English Block A John Lauinger
Argumentative Essay 11, April 2017
All over the world, there is conflict. It may be easy to create conflict but it is very difficult to solve it. There are many different methods to settling conflicts but very few of them consistently work. However, one method has worked over and over again throughout time and has been the solution to dozens of problems. Even though it seems simple, it is not the easiest thing to accomplish. This method is positivity.
Throughout history, a positive attitude has proven to solve or at least help people get through rough times. For example during the time of Japanese American Internment camps, hundreds of thousands of American citizens were removed from their …show more content…
During Anne Frank’s time, anyone of her religion(Judaism) were being rounded up by the Germans and sent off to the concentration camp. Frank’s family had learned from experience that they could no longer live a normal life and would have to go into hiding if they didn’t want to be sent away. They found a hiding spot where they would have to stay inside and never leave until Jewish people were no longer being “exterminated.” Most children or even adults would be able to do this. But Anne Frank was different. She knew that she had to do whatever she could to maintain her optimism through the rough times. She wrote to her diary and said, “I don’t think I’ll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn’t mean I hate it. It’s more like being on vacation in some strange pension. Kind of an odd way to look at life in hiding, but that’s how things are”(Frank 18.) Instead of seeing her hiding spot as miserable she describes it as a vacation. Almost as if she is experiencing something new. Also she came up with another thing she could do to improve her living terms in paragraph 19 when she says that her father brought her whole movie-star and postcard collection so then she could decorate the wall and make her living area a tad bit more exciting. These pictures most likely made a positive influence on her family so they could also make the best of things. And even though Anne Frank was …show more content…
He, unlike Anne Frank however, survived the Holocaust. The majority of people in the world would spend the rest of their lives traumatized by what they witnessed during their time in the camps but Wiesel was not just any ordinary person. He did dwell on the past and mourn for those he lost but he also vowed to himself to not let it affect his life in a negative way. Instead he maintained a positive attitude and turned his awful experiences into something for people to learn from. In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech he stated that, “One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.” This shows that letting difficulties get to you and becoming negative can completely change the outcome of your
Argumentative Essay 11, April 2017
All over the world, there is conflict. It may be easy to create conflict but it is very difficult to solve it. There are many different methods to settling conflicts but very few of them consistently work. However, one method has worked over and over again throughout time and has been the solution to dozens of problems. Even though it seems simple, it is not the easiest thing to accomplish. This method is positivity.
Throughout history, a positive attitude has proven to solve or at least help people get through rough times. For example during the time of Japanese American Internment camps, hundreds of thousands of American citizens were removed from their …show more content…
During Anne Frank’s time, anyone of her religion(Judaism) were being rounded up by the Germans and sent off to the concentration camp. Frank’s family had learned from experience that they could no longer live a normal life and would have to go into hiding if they didn’t want to be sent away. They found a hiding spot where they would have to stay inside and never leave until Jewish people were no longer being “exterminated.” Most children or even adults would be able to do this. But Anne Frank was different. She knew that she had to do whatever she could to maintain her optimism through the rough times. She wrote to her diary and said, “I don’t think I’ll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn’t mean I hate it. It’s more like being on vacation in some strange pension. Kind of an odd way to look at life in hiding, but that’s how things are”(Frank 18.) Instead of seeing her hiding spot as miserable she describes it as a vacation. Almost as if she is experiencing something new. Also she came up with another thing she could do to improve her living terms in paragraph 19 when she says that her father brought her whole movie-star and postcard collection so then she could decorate the wall and make her living area a tad bit more exciting. These pictures most likely made a positive influence on her family so they could also make the best of things. And even though Anne Frank was …show more content…
He, unlike Anne Frank however, survived the Holocaust. The majority of people in the world would spend the rest of their lives traumatized by what they witnessed during their time in the camps but Wiesel was not just any ordinary person. He did dwell on the past and mourn for those he lost but he also vowed to himself to not let it affect his life in a negative way. Instead he maintained a positive attitude and turned his awful experiences into something for people to learn from. In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech he stated that, “One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.” This shows that letting difficulties get to you and becoming negative can completely change the outcome of your