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    The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney is a book full of suspense, fiction, mystery, and some young adult fiction. The publisher of the book was “Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers” and was published in 1990 with 184 pages. No one ever paid attention to the missing children on their milk cartons, till Janie Johnson chugged her milk and saw a face awfully recognizable. She was baffled on who it was. So she decided to look into that child a little more to find out what happened

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    There are times, in the face of evil, when it is appropriate to break God’s laws. In the hiding place Corrie is faced with the option of lying to protect the innocent two times and chooses to lie even though it is breaking God’s law, and in Joshua 2 Rehab lied to protect Joshua and Caleb. I believe that in these situations it was okay to break God’s law. In the hiding place Corrie Tenboom and her family were arrested for suspected underground activity, and Corrie lies about having Jews in her house

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    one that Corrie ten Boom sometimes struggles with during her experiences in her autobiography, The Hiding Place. The harrowing events of the Holocaust and Nazi occupation of the Netherlands left little room for tenderness towards other people yet, as Betsie ten Boom, Corrie’s older sister showed time and time again, it is always possible to find it within oneself to forgive another, especially with God’s assistance. Betsie forgives Jan Vogel, the man who betrayed the ten Boom family to the German

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    Is Corrie Ten Boon an ordinary person? While reading a book called, "The Hiding Place", Corrie appears an ordinary person in the beginning. She is from Harlem, the Netherlands, and grew up in a devoutly religious family. Her father, Casper Ten Boom, was a watchmaker and his family was a middle-class merchant family. In this book, written by Corrie, she emphasises that her family was ordinary by sharing a history of how her family grew. Even though the story seems like they are nothing different from

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    “The hiding Place” is about two middle age sister's name Corrie and Betsie ten Boom who works for their fathers watch shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. The ten Boom family is a committed Christian whose engaged in daily Bible. She and her family risk their lives to help underground employees and Jews escape the cruel ways of the Nazis and from that they were sent to concentration camps. within the end only corrie ten Boom among her family survived to inform this story of her life and the way faith eventually

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    “It is not my ability, but my response 1to God’s ability that counts.” Corrie ten Boom helped Jews escape the Holocaust during World War Two. Her family was devoted to serving God and standing for what’s right no matter the cost. They saved about 800 lives, but it wasn’t easy. Her entire family was imprisoned! Through the good and the bad times Corrie looked to God for guidance, and He always provided for her. Cornelia, also known as Corrie, was born on April 15th 1892, and is most famous for hiding

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    Corrie Ten Boom from The Hiding Place and Anne Frank From Anne Frank 's Diary were two of the of the many people that were living during the Holocaust period. The Holocaust which took place in the late 1930’s and throughout the 1940’s Adolf Hitler an anti-Jewish man came to power in Germany. During this Germany was in a great depression due to their loss of World War One. Hitler promised restoration and power and he was easily accepted. Once Adolf was in power he began to invade countries around

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    “The very simple plot of a tragedy involves a protagonist who desires something—object of love, power, wealth, righteousness, justice—and obstacles come in the way of his path to reach its fulfillment.” ("Tragedy." Literature of Love. N.p., 14 June 2010. Web. 29 Mar. 2017.) In the book El Señor Presidente the protagonist is involved in a love tragedy where he desires Camila’s love but him being the president 's right hand becomes an obstacle for him and his relationship. Political corruption increases

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    This book brings us through the life of the Ten Boom family, specifically Corrie, as they live through the time of the Natzis. Betsie, Corrie’s older sister, was a very inspirational character in my mind and she really brought out the gifts that Lord gave her in all situations, positive and negative

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    Texas is ranked the second biggest state in size and is also ranked the second in population. According to CBS, Texas has around 28,000,000 residents which comes in second to California’s 40,000,000. Between 2015 and 2016 the Texas population grew in number by approximately 430,000, which is more than any other state has ever grown. The population has doubled in the last 36 years. It is projected that the population will double by the year 2050 due to people moving to Texas for their families and

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