The Boxcar Children

bookstore, because I had finished my newest Junie B. Jones book the night prior. I owned and read every Junie B. Jones ever made. As I got older I read through many other series. Such as the Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley High, and the Boxcar Children. I would stay up all night reading

Oskar schindler He was a Nazi but instead of killing Jews, He was saving the lives of 1,200 Jews. His name was Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a man who was a part of the Nazi party. He disagreed with what they were doing so he saved many Jews. Oskar Schindler was a hero that employed Jews in his factory so they didn't have to go to the concentration camps during World War Ⅱ. Oskar Schindler was born in 1908 in the city of Zwittau, Moravia. When Oskar was 12 he worked for his dad selling farm

Justin Cohen AP Literature & Composition Mr. Gordon 5 September 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: An Analysis (1) Toni Morrison’s Beloved takes place after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era, when the violent oppression of the black race continued, with flashbacks to the horrific trauma of the early 19th century slavery period. In Margaret Atwood’s review of Beloved in The New York Times dated September 13, 1987, many of the events in this novel appear to parallel the

ghetto. Magda Brown lived in cramped quarters with more than 40 people living in her home (Hundreds). Although that was an awful experienced her family then got transferred in a boxcar holding more than 80 people with only 2 buckets, one for water and the other for using the restroom. Magda Brown described the trip to children at the John F. Kennedy middle school as “ The only thing you can focus on is ‘If I could only have a sip of water.” (Viau). Three days in they reached a concentration camp in

My camp is Auschwitz - Birkenau one of the largest concentration camps where Jews were held captured. Inside the camp were four gas chambers. Each gas chamber used Zyklon B gas. Most people brought to this camp were Jews. Before entering the chamber they were ordered to undress. Once they finished the Nazis locked the doors and dropped in the gas. Also, when they died they burned the Jews. The bones were disintegrated and their ashes were spread out on the fields. One thing that stood out

invaded Poland, marking many historians’ accounts of the true beginning of World War II. During this, it became known that Germany was taking a major role in the Holocaust, the mass killing of Jewish people. It was a brutal killing of men, women and children who were treated like they were nothing. In this essay will tell you the facts about the mass killings and how they were done. It is disturbing to think that some people choose to believe that the Holocaust never happened and was a made up event

At the very end of the book after all the struggling they had been through, it ends with hope. The Joad's find a barn to stay in because their boxcar was beginning to flood. There was a starving old man in the barn and Rose of Sharon Brest feeds him. Another theme in the Grapes of Wrath is keeping your dignity in the midst of Wrath. Along the journey to California and even once they arrived

Mcniece Octavias said ‘“I had a very strong mom who made me and my sisters understand that there were no limitations on our lives except what we placed on ourselves”’ (Keating & Mcniece, 2017, p.66). Octavias mother was a role model. She pushed her children to become something more than a maid she taught them to push through the boundaries that were blocking their road to success. Octavia loved to read in her free time as a child. Her mother would bring home books every once

pretending that I was reading in the meantime. My mother also played an important role in my learning to read and write, she and my nana were always encouraging me to read book series like Junie B. Jones, The Little House on the Prairie, The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew,

“casting with ferocious hope,” attempting to somehow lure their sons back to Ireland, in turn bringing youth and economic stability back into a now empty and aging Irish town (279). In saying “the team hadn’t won a game in two years, ever since the children had begun their drift” McCann further exemplifies the economic hardship Ireland faced after the resignation of the Celtic Tiger; the youth of Ireland had dispersed abroad to find work and left Ireland to further decline into the depths of economic