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    Anne Shnabel's Exile

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    Anne gained her freedom after she was taken as a prisoner by the Gestapo. Firstly, based on Schnabel’s account, Anne acquired more freedom opposed to her experience in the annex. As illustrated on page 425, “It was as if she had been liberated. Now, she could see new people and talk to them and could laugh.” Although the others struggled within the camp, it expanded Anne’s competence to build new friendships. Anne mingled and laughed with other inmates, and because of that, she experienced…

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    Flamenco Dance Culture

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    Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Iberia, or present day Spain. A genre that has been the musical outlet for the poor and the troubled, Flamenco is not merely a style of music, song or dance from Spain but rather a way of life that influences the daily activities of many individuals. The art of flamenco was intended to be an outward expression of an individual’s most profound emotions and the flamenco way of life. It was never intended to be a technical art performed with enduring…

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    unwavering, imaginative, and somewhat stubborn pursuit of his passions that is seemingly tied to the very essence of his name. The first appearance of José Arcadio Buendía’s relentless pursuance coincides with the arrival of a band of gypsies in Macondo. One such gypsy, Melquíades, introduces José Arcadio Buendía to alchemy through the provision of various inventions, thus igniting in him an “unbridled imagination [that]… [went] beyond the genius of nature” (Márquez, 2). Central to explaining…

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    World War II was a tragic time in history when millions of people lost their lives in a war that caused so much destruction. During the war the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland were persecuted and killed for their identity as Jews. In Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed, we are shown a glimpse of the past during the horrors of World War II through the lives of three fictional characters Misha, Janina and Uncle Shepsel. During the war the Jewish people living in Warsaw, Poland were stripped of their…

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    War 2, it was clear he had specifically persecuted four groups of people, or racial “others”: the Jews, the Gypsies, people of African descent, and the disabled. Hitler’s decision to persecute who he did was obviously caused by racism, but according to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, those four groups had one thing in common: their biology. The main reason the Jews, the Gypsies, people of African descent, and the disabled were viewed as “the other” in Hitler’s racial state was…

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    Back when Ellie Wiesel was fifteen years old, his life changed. He and other Jews got treated like slaves and being killed. It was a nightmare that came to life. The Nazis tried to eliminate the whole Jewish race. Ellie Wiesel’s Night proves and explains the insight into the darkest depth of human kind. It gives us information that it was basically survival games between Jews even if it was family. First of all, Jews would kill other Jews for food even if it was family. In Ellie Wiesel’s…

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    fate as her sister, for she is about to have her wedding. She fears that either her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott or the gypsies killed Julia. She believes that it might be her stepfather because he has never been fond of her or her sister. She additionally believes it might be the gypsies because Julia’s last words when she died were the speckled band, referring to the gypsies. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson decide to travel to the Stoke Moran that same day. Before they get a chance to leave…

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    Vyse

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    were keen to observe and enjoyed sketching from life. Belcher originally published the etching from his premises in William Street, Knightsbridge. Vyse The Horse Fair Vyse’s figure group of a man and horse, the outcome of the numerous studies of ‘gypsy types’ he made at Barnet Fair. In the countryside, horse traders were fast-disappearing before the onslaught of motorcar and the aeroplane. Vyse’s additional figure group possesses a sculptural…

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    excellent use of imagery, narration and ethos, the point is made in this entertaining essay that is sure to stick with the reader long after reading it. The essay starts out by introducing Lucy and grouping her with her peers using a special acronym, GYPSYs, which stands for Generation Y Protagonists and Special Yuppies (Urban, 2013). The article generalizes and stereotypes many of the people who were born between 1970 and mid-1990s. Urban writes the article knowing that a majority of his…

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    If you were asked what the definition of poverty is, what would you say? You might say that it is not having money, or maybe you would say that it is not having food and water. You would only be half right. For people in poverty, yes, they don’t have money, food, or water consistently, but it is also a state of being deprived of the opportunity to make something more of themselves. It may come as a shock, but America is not the only country that deals with race issues, although many people…

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