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    shot, and depression. What if no one knew that this happened to you in your life? What if only one person was able to help you? These are some of the few things that Anne Frank and Eva have to deal with. The Diary of Anne Frank and Freedom Writers teach readers that everyone is fighting their own battles. In the Diary of Anne, Frank Anne is hiding from the Nazis in World War 2. While she is there she has troubles with the arrivals of the Peters and is trying to find a way to repair the…

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    Document Analysis of Anne Hutchinson’s Trial Puritans during the 17th century faced high amounts of prejudice and oppression. When it came to the religious views of Puritans, many were judged for their beliefs and practices. Fellow Christian religions contradicted the perspectives of the Puritans. “Legal” preachers of the time taught that only strong morals and good deeds were the only grounds for salvation. Radical Puritan, Anne Hutchinson contributed to the rivalry of her fellow Puritans and…

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    The Life and History of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a renowned in prolific actor, play right, and poet. He is generally considered as the most influential and prominent writer of the 17th century and is known worldwide for his various famous works. However, there's much mystery surrounding William Shakespeare's life. My purpose in writing this paper is to inform on the life, works and influences of Shakespeare, and speculation surrounding his extravagant life. SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE…

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    on April 26, 1564 ("William Shakespeare”). It is also presumed that Shakespeare attended the King’s New School in Stratford, which taught reading, writing, and classic literature. When Shakespeare was only eighteen, he married twenty-six-year-old, Anne Hathaway ("William Shakespeare”). The couple married on November…

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    The Diary Of Anne Frank

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    My favorite character from The Diary of Anne Frank is Otto Frank. He is my favorite character because of his personality. He is really kind, smart, and loving. Mr. Frank loves his family very much and would have done anything for them. I like how close he is with his daughter Anne. He is one of the only people she is able to confide in and one of the only ones that support her. She is a difficult person to understand, but Otto Frank does and loves his daughter. He also was so determined to keep…

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    The diary of Anne Frank is about a thirteen-year-old a Jewish girl, who had to go into hiding during world war two to hid from the Nazis. Anne frank kept a diary of her experiences while she was hiding. Anne frank went into hiding with her family in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne frank was a young girl who wanted to be treated as an adult and didn't act very maturely. Anne had an older sister named Margot, Margot always helped around the secret annex and was very shy and quiet and kept to…

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    of England. The unfortunate tragedy of Mary’s life is that she was not able to secure the Catholic succession after her demise, and England reverted to Protestantism, after the accession of her half sister, Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who inherited, and then pulled apart, the church that Mary had fought to save from…

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    Our class recently read the play and watched the 2009 version movie of The Diary of Anne Frank. In the beginning of the story, we watch the Franks and Van Daans being situated into the Secret Annex. They learned that they must be quiet throughout the course of the workday and their abilities are limited. Such ability is using the washroom. In the middle, conflicts grow between the inhabitants of the annex. They have fallen into a pattern for living in hiding, but their terror is still present…

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    Throughout the course of over two years, Anne Frank and eight other Jews were forced to live in hiding within their secret Annex that protected them from the horrors of the outside world. These horrors were none other than the Holocaust as Anne and the others were Jews living in Amsterdam during World War II where Adolf Hitler and the Nazis wanted to eliminate all of the Jews during this period of time. While she was living in the Annex, she turned to a diary to communicate everything that was…

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    Anne Bradstreet Beliefs

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    Like most writers Anne Bradstreet wrote about what she knew or what was important to her, and what was important to her were her strong beliefs in her puritan values and concerns she had as a puritan. Bradstreet’s poetry conveys the puritan values of not attaching yourself to worldly possessions. She also writes on seeking God and doing Gods will, and her concern of the brevity of life and the certainty of death is a “traditional” concern she had as a puritan, that she expressed in her poetry.…

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