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Palestinian-American schools A father receives a dreadful call that may forever alter his life, he rushes to his child's school, only to find it a blaze. As the hours of searching amidst the rubble transitions to days, the father's worst fears become confirmed. Although this may seem like fiction for some, it became an immensely real lifestyle Palestinians must accommodate to. Education differs from America in all corners of the world.Schools within Palestine compare and contrast to schools…

Leading to World War II, Japan had declared war on the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor after ending negotiations. Louie Zamperini was one of the many affected by war. Louie was an Olympic runner who then decided to join the military. When Louie and the rest of his crew were sent on a search and rescue mission, their plane crashed in the middle of the ocean. After about 47 days, Louie and his friend Phil were the only survivors from that plane. They had landed in Japan in which the…

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an unusual story, one of the most difficult and disturbing books a teen will ever see. this book is made about a time period that made a big dent in our nation. it tells you about how life used to be. how they were treated and how the jewish race almost ended. It all starts off, with a 9 year old boy named Bruno . Whose father had to move far away so that he can get this new job. so Bruno and his loved ones had to go with him. His big sister Gretel seems…

All I remember is sitting on a horse running through a field thinking, “this is how I’m going to die.” This was probably one of the biggest fears I have ever faced. The fear is that I got hurt on a running horse and I didn’t want to run again My family does a lot of horse riding, so we ride at home sometimes. One time we were riding in the barn lot and it was just like any other time. We had all the horses in there so my dad was going to let them out. When he opened the gate my horse ran out…

The Treatment of Jews in Concentration Camps Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have been a Jew during the reigning time of Adolf Hitler? A time of concentration camps, captivity sites and mass murders. All across Europe thousands upon thousands were held captive. Jews weren’t the only ones put in the camps but they were the core of them that were singled-out. These concentration camps took such a toll on those people and that country. It was far more than anyone’s mind could…

In the time since its discovery, many artists have interpreted Homer’s story of Achilles’ shield. They have created and shared paintings and poems, each showing a slightly different version of the famous piece of metal. One artist who describes the shield of Achilles is the poet W. H. Auden. His rendition of the shield differs markedly from Homer’s original. Homer’s depiction of the ancient Greek world on the shield is a microcosm of humanity, displaying both peace and conflict enveloped by…

feels as if she is losing Guy each time he would approach the hot air balloon. This can also be seen as Guy’s slowly losing touch with reality and beginning to step into a form of fantasy. It is even more evident that Guy pushes his hand through barbed wire just to see if he could reach the hot air balloon. Whenever a Guy could he would walk up to the hot air balloon and stare at it with the same “kind of stare of longing that most men display when they admire a pretty girls” (par. 56). Is at…

The Battle of Somme The battle of Somme was a major battle in WW1 on the German western front. It lasted from July,1st 1916 to November,18th 2016. It is commonly known as one of the bloodiest battles of WW1 and one of the most futile war efforts. It was also fought on the Western front of Germany. Location The battle was fought near the Somme river in the Northern region of France The river’s upper basin was the scene of heavy fighting and was the location of the battle of Somme. Trenches were…

you, I want to tell you about the thing...the gas chamber. It was, they ask me already about this thing. The gas chamber, how it looked. Very simple. Was all concrete. There was no window. There was nothing in it. Beside, on top of you, there was wires, and it looked like, you know, the water going to come out from it. Had two doors. Steel doors. From one side and from the other side. The people went into the gas chamber from the one side. Like myself, I was in it, doing the job as a barber.…

The door downstairs slammed. Feet were heard coming up the stairs. The cladder of people shuffling to get into the annex, was clear. We had been found. We have been hiding in our annex for two years. We had two families, us, the Franks, and the van Daans. Life is hard in hiding, but it is about to get a lot worse. The Nazi police yelled at us to get only a small bag of clothes, and anything else was to be considered as a threat. We were pushed down the stairs, and I heard a gunshot from upstairs…