Franks

When I think of my Italian heritage, the first place that comes to mind is the Ninth Street Italian Market in Philadelphia. I think of all the different family owned butcher shops, bakeries, specialty cheese shops, restaurants and more that have been in business longer than I have been alive. At one time, this outdoor market was an urban enclave in which mainly Italian and Jewish immigrants worked, lived and raised their families. Today, while this outdoor market has become diversified with…

to it’s similarities to “The Diary of Anne Frank.” This story takes place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Throughout the book we see a child’s outlook on life. At first it seems to be just a little girl’s diary, but as the story progresses we realize it has a much darker theme. Zlata describes what it’s like to hear on the t.v about nearby cities being shelled and attacked. This book is incredibly similar, and even mentions, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Slowly but surely, the deadly shells of…

The story of Anne Frank is about courage, compassion, and sacrifice. In the beginning, a young 13-year-old girl named Anne is living a normal teenage life. Then, one day, Anne has to leave her humble home with her dad, Mr.Frank, her mom, Mrs.Frank, and her sister, Margot Frank. They head to Mr. Frank’s shop for hiding in the secret annex. Sure takes a lot of sacrifices to leave your home and move into a new one without even saying goodbye to your closest loved ones and friends. Courage is…

Little Frank and His Carp, a video by Andrea Fraser, the artist is listening to the official audio guide of the Guggenheim Bilbao, following the instructions closely. She walks around, admire and touch when it is told. In awe, she rubs her body around the “gentle” and “powerfully sensual” curves of the museum under the surprised and amused eyes of visitors. By overplaying the instructions, Andrea Fraser points out the enthusiasm and almost adoration put onto the architecture of the Frank Gehry…

Anne Frank and her life in the annex are of huge significance to the holocaust. She and her family are forced to survive in a tiny annex until the war is over. Her stories not only give inspiration to people but give an insight to what life was like during the war for a Jew. After hearing her stories, it is clear she is just a confused child, not a stereotype. Anne Frank's life symbolizes perseverance, prejudice, and survival of adolescence. Initially, it can be concluded that Anne Frank’s…

Frank Lucas claims the events that caused him to turn to his life of crime was watching his cousin be brutally murdered by the Klu Klux Klan. However, it wasn't really until a heated fight with his boss sparked a criminal way of thinking in him did he start his empire. To become one of Harlem’s most notorious dealers, Lucas had to pull some very dangerous and risky schemes to fight his way to the top. These eventually landing the man in jail for what should have seventy years. Frank Lucas…

stories, one being about the Holocaust. She was shocked to find out that the students had never heard about the Holocaust. After learning about the students’ knowledge about the Holocaust, she came up with the idea to introduce them to the book of Anne Frank. The school had the books, but unfortunately her students being from low poverty weren’t allowed to use the books, because the school administrators felt that the books weren’t at the reading level of the students and would they would be…

Could you imagine having to suffer the way that Anne Frank did during the Holocaust? Well, The Diary of A Young Girl is a book about a girl and her family are forced to go into hiding in a secret Annex because Hitler and the Nazi army are treating Jews poorly and even killing them for their religion. The social issues in The Diary of A Young Girl are that they are discriminated because they are Jews and Hitler hates them. The first part of Hitler’s plan was that he starting was discriminating…

Nuremberg law was a well-known one. After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the regime set up ghettos to segregate Jews, approximately 42000 camps were established at that period. Anne Frank (1929-1945) and Abe Goldberg (1929-2016) were two of the well-known and most discussed victims in the Holocaust, their encounters…

Within Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes, he writes of his tragic childhood that was surrounded in death, abandonment, and a poverty-stricken existence that entailed starvation, lack of clothes and adequate shelter, and a perpetual state of freezing consequently. Despite his familial struggles, McCourt maintained a neutral tone with slight commentary on unfathomable events. His chronological structure goes to emphasize his experience with consistently appalling realities from where he spent…