Anne Fadiman

Anne Frank, Narrative Having a pen and my diary is what I’m most known for but I'm also a pretty good hider; I'm anne frank. I was born June 12, 1929. Margot, who was three years older than me, was my only sibling. My father was Otto Frank he was mostly known for the business he owned ("Anne Frank Biography"). My mother Edith Frank didn't take have a job, so she stayed home and cared for my sister and I and took care of things at our house("Edith Frank." Anne Frank House). Growing up wasn't…

A Man for All Seasons Review Academy award winning A Man for All Seasons directed by Fred Zinnemann is a dramatic yet enthralling story based on the crazy events of King Henry VIII’s reign. The story line focuses on King Henry’s insistence on divorcing his wife and the fact that his prominent friend and advisor, Sir Thomas More, refuses to support him. More, being not only a very influential and respected diplomat, is also a good kind man who makes the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of doing…

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. A few women who change history are Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Susan B Anthony, and Michelle Obama. Without these women our society might not be the way it is now. Here’s the story about four brave women who changed history not only with their appearances, but with their actions. Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. She became the queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. when she was only 18 years old.…

“This child here waiting at the table, whosoever shall live to see it, will prove a marvelous man.” (Roper, 1817) Even from a young age, all who met Thomas More, whether they were friend, enemy, or just a passerby, knew that he was special. This was so evident, that his own son-in-law believed it to be of the utmost importance to record his life so that others could learn from and about it. Throughout his life, More worked hard and slowly moved up in the world, even becoming the Chancellor of…

school at the age of 7, and as he grew felt he should be on the course to become a lawyer. However, this course was changed in 1505 when he was caught in a horrific thunderstorm that endangered his life. As he was caught in this, he prayed to Saint Anne, the patron saint of miners, to help save him. After he said this prayer the storm calmed and he was safe. In response to this experience Luther decided to give up his path to become a lawyer and instead chose to become a monk, even though his…

A Stroke of Genius: The Man, the Myth, and the Legend of William Shakespeare With a stroke of his pen he is able to affect people with his words. He can either make them laugh cry or jump out of their seats. His words can haunt them even after they are said, the darkness looms in the air and it haunts them in their dreams. As they think about the blood, the gore, the screams that still haunt their dreams. That’s the power of his plays and other works as well; do you know who I’m talking…

Connecting the “Power of Faith” Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson This paper presents the relationship with faith between to two female Puritan American writers in the late eighteenth century. Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Both Puritan women with great hardships within their lives. It is clear that Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet shared many different roles, sharing a universal willpower providing literature and poetry to readers in the 20th Century. From this we see that both…

Richard Cory: True vs Apperecur Happiness I was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Me and my family are a middle class family and we are Jews. My father is Otto Frank and my mother is Edith Frank and my sister Margot. I go to a wonderful school and have lot of friends. But my father said that we will be moving to Amsterdam in a week which means I will have to make new friends all over again. A week has past and we are all packed ready to go to Amsterdam i said my goodbye to my…

How does Hawthorne use Dimmesdale's character to help emphasize the hypocrisy of the puritan society? Puritan society of the 1800s saw the world in black and white, good or bad, right or wrong. In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale’s character, who is a minister in a puritan society, to highlight how this simplistic view of the world is full of hypocrisy. In a society that does not see people for the multiple dimensions they have, individuals are easily painted in…

The following multiply choice questions are from “The Decameron”. 1. Who was elected King/Queen for the first day? a) Pampinea b) Lauretta c) Fra Alberto d) Eliza 2. What city of Italy does the story of The Decameron begin? a) Naples b) Florence c) Rome d) Venice 3. Another name used to refer to the Black Plague? a) Black ground. b). Black disease c). Black death d) Black rats 4. For what reason do the ten storytellers look to…