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    Thesis statement: Anne Frank was a young Jewish who was known for her diary that documented her life during the German Holocaust. Introduction: Attention getter: Imagine living in a confined space with 7 other people, and not having any contact with the outside world. Doesn’t sound fun right? Engage audience: I just described how Anne Frank, her family, and 4 others had to live for over a little over 2 years. Preview main points: Today, I will talk to you about Anne’s life before…

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    The Diary of Anne Frank is a nonfiction story almost like an autobiography. In the book Anne faces many hard times because they were in hiding during the holocaust. I think that the theme is that, you should try to be happy even if the situation you are in isn’t the best. Anne tries make the Annex a happy place like when it was Hanukkah and everyone was talking about how they could not get presents that year, and she said “Presents!“. That lifted the spirit of the holiday because everyone…

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    That dad was Otto Frank. The Frank family was a Jewish family and was forced to live in hiding till the war was over. Otto’s youngest daughter, Anne, wrote a diary, and Otto published it making her wish come true, which was her being an author. However, not everyone in the Frank family was able to see the war end and was able to see Anne’s diary published. Only Otto survived the war. “Well, we knew that we were going to go to hiding sooner or later, so me and my wife had already reserved a…

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    Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, on April 15, 1892. She was the youngest of 4 siblings (two sisters and a brother.) her father, Casper ten Boom, was a renowned jeweler and watchmaker. Corrie became Holland’s first female watchmaker. After Corrie’s mother passed away from heart failure, Corrie busied herself with helping her father in the shop and she started a girl’s youth club in which she taught Bible, crafts, sewing, and performing arts. In 1940, the ten Boom way…

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    Anne Frank’s diary talks about the diary of a young Jewish child named Anne Frank who was forced to hide due to the persecution happening in Europe. The perspective of a 15-year old girl during the time of World War II was highlighted in the book. The thoughts, feelings, emotions, and events that happened in the life of Anne Frank living under unusual conditions were presented in the book. It also describes the perception of Anne Frank about herself, the people around her, and life in general as…

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    quote by J.K. Rowling shows what people must do to overcome adversity. They have to believe strongly that they can get through difficulties. The play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, follows the diary written by a young girl during World War II. Anne Frank is only thirteen when her father presents her with a diary, in which she documents what it is like to be a Jew in the war. As life for Jews in the Netherlands grows worse, Anne and her family try to avoid…

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    Fear drives people to work so they can prevent something from happening while hope drives people to work so something does happen. My first source for this argumentative essay is ¨The Diary of Anne Frank¨. I chose this as one of my sources because there are many examples of hope and fear in this novel. (In The Diary of Anne Frank, pg. 43 line 39, Mrs.Frank states, ¨There's no hope to be had. I know that.¨…

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    1. Counting By 7's takes place in various settings. One of the many settings is Willow Chance's “single-story, stucco house in a development at the end of San Joaquin Valley” where both Willow and her parents (Roberta and James Chance) lived, up until the accident. After the accident Willow is taken to another important setting which is a Nail Salon called “Happy Polish Nails” where Pattie Nguyen works. The third setting takes place at a Garage, near “Happy Polish Nails”. This is where Pattie,…

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    Imagine growing up in a small hidden space with multiple people. Anne Frank Beyond the Diary was written by Ruud Van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven. Anne Frank and Margot Frank were the two main characters. Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. The Frank family with four other jewish neighbors, spent more than two years during World War II hiding in a secret small annex above her father’s place of work in Amsterdam.…

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    Krystyna’s story. Anne and Krystyna were able to use vital survival skills during the tragic and horrific events of the Holocaust. To begin with, Anne was a young girl who was forced to hide in an attic for over two years before being caught! The diary of Anne Frank was a journal written by Anne Frank who went to extreme measures to try and to survive…

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