Otto Frank

everyday stresses by living a life of crime through the portrayed character. Crime films carry a pattern that is unmistakable within the realm if movie genres. This analysis will cover the topic of crime films and will discuss this by putting the Frank Darabont 's ' film "The shawshank redemption"(1994) onto a metaphorical chopping block to see how it fits into the genre of a crime film and more specifically the sub-genre of the prison film. Prison films almost follow a general pattern that…

The musical has gone through many changes in its lifetime. Its has been developed, explored and performed in millions of theatres around the world. But what really are the foundations of the art form itself? All of the three elements are really important, but there is one that stands out and has changed the most. That would be the music. The music has served the musical in many ways. It serves the characters extended feelings of fulfillment and gives the audience something to hum out of the…

Ernest Shackleton led his crew on the Endurance to attempt to be the first group of individuals to cross the Antarctic continent overland. One day away from land the crew became iced in and eventually the ship sank. Leaving the crew with limited supplies. Ernest being the leader made sure every man went home alive. His leadership skills were spectacular during the journey. Ernest Shackleton was left with moral decision making in the days and months that passed between the sinking of the…

Shawshank Redemtion is a well know movie that was based on Stephen King’s short story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemtion.” The movie is about Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) who goes to Shawshank prison for two life sentences for a crime he did not commit. There he meets a group of men and starts making friends with one of them, Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman), or Red as he is called. Andy slowly gets on the guards’ good side and is e.g. allowed to renovate the prison library. This…

Throughout the movie and the book there are many differences and similarities that seem to pop out. Although there are differences that I didn’t see until I read the book and watched the movie, there are also similarities that I didn’t think would happen. More characters appear, Hannah is called Chaya by the camp people, Hannah writes numbers on her arm for grandpa, all these along with many other things happen in the book that doesn't happen in the movie. There are characters in the book that…

The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank Anne Frank possesses a multitude of traits that prove her adequacy of being a best friend. For example, Frank acquires a remarkably positive outlook on life, which is undoubtedly a valuable trait to have in a friend. Frank writes in her diary, "I can't keep that up, if I'm watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep…

of the figures before they became outlaws were somewhat similar with both being mistreated by oppressive and corrupt powers. This source points out very clearly where Jesse’s hate for the Union came from. It says that, “Federal soldiers, angry that Frank James had disappeared, assaulted a pregnant Mrs. Samuels, then grabbed her husband and hung him from a tree. Jesse managed to free Samuels, but the damage was irreversible. Because of the torture, Samuels had rope burns on his neck for the…

It is self evident that Frank Sinatra has inspired countless artists in todays music world from all diverse genres of music. The two pieces of music I will be comparing are Panic! At the Disco’s “Death of a Bachelor” and Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”. Both, “Death of a Bachelor” and “My Way” are portrayed in different ways, but both songs are in relation to an end of an era. Although the song “Death of a Bachelor” was not inspired by a specific Sinatra song, Panic! was inspired by Sinatra’s…

Yuri Kochiyama was a civil rights activist whose photograph famously appeared in Life magazine showing her cradling the head of Malcom X moments after he was shot. The mother of six was living in Harlem when she forged an unlikely bond with the black activist in the 1960s, and she was sitting in the front row of the Audubon Ballroom Auditorium in New York in February 1965 when assassins burst in and gunned him down. Among her many accomplishments over 50 years, her activism led directly to the…

Hélène Berr is not a name people hear often or even maybe at all. She created a huge impact during the French Holocaust through her words. We found out about her through our research on the Holocaust and the people who were seen as figures of light during a time in such darkness. It was not easy to find information on her because of how reserved she kept her life, but the information that we did find on her is remarkable in every way possible. We chose Hélène Berr as our National History Day…