The biggest thing I found surprising about Shakespeare’s life is the fact that he lived to be 52 years old. Shakespeare grew up in a very bad time in England. England was hit hard by plagues and other diseases during the 1500s. Bill Bryson states, “In a sense William Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in life wasn’t writing Hamlet or the sonnets but just surviving his first year” (pg 24). Shakespeare was born just 3 months before a major plague outbreak swept his town. Shakespeare was lucky to live
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Margaret was born in 1046 and was a member of English royal family. She was the granddaughter of King Edmund Iron side of England through his son Edward. She was beautiful like also intelligent receiving her formal education in Hungary. As some of the last remaining Saxon Royals in England, Margaret and her family’s position was uncertain and fearing for their lives they fled northwards, in the opposite direction to the advancing Normans. They were heading back to the continent from Northumbria
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Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564. He is the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden(Academy of American Poets). He had 6 siblings, who he spent his childhood with, these include: Joan Shakespeare, Gilbert Shakespeare, Edmund Shakespeare, Margaret Shakespeare, Anne Shakespeare, and Richard Shakespeare(Shakespeare
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Last week, students at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, had a visit from Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family during the Holocaust. What started off as an innocent letter for a class project, turned into a meet and greet with the famous protector of Anne Frank. After reading The Diary of Anne Frank, Erin Gruwell, the high school English teacher, had come up with the idea to have her sophomore students write letters to Miep Gies. The students were writing about how they
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how people throughout the time had to grow. The Diary of Anne Frank is a coming of age novel that describe a young girls experience throughout the holocaust and how she overcame great difficulties. Throughout The Diary of Anne Frank, the loss of innocence is expressed through the difficulties she went through during her adolescents. The novel starts with Anne receiving her diary on her birthday in 1942. As the novel continues, young Anne is forced to follow the new rules put in place for
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Anne of Green Gables Brooke Gillis L.M. Montgomery Section 001 Bantam Books, 1908 Main Characters: Anne Shirley, Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Mrs. Allen, Miss Stacy Setting: Prince Edward Island, Canada Plot: This story is about a girl named Anne Shirley who arrives at Green Gables at the age of eleven. The general plot of this story is mainly about Anne’s life at Green Gables. At the beginning of this story, Anne seems
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Diary of Anne Frank: Anne By: Urja Shah 3rd “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a play about people living in an annex, during WWII. These Jewish people were living in a rather tiny area. The main character is Anne. Throughout her stay in the annex, she changes (dynamic characterization). At the beginning of the play Anne is loud, immature, and talkative, but towards the end she is quieter. All the occupants of the annex feel that she is talkative and loud, especially MrVanDaan. Mr.VanDan says
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of Arts Morgan State University, Baltimore, MarylandMajor: Telecommunications Emphasis: Radio CommunicationsCompleted 112 Credit Hours toward DegreeAssociates of Arts, General Studies 2008 Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland | Experience | | October 2009 – Present Anne Arundel County Public SchoolsCustodianEffectively works in team environment to accomplish designated tasksMaintain healthy environment for staff and student bodyExhibits flexibility based on the needs
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Diary of Anne Frank: Paper Christopher Bauer On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank’s parents give her a diary. She’s excited because she wants someone, or something, in which to confide all of her secret thoughts. Even though she has a rich social life, she feels misunderstood by everyone she knows. Anne starts writing about daily events, her thoughts, school grades, boys, all that. But, within a month, her entire life changes. As Jews in German-occupied Holland, the Frank family fears for their
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Bible; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the best-selling nonfiction books throughout the world. With over thirty-one million copies sold, the diary has been translated into sixty-seven different languages making Anne Frank a symbol of the six-million Jews killed throughout the Holocaust (Langer). The engaging story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains well-written passages filled with articulate and vivid descriptions of life in the Secret Annex, written by, Anne Frank
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