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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…