Shades of gray

Yoana Nandho Ms. Maggert English Honor 4th Hour 11 May 2017 Between Shades of Gray In grade school to high school people are taught about Hitler, who executed more than a million people during World War II. He is said to be the most vile dictator during the war, but was he really the only vile one during that time? During World War II, Hitler was not the only one who committed the crime of executing people during that the time of war, Joseph Stalin was guilty as well. Hitler and Stalin…

Have you ever heard about the Holocaust? Not the one that took place in Germany. The Lithuanian Holocaust. The book, Between the Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys talks about the Lithuanian Holocaust. Joseph Stalin,the leader of the Soviet Union, took over the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. These states lost a third of their populations. Citizens of those states were deported. Deportation could go all the way to Finland. The book tells the story of a mother, father, Lina and…

Between Shades of Gay About 8 million people died during the holocaust. In the book Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys the main character Lina, survived the holocaust. In the book she is so strong and brave to make it through everything that the NKVD put them through. In the beginning of the book Lina has clean long wavy hair. She has hair the color of honey and bright blue eyes. She wears long skirts and dresses. The night that they took her she was wearing a nightgown and a jacket. Later…

essay, I will go back in time to another country to discover how a small Lithuanian family worked together through World War II, and how the culture they were raised with aids and affects them in their journey. The book I read was called Between Shades of Gray,the story starts with Lina, a fifteen year old girl, whose house is invaded in the night and her, her mother, and her younger brother are being deported out of their home, across the continent in train cars. I will analyze the ways that…

people were deported and mistreated these people were thrown out of their homes given almost no time to pack up. Told from the perspective of a young 16 year old girl named Lina, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys tells the little known story of those deported in June 1941 In the book Between Shades Of Gray, Ruta Sepetys shows women through hardship being able to adapt and overcome in their environments, and being able to fight through deadly challenges. For many a strong person is someone…

In the book Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas from Lithuania is taken to a Siberian work camp with her mother and her brother, Jonas. Stuffed in a crowded truck with dozens of other innocent people, the family is whisked away by the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) far from home with slight chances of getting away. They endure a lot, which includes torture, threatening, abuse, and starvation, but the family does their best to stay strong and make it through the next…

The loss of innocence is the process of losing one's clueless nature due to the situations and circumstances they experience. In Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray the loss of innocence is something that the characters undergo, specifically Lina, the main protagonist, and the other prisoners taken by the NKVD. First not, after Lina and her family as well as the other people taken by the NKVD (the secret police), they immediately gets witnessed to violence and fear by the threats from the NKVD…

The objectives of this lab where to determine the empirical formula of a hydrated copper (ll) sulfate sample, practice writing detailed observations in the laboratory and practice calculating mass percent composition. Before beginning taking measurements, read through the instructions below and make a neat table in which to record all the numerical data. Using tongs put a clean crucible on the hotplate. Heat the crucible for approximately 5 minutes. Turn off the hotplate. Carefully remove the…

Hume divides “perception” into two things, “impressions” and “ideas”. To him impressions transmit to “sensing” or “feeling”, while ideas relate to “thinking”. “Sensing” should be assumed to be comprehensive, as Hume divides feelings into those of “sensation” and “reflection”. The main difference between the two is that reflections come from what we experience in our mind such as emotions, however; sensations come from our senses such as the sensation of touch. According to Hume, ideas are just…

To understand radiation safety, one must first be familiar with the term radiation. Simply put, radiation may be defined as energy traveling through space as waves or high speed particles. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing (e.g. Heat, visible light), they are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non- ionizing radiation is essential to life, but excessive exposures can cause tissue damage. Ionizing radiation has sufficient energy to ionize atoms and…