Miep Gies

Otto Frank was one of the few survivors of the Holocaust. Miep Gies described him as "The calm one, the children’s teacher, the most logical, the one who balanced everything out. He was the leader, the one in charge. When a decision had to be made, all eyes turned to Mr. Frank.” He was born on 1889 in Frankfurt am Main. Him and his whole family were liberal Jews. After completing high school, Otto studied art history for a summer semester at the University of Heidelberg. He worked at a bank…

For example, when Ms Gruwell introduces the book called “Diary of Anne Frank” to the whole class. Marcus reads this book and realises that ordinary people can perform extraordinary things, such as when Miep Gies faced death for hiding “Anne Frank”. She still did the right thing by helping the Frank family. As a result, he builds a relationship again with his mother despite it being difficult. Additionally, he develops a passion for learning and reading…

The Freedom Writers: A Multicultural Approach on Education Imagine walking into your classroom for your first day of teaching at a new school. You’re eager, excited, and more than ready to continue to do what you love. You’re anticipating the very second that the classroom will be filled with students, your students. Unfortunately the picture perfect classroom you had in your head is not what you’re staring at in real life, but instead a self-segregating class filled with “at risk” students…

The consequences of Action are people who aren’t dying like Jewish people or at this point children. Irena saved 2,500 Jewish children and not just her many other like Miep gies who save Anne Frank and her family. I think that Irena efforts inspire a lot of people to join her resistance group and acted as “Zegota.” The consequences of Inaction are people who are too afraid and cowardly to do anything to save people, even…

Imagine, as an impressionable high school student, that your teachers do not care about your education or your well-being because of a label: “at-risk” or “unteachable”. This is an issue that many students have faced, and a few outstanding individual teachers have attempted to erase this label for the progression of these students’ lives. Freedom Writers, a movie that heavily involves this problem in education, is a 2007 movie directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn,…

“ I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”- Anne Frank She never knew how her legacy would live on after her death. Today Anne Frank is remembered as a high spirited, energetic, loving girl, who went through things none of us can imagine. How many thirteen year old girls do you see today that could go into hiding for two whole years, without any link to the…

claiming that a black kid on the scene committed the murder, or she could tell the truth going against everything she had been taught. Her pivotal moment of change was foreshadowed by the visiting of the Dutch visitor, Miep Gies who hid Anne Frank. The camera pans towards Eva when Gies says “I did the what I had to do because it was the right thing to do... even an ordinary teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.” Although Eva was always taught to “fight…

It has been said that the best thing about humanity is humans, and the worst thing about humanity is humans.1 When mankind can be so beautiful yet so horrendous simultaneously, the best way to describe this contradiction is to conclude that humanity is a paradox; a paradox that plays out during the most horrific and the most alluring of times in history.2 During World War II, Hitler and the Holocaust demonstrated the ugly things a human can do, but the thousands of people that aided and…

“This is a photograph of me as I wished I looked all the time. Then I might still have a chance of getting to Holywood [Hollywood]. But as present, I’m afraid, I usually look quite different,” Anne Frank wrote in her diary on October 10, 1942 next to a picture of herself as a young girl (Frank). Anne had a normal childhood and dreamed of becoming a Hollywood actress until her family had to go into hiding (Berger). She and her family lived in a hidden room at the top of her father’s office…

foreboding-- world of history and literature. Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets become modern-day Latino and Asian gangs, and Anne Frank, victim of the holocaust, gets adopted as one of the pupils’ own. Taking the place of OGs are new heroes like Miep Gies…” As mentioned before, it compares to Mr. Ross teaching style because both find a way to make their students interested in their lessons. Comparatively, Ms. Johnson and Ms. Gruwell both work with struggling, troubled kids. On the contrary,…