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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1) The speaker is Anne Sexton‚ IMO. This poem is one of Anne Sexton’s strophic poems‚ with a clear rhyme scheme and stanza order. The speaker is insane‚ yet she is able to maintain a sense of reality. She identifies with female oppression. "Her Kind" was written to lay out Sexton’s despair towards the world‚ while coping with mental illness. 2) "I have been her kind" means that she closely identifies with each type. This‚ I believe‚ is Sexton’s transference of her many selves into the poem. She
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people thought about you as being “cool”. Or maybe you just performed a random act of kindness for someone for no reason at all. A hero should also be positive and strong. In Hackett and Goodrich’s play The Diary of Anne Frank‚ the theme of heroism is illustrated by Miep‚ Mr. Kraler‚ and Anne. Miep was a young woman who was engaged and also had to work everyday and yet she always found the time to visit the families‚ to bring them food‚ books‚ news and whatever else they might have needed or wanted
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1. Summarize the position Anne Bradstreet has come to hold as an American writer. Anne Bradstreet was the first true American poet her poems show the inner workings of a good Puritan heart. She read widely in history‚ science‚ literature and studied the works of Guillame du Bartas this gave her the power‚ control‚ and influence to have a confident poetic voice. Bradstreet’s was known to be a free thinker and some consider her an early feminist‚ with her feminist views‚ as in the poem about Queen
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theories which the Wife of Bath provides in her prologue demonstrate many of the same ideas and theories displayed in her tale. Although in her tale there are a few idealistic changes. In both the prologue and the tale‚ women start off as empowered beings. At the end of the prologue the Wife of Bath ends up being in a demeaning position yet the end of the tale may be interpreted in two ways. One of the first points brought up in both the prologue and tale is the idea that sex is meant for reproduction
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‘The framework of the Prologue is a list of estates. Chaucer specifically says at the end of the Prologue that he has described the “estaat” of all the Pilgrims (716). The Prologue is also a collection of portraits‚ but this is a secondary consideration Chaucer’s General Prologue‚ written towards the end of the fourteenth century‚ depicts a series of characters undertaking a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury during Springtime. Chaucer has assembled representatives of all three estates‚ both
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The Tragic and Weary Life described by Sylvia Townsend 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
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Anne Spier has prepared baked goods for resale since 1991. She started a baking business in her home and has been operating in a rented building with a storefront since 1996. Spier incorporated the business as MAS Inc. on January 1‚ 2013‚ with an initial share issue of 1‚000 shares of common shares for $2‚500. Anne Spier is the principal shareholder of MAS Inc. Sales have increased 30% annually since operations began at the present location‚ and additional equipment is needed to accommodate expected
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Jaquille Williams 1/31/13 Eng 301-M To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America‚ published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World. The poem “To my Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet‚ is not just an exceedingly felt expression of a wife’s marital love and commitment
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“Anne Hathaway” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the current poet laureate‚ is a strikingly poignant poem. It is in the persona of Anne Hathaway‚ Shakespeare’s wife‚ and is perceived to be the opinion of what she thinks about when she is left the second best bed in his will. The sonnet explores the loss felt by Hathaway as she grieves for her husband. Throughout the poem Duffy effectively uses poetic techniques to explore the feeling of loss felt by Hathaway as she is now a widow. The sonnet form allows Duffy
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