to the surface. A Diary of a Young Girl was published in 1950, and is the diary of a girl named Anne Frank. Anne Frank along with her family hid from the Nazi’s during their occupation of Amsterdam. One of her protectors, Miep Gies, was later interviewed in the documentary Dear Kitty: Remembering Anne Frank. From these sources we can gather information on all the people involved, not just in Anne Franks case, but in occupied Holland as a whole. This information is rich in the concepts of social psychology
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think about situations in a different way. Before I used to think racial violence was just plain stupid but now I think about the races that are fighting each other and why are they fighting. My perspective was changed after reading the Diary of Anne Frank play as well as watching the 2001 movie. Racial violent is of racist but there is always a reason as to why two or more races are fighting. Maybe it’s because they are judging one another because of skin colour or racist stereotypes. Though that
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Each page of a “Diary of a Young girl,” consists of Anne Frank’s resilience. Her bravery has been known throughout the world for over 70 years. The three crucial ways Anne was resilient during times of desperate measures was she was very flexible from day one, she had perseverance to overcome her challenges and she used creativity to produce inspiring thinking. Anne Frank was a jewish girl who wrote a diary documenting her life while she was hiding in the secret annex. She is the most well known
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Anne Frank wrote in her diary that she wanted to be someone “famous” or to be like her “favorite” movie stars. Anne Frank was a very intelligent person! Most young girls like her wasn't into being a “movie star” or someone famous. Anne had a very creative mind, she had tons of goals she wanted to accomplish during her lifetime, although she didn't succeed it that far. Anne always wrote her goals in her diary. She had gotten that for her 13th birthday, which was June 12th, 1929 which makes it 1942
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Dear Anne Frank Mr.Burrus Grey Khalil Lovejoy My name is Khalil Amir Lovejoy from 7th grade Jumoke Academy Blue Hills Ave Hartford, CT, United States of America. The reason I am writing you is because I wanted to tell you about the different things I have learned so far about you and your family in general. I am writing you about your life starting at 1942-1944 in The Netherlands. I am starting here because this is when you and your family got a letter for your sister Margo to be sent to
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One main idea of this diary that develops throughout the text is Anne´s character conflicts. Throughout the text´s entirety, she has disdain to others that are linked to many reasons in the beginning, middle, and towards the end of her diary. In the beginning of the diary, her character conflicts are focused on being misunderstood and judged by annexe members as well as her family. For example, on September 28 1942, she writes, ¨Am I really so bad-mannered, conceited, headstrong, pushing, lazy, etc
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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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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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