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    Corrie ten Boom grew up in a strong, Christian home. Religion played a huge role in her life. Her family was always assisting anyone who needed help. Whether it was taking in foster kids, giving money to those who needed it or offering food and shelter to Jews during World War II, her family was always offering to help people in need. The ten Boom family took in over eight hundred Jews, attempting to save them from the Gestapo. The ten Boom’s were very brave and stood up for what they believed in

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    weakness arises from the time difference between the events and the writing of the novel. Corrie ten Boom wrote THE HIDING PLACE twenty years after the fact. It is extremely likely that the events depicted in the novel are shades of what actually occurred. Memories fade and time distorts the reality of the past and because of this, I feel that the book would have been more factually accurate had Corrie ten Boom written it much sooner. Another weakness in the book derives itself from ten Boom’s heavy reliance

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    In the Hiding Place written by Corrie Ten Boom, there is a disagreement on whether it is okay or not to break God’s Laws, even in the face of evil. Corrie’s sister, while hiding Jews, was asked by a Nazi if she had any Jews in her house, and she replied with an honest answer of yes. I think that it is not okay to break God’s Laws under any circumstance. Firstly, what are God’s Laws? To me, I think that lying to spare the life of the innocent is not breaking God’s Laws. If a man asked you where you

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    Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. “The Hiding Place” is a biography about Corrie Ten Boom’s Life. The main character is Corrie ten boom. The setting of this book is in Haarlem, Holland. In this book the main plot was hiding Jews in the house where Corrie and her family lived in. The main character of this book is Corrie but there is a couple of others. There is Betsie Ten Boom who is Corrie’s sister who stays with her almost the whole book. Then there is Papa Ten Boom who is Betsie

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    The two main characters are very different people, Betsie is a very composed, and smart while Corrie is brave and hopeful. Bestie is very strong in her faith, and I think Corrie can learn a lot from her. Corrie tries her best to be strong like Betsie in faith. These characters were very compassionate towards others. They liked to take care of other people and they tried to help a lot of people. They feared some of the guards and people, but they understood why these people were acting the way they

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    The Hiding Place Essay

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    The Inspiring Legacy of Corrie ten Boom “We must tell people, Corrie. We must tell them what we learned,” said Betsie. The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom, is the biography of a woman in Holland during the Holocaust. The book starts out in 1937, in Haarlem, Holland. Corrie and her family were Christians who hid Jews from persecution by the German soldiers. Corrie was forced to make decisions and take actions all throughout different periods in her life. When her mother fell ill, she learned to

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    Latin American literature is perhaps best known for its use of magical realism, a literary mode where the fantastical is seamlessly blended with the ordinary, creating a sort of enhanced reality. Though magical realism is practiced by authors from other cultures, the works of authors Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison, for example, are notable examples of non-Latin works in which magical realism has been used to both great effect and great celebration, it is in the works of Latin American authors

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    Corrie Ten Boom is the daughter of a popular watchmaker and christian living in Holland during the beginning of Hitler, the Nazis, and hatred against Jews. The Ten Boom’s, however, always do the right thing and help anyone in need. Before their mother died, their household was always full of poor neighbors needing food or tea or anything else they could provide. This kindness continues into the beginning of the Holocaust. Corrie begins to join an underground system, involved with helping and sheltering

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    * Question 1 0 out of 0.5 points | | | A group of students from different parts of the country started elementary school together. They graduated high school at a time when higher education costs made it very difficult for parents to finance college education. Most of them took loans to complete college. This experience made them financially responsible and they started saving up early in life. This collective group of individuals can best be described as belonging to the same _____.Answer |

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    “Corrie ten Boom: The Woman Who Forgave” Before May of 1940, Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom would have said her life was uneventful. But then everything changed. World War II started around September of 1939. The ten Boom family was not Jewish, but they had a strong moral and could not stand the ways the Jews were treated. The German Blitzkrieg ran through the Netherlands in May 1940 and mistreatment of Jews started in the ten Boom’s town a couple months later (ten Boom, Sherrill, and Sherrill

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