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    The Letter “A” At the start of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, the “A” acted as a symbol for Hester’s sin of adultery. In fact, her Puritan community punished her by forcing her to don a scarlet letter “A” upon her chest. Wearing this letter labelled her as a fallen woman. This caused her to stand out in such a way that numerous community members looked down at her and judged her for her sin. However, as time elapsed, the community gradually saw Hester for her contributions to…

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    In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is resembled as the rosebush. The rosebush is shown to represent hope for the prisoners to have hope to leave a place of sins, the rosebush also resembles Hester’s life in which flowers sometimes blossom and fall apart at times. Hester Prynne was invented by Nathaniel Hawthorne who created Prynne to be a woman who commits adultery and gets punished. Prynne is taken to prison in which Hawthorne explains it as a sad, dark, and depressing…

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    Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born June 12, 1929. She grew up during the Holocaust and had to go into hiding in 1943. As through her time in hiding, she kept a diary, noting down everything she did and day by day events. In 1944, Anne Frank and her family were found in hiding and sent to the concentration camps. Anne died in the concentration camps, but if she would have survived a few more days she could have survived the Holocaust. Once her father was set free from his camp, he went straight to…

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    Anne Frank was living in the annex for two years before she got caught , and was taken to concentration camps , as well as the other people in the annex. They were found on August 4th 1944 , and were shipped by train to their concentration camps on August 8th 1944 , most people in the annex were separated. Mrs.Frank died in camp Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot were separated from their mother, who was soon to die of exhaustion. Anne and Margot still managed to stay together until their…

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    “The first lesson I learned was not to wait for a man’s rescue. History is written by the survivors and I am surely that.” Catherine didn't have a great life when she was younger she has been through alot but still accomplished her major goals. Catherine de’ Medici was a very strong women who had to fight for her rights to achieve her goal. Catherine had her up’s and down’s throughout her life. She was mostly involved with starting wars. Which some people can believe, and can't . Catherine…

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    For example, Anne Frank and Alexander Kimel both utilized various survival skills during their disastrous and horrendous experiences in the Holocaust. To begin with, Anne Frank was a remarkable young woman who went into hiding with her family to survive the Holocaust. After Anne’s sister, Margot Frank, got a letter saying that she was going to be sent to a camp. The day after they fled to Otto Frank’s business attic. Everyday they had to maintain the silence in order…

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    What is conflict? Well conflict is a struggle or an opposition that people deal with on a daily basis. Responding to conflict positively is the best thing to do, but it can be challenging. People are different, some people respond to conflict negatively compared to positively, and some people don't really respond to conflict at all. You can't avoid conflict in your life, but the best way to respond to conflict is positively because if you have a positive outlook on things, conflict can…

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    family and homes they had to give up. Some of the literature documentations that i will be talking about in this essay are; “The diary of Anne Frank”, it is a story about a family that had to leave their old life to go into hiding so they did not get caught by the Nazi another text is,” Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl” is about all the things that Anne Frank had to go through and the struggles of leaving behind friends,and last but not least is, “The Acceptance Speech from the Nobel Peace…

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    Scarlet Letter Final Essay Assignment There were many different themes expressed in The Scarlet letter, but the theme that kept recurring was sin.All of the main characters in this book are sinners, and a sin is the act of doing wrong. Both Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale's sin was Adultery. Roger Chillingworth's sin was seeking revenge on Dimmesdale after he had an affair with his wife. In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne is married to Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth…

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    The Middle Ages were a time of chaos and inequality. Royalty was an outstanding aspect of the culture, religion played a large role during this time, and women were not treated fairly compared to men in society. Thomas a’ Becket was a man in Canterbury, who was in the eye of King Henry II. Initially this was a good thing because Henry admired Becket so much that he made him Chancellor after seeing him achieve different missions for Theobald, the current archbishop. As Becket’s and Henry’s…

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