unpleasant ideas in one’s mind, and surprisingly can directly affect your life! According to a study done by Dutch students, people having a positive outlook had a seventy-seven percent lower risk of heart disease than pessimists. Also, in StudySync when Anne Frank and Louise engaged their conflicts with a positive attitude, they felt that they had not lost everything and still had hope. Using positivity is the best…
Book Report – The Book Thief The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a historically fictive novel set in Nazi Germany, at the very beginning of WWII. The Book Thief is about a young orphaned girl by the name of Leisel Meminger living during the coming of age of WWII. As Death narrates, we watch Leisel as a young girl, travelling with her mother and brother to meet her foster parents. Sadly, her younger brother Werner dies during the trip. During her brother’s funeral, she finds a book…
'It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. Her eyes shone with fear and rage and she raced off, her legs and arms flailing in a desperate attempt to escape the mob. "Don't let her escape! This is how it is, she knows that," Mr. Summer's drawled out, clearly trying to keep calm. Bobby, the fastest runner in the village caught up to Mrs. Hutchinson and with a burst of speed wheeled around in front of her. "Bobby please! Don't hurt me," she wailed her…
The Scarlet Letter Reading Questions Chapter 1 and 2 A place for a cemetery and a place for a prison Ann Hutchinson They have come to witness the public shaming of Hester The letter A stands for Adulterer. It is red and signifies that she is an adultress. We can conclude from this statement that although the founders have the intention of perfection, there will always be wrongdoers in the town. Some of the older women believe that her punishment was too lenient, while a few younger women…
Anne Frank is a 13-year-old Jewish girl who immigrated from Germany to Holland. Frank, being a very outgoing, optimistic, and sometimes even caring teenager she still has a different look on life. (Frank 7.21.44) “I’m finally getting optimistic”(Frank 284). Although she didn’t survive nor did her family, Anne believed she was going to survive the war. Anne is an open minded person and may speak out whenever something comes to mind. She never let anyone change her mind or take her expressions…
The Life and Death of Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh was born around 1552 in a farmhouse near Burleigh Salterton Bay on the coast of Devonshire between Exmouth and Sidmouth. His father was Walter Raleigh and his mother was Catherine Champernown. Their last names were written in great diversity but the actual spelling of “Raleigh” was adopted by Sir Walter’s widow and is the most commonly accepted spelling. There is not much know of Sir Walter’s childhood, but in 1568 he was enrolled into…
William Shakespeare had a very interesting life that greatly affected his plays. He was the oldest son, born third of eight children, on April 23, 1564, in Stanford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare attended King’s New School in Stanford, where he learned to read, write and found a passion for Latin and literature. After Shakespeare’s schooling years, he adventured off and did some traveling. During this time a love story of Shakespeare’s now had begun. He married his sweetheart Annie Hathaway and had…
Bradstreet's "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House." After the burning of her house, Anne Bradstreet, a female poet, reprovingly writes about the passing of materialistic things, in order to show that all wealth on Earth will come to an end whereas the wealth in Heaven is more rich and ever-lasting. In her poem Anne Bradstreet stresses the idea of Eternal Life."Thou hast a house on high erect," The idea that in Heaven everything will come to a whole and will be much more grand. As a human she…
Is Anne Bradstreet rebelling against traditional Puritan/Pilgrim values? Anne Bradstreet was a premiere poet in young America and paved the way for both past and modern day poets to express themselves with limited fear of the consequences. Despite living in a community that was not too tolerant of anything outside the social norms, she composed elegant poetry that often challenged the minds, and sometimes broke taboo. Her versatility and ability to produce elegant and relatable poetry…
cover design of “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, I predict that Anne Frank at some point would perish because of the dated picture of herself on the front of the book. The title is of a young girl which, I believe, would be named differently if Anne had lived through the specific period or the way the cover appeared with an aged aesthetic comprised with it. Biography Annelies Marie Frank, best known as “Anne Frank” was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne was four years…