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    Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".[1] Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of…

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    remember, even when people might want to forget. Memories are the moments people remember from their past; memories are essential to a large extent, because it’s the glue to what holds a person together. Memories are important because someone like Anne Frank used her memories to share what could not be experienced by others, to change the perspective of the world. Also memories are to incredibly important to forget, forgetting allows people to live, but memories help people to survive. It’s…

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    The story The Hiding Place is narrated by Corrie ten-Boom. She talked about the trials her family, the ten-Boom family, went through during World War ll. The ten-Booms live in Haarlem, Holland in a house known as the Beje. The book begins with the ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of the watch shop. In the next few chapters, Corrie talks about her childhood and glad-hearted mother, and the three aunts who once lived in the Beje. After the deaths of Corrie's mother and aunts, it…

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    citizens. One of these people being a young girl named Anne Frank. Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne and her family went into hiding when her older sister, Margot, got a call-up. Later, they were joined by the Van Daan’s and Mr. Dussel. While in hiding, Anne expressed her thoughts and feelings in a diary, which she named Kitty. This diary later influenced a movie. Although the movie was based on Anne Frank 's Diary, the movie and the diary had a great…

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    "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." This quote was written by Anne Frank several months before she perished in the concentration camps. Despite being in such conditions, she was optimistic. The young girl that Anne was, she looked at the world with rose-colored glasses. Curiosity and determination in her personality had resulted in the conclusion of that quote. Though she did have some disputes with the residents of the annex, she was thoughtful and…

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    inspiration is from Anne Frank, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. This girl has documented her experiences from the moment her religious group was being slaughtered by Nazis and went into hiding to when she was captured and sent to a concentration camp. Although she was eventually captured, Anne tried to make the best of it and had a positive attitude, even in the most impossible situations. The impact and thoughts are revealed in words by many people. In Anne Frank: The Diary of an…

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    In The Diary of Anne Frank, the novel starts off by Anne Frank, herself, celebrating her thirteenth birthday and is given a diary of her own. She describes all of her friends from school that attend her birthday party in a hysterical way. Anne describes her sense of loneliness and feels as if she has no one to confide in. She decides to call this special diary “Kitty.” Anne writes about her family and teaches the reader that she has a mother, father and an older sister named Margot, and that the…

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    Fancy Title In his 1963 essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” philosopher Erich Fromm argues that disobedience to authority started human history and blind obedience may cause its destruction. Fromm’s view on obedience to authority is that when we obey authority, even when it goes against our own reasoning and morals, then that obedience is cowardly and destructive while any act affirming individual will and autonomy is an act of freedom. Humanity could easily destroy…

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    When it comes to the topic of laws, most of us will readily agree that breaking the laws is unjust. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if there is ever a time when a law can acceptably be broken. Whereas some are convinced that laws should never be broken, others maintain that there are some instances where laws should be broken. Socrates and Antigone would agree with the statement that disobeying laws is never the answer. Likewise, I have always believed that…

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    Payne, Austin English IV, 4th hour December 7, 2015 Paper The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales During the time of The Canterbury Tales the church people are supposed to follow certain rules that put them right with god. The four rules are considered as vows. The four vows are: poverty, stability, chastity, and obedience. The vow of poverty is about not being attached to such world such as garments or jewelry. The vow of stability is about focusing on god, day on and day off. The vow of…

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