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    The Franks were an unlucky family that didn’t deserve to be discriminated against, like many families were during this time. They lived in Germany and grew up there. They later moved to the Netherlands because the Nazis were taking over Germany. They family that had to go into hiding because the Nazis started invading the Netherlands. All of them had to live on the top floor of Otto Franks business in a room called, The Secret Annex, with a few other family friends. The door was covered by a…

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    Birth date: 30 August 1912 Birth place: New Zealand: North Island, Wellington. Death date: 7 August 2011 Death place: United Kingdom: England, Greater London, Conflict: Second World War, 1939-194 Full name Nancy Grace Augusta Wake She was married to Henry Nancy wake was a journalist in Paris when one day she saw Jews tied up by the Nazis whipping them she said to herself that she couldn’t even whip a cat so she decided that she would become a spy so she could help with the war. Nancy,…

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    God Provides, The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom was a lady who was in a concentration camp and was released due to a clerical error. She continued on to spread her story and prove that God works miracles even today. She even wrote a book which the 7th grade class at Mile High Adventist Academy read over the past few months. The name of the book is the Hiding Place. The book explains her story and relates it to how we should always trust in God even in the darkest of times, which is a message I…

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    Conflict between forces in nature, humans, groups, states, and countries has been a part of the human condition as long as there have been people and things to fight about. In The Diary Of Anne Frank, a young girl experiences the methodical extermination of the jews by the Nazis in WWII, from the perspective of a family hiding to save their lives. Another type of conflict and resolution is the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. near the end of WWII. These were actions in response to…

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    Freedom Writers Thesis

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    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…

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    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…

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    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 ,…

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    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.…

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    The diary of Anne frank recently celebrated its 70th anniversary on January 1, 2016. Nevertheless, after seventy years of publication, there are still some issues with the text. The Diary of a Young Girl is, as the name implies, a diary. This fact brings up a number of issues with the publications of this text. Throughout the seventy years of publications, this diary has had various versions, published in many languages. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, edited these versions in order to maximize their…

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    Anne's Diary Analysis

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    Anne’s diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends shortly after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes fairly typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes on boys, and her academic 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…

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