Example Of Conflict And Compromise

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Mairi Beranek
Heather Van Otterloo
Communication Arts 7
Friday, November 17, 2017
Conflict and Compromise
Conflict: noun, a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. Compromise: noun, an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. Anne Frank and her family are one of the few families who went into hiding during the mass slaughter of the Jews, the Holocaust.an example of conflict and compromise because when the Nazis started killing the Jews, the conflict, the Franks compromised with that and went into hiding.
Hitler began to blame the Jews after WWI. After WWI Germany went mostly broke and the people of Germany began to blame the government for what was happening. Hitler, at the

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