is an open minded person and may speak out whenever something comes to mind. She never let anyone change her mind or take her expressions away from writing her diaries. Over the years Anne realizes her strengths and weakness living with a lot of people in the same building and the suffering going outside. We can see throughout her diaries how her life has become more difficult through the beginning stage, middle stage, and towards the end of living in the Annex. The beginning stage was hard…
Vampire Diaries depicted young teenagers having premarital sex. True Blood was the first HBO program that I was exposed to. At first the explicit content was a shock, but after a while I got used to it. Media has had a huge effect on the way that I view sexuality. While I do not think it has completely shaped my views, I am aware that it has made me more comfortable and open to the idea of sex. Relationships One of the biggest relationships that have influenced me is the relationship that I have…
Melissa Müller’s text Anne Frank: The Biography, proves that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s play The Diary of Anne Frank is unjustified in using dramatic license because it makes the reader confused on the role of the resistance, he or she loses the actual account of the arrest, and it also removes the feelings of the gestapo. Miep was not arrested in the annex, which questions the reader why. In the play Miep was in the country. Mr. Kraler, Miep and Mr. Frank survived and they went to…
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…
The Diary of Anne Frank: People are Really Good at Heart Anne Frank once said, "Despite everything, I still believe people are truly good at heart." Her diary, which she kept while her family was in hiding from the Nazis, shows the triumph of her spirit over the evil in the world even though the pain of adolescence. In our world and age, there are multiple situations where people are considered greedy, selfish, impatient, riotous and just plain rude but, they are still considered good at heart…
Dagmawi Wassie Landwehr,Joshua; Monahan, Griffin HN U.S History 1 October 4, 2015 Diary of George Golding November 14 of 1606, Willoughby, people were getting ready to travel to the new world. I wanted to leave England in search of a better life. The economy was on the decline and it became impossible to survive. People wanted to escape religious persecution. When I heard the Virginia Company was going to cross the ocean to the new land, many people including me wanted to go, the problem…
Anne Frank's diary and story has had a big impact on me, it makes me feel very somber for Anne Frank’s beliefs and that they were not allowed to believe in certain things. This story of Anne frank starts of in Germany in a Secret Annex. At this time period Hitler was ruling all of the western territories of Europe. Many of the Jewish people were getting persecuted and killed because of their beliefs and there looks. Hitler wanted a breed of people that he thought would be perfect and would…
years. The families would find a small place to hide, where the nazis officers wouldn't suspect them. They would find people they have high trust in, to go out and buy them small amounts of food and other goods they need to survive. A book called “The diary of Anne Frank”, was written by a Jewish teenager and is based on all true events. The book describes the hardships, both mentally and physically that Anne and her family had to endure. Imagine being a young child or teenager, locked up in a…
Courage is a very powerful word with various meanings; for example, bravery implies courage with a daring and selfless boldness. In fact, courage is the quality of an individual’s mind or spirit which allows him or her to face a difficulty head on, along with the danger and pain that comes with it, without any fear. This, of course, typically involves overcoming a specific fear, or masking it in a way that is undetectable with one way of accomplishing the former by sheer determination. There are…
staring at in real life, but instead a self-segregating class filled with “at risk” students that have no desire to be there. This is exactly what happened to Erin Gruwell, played by actress Hilary Swank, the teacher who wrote The Freedom Writers Diary, which then inspired the film The Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers is set at Woodrow Wilson…