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    Anne Frank Changes

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    The holocaust was a horrible time in people's lives and it killed six million people. Even though this happened to so many people Anne Frank was someone that so many people look up to because of her diary that she wrote during this time. Anne Frank, her family, and the Van Danns all spent 25 months in the secret annex. Dussel was someone that came in later so it was very tight for 8 people to be living under certain circumstances for that long. They hoped to stay hidden until they were liberated

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    The Diary Of Anne Frank

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    Anne’s Relation to Modern Music A multitude of people nowadays choose their favorite songs because of how they sound and the attractiveness of the singer. However, some people select their favorite songs because of its appeal by relating to their personalities and feelings. Just as songs can relate to people, they can express countless similarities with stories as well. When it comes to the story, The Diary of Anne Frank, there are a variety of characters and events that songs can relate to. The

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    What if you were a holocaust survivor and asked to describe your catastrophic experience? What part of the event would you begin with, the struggle, the death of innocent Jews, or the cruel witnessed? When survivors are questioned about their experience they shiver from head to toe, recalling what they have been through. Therefore, they use substitutes such as books and diaries to expose these catastrophic events internationally. Books such as Maus, A survivor’s tale by Art Spiegelman, and Anne Frank

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    The holocaust had been two pale, waxy fingers from a deathly hand pinching out lights all over Europe. It affected everyone, from young to old, short or tall. It had haunted two girls by the name of Irene Gut and Anne Frank, just because they did not have the luck to be born “the supreme race” that Hitler thought was most admirable. In "The Diary of Anne Frank" a young girl named Anne Frank had been forced to hide in the rooftop room in the father's work building. Anne had suffered through life

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    Osceola Fundamental High School Anne Frank outside Looking in, the Diary of Anne Frank, and “Holland1945” Chloe McCaffrey English 4 Mr. Taylor March 17, 2015 In Brett Kaufman’s painting, Anne Frank outside looking in, he is implying how Frank never got to have a chance to live her life due to having to hide away from the war going on all around her. Kaufman is relating his 1995 painting to the way she lived. Anne lived in the annex above her father’s work until her and her family got caught

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    Child Development Student’s Name Course Date Instructor Institution Child Development Frank 's memoir explores a lot about childhood till adolescent development. Out of the family relations Anne Frank had as well as her physical development in an extremely difficulty environment, one can effectively analyze her life in the context of several child development theorists and concepts (Frank, 1997, p. 45). Powerful as well as poignant diarisitic memoir, Anne Frank’s work during her

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    Anne Frank Anne Marie Frank was born on the twelfth day of June in 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany to Otto and Edith Frank, both who came from respected German Jewish families. Anne and her older sister Margot grew up in a Germany. (“Anne Frank” 1). When Anne reached the age to attend school, she attended a Montessori school in her neighborhood. She learned to speak Dutch fluently and quickly found new friends with her classmates. For several years, her

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    Anne Frank Analysis

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    playwrights show us the that Anne Frank is immature at times to show that although there is a war going on Anne still acts like a child that she is. She is after all just 13 years old. In the play Anne Frank is very different from the other children, Margot her sister and Peter the Van Daans’ son. She tends to act the most childish but it makes sense she has no other child her age there. She needs to survive with all the older people, which can be hard for her. At the beginning of the play when Peter

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    Compare/Contrast Memoir

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    Compare/Contrast Memoir Where you live may determine your story, but not who you are. Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah and the Diary of Anne Frank both depict the story of a normal young girl, who both struggle with similar family problems but are highly influenced by the setting of their society they live in. However, Falling Leaves is written by an older woman relating the life of Yen Mah, from her earliest childhood memories in China to her current old age in California; Anne Frank is the direct

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    On February Third, 1809, Lea Solomon Mendelssohn, wife of Andrew Mendelssohn, gave birth to her second child and first son, Felix. His older sister, Fanny, was born November Fourteenth, 1805, his younger sister, Rebecka, was born April Eleventh, 1811, and his younger brother, Paul, was born October Thirtieth, 1812. His parents were prominent bankers, and his grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, was a Jewish Philosopher. The family lived in Hamburg, Germany until late June, 1811 when French forces occupied

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