Frank Luntz

Do movies based on books portray the same details? The Devil's Arithmetic was published in November 1988, and the movie was released almost 11 years later, in March 1999. Both are about a girl named Hannah who gets transported back in time to the year 1942. The book and movie versions of The Devil's Arithmetic are based on the same events, however, there are countless differences between the two. In the beginning of both the book and the movie, the protagonist is Hannah Stern. She lives in New…

As stated previously, the client took all three career assessments listed above. Based on John Holland’s Self-Directed Search, the client received the specific results of SEC, known as Social (14), Enterprising (14), and Conventional (13). The self-identified occupations of interest by the client were teacher, counselor, entrepreneur, clergy member, and marriage and family counselor. Those more inclined to social careers require teaching, treating or healing others. These specific results…

Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes was a fascinating novel following Frank throughout his childhood struggle growing up in Ireland. From his eyes as an infant until his late teenage years, the reader follows the times of pure crisis in his life. This memoir mainly follows a central idea of the struggles of poverty, and how it affected him and his family. As well as appreciating the little things in life. Frank deals with the struggle of poverty in many ways, as he states in the book: “we’ll…

The year of 1939 started one of the biggest nightmares to come for the world. Germany had invaded Poland, starting the second World War (History). Among the millions of those affected by Hitler’s reach was a young girl named Anne Frank. With a diary she received, at the age of thirteen, she became famous for her entries about the world around her, and what the Holocaust was like for a young Jewish girl at the time. The reason her diary is so important today is because she brought the person back…

Ah the movies, the smell of butter and popcorn. Finding the perfect seat with a giant tub of popcorn, a soda, and maybe even some candy. Maybe it’s a scifi movie, romantic love story, a true story, or just a movie about everyday life. Going to the movies is always a fun experience, even though it may be expensive at times. It is usually very easy to relate to a character in a movie or just the story in general. The struggles the characters go through are often very relatable to most people and…

Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival is a nonfiction novel, written by Marcel Prins, about fourteen different Jews who risked their lives tremendously and left behind everything they knew to disappear and go into hiding during World War ll to escape Nazi persecution. All of the stories are first-person accounts that tell what it was really like to go into hiding during the war. Every Jew in this book came from the Netherlands, and they all tell their story of having to leave their…

The passing of the eighteenth amendment provided an opportunity for Lucania to recruit some new meat. Lucania became one of the “Big Six” of bootlegging along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel (“Luciano”, n.d.). His bootlegging gang grew throughout the 1920’s. Lucania and his friends recruited new Jewish gang members, including Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, nicknamed “Lepke” by his mother, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, another Jew, and Zwillman’s partner, Willie Moretti (Gosch, 1975). These unscrupulous…

When you hear the name Ruth Kluger what comes to mind? Maybe you’ve heard of her, maybe you read her book , maybe you know her for her job as a professor or maybe you have no idea who she is. Well I know her for being a survivor of the holocaust and a hero, and here’s how. Ruth Kluger was born October 30th 1931 in Vienna Austria, as a child she was abused by her mother and often neglected she grew up watching the horrible events that changed her life. She grew up only knowing how to read and…

space than one house. For example, a young girl named Anne Frank had to go into hiding suddenly one day when one was thirteen years old. Anne went into hiding with many others and stayed in hiding for two years ( “Anne Frank Biography” ). Anne Frank was an important figure throughout the Holocaust because of the diary she kept throughout this event. Another important aspect one needs to talk about is Anne’s childhood. Accordingly, Anne Frank had a wonderful childhood, other than the fact that…

In the diary of Anne Frank , the characters in the book Anne Frank is about a young girl named Anne Frank . Born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt, Germany Died , 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Germany . Born to Otto Frank and Edith Frank , her sister name was Margot Frank . Her family was Jewish and had to go into hiding under Adolf Hitler rule in January , 30 1933. The Franks hid with the Van Daan’s In the secret Annex , in Mr. Frank's warehouse in Amsterdam . It would taken so much courage ,…