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Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry follows a black family called the Logans in Mississippi during The Great Depression. The Logans have four children who are quickly becoming exposed to the racism that surrounds them. The book is from the point of view of the only girl, Cassie. Cassie is stubborn and knows what’s right, so she has trouble ignoring the constant racist acts that she is exposed to. Cassie’s grandmother, Big Ma takes her and her eldest brother Stacey into Strawberry to…

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…

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…

Anti- Jewish laws. But now, as the year 1947 rolls by, a dad was able to fulfil his little girl’s wish. 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,…

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…

In my opinion, “The Green Glass Sea” by Ellen Klages is an amazing book. “The Green Glass Sea” is about a little girl named Dewey who goes to a place the book calls “The Hill” to live with her father. “The Hill” is the place where during World War II, scientists came together to help make the nuclear bombs, or as they call it, “the gadget,” that would be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All throughout the book, Dewey faces many problems such as adjusting to her new life, being bullied, and her…

Having an urban setting affects the characters or people in the lyrics of “New York, New York” and “Chicago” by Frank Sinatra, the short story “Thank you Ma'am” by Langston Hughes, and the Novel Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman. Characters and people in lyrics are affected from an urban setting. An example of this would in the lyrics of “New York, New York” and “Chicago” by Frank Sinatra. In “New York, New York” the line “I want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps”…

Do you know who Anne Frank is? Anne Frank and her family were all Jewish during the time we call "The Holocaust". This time was also known as World War II, when they ally powers and the axis powers fought for the Jewish freedom and many other reasons. Adolf Hitler was the leader of this terrible movement and led an army of the Nazi's. He was the one that said he wanted all the Jewish dead. But a fun fact was that Hitler was Jewish himself. Otto Frank, Anne's dad created a safe place or zone for…

King Corn is an eye-opening documentary that highlights the huge role that corn plays in American society. The film was produced in 2007 by college friends Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, and Curtis Ellis, who together moved from their familiar urban city to an Iowa farm. The film follows Cheney and Ellis as they rent a one-acre plot of farmland and plant their own crop of field corn. The documentary serves to demonstrate the American food industry’s reliance on corn and how corn has come to be in…

turn on the light.” This 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…