People from Haarlem

and sought out new opportunities. As Jim Haskins writes, many white people headed off to World War I, which freed up many jobs in the North. This gave African American peoples the option to migrate North to seek new opportunities. This later became known as the Great Migration (24-25). This caused many of them to flee to the North (Haskins 27). With the sudden increase of African American people in the North, many white people began to fear and hate them, which led to illegal lynchings and many

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.” (Flora Lewis, 2000) For as long as there are languages and for as there are languages, there are people studying and teaching it, but is there one way of teaching a language that is the right way? There are many aspects to learn a language, for the sake of the assignment I have been appointed only one aspect namely: Learning and teaching vocabulary. In this report

with tragedies from a serious life event; in this case, a violent assault. By reading Mulisch’s novel you get to see inside Anton’s miseries and see his life from a different perspective. Anton is constantly looking for reassurance in his life for what happened to him in his violent childhood. The violence that had happened to him has made him suppress his memories and he does not seek to find the true answers to what had happened that horrible day. He tries to numb himself from his past and push

Corrie Ten Boom This book is about the Ten Boom family and their Christian journey through the Holocaust in which they would hide jews inside their house. The setting begins in Haarlem, Holland, in 1937 and takes place in the Ten Boom residence. There are many people in the family. First there is Mama Ten Boom she died from a stroke and had tuberculosis(pg7), then there is Casper Ten Boom which is Corrie's father. He was a watchmaker his whole life. Betsie Ten Boom which is corrie's older sister.

van Goyen I noticed the darkness of the piece which led me to believe that Goyen was trying to capture a moment before a storm. Another thing that led me to this was the fact that the boats seem to be pulling into wherever they had originally come from, as well as the fishermen in the bottom left corner who seem to be pulling in their nets. Another thing that adds to the darkness is the church that seems to be looming out in the distance. Goyen’s use of color also adds to the calmness before the

forgiveness is 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

A traumatic event can impact a life forever. When a person goes through a devastating occurrence, they will often distance themselves both physically and emotionally from everything they once knew. In the novel The Assault by Harry Mulisch, the interaction between violence and distance is examined through the character of Anton. The story begins with an event that will define the rest of Anton’s life: the murder of Fake Ploeg, which leads to the burning of Anton’s family’s house and the deaths of

and later, the things themselves, and from these he would go on to contemplate the appearances in the heavens and heaven itself, more easily by night, looking at the light of the stars and the moon, than by day the sun and the sun’s light. Finally, he would be able to look upon the sun itself and see its true nature, not by reflections in water or phantasms of it in an alien setting, but in the by itself in its own place. I am no longer one of the people in the darkness. I have escaped the delusion

Hooch has humble origins. In 1629, he was born in Rotterdam in a butcher’s family. Receiving his early training under Ludolph de Jongh in Rotterdam, De Hooch later served his apprenticeship under the landscape painter Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem in Haarlem. He is recorded as a painter and footman to a wealthy merchant-adventurer Justus de la Grange in 1653. In 1654, he married Jannetje van der Burch of Delft, and later he had seven children. Moving to Delft after his marriage, he was registered with

Nhi Tran Essay #2 – Seventeenth Century In the seventeenth century, great changes in politics, economy and religion occurring in Europe impose a unique impact on Italy and the Dutch Republic’ art. Both Italian and Dutch arts during this period feature certain characteristics such as light and shadow, movement, drama and space. However, due to different national circumstances, they present certain dissimilarities in their art techniques and themes. Unlike other contemporary European countries, Italy