2. Loving v. Virginia is seen as a historic court case‚ but it is also one that moves people personally. Why do you think that is? How does it affect you? Does the Lovings’ fight still have relevance today? The Loving v. Virginia case wasn’t ever just a political case. It was a social class segregation that began from early on that people made law. Jim Crow Laws and many other laws‚ including one denying interracial relationships‚ was a way of suppressing a certain group of people from living the
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Dear Robert Scott‚ I am a freshman from Seguin High School in Seguin Texas; I feel that the Texas education system is corrupt that we as students are learning to test and not to actually learn. We as students retain information for short periods of time to take a test then forget which is one of the reasons I feel that the United States of America is falling behind in the education system. However Texas does not have to be like the rest we need to take away a lot of the tests and not learn to test
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“Dear John Wayne” by Louise Erdrich is about the stereotype of the Native American‚ being a savage race on film and how the Native Americans watching the film react to those stereotypes. The Characters in the play are the movie goers who happen to be Native American and John Wayne in the movie. The movie was written for a different audience than the one watching. Let’s start at the very beginning… the name of the poem is “Dear John Wayne”‚ it occurred to me that a lot of these authors put a great
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Warner’s “Anne Donne” In the poem Anne Donne‚ Townsend Warner expresses a very interesting yet heart rending story of the Donne’s life. After reading this poem and doing research on the Donne’s‚ I found out that they lived a very distressed life that was full of many tragedies including the death of five of their children. With that being said‚ the pieces of this poem make a much clearer puzzle. When Sylvia says‚ “And round my bed my live children were crying / And round my bed my dead children
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AoW: Word War II & Anne Frank I have no idea what it would be like to have to be afraid that someday‚ some general will come‚ seperate my family and I‚ and send us off to die painfully just because I believe in a certain religion. A 14 year old girl should not ever have to worry about this but sadly‚ Anne Frank‚ a year younger than me‚ did. World War II was a horrible war that caused the death of 55 million people. The group of people that were mainly targeted were Jews. Adolf Hitler‚ the dictator
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The Diary of Anne Frank is based on a true story where her and her family had to go into hiding for 2 full years before the Green Police caught them in a warm summer. The Frank family started to go into hiding in early July‚ 1942‚ it wasn’t until a week later the Van Danns showed up to the secret Annex. Sure enough it wasn’t until a couple months they had to let another person in the secret Annex it was Mr. Dussel‚ a local dentist in Amsterdam. Later in those years all 8 of them were caught by the
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girl was born in Frankfurt‚ Germany. No one realized that this infant‚ who was Jewish‚ was destined to become one of the world’s most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank‚ and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto Frank. She had one sister‚ Margot‚ who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and normal childhood‚ and on her 13th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became special to her as years went by. It is through this diary that much about
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haven’t dropped all my ideals‚ because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them‚ because in spite of everything‚ I still believe that people are really good at heart.”[1] Anne Frank was a Jewish child who had the unfortunate luck of growing up during the holocaust. Even though the world around her was awful‚ she still remained optimistic. Anne was a bright and intelligent child who only wished for the best in life. Her life was‚ no doubt‚ ended to soon. Anne Frank was born as
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Early Life Holocaust victim; famous diarist. Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12‚ 1929‚ in Frankfurt‚ Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank‚ and her father‚Otto Frank‚ was a lieutenant in the German Army during World War I who later became a businessman in Germany and the Netherlands. Frank also had a sister named Margot‚ three years her senior. The Franks were a typical upper middle-class German-Jewish family living in a quiet‚ religiously diverse neighborhood near the outskirts of
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individuals refer to this album as the paramount opus of his career. It is number four on the list of his top grossing albums. This album sold 3‚524‚567 in the United States as of 2011( 13) "Dear Mama" was circulated as the CD’s first single release . The single was released in February of 1995."Dear Mama" would grow to become the album’s most efficacious oeuvre. Surpassing his competitors‚ and cresting at the ninth position on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was sanctioned platinum in July
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