Anne Arundell

Elsa Kopp was born in Munsinger, Germany as Elsa Moll. When Moll was eighteen years old, she moved to the United States to live with an aunt she had never met. Upon arriving in the U.S, Elsa had to take a boat and then a train to get to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Seeking job opportunities, she began working as a maid, but soon realized she was lonely and extremely homesick. So as not to be so alone in a city she had never been in before, Elsa started taking night classes at Whitefish Bay High School,…

Recently, the grade 10 class of BCS had the privilege of seeing the Diary of Anne Frank in play form at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. The director Jillian Keiley had started the play by lining out the 19 actors and having them all tell stories from when they were 13. Anne Frank was also thirteen was she went into hiding in the Secret Annex. This gave a sense of understanding the difference between life back in the 1940’s and the life today. The real life story of Anne’s diary starts…

Anne Frank, the author of “The Diary of a Young Girl”, was 13 years old when she started to write her diary. Annelies Marie Frank was born into the family with the parents, Otto and Edith Frank on June 12, 1929 in the ancient city of Frankfurt, Germany. Sadly, because of the family being sent away to the camps, Anne died at the age of 16 at Lower Saxony, Germany. The purpose of writing “The Diary of a Young Girl” was to inform about how life was about 75 years ago. Some historical sides to this…

William Shakespeare was known to have no birth records. But he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, which makes scholars think he was born near or on April 23rd, 1564. Most scholars think he was born on that date so thats what they refer to when he was born. William Shakespeare was about 5’9 and around one hundred and fifty pounds according to scholars. He was right handed. He had long curly hair and a trimmed beard. He had green eyes, and he was white. William Shakespeare's home town was about…

“The Diary of a Young Girl” written in letters by Anne Frank, is particularly interesting to teenagers and middle schoolers because of how real the book is. As the entries were written by someone experiencing the suffering, the book is very immersive and Anne’s depictions of her everyday life in the Annex is relatable to teens her age, and yet so unbelievable because of the conditions she was forced to live under. For example, she included a list of clothes she would like to buy after the war,…

Luke Bryan has worked over the years to become the successful country artist he is today. He grew up working on a farm in Georgia for his father (Luke Bryan Biography 1). In his early teens, he had decided that he wanted to have a career in music (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Luke began writing songs with some help from others (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Many of his songs made it on the Billboard Hot 100, and a lot of his albums made it on the Billboard 200 (Demings Award Section). Although Luke Bryan…

1) This is from The Burning of My House by Anne Bradstreet, a piece of religious poetry written in plain-style and using inversions. In this poem, Bradstreet recollects her epxperience of only being able to watch as her house and everything inside burned down, and how she knows it happened for a reason. During the time of religious revival and Puritan faith takeover in New England, Anne Bradstreet wrote this religon/faith-based poem to inform other on the dangers of materialism as depicted by…

As reading Anne Frank’s diary, is realize that neither Mrs. Frank nor Margot offer much to Anne in the way of emotional support. Though Anne feels very connected to her father and derives strength and encouragement from him, he is like one’s mother. Living as a Jew in an increasingly anti-Jewish society, in cramped and deprived circumstances, heightens the isolation Anne feels and complicates her struggle for who she is as a person and also questions why Jews are hated by everyone. Feelings of…

In A Man for All Seasons, the Common Man is a very complex character. He serves as a narrator of sorts, coming in and out of the story as different characters. Three of his most influential characters are the steward, the boatman, and the jailor. Through these characters, the Common Man exhibits dishonesty, and self centeredness. The Common Man is a very interesting character to analyze. In the beginning of the play, the Common Man plays Matthew, More’s steward. This is the character that…

but what if one had to to hide in order to save their own life, well that's what Annelies Marie Frank, commonly known as Anne Frank, had to do. Anne was born on, June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne was known to be most famous for her diary which was later published and named, The Diary of a Young Girl. The book states Anne’s experience during her time in the war to when Anne, her family, and the others she hid with were all arrested and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s story was…