary Barbarians-The Franks is about a group of loosely related Germanic ‘barbarian’ tribes that from the third to eighth centuries CE would occupy‚ and eventually conquer and settle most of the Western Roman province of Gaul which would later come to be known as France‚ or “Frankland”. The Franks are portrayed in this documentary as a ‘plague’ to Rome‚ but one group the Salians to the north of the Rhine River‚ were actually quite assimilated to Roman Culture
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When people are put in difficult positions‚ it’s often that their maturity alters. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich‚ taken place 1942 in Amsterdam‚ is about a Jewish family who go hiding in a secret annex in order to avoid being captured by the Nazis. This play is based on the diary of the Anne Frank‚ the main protagonist‚ who recounts her experiences from when she entered the annex at age thirteen until when her freedom out from it at fifteen. Over the course
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During world war 2 many terrible things had happened. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of many truly horrific stories. Anne has lived way beyond her death. She obviously has because we still talk about her today. There is tons of books about her that keep her spirit alive. Her dream was to become famous. She definitely wasn’t famous during her lifetime‚ but after she died her journals were found and once they were published and the word got out she later then became famous. I think that what she had
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Title The novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert centers on a man named Paul Atreides and his struggle to gain back a planet that was given to him and brutally taken away by his longtime rivals. While the novel is one of science fiction’s best because of its plotline‚ the philosophical points made in the novel make it truly great. The novel uses religion as a driving force in politics at a time when religion was believed to be dying down. Another important revolutionary idea was the human control over ecology
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Anne Frank once said‚ "In spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart." This quote was written right before the Annex was found by the Nazis. I feel this expresses three of Anne’s personality traits. It indicates how honest‚ humble‚ and brave she is. Even when her whole world is crumbling and she has every right to be angry at the unfairness of her situation‚ she still chooses to believe that people are good. Anne Frank‚ a Jewish girl alive during World War II‚ believed
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These were the words of Anne Frank which were contained in her beloved‚ leather-bound‚ red and white checkerboard-patterned diary. Handwritten in her beautiful scrawl‚ these few simple words have impacted minds around the world and refreshed those with intents of hatred and harm. Despite the bad deeds of those around her‚ and the horrid happens depleting the population of her kind as a Jew‚ Anne Frank could still see the inner light shining through the dreary‚ gray smoke of all of humanity.
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you admire can be applied to your own life for your benefit. When I am feeling unsure and having doubts about the whole process‚ no one inspires me to continue on more than‚ my role model‚ Anne Frank. As most know from reading her diary in middle school or studying her life in history class‚ Anne Frank was a young‚ Jewish girl during the 1930 ’s and 40 ’s. Her family and another hid in a "Secret Annexe" of her father ’s office building to avoid persecution from the Nazi ’s occupying Holland. Anne
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permanent personal record that is kept of events‚ thoughts‚ and ideas associated with an individual. They retain great significance in an individual’s life‚ and hold a great deal of sentimental value. The Diary of a Young girl (1952) written by Anne Frank and the film‚ Freedom Writers (2007) directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ explore this cleansing of the psyche as individuals undergo an introspective‚ reflective process. Diaries hold a great deal of sentimental value‚ especially to those in society who
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Anne frank begins her journey as she is forced with her Jewish family to go into hiding in the annexe of a non-Jewish family’s home. Her journey is depicted through her diary until the day her family is discovered and captured by the Nazi and sent to concentration camps. At the beginning of her journey‚ Anne expresses her thoughts to her diary through a connotation‚ in the line‚ "’This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is‚ perhaps‚ the end of the beginning.”‚ on Monday
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