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    excerpt from Anne’s diary about Miep and Kraler’s involvement was stated in part of the play. “I asked Father what would happen to them if the Nazis found out they were hiding us. Pim said that they would suffer the same fate that we would” (The Diary of Anne Frank 1.2.768-772). The punishment for hiding Jews was death. After the Franks were sent to Auschwitz, Miep narrowly avoided the death penalty by luck. The police officer who came to interrogate her was from her own hometown, so he let her stay. Jeannine

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    I chose the Diary of Anne Frank for my journal entry because the novel is quite popular, so I read it out of curiosity. Her diary was quite enjoyable therefore I wanted to explore it in depth. “It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I- nor for that matter anyone else- will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more

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    although he was married at the time, had a child with her. She produced an illegitimate son for King Henry and was sent away to take care of her child alone. Eventually, she returned to court to save her sister Anne from making the same mistakes. The King had become almost obsessed with Anne but she refused to lay with him while he was still married. This would insure that if she had a son, he would be legitimate, and

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    English December 13, 2017 Anne Frank Growing up, I didn’t often meet kids named Anne. I was always told my name was “a classic” or it was very “simple”. My siblings and I all had these “classic” names and none of us knew why. Once when I was about 9, I decided to ask. Why was my name Anne? What was the significance of the name? My answer was Anne Frank. Most people know the story of Anne Frank. She went from a privileged life to one in hiding and one of torture. Anne Frank is very influential

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    The goal of The Private Life of Henry VIII was to show King Henry’s life behind closed doors. As king, Henry needed to put on a very masculine, tough, and stern image to protect his people, but behind the scenes, he was a hopeless romantic searching for someone to rule with. He hides his soft side from everyone in the kingdom, which the movie accurately shows. At first, the movie portrays Henry in a negative light. He seems very evil: killing one wife and immediately marrying the next. He is

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    Mary Tudor, the Queen of England (1553-1558) earned the nickname “Bloody Mary”. She was a Catholic who refused to compromise and was determined to restore Catholicism in England. Around the 16th century, a lot of religious violence was occurring. In this time period of Mary’s reign, many Catholic churches often burned people at the stake, also known as Protestant Propaganda. England, unlike some other European countries, did not practice this method. Around this time, the Catholic Spanish Inquisition

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    SAAD ALDAKHEEL 10/19/2017 American literature How Anne Bradstreet confronts puritan view of gender Anna Bradstreet grows up in a healthy family. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley who is the manager of the country estate of the Puritan Earl of Lincoln. Anna Bradstreet got married at the age of 16 to the young Simon Bradstreet who was working with Anna father. Anna Bradstreet never went to school but her father always taught her and gave her an education. It that time many women didn’t have an

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    World War II is a period of history with countless travesties, where millions upon millions of lives were lost and many that managed to survive were changed forever. Anne Frank stands out in this time period for a multitude of reasons which led me to read ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL. Although Anne’s story happened over seventy years ago there is an undeniable familiar similarity that still is found within our modern day times. From the current prejudices going on in the world

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    people, their lives stolen based on their religion. Some even killed only because they had disabilities that kept them from doing things. Despite this, a young Jewish girl by the name of Anne Frank believed “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” Even despite the hardships that Anne and her family faced on an almost daily basis, she still believed that everyone had a good heart, deep down. After reading the play that had been based upon Anne’s diary while in hiding

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    Witnessing constant disappearance, yet remaining to seem like the depiction of complete normality. Deafening silence engulfs all surroundings, on its way to eventually evoking insanity. The smell of cold, dry air freezes over all breathing pathways, caging in the ribs, preventing the ability to inhale and exhale, leaving behind the taste of metal as a reminder of a chaotic state of mind. Mentally trapped in chosen solidarity, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and Elizabeth Bishop were able to express

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