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    Prison School Tropes

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    metaphors. I loved this section because I could understand and apply my new-found knowledge to not just prison movies but any movie that does not explicitly state what is being compared. In the next section, she mentions The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994). By applying the taxonomy that was mentioned previously, she could point out some examples that I did not catch on to. A great example of one that I missed would be when Stroud compared their prison cells to that of an animal cage…

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    have to create certain tasks that you will do or strive towards to aid your survival. One of those survival skills may be faith, which is a way that numerous people obtain their life, even if they are going through arduous times. For example, Anne Frank and Krystyna Chiger both lived through one of the most deleterious events in world history, the Holocaust. The two Jewish girls had to work assiduously to gain their freedom, independence, and survival, causing them to share certain similarities…

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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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    Anne Frank Orally

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    Did Anne Frank forgive the Germans for what they made her go through during the whole World War? If, she did why would she feel that way? The Germans made her, and her families suffer for 2 years an abundance of accentuating when or if she will be found. Anne Frank orally expresses, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank orally expressed that and more than likely authentically did betoken it. She has made a couple verbalizations throughout the…

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    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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    Tim Robbins plays a role in Frank Darabont’s ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (1994) as a prominent banker named Andy Du Fresne who is unjustly convicted of murder and is then sentenced back to back life sentences at Shawshank prison. Tim’s character is befriended by a fellow inmate Red, excellently played by the world renowned one and only Morgan Freeman. These main characters greatly help to reveal the harsh realities of prison life. Much of the story is about survival – about surviving wherever…

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    Anne Frank once stated that, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." These were the words she had written in her diary days right before she was captured and taken away to a concentration camp. Anne Frank was one of the many Jewish people who went into hiding during the Holocaust. Her family and the Van Daan's lived together in the Annex. They were all one-day captured and taken to concentration camps. The only one that survived was Otto Frank, Anne's father.…

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    Elias Martinez Jenna De La Cruz February 16 2017 The most powerful mobsters of the 1920’s When we think of tailored suits, cigars, fedoras, and tommy guns, the first thing that tends to come to mind are the powerful and notorious mobsters of the 1920’s. Who held the title to be the most notorious and powerful of all mobsters during that time period is highly debatable to some, but clear to others that Charles “lucky” Luciano's early life of mugging, shoplifting, and extortion had prepared him…

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    Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born June 12, 1929. She grew up during the Holocaust and had to go into hiding in 1943. As through her time in hiding, she kept a diary, noting down everything she did and day by day events. In 1944, Anne Frank and her family were found in hiding and sent to the concentration camps. Anne died in the concentration camps, but if she would have survived a few more days she could have survived the Holocaust. Once her father was set free from his camp, he went straight to…

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    Anne Frank was living in the annex for two years before she got caught , and was taken to concentration camps , as well as the other people in the annex. They were found on August 4th 1944 , and were shipped by train to their concentration camps on August 8th 1944 , most people in the annex were separated. Mrs.Frank died in camp Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot were separated from their mother, who was soon to die of exhaustion. Anne and Margot still managed to stay together until their…

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