Frank James

might digest. In “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” Stephen Crane critiques a society that directly reflects the era he is living. James Joyce in “Eveline” also portrays a society that could relate to many people during this time period. Stephen Crane exemplifies a story of an old era coming to an end and the struggle of breaking into a new lifestyle in 1898, where as James Joyce describes the struggles of a girl named Eveline Hill in 1914 who's trying to escape a life of misery. Both of these…

In James Joyce’s Dubliners, readers can get a brief look into the world of Ireland at the turn of the century. In his stories, Joyce brings to light some of the struggles and disappointments that many of the Irish faced in their daily lives. Joyce’s stories are marked by epiphanies, specifically ones where the character realizes the absence of the divine opposed to the recognition of it. Examples of this can be found in “Araby” and “Eveline” in the way that both main characters undergo the…

Anne Frank didn’t have to imagine this, instead this was her reality. Anne Frank was born a Jew and grew up her first years of childhood as a normal kid. Soon her life turned around and her and all of the Jew population was being punished. The play and the movie were different and alike in many ways, but after analyzing both, the movie is much more preferred. The story of Anne Frank. (Based on The Diary of Anne Frank movie) Anne was a young normal teen when her life changed forever. The Frank…

door was turning slowly, the door opened and it was Gestapo. The Franks, Van Daans, and Peter were doomed, knowing the next stop was being relocated at the concentration camps. Miep Gies had a disappointed look on her face probably she could have warned them, but no one was prepared for this. Miep Gies knew she couldn’t lie to Gestapo or else it would have been horrible for each and everyone of them. The Gestapo arrested the Franks, Van Danns, and Dussel…

invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith. Dr. Naismith was born in Canada. He was 31 years old and a graduate student from Presbyterian College in Montreal, Canada, when he decided that he wanted to follow his passion of athletics. He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts to study physical education and work as a physical education instructor at Springfield College. The college was also known as the School of Christian Workers, at that time. (Where 1) In his second year of college, James’ instructor…

The popular cliché sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me has bothered me since kindergarten. Words can never hurt me? Words have hurt me will hurt me will change me will make me better and are impactful. During Ireland’s revolutionary period of ideas and nationalism it makes sense that poets and writers flourished. In class this semester we had a working definition of Nationalism meaning a devotion to the interests and culture of a particular nation; a striving force…

until her family left to live in hiding. The family left when her older sister, Margot, received a letter requiring her to leave for a work camp. In order to not leave any suspicions of the family being in hiding, the Franks created a rumor saying that they fled the country. Anne Frank showed spunk, bravery, and intelligence throughout her young life. She loved her father more than any other member in her family and called him Pim. She often felt jealous of her “perfect” sister Margot and her…

Everyone has heard of the legend Anne Frank, but who hid her and her family for the 2 years? Miep Gies! Miep Gies kept Anne Frank and her family alive during their time of need. Miep is a courageous woman who overcame hardships throughout her childhood and risked her life for the sake of others. Miep was born in Vienna, Austria, and was the second daughter of two working parents. Her Mom and Dad were not suitable to raise Miep and her sister. Their home had little food and even littler work.…

performance at school. Because anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. The Franks had moved to the Netherlands in the years leading up to World War II to escape persecution in Germany. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the Franks were forced into hiding. With another family, the van Daans, and an acquaintance, Mr. Dussel, they moved into a small secret annex above Otto Frank’s…

masterminds behind the Oxford English Dictionary’s long process and shocking creation story. The main character, Doctor William Minor, is a mentally ill man who is locked away in an asylum for murder. He offers his knowledge and love of literature to James Murry, the professor, to assist with the dictionary. Simon Winchester uses a candid and honest tone to relay the subject and bring awareness to a mental illness. As the novel begins, the authors tone relays…