Margot Frank

In my opinion, “The Green Glass Sea” by Ellen Klages is an amazing book. “The Green Glass Sea” is about a little girl named Dewey who goes to a place the book calls “The Hill” to live with her father. “The Hill” is the place where during World War II, scientists came together to help make the nuclear bombs, or as they call it, “the gadget,” that would be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All throughout the book, Dewey faces many problems such as adjusting to her new life, being bullied, and her…

Having an urban setting affects the characters or people in the lyrics of “New York, New York” and “Chicago” by Frank Sinatra, the short story “Thank you Ma'am” by Langston Hughes, and the Novel Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman. Characters and people in lyrics are affected from an urban setting. An example of this would in the lyrics of “New York, New York” and “Chicago” by Frank Sinatra. In “New York, New York” the line “I want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps”…

King Corn is an eye-opening documentary that highlights the huge role that corn plays in American society. The film was produced in 2007 by college friends Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, and Curtis Ellis, who together moved from their familiar urban city to an Iowa farm. The film follows Cheney and Ellis as they rent a one-acre plot of farmland and plant their own crop of field corn. The documentary serves to demonstrate the American food industry’s reliance on corn and how corn has come to be in…

turn on the light.” This quote by J.K. Rowling shows what people must do to overcome adversity. They have to believe strongly that they can get through difficulties. The play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, follows the diary written by a young girl during World War II. Anne Frank is only thirteen when her father presents her with a diary, in which she documents what it is like to be a Jew in the war. As life for Jews in the Netherlands grows worse, Anne and her…

metaphors. I loved this section because I could understand and apply my new-found knowledge to not just prison movies but any movie that does not explicitly state what is being compared. In the next section, she mentions The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994). By applying the taxonomy that was mentioned previously, she could point out some examples that I did not catch on to. A great example of one that I missed would be when Stroud compared their prison cells to that of an animal cage…

Krystyna were able to use vital survival skills during the tragic and horrific events of the Holocaust. To begin with, Anne was a young girl who was forced to hide in an attic for over two years before being caught! The diary of Anne Frank was a journal written by Anne Frank who went to extreme measures to try and to survive…

Tim Robbins plays a role in Frank Darabont’s ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (1994) as a prominent banker named Andy Du Fresne who is unjustly convicted of murder and is then sentenced back to back life sentences at Shawshank prison. Tim’s character is befriended by a fellow inmate Red, excellently played by the world renowned one and only Morgan Freeman. These main characters greatly help to reveal the harsh realities of prison life. Much of the story is about survival – about surviving wherever…

Anne Frank once stated that, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." These were the words she had written in her diary days right before she was captured and taken away to a concentration camp. Anne Frank was one of the many Jewish people who went into hiding during the Holocaust. Her family and the Van Daan's lived together in the Annex. They were all one-day captured and taken to concentration camps. The only one that survived was Otto Frank, Anne's father.…

Elias Martinez Jenna De La Cruz February 16 2017 The most powerful mobsters of the 1920’s When we think of tailored suits, cigars, fedoras, and tommy guns, the first thing that tends to come to mind are the powerful and notorious mobsters of the 1920’s. Who held the title to be the most notorious and powerful of all mobsters during that time period is highly debatable to some, but clear to others that Charles “lucky” Luciano's early life of mugging, shoplifting, and extortion had prepared him…

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…