Daniel Lee Professor Gutowsky English 300 4/7/14 The Reasons and Inspirations Anna Funder was an excellent writer and her novels are well anticipated for a good reason. Her first book‚ Stasiland‚ was translated into 16 different languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize‚ which is a top level award in Britain. The novel was a personal inspection of East Germany’s shady secret service and its faith in Germany‚ and is an excellent novel that people everywhere should read even in Professor Gutowsky’s
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over the globe‚ and became the beacon of hope‚ as well as the reason for many of controversies. Born in Yate‚ England‚ July 31‚ 1965. Joanne Rowling. Rowling’s parents were Peter James Rowling and Anne Volant. She grew up in Chepstow‚ Gwent where she went to Wyedean Comprehensive. Rowling’s mother Anne died after ten years suffering from multiple sclerosis. Rowling and her family moved to Wyedean in 1983 and studied in the University of Exeter. And after graduating from Exeter University‚ Rowling
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When reading this play about Anne Frank I have learned many new details about her. The play gave a great amount of detail on how she felt and what she thought about. This play is a very sad play‚ but that also has humor in it to make it a little less tragic. Anne Franks quote is “In spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart.” In the play‚ it reads “I’ll come in here with you and mother‚ and Mr. Dussel can have my bed.” Anne has been being very kind when she said this
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Anne Frank “I keep my ideals‚ because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -Anne Frank In March 1945 about 50‚000 people died at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen‚ including Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Bergen-Belsen was located near Hanover in northwest Germany. The holocaust was a very mortifying time for many. About 20‚000 camps held over 11 million Jews along with anyone else who didn’t meet Hitler’s expectations. Many of these people were starved
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older than her. Anne was always jealous of Margot‚ since she did so good at school Margot was set as the example and their parents compared the two sisters to each other constantly. Anne didn’t like being compared to her older sister every time her sister got a good grade in school or did something nice for others. Her favorite family member was her father and she even had a pet name for him "Pim" which she used to refer to him in her diary. In 1933‚ the Frank family moved and Anne adapted very well
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Anne Hutchinson was the spirited daughter of a clergyman. She was born in England‚ but moved to Boston in 1634. The main reason she moved was to follow Reverend John Cotton‚ whom she greatly admired. Once in Boston‚ Cotton helped to get Anne accepted into the church. She was very spiritual and would have gatherings at her house in which those there could discuss the sermon of the week. This started out as a godly activity‚ but soon began to be a place where people could complain about and criticize
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Historical Importance of Anne Frank: During the two years and one month Anne Frank spent hiding in a Secret Annex in Amsterdam during World War II‚ she kept a diary. Anne Frank’s diary‚ which was published by her father after the war and has been read by millions of people around the world‚ chronicles both the tensions and difficulties of living in such a confined space for that long a duration as well as Anne’s struggles with becoming a teenager. Since the publication of her diary‚ Anne Frank has become
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Anne Frank was a very fun poem/play to read and I think all of us enjoyed it. Filled with suspicion and comedy‚ romance and seriousness it was sure to keep everyone interested. Most people thoroughly enjoyed the story whether they were just narrators or characters. It kept everyone on the edge of their seat with the apprehension‚ waiting to find out what happened next. The main character of this fabulous story was the oh-so fabulous Anne. She is bubbly and fun and never skips a beat. She always
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Anne Frank‚ an inspiring girl with lots of dreams! Anne was one of the millions of Jewish people that perished because of the Holocaust. She was born on June‚ 12‚ 1929 in Frankfurt‚ Germany. When World War II began the Jewish race lost a lot of privileges and opportunities. Like being able to use public transit‚ to then being able to be outside at all. The German empire began to relocate Jewish people to concentration camps‚ which left them in horrible living conditions until they perished. In 1942
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South Africa. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 under Kapil Dev‚ was runner-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly‚ and won the World Cup a second time in 2011 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It thus became only the third team after West Indies and Australia to have won the World Cup more than once.[5] It is also the first cricket team to win the World Cup on home soil. India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Dhoni. India has also been the runner-up
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