Corrie ten Boom

Anne frank and Corrie Ten Boom were two people who like many others suffered during the Holocaust. What sets them aside is that their experiences through this horrific event were written down. Reading their books gave you a small glimpse at life at that time. Although they both lived in holland during the holocaust that is about where their similarities end. One was jewish and one christian, on old and one young. It is amazing to be able to learn from these two very different point of views.…

” – Cornelia ten Boom. The story, “The Hiding Place,” takes place in World War II. The two main characters, Betsie and Corrie ten Boom, face many horrific ordeals throughout the story. The question of God’s allowing such situations comes to the forefront of many readers’ minds, the purpose God had in store for them contains a rollercoaster of emotions and faith struggles with it. One of the many questions going through the readers’ minds is ‘why had God allow Betsie and Corrie to get…

Economy of the 1930’s Germany In the book “The Hiding place” by Corrie ten Boom, the story takes place in the rise of the Nazi empire. As we read in the story, Corrie experienced seeing many people and even friends, who were Jews, lose their jobs and even businesses. This topic caught my attention because as we know, taking jobs did not help the financial situation of the nation at that time. The economic situation in the early 1930’s was so horrible that the time period was considered an…

home to stay in and one would see many people being discriminated. Families lost many things such as other family members, valuables or even maybe their homes. In the book The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, Corrie had to sacrifice various amounts of things for herself and most importantly her family. Corrie sacrificed her life as a safe woman to become a brave women that hid countless Jews, she sacrificed her free life to become a woman that saved the lives of many scared, hopeless jews that…

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…

Hiding Place Test Matching (1-10) F Where did Corrie go when leaving her prison cell, at Scheveningen, the first time? C Where did Corrie go when leaving her prison cell the second time (3 months aftering being in prison)? A After leaving Scheveningen, where were Betsie and Corrie transported to? J What character earned the nickname Eusie by the ten Boom sisters? I What was the name of the lady who sat next to Corrie in the factory (the lady had a baby in the…

Carey Wilson a woman known for taking care of her family. Making sure the homeless had a place to lay their heads. Also a church lady who never missed a day. On September 11th she did not know that things would turn for the worst. In the middle of chaos of smoke, water, debris and hundreds of evacuees who clogged a stairwell, Carey ran into Port Authority coworker Te’Vontae around the 23rd floor. "We clung to each other, grabbed each other's belt buckles and made sure we both got all the way…

Sub-Saharan Africa. The similarities of the rentier economies in these three regions vastly outweigh the differences as they are all plagued with the two classic problems all rentier economies face: economic dependence and vulnerability due to the boom and bust cycle. There are some nuanced differences between the economies in the regions, such as Dutch Disease occurring at a higher rate in…

I remember it like it was yesterday, I was about Eleven or Twelve years old. What had started out as a great day took a turn for the worst. My brother, Bobby, was moving to San Diego and had decided to take our pit bull red with him. My mother, my step-dad and myself were all against him taking red but he was really my brothers dog so we couldn’t tell him not to. We all really loved that dog, to us he was part of the family. It was going well for the first couple days, it was hard getting used…

Imagine flying faster than the speed of sound. For most all they can do is imagine what this would be like, but for some this was actually possible. There was a time when it was possible to fly all over the world in half the time of a normal flight today. For awhile now supersonic travel has been gone, but what made it disappear? Every year billions of people travel through by plane, so it would make sense that people would want to get where they are going faster. Supersonic travel was once…