When you hear the name Ruth Kluger what comes to mind? Maybe you’ve heard of her, maybe you read her book , maybe you know her for her job as a professor or maybe you have no idea who she is. Well I know her for being a survivor of the holocaust and a hero, and here’s how. Ruth Kluger was born October 30th 1931 in Vienna Austria, as a child she was abused by her mother and often neglected she grew up watching the horrible events that changed her life. She grew up only knowing how to read and…
The act of sinning is what this book is revolved around and how everyone sins. Hester and Dimmesdale both have committed the sin of adultery. While Chillingworth has committed the sin of revenge and punishing Dimmesdale physically and mentally. These sins have developed the characters in many ways. The sin of adultery developed the character Hester as the story progresses her inner strength, her defiance of convention, her honesty, and her compassion may have been in her character all along,…
smaller space than one house. For example, a young girl named Anne Frank had to go into hiding suddenly one day when one was thirteen years old. Anne went into hiding with many others and stayed in hiding for two years ( “Anne Frank Biography” ). Anne Frank was an important figure throughout the Holocaust because of the diary she kept throughout this event. Another important aspect one needs to talk about is Anne’s childhood. Accordingly, Anne Frank had a wonderful childhood, other than the…
In the diary of Anne Frank , the characters in the book Anne Frank is about a young girl named Anne Frank . Born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt, Germany Died , 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Germany . Born to Otto Frank and Edith Frank , her sister name was Margot Frank . Her family was Jewish and had to go into hiding under Adolf Hitler rule in January , 30 1933. The Franks hid with the Van Daan’s In the secret Annex , in Mr. Frank's warehouse in Amsterdam . It would taken so much courage ,…
country boy and enjoyed gardening, horsebackriding, and archery. He like lawn bowling the best. During his lifetime, he had 2 siblings but both did not survive. He was married to a beatiful lady in November 27, 1582. Shakespeare married Anne Hathway. In 1585, Anne gave birth to twins. Shakespeare was able to complete about 37 plays before the lost years. Shakespeare began an association with one of the city’s repertory theater…
The story Anne Frank shows a lot about the theme, Social Responsibility . Anne Frank is a story about a girl that is hiding from the Nazis in a Secret annex. The Nazis would either capture to take them to concentration camps or kill them. I chose this story because I know alot about this historical event because I went to The Holocaust museum in Los angeles and learned a lot. The story takes place in Amsterdam , Holland June 12 ,1929 - March 19 , 1945 . Anne frank's dad Otto had a company and…
During the Holocaust twenty-six year old Lois Gunden, who was an American French teacher from Goshen, Indiana, went to work with the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France. During her time there she has saved over nine women and children. She saved a little girl named Ginette Kalish who was only twelve years at the time by taking her in from her mother and father on a train, Kalish told Yad Vashem in their article (Women of Valor) about Gunden “At the time I was 12 and certainly scared,…
How does an adulterer live in a Puritan community, especially while being a Puritan minister? As seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the Puritans created a culture with ideals that emphasized darkness, restriction, and conformity. Both suffering from their mutual sin of adultery, Dimmesdale and Hester have contrasting representations of the forest due to their distinct identities. Living among the outskirts of the town, Hester Prynne becomes caught between the harsh Puritan laws…
In The Scarlet Letter, the Puritans had a judgmental view of the townspeople, and their actions. Hester Prynne and her husband Roger Chillingsworth lived a dull grey lifestyle, and as far as everyone knew, were just like every other person in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hester Prynne was an ordinary seamstress who lived an uneventful life, and did not do anything out of the ordinary. Most of the people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony would live their normal lives and live day by day not…
Monkey Selfies: Questioning Copyright Laws and Constitutional Applications Last week, American animal rights organization the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, filed a novel lawsuit in San Francisco’s Federal Court on behalf of a macaque monkey for the copyright ownership over “selfies” it took dating back to 2011. The suit requests a court order to give PETA allowance to administer proceeds from the photos to benefit the monkey and the macaque reserve to…