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In the movie The Diary Of Anne Frank you meet different characters with different traits. For example, Peter Van Daan was introduced in the movie. At first he is quiet and shy. When Anne and Peter first met, Peter was hesitant to talk to anyone which led to his mother having to introduce him. Another character that is introduce in the film was Mr. Kraler. Mr. Kraler is the “protector ” of the group. He is also a leader and he would do anything to protect everyone living in the annex. For example…

Author Morton Wagman attempts to explore corporate slavery that very much existed in New Netherland during the seventeenth century throughout his article titled “Corporate Slavery in New Netherland”. He takes his audience on a journey that is detailed with the beginning, middle and eventual conclusion of the crop of slaves owned by the Dutch West India Company. Initially, Wagman dives into the historical significance of the purchase, explaining that this particular group of slaves in New…

Legalizing Prostitution Being known as the oldest jobs in the world, people have now considered it to be an occupation, while others believe it to be demeaning towards women. Prostitution does not favor or categorize race, color, gender or age. In this profession ethnicity or life experiences are not ignored. Prostitution has already existed all around the world and is not limited to any particular place; this can be spotted at nightclubs, during the day at your own home, having sexual activity…

the University of Texas, ironically, she is the type of person affirmative action benefits the most. But the ban of affirmative action has not always been a disadvantage for all minorities. In an article written by Glen Towns from the New York Amsterdam News, he mentined that African Americans have seen an increase in admissions at the University of California, Los…

Happiness is interesting, as it could be described as both a feeling and a place. For some people happiness is doing what you love as long as you’re surrounded by people that you love. But for others happiness is more superficial and could simply be a mundane destination such as Maui, Hawaii. Both Susan Orleans and Eric Wiener in their books, My Kind of Place and The Geography of Bliss expose what it means to be happy and if happiness is found or achieved. These works are similar in that they…

the world. Gymnastics is a prominent fixture in the summer olympic games every four years. Men's gymnastics made its first appearance in the 1896 olympics in Athens with 8 events. Women’s gymnastics was finally introduced at the 1928 olympics in Amsterdam with one team event. Today women’s gymnastics has 6 events; individual all-around, beam, uneven bars, vault, floor exercise, and team competition. Men’s gymnastics has 8 events; individual all-around, vault, pommel horse, rings, horizontal bar,…

realize and appreciate all that America has done for people with physical disabilities. On a separate trip to Europe I went to Amsterdam, and this time I was not on crutches. I noticed that most sidewalks had blocks of cement that had groves in them. I wasn’t sure what they were so I asked my exchange sister, who lived with us when I was a younger child, and now lived in Amsterdam about them and she told me that they were to help the blind. The grooves made a clear and easy path for blind…

Whenever difficult occur, they challenge human values to a great extent but relationships with peers tends to overcome these challenges, resulting in harmony. Love is a great tool in relationships for people who had just experienced a tragic event. This book shows the different levels of love and what love can do in order to achieve happiness. The novel Fault in our stars starts off with a teenager named Hazel who has been a survivor of cancer but does not appreciate how she survived. After…

What is life without risk? The two books The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, are both set during Puritan time establishments. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller do a remarkable job of illustrating what the typical Puritan society is like. In the two pieces, risk is a common theme in order to illustrate how Puritan society dealt with matters in contradiction to the religion. In the Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Hester Prynne very early in the novel as “. . . perfect elegance…

The differences between community policing and traditional policing are important to understand. Community policing puts society and quality of living as a priority, which can target the real issues of society (Carter & Sapp, 1994), whereas traditional law enforcement focuses on arrest and investigation. Random patrolling and other activities that law enforcement do is still a part of strategies, but it is not a primary objective for community policing. Creating a safe community, satisfaction…