The Attic Door

that was sent to a concentration camp. He was separated from his whole family except his father. He is one of the survivors of the Holocaust and an author too. "Like Anne Frank, some young people lived in hiding to evade the German authorities: in attics, bunkers, and cellars throughout western Europe"(“Children's Diaries”)." The diary of Miriam Wattenberg (“Mary Berg”) was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust"(“Children Diaries”).…

In the nineteenth century, European and American women lived in an era described by gender inequality. Women had few of the social, legal, or political rights: they had extremely restricted control over property after marriage, they didn't have the right to vote or even testify in court, and were barred to enrolled any higher education institutions. To add more, Women were expected to remain obedient to their husbands and fathers, their occupational choices were also extremely limited.(Olson,…

Peter Dinklage once stated,“I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am”. As a society, we have formed and established the ideas of social classes which among individuals are placed into. These social classes established by man have always been what people have looked to, to see how certain individuals are brought up and raised in a society based on their rankings they are placed into. The following quote grants the idea that some people may have a…

But Black Mirror isn’t just about the technology we carry around in our pockets that are supported by the “Cloud” (that ephemeral concept of service) which requires mind-boggling millions of square feet of brick and mortar servers around the world to store and pump out our personal data measured in exabytes (of which 30% is porn). Black Mirror is a dire warning of what’s underneath our obsession and dependence on those sleek, stylish devices. The real question Brooker’s series asks isn’t some…

grandfather killed sixteen million others. One and a half million French boys alone, most of them younger than I was. Two million on the German side. March the dead in a single-file line, and for eleven days and eleven nights, they’d walk past our door. This is not rearranging street signs, what we’re doing, Marie. This is not misplacing a letter at the post office. These numbers, they’re more than numbers. Do you understand? But we are the good guys. Aren’t we, Uncle? I hope so. I hope we are.”…

Julie Otsuka’s novel Buddha in the Attic reminds me of the famous metaphor ‘The grass is greener on the other side”. ‘The other side’ is the right side of the fence that seems full of opportunities and possibilities to the folks standing on the left side of the fence. The story is about similar events that took place in the 1920’s in the United States of America which does a masterful job in relating this daring topic. As human beings, we all want to have better lives and living conditions, for…

Remzo Rovcanin Professor Valerie Colston American Architecture 221 20 November 2016 Frank Lloyd Wright I have chosen Frank Lloyd Wright because he is my favorite architect by far, he had created a type of organic type of architecture, called Prairie School, which incorporated horizontal lines which can be seen from many of his pieces of buildings and homes he had created during his lifetime. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. After college, he became…

old guy with a nefarious plan and plenty of minions to carry out his orders. But I should start at the beginning, so you get to hear the whole story. It all started when Miss Sims, a checker at the Root & Shoot Greengrocer said she saw a ghost in an attic window at Willaston Place, if you can believe it. Personally, I wasn’t…

During the Labor Day week of 1932, an imaginative boy in the small town of Waukegan, Illinois left his uncle’s funeral in an attempt to escape the disquiets and mystery of death. In search of life and meaning, the young boy discovered a carnival tent, and within it, a man who would change his life, and consequentially, the lives of thousands of others. The boy found just what he needed: an instruction to “live forever”, that would greatly affect his future and inspire him to become the…

in our tree house—sorry, our top-secret hideout—complete with its three-legged desk and secondhand chairs. Against one wall was a shelf stacked with bins of hardware—tiny screws, bolts, fuses, gears and enough silicone to fill a basin. Next to the door was a poster of a dashing special agent dangling from a ladder, deep brown eyes wide with fear, urging us to hang in there. In the corner sat the hollowed canister of a 1950s Electrolux vacuum cleaner that Twist had scavenged. We now use it as a…