Otto Lilienthal

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was born June 12, 1929. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but later moved to Amsterdam. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis had already taken over Germany and were beginning to try to take over Amsterdam. Anne’s family went into hiding along with some other family friends. The hid in this place called the Secret Annex. The Secret Annex was the small upper layer of the building that Anne’s dad worked in. The Secret Annex was secret because it was all behind a bookcase. There was…

Their father was a businessman while her mother stayed home. Anne frank went to Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam. While she attended Montessori she learned how to “speak Dutch”(kersell,Nancy), a language that is Germanic, in quicky method. Her parents,Otto frank and Edith frank often encouraged their kids to read, the outcome of this lead to Anne dreaming of being a writer one day. Eventually Hitler’s takeover in Germany caused Anne and her family to move to the Netherland in 1933. In the early…

An intelligent, perceptive girl, Anne Frank lived a carefree life until the age of thirteen. She had dark hair and dark eyes, and she was the kind of girl who says what’s on her mind. Her sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfort-on-Main, and Anne was born on June 12, 1929. The Franks moved to Holland in 1933, where Mr. Frank got a job as the manager of a company. Anne and Margot were enrolled in the Montessori School until 1941, when they had to switch to the Jewish Secondary School. On…

Anne Frank and the Secret Annex In the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank there are many pieces of information that were surprising. What was interesting in the book was Anne always tried maintain a positive attitude. By having the Secret Annex to live in, always being optimistic about surviving the war, and by having Peter to talk to and keep her happy are just some of the reasons Anne Frank was able a positive attitude. Anne Frank was always thankful for having…

Countless Jewish people and families were driven into hiding during the Second World War as Nazi Germany and its principles raged through Europe, and the Frank family was no different. They, along with the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel, a dentist, took up residence in the “Secret Annex”. When Anne Frank, the Franks’ youngest daughter, first went into hiding along with her family, she was 13 and Peter Van Daan, the Van Daans’ son, was 15. Though they were not friends when they first met each…

credible idea of the situation. However, a medical practitioners commentary tends to be limited to their observations of the patient and the patients symptoms. Following Dr. Jones diagnosis of the tumour, samples of the tumour were given to George Otto Gey, the head of tissue culture research at John Hopkins. When analysed, he observed that her cancer cells did not die when in vitro, but instead continues to grow and increase in number. This was nothing short of phenomenal and on October 4 1951,…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a book by Rebecca Skloot that tells the story of a woman named Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951. A few months before her death, a doctor took a small sample of her cancer cells, which became the first and most important line of human cells to survive and multiply in a laboratory setting. Her cells helped scientists make some of the most important medical advancements in history, but the cells were taken without her knowledge…

Germany: A Land of Tradition and Contrasts Organization and discipline are evident in everyday life for Germans. Public transportation operates like clockwork; traffic lights are synchronized, even retail stores are subject to Ladenschlussgesetz (store-closing law) (Somers 20). Everything done in German lives is done with order and efficiency. While we consider the German people in this light, they give us the impression of drones, adamant about following rules and regulations, and striving for…

1870 along with its old tactics and its’ use of weaponry bayonets, cannons, and the use of horses was also used for mobility. France faced defeat, once again, controlled by the Prussian (what is known today as Germany) regime run by the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck. The old ways of warfare was becoming obsolete. (thesis)The laborers of the Allied forces helped supplemented the need to resupply on innovative equipment used on the First World War; the equipment was never used in the past,…

In the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot first presents us with various descriptions about HeLa cells, such as “immortal” and “never dies”. Thus, these distinct attributes that tremendously prolonged the life of of HeLa cells make the cells become one of the most significant tools in medical fields, such as cancer treatment, vaccine development, etc. As a person who learned biology in the past, Skloot knew the facts about HeLa cells, and they conduce to the whole world;…