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    Hazel who is a sixteen year old teenager, has thyroid cancer and doesn’t really have many friends at all. Her mother makes her go to a support group with many other teenagers with illnesses. These support groups are ran by a man of the name Patrick, who is a survivor of cancer himself. Here, at these support groups Hazels begins to become friends with this boy named Augustus. Augustus is a amputee, which means he has lost one of his legs, one night after support group Augustus asked if she…

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    How Did Shakespeare Exist

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    Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford, England. No birth records exists. People believed he was born on or near April 23, 1564. This is the date scholars acknowledged as his date of birth. Shakespeare is the third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local banded heiress. He has two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund. Scholars have claimed that he most likely attended the King’s New School in…

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    horrors in world, we’re lost.” Anne said to her fellow roommates. In the play, The Diary Of Anne Frank written by , Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. The Franks, The Van Daans, and Dussel are all hiding in a secret annex living in fear during World War 2 trying to remain optimistic. Hope and optimism are shown in the play through encouraging and determined characters, energetic and celebratory events, and a everlasting perseverance through hard times. Anne and Mr. Frank provide hope…

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    Annelies Marie Frank also known as “ Anne Frank” was born in June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, she was four years old when Adolf Hitler rose to power over Germany, Anne attended Montessori school in Netherlands, Amsterdam where she lived most of her life in, however have to attend the Jewish Lyceum after Germany invaded the Netherlands and laws, registration order, and segregation started. Eventually Margot Frank, Anne’s big sister got a call up to go to a concentration camp, which lead the family had…

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    Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1564. Little is known about his life, but between about 1590 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more. Macbeth, a play written by Shakespeare, a tragic story that focuses on the main character, Macbeth and the consequences of his actions. Towards the end of play, Macbeth has turned into this cold-blooded murderer. Macbeth can be seen as this wholly evil because murders of several characters throughout the book;…

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    Birth date: 30 August 1912 Birth place: New Zealand: North Island, Wellington. Death date: 7 August 2011 Death place: United Kingdom: England, Greater London, Conflict: Second World War, 1939-194 Full name Nancy Grace Augusta Wake She was married to Henry Nancy wake was a journalist in Paris when one day she saw Jews tied up by the Nazis whipping them she said to herself that she couldn’t even whip a cat so she decided that she would become a spy so she could help with the war. Nancy,…

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    God Provides, The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom was a lady who was in a concentration camp and was released due to a clerical error. She continued on to spread her story and prove that God works miracles even today. She even wrote a book which the 7th grade class at Mile High Adventist Academy read over the past few months. The name of the book is the Hiding Place. The book explains her story and relates it to how we should always trust in God even in the darkest of times, which is a message I…

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    Philip the Second, also known as Philip the Prudent, was born May 21, 1527, in Valladolid. He died September 13, 1598. He died at the age of 71. Philip was married several times. Philip’s first wife was to his cousin Princess Maria of Portugal. They had a child named Don Carlos, born July 8, 1545. Carlos later then killed himself once he got older. Maria died four years after giving birth from hemorrhage. He then married his first cousin(once removed) they didn’t have any kids together, and she…

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    Anne Bradstreet was born in the early 1600s and grew up in an educated and privileged household. She was the most prominent English female poet in North America, and the first to be published in England (Kennedy and Gioia, 2013). She was also a devout Puritan and it was one of her goals to show that she could fulfill what she considered a woman’s virtue, but still be valued as an intellect and a poet. Being a devout Puritan meant that marriage played a large role in the poet’s life. The…

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    The Elizabethan Era was from November 17th 1558 to March 24th 1603. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She became queen at the age of 25, after the death of her half-sister Mary I (the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon). Her half-brother, Edward VI (the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour) reigned over England and Ireland from January 28th 1547 to July 3rd 1553, crowned on February 20th at the age of nine. He died at the age of fifteen, declaring…

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