The Diary of a Young Girl

same things as everyone else because we think that in order to beat them, we have to be them. “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” provides a message about how easily we feel the need to conform to society and how we let others influence our decisions. George Saunders uses the concepts of wealth and status to prove our need to conform to society and societal pressure to fit in. “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” shows how even when a working class family was given money, which they could have used to better…

There are many devastating things that have occurred in our world's history. One of these horrible events was the Holocaust. During the duration of the Holocaust there were a countless number of victims. To honor these victims of this horrible time in our history, we remember them through literature and film. Literature and film are the most impactful because words that are written and recorded will never be forgotten. These works help us to remember and tell us about our world's past so we…

Eric Harris and Dyland Klebold were two young perpetrators who murdered 12 students and a teacher alongside injuring 21 people at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. An interesting point to contemplate was the negative self-concept that both Harris and Klebold held. Throughout Harris’s diary journals he would document that he wanted revenge against anyone who he thought had ever wronged him: ‘I hate you people…

his swastika armband, a symbol of the Nazi party, to protect himself and others from the brutalities of these soldiers. Rabe would often be able to stop or prevent the rape of women and girls by showing up or occasionally even physically removing the soldier from the act. Iris Chang quotes an exert of his diary from January 1,…

Adolescence: it’s a period of turmoil, no doubt about it. Young adults are discovering the physical changes that accompany adulthood, constantly fighting off emotional waves of hormones, and generally experiencing puberty in all its glory. However, as intense as these pubertal changes may be, the chaos of adolescence is nothing without the fact that young adults are beginning to drastically change the way they view the world. Where before these individuals may have been concerned with simple…

about the Holocaust and World War II time periods. I didn’t know much about the book, other than the fact that it is a memoir, but I was excited to be able to read it and learn more about history from it. Gerda Weissman Klein is a fifteen year old girl that lives in Bielitz, Poland with her family. The story begins on September 3, 1939 when the Nazis invade her town. “There is a watch lying on the green carpet of the living room of my childhood. The hands seem to stand motionless at 9:10,…

character Nieve, asks herself this question frequently. Life is very difficult, and Nieve knows this first hand. Nieve is a young girl who grew up in Cienfuegos, Cuba. Nieve has had many difficulties in her life but she has always found a way to cope with them. One big way she deals with her problems is to write in her diary. Even though everyone around her leaves her diary stays with her no matter what, and she pours all of her thoughts into it. Nieve’s life is very challenging because she has…

kills Summary ♣ Market Research: In-person and Online Moderating (Focus Groups, IDIs, Diary Studies, Ethnographic Field Studies), Qualitative Analysis, Storytelling, Data Analysis, NVivo, Qualtrics ♣ General: Strategic Thinking, Creative Problem-solving, Effective Communication, Writing/Editing, Visually Engaging Presentations, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Prezi, Social Media ♣ Languages: Native English, Proficient Italian (enhanced by a semester in Rome), and Basic French Experience…

which is a way that numerous people obtain their life, even if they are going through arduous times. For example, Anne Frank and Krystyna Chiger both lived through one of the most deleterious events in world history, the Holocaust. The two Jewish girls had to work assiduously to gain their freedom, independence, and survival, causing them to share certain similarities in their survival stories. On the other hand, they had multiple unique features of their survival experiences that caused their…

Lucy Ren Ms. Dasho English 9H Period 1 10/7/15 Reading Log #1 (pg. 3-39) Strategy: Compare and contrast two characters In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a German girl named Liesel Meminger is sent to live with her new foster parents Rosa and Hans Hubermann on Himmel Street. The personalities of her two new guardians are very distinct. Rosa Hubermann is shown to be a strict, harsh woman who enjoys swearing. She is described as having “a face decorated with constant fury. That was how…