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Jaynee Claire Hill Ms. Gourd Pre-AP 10th ELA March 27, 2018 The Hiding Place Scary. Life-Changing. Impactful. In The Hiding Place, Jewish culture was represented tremendously. The Hiding Place is a true story written by Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie was born April 15, 1892. She was the youngest child of two sisters Nollie and Betsie and one brother Willem. She had to train to be a watchmaker in Holland and was the first woman to do this also. Her father, Casper Ten Boom, was born in 1859. He then met the love of his life in sunday school, Cornelia JoHanna Arnolda Luintiga. They end up getting married in 1884. This book has 239 pages. This book is about this family who is living through the invasion of Holland by the Nazies. Corrie Ten Boom’s job ended up having to hide Jews in the top of her house to get away from the Nazies. The secret room was about the size of a wardrobe with plenty of Jews in there. All but her ended up being dead in a concentration camp where she produced a reputation of good not evil. The minority culture is a very sad thing because you died all because of your race. Corrie Ten Boom has a major impact on women, and is a very strong independent woman who people admire greatly. She teaches that you can be strong even if you are a woman and can survive even if your all that is left. The Hiding Place is more than just a book, but it is an autobiography of someone’s life that did no harm and theoretical issues. This was a…

The contrasting and comparing Frans Hals’ “The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home in Haarlem and Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” is like fastening a window to a mirror set at an angle reflecting the occupant of the room and the figures of the passers-by. Nevertheless, had Hals and Rembrandt set up such a mirrors in their studio windows, at Haarlem and Amsterdam, in the middle of the seventeenth century, fixing the reflections by some magical progression, the end results are something…

With the rise of the open market, many people desired to have paintings of their own experiences and surroundings, leading to the rise in popularity of still-lifes and landscapes. Landscapes, which were once considered lowly paintings, were now the staple of seventeenth-century dutch painting. One such example of Dutch landscape painting, is Jacob von Ruisedals, View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds. Throughout his career as a painters, Jacob van Ruisdael completed many paintings of Haarlem,…

Harlem got its name by a neighborhood with a rich artistic and cultural history, the origins of its name are muted. Harlem is a modification of the name Haarlem a city in the Netherlands. In 1658 Peter Stuyvesant the director general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (Niew Nederland) founded the settlement of new Haarlem in the northern part of Manhattan Island as an outpost of New Amsterdam at the southern tip of the island. With layoffs and foreclosure, increased economic tensions…

Multiple Choice (11-20) In what city is the Beje, the house the ten Booms lived in, located? Munich b. Haarlem c. Brabant d. Hamburg Who taught Corrie the game of Solitaire? Father b. Tante Jans c. Frau Mikes d. Meyer Mossel What material was the deck of cards made out of that Corrie used to play solitaire? Toilet Paper b. Plastic c. Cloth …

Place, an inspiring nonfiction novel written by Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom with the help of John and Elizabeth Sherrill, describes Corrie’s personal experience as a prisoner during World War II. Over two million copies of The Hiding Place have been sold, and countless readers—myself included—have been inspired by this true story. This book tells of the trials and tests the God-fearing ten Boom family faced, and how they continued to do what they felt led by God to do despite their desperate…

The story The Hiding Place is narrated by Corrie ten-Boom. She talked about the trials her family, the ten-Boom family, went through during World War ll. The ten-Booms live in Haarlem, Holland in a house known as the Beje. The book begins with the ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of the watch shop. In the next few chapters, Corrie talks about her childhood and glad-hearted mother, and the three aunts who once lived in the Beje. After the deaths of Corrie's mother and aunts, it…

Maurits Cornelis Escher is one of the world's most famous artist. Escher created unique and enchanting works of art that "explore and exhibit a wide range of mathematical ideas" (Smith). Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Escher was born as the youngest and fourth son of a civil engineer. According to Smith, Escher's family planned for him to "follow his father's career of architecture". After failing his high school exams, Escher eventually was enrolled in the School of…

Acknowledging the book, “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,” written by the same author of Wicked, Gregory Maguire takes us into the magical world as one knows as the streets of Haarlem in Holland. In this magical world, there is a woman named Margarethe, her husband is Jack Fisher, and they both have two ugly daughters Iris and Ruth. In addition, as one reads further into the book, Margarethe gets married with Cornelius van den Meer, who he and his ex-wife Henrika, had a beautiful daughter…

that are met with a deep sense of uncertainty and insecurity. What I just read reminded me of the present qualms stressed by many apprehensive people of varying races and beliefs, who are worried, hopeless and anxious regarding the election of our 45th president Donald Trump. Similarly, the Ten Booms and many other people were nervous and uncertain about the sudden invasion of Holland by stringent German forces. While many people cowered or hid, the Ten Booms developed a sense of security amidst…