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    Zlata's Diary Essay

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    book due to it’s similarities to “The Diary of Anne Frank.” This story takes place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Throughout the book we see a child’s outlook on life. At first it seems to be just a little girl’s diary, but as the story progresses we realize it has a much darker theme. Zlata describes what it’s like to hear on the t.v about nearby cities being shelled and attacked. This book is incredibly similar, and even mentions, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Slowly but surely, the deadly…

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    first Elizabeth was born in the year 1533. Her father was Henry VIII, who married six different times. Elizabeth’s mother was his second wife. Her name was Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was only two years old, Anne Boleyn was accused of unfaithfulness and other serious crimes. The accusations were probably not true, but Henry believed them and had Anne Boleyn executed. Elizabeth grew up without a mother. Much of her girlhood was very unhappy. King Henry died when Elizabeth was 14 years old. First…

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    William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and his life did not seem like it would be destined for success in any way. He came from a poor family and he himself only had a grammar school education. He began his stardom Per (Shakespeare in America stated) “In a 1592 pamphlet by Robert Greene, Shakespeare reappears as an “upstart crow” flapping his poetic wings in London. Evidently, it did not take him long to land on the stage. Between 1590 and 1592, Shakespeare's Henry VI series, Richard III, and…

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    living sibling out of eight children. She died at 77. The sixth child was Anne, and she died at eight years old. Richard was the seventh child lived to be 39 before he died. The eighth child was Edmund, and he died at the age of 27. Since the actual dates of Shakespeare’s siblings death not formally registered, all of the dates are not precise.…

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    What I believe “Anne Frank's: Diary of a Young Girl” means to me is that the Diary isn't all that great, what I'm trying to prove here is that people are saying Anne Frank's Diary is wonderful book of magnificent writing and literature. Although what I insist on believing is that Anne Frank’s Diary is not all that great but not all that bad it's just a simple ordinary book to pass the time, but has a deeper meaning to the situation the characters are going through. When I read the book I thought…

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    I chose William Shakespeare because he is a very interesting person. It is weird how no one actually knows his real birthday. They think that he had died on his 52nd birthday, but no one actually know the real facts about him. He is also known for the greatest dramatist of all time. It is very fun and interesting researching him. I’m happy I got to research William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564, in Stratford, United Kingdom. They assumed his birthday was then, but…

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    Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during World War Two to escape from the Nazis. Together with seven others, she hides in the secret annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. After more than two years in hiding, they are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death, Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. “Mouschi Mouschi Mouschi! I love cats.i…

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    The Anne Fadiman book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, is about a Hmong (an East Asian ethnic group) family, the Lees. The Lee family find it difficult to navigate through the American healthcare system that is being offered to them in Merced, California. They go from traditional Hmong health management in Laos, to a place where biomedical, science-based treatments. And when the Lees are faced with having to rely on western medicine to properly care for their daughter, Lia Lee’s severe…

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    seize power: in all other cases observe it” (Caesar). William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town in Warwickshire, England. Shakespeare went to school, yet he didn't continue to advance his education. In 1582, he married a more seasoned lady, Anne Hathaway, and they had three kids together. At around 1590, he deserted his family and headed out to fill in as a performer and dramatist. Not long after his landing in London, open and basic recognition immediately took after, and Shakespeare in…

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    Anne Frank Research Paper

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    present, I’m afraid, I usually look quite different,” Anne Frank wrote in her diary on October 10, 1942 next to a picture of herself as a young girl (Frank). Anne had a normal childhood and dreamed of becoming a Hollywood actress until her family had to go into hiding (Berger). She and her family lived in a hidden room at the top of her father’s office building for two years where Anne wrote in her diary to occupy the time (Frank Back Cover). Anne Frank never intended to write a book, yet she…

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