The Importance of Samuel Pepys Diary

As I am embarking a great new adventure I've come to think it be wise to record, for myself or future generations of my kin, the stories of my travels thus far and my impending journey to the town of Jamestown in the colony of Virginia in the Americas. But before the promise of the New World, I must expound upon my journey in the old.

Anne Frank uses pathos in her diary by conveying her emotions of frustration and dejection caused by her conflicts. She talks in her entry about how she talks about her pillow being wet with tears and her eyes burning, all from her families mistreatment to her. This phrase was very strong and connected to me emotionally, using a deep meaning to connect with me, the reader. Anne possesses a unique voice, using a dialect of metaphors, uncommon phrases, anda sense of humor like “ It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. ”(Frank, 65) “Spitting venom” and “being all sugar”, are metaphors used by Anne to express how she feels with her troubles.

The events recounted in Anne Frank’s Diary took place during World War 11. By 1933, the strongest party in Germany had gained ultimate power with Hitler under their command. Hitler was Germany’s dictator who spread his gospel of racial hatred through politics. While poverty and unemployment were at an all time high he launched a campaign of anti-Semitism. Hitler’s main target was the Jews, claiming that they were “racially inferior.” He developed an idea of a Master Aryan Race, the need to rid Germany of “inferior people”, such as Jews and Gypsies, and the need to expand Germany’s borders. In doing this, he caused many Jews to abandoned their homes and go into total isolation. The Frank family

In 1775 General Thomas Gage, Commander if the British Force in the Massachusetts Colony, issued orders to the troops quartered in Boston, Massachusetts to march to Concord and and destroy the colonial military stores that were there. The reason the British were in Massachusetts in the first place was because the people of Massachusetts were very rebellious and have had many violent resistances against the British already. The secret orders that Gage issued were hardly a secret and some colonials knew about this movement a week before the British moved out. Both the British troops and the colonial militia meet each other at Lexington Green on the 19th of April, 1775. Suddenly a bullet whizzed

The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that kept a diary while hiding from Nazi’s in Amsterdam for two years. The diary ends when the Nazi’s found her and her family. Her whole family was killed in exception for her father. She was given the journal on her thirteenth birthday. She simply summarized her life for two years in this phenomenal journal.

love with Anne; "Peter loves me not as a lover but as a friend and

The story “Samuel” by Grace Paley takes place on a moving subway headed towards the Bronx. The passengers introduce Samuel and friends as tough little boys that are not afraid of anything. “The boys are just being boys” is also used. Many of the passengers had opportunities to tell them to calm down or even to tell them to stop. This could of have prevented the death of Samuel. Some men relive their childhood through the boy’s and many of the ladies shaking their head with disapproval. A woman passenger does approach the boys only to be laughed at when she warns them about their behavior. As another onlooker thinks he is doing them a favor by pulling the emergency cord. The end result is the death

April 6, 1851 in Richmond, Virginia a slave was born by the name of Willis Turner who was me.” I was a fine young man growing up to be a slave I was one of the best men on the plantation that Mr. John Smith owned, I was a workhorse who was always one of the top people who picked cotton so my master was always pleased with the plentiful cotton I brought in every day. When I became of the age of 9 I was traded to another man named William Johnson where I finished my years of growing up to meet none other than, who would be my best friend, Nathaniel Reed. He welcomed me very nicely like no other man has ever been to me. I will always remember that day first meeting him.”

Once settled in at Winchester, restlessness came back to Jackson. Marking time was not his idea of a good use of military men and material. By November 20, he had a plan of attack which he submitted to Judah Benjamin for review. Briefly the plan involved the transfer of William Loring’s three brigades of 5000 men from the mountains of the southwest to Winchester. Once Loring arrived, Jackson would attack and capture Romney, forty-three miles west, hoping to induce McClellan to attack Centreville. If McClellan took the bait, Jackson would attack with his men and those of Loring and crush his enemy. Such a campaign would be an arduous undertaking given the weather and terrain and Jackson conceded as much. But, said he, all such problems would

On May 1,1793, I left my home of the Caribbean. All my family has perished,so I'm going to America to change my life. When I get there I hope everything will be alright.

Samuel Johnson, prominent English author, lived a life which was appears to have been unpretentious on the surface, however his life was filled with numerous complications, extreme suffering and massive psychological troubles. Also, despite all the struggles and suffering in his life, he had a “passionate concern for humanity and even said, ‘I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful’” ( Green ). Samuel Johnson was born September 7, 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England in the home above his fifty-two year old father’s struggling bookshop. His father had gained prosperity but it did not endure the enterprises he was involved in, forcing the family into

The book of 1 Samuel, a part of the Old Testament, sparks the dawn of the United Kingdom of Israel by telling of its first king, Saul. Samuel is one of the first talked about pre-literary prophets in the bible perhaps because he anointed the first king of the United Kingdom. He is a prophet by definition because he possessed the ability to converse with the almighty Yahweh. Samuel and Saul are key players to the rise of the kingdom but Saul runs into trouble and disobeys God, which leads him to his own inevitable demise.

comparison I can think of is when I moved to middle school. I was the

During the devastating time of World War II, a Jewish teenage girl wrote a diary about the gruesome events she witnessed, this diary was named, Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank. Anne Frank lived in Holland and went into hiding when her sister, Margot, got a letter to go to a reception camp. The Franks faced terrifying moments during hiding. They witnessed war outside their window and stayed in the same house without even going outside for about two years.To add on, the Franks had to keep in mind how every day they could be arrested or even die. Sadly Anne and her family are arrested and are sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp where she would later die. While in hiding, the Franks and the Van Daans, who were also in hiding with them,

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published in 1947. When the book was published a lot of people were impacted. It started getting more and more famous all around the world. In no time 30 million copies of the book was sold. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett decided to make a play based on Anne Franks book. The play was a huge success and it was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 3. After George Stevens decided to make a movie about Anne Frank. There were some famous actors in the movie like, Shelley Winters playing Mrs. Van Pels and Millie Perkins as Anne Frank (pg.282, The Diary of a Young Girl).