ANNE FRANK - A POSITIVE ATTITUDE HELPS WITH TRIALS People that have a positive attitude are the ones more likely than ever to endure a trial than anyone else who does not have a positive attitude. This fact was especially true in World War II because it helped many people in the concentration camps to endure. In fact, some who endured with a positive attitude became a Holocaust survivor. The theme of "The Diary of Anne Frank" reveals that from childhood to adulthood that having a positive
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was sent to a holding camp where not only jews were imprisoned, there were also prisoners of war such as soviets about 50,000 of them. While the guards were calling our names, i spotted a girl i soon became very close friends with. Her name was anne frank who was 14 years old , she was with her sister margot who was 3 years older than her. We were separated into two different sections of
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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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*What does freedom mean to you? Freedom can mean different things depending on the situation. Freedom is an important theme on Frederick Douglass's "Narrative Life" as well as my chosen books "Worst Case" by James Patterson and "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank. All these books illustrate the theme of freedom in different ways, but all follow a theme of personal freedom. Freedom is not easily achieved for any of the characters in these three books. * Michael Benette is the main character in "Worst
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its visitors on a journey through time. Upon arrival we were instructed to walk up a spiraling white staircase, the walls lined with black and white portraits of holocaust survivors, leading all the way up to the Anne Frank exhibit. We were prompted with a brief introductory film on the Frank family then directed downstairs into a dimly lit hallway. Immediately, I am drawn to the walls that’re constructed with clothing. As you go further into the exhibit, going deeper into Anne’s story, the clothes
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different representations of Anne Frank, I will have to complete reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Although I still need to read through and summarise/highlight the relevant parts of the books I borrowed to examine how time, purpose/audience and bias changes how we represent or view someone. Using these books, as well as additional ones I intend to find over the internet, I will compare and contrast different plays, movies and books featuring Anne Frank. This research would help me investigate
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of work when referring to exile because Anne Frank wrote an entry every single day on the struggles of her daily life being in hiding. This book is a great representation of the worries that thousands were faced with when Hitler was in power. It is ironic that although Anne’s family was going through a tragedy themselves, they still felt fortunate enough to be thankful that after all, they did not end up like many of their peers. On page seventy-six, Anne writes “No one is able to keep out of
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Anne Frank It was a horrific experience for the Jewish people in Europe during the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a young victim of the time period who shared her experiences in a diary. Her family was forced to leave their native land of Germany and travel to Amsterdam where they sought temporary safety. Surrounded by social chaos, she relied on writing as a form of comfort. Anne became dependent upon her diary as a survival strategy. Her writings demonstrate evidence of positive thinking even with the
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We all know and love the story of Anne Frank and her famous diary. Her story seems one of a kind, yet with Netherlands State Institution for War Documents already had about 200 similar diaries in 1946 (before Anne's diary was even published), and her own sister wrote a similar diary. If there are so many like hers, what makes Anne’s diary so captivating and memorable to so many? It makes sense that so many know of her tale as her diary has been translated into 70 different languages with over 30
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reading can change your life. Not only can it do that but there’s a possibility it can change your perspective. “ The Diary of Anne Frank.” Was written by Anne Frank herself. It was her real diary that she wrote in before she died in a concentration camp in 1954. Her death was not long after her sisters’. They lived a horrible life due to the fact that they were Jewish. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was the only
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