Holocaust Monologue: Memoir of Eva Buchbinder (from Torn Threads by Anne Isaacs) My name is Eva Buchbinder. I have many family members that live with me in the fenced in ghetto of Bedzin‚ Poland; my father‚ Papa‚ my sister‚ Rachel‚ my aunt‚ Rivka‚ Uncle Nathaniel‚ and my cousin‚ David. Papa‚ Rachel‚ and I used to live in the proper part of town in Bedzin‚ but once Hitler came to power he made many laws that condemned us because we were Jewish. In the winter of 1942 we were forced to move
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saluting enthusiastically to their red-robed leaders under the yellow star; the boat crammed with coughing throats and calloused hands; blood washed away by the rains. She talked about things I had only ever heard about from the kind of tragic monologues that hot-shot actors won Oscars for and only shed real tears for at the podium. But unlike the performers’ melodramatic shouts of magniloquent misdirected emotion and the onion tears I associated with this kind of language‚ she seemed perfectly
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Betty White is one of the most influential actresses of television history. Born as Betty Marion White on January 17‚ 1922 in Illinois‚ her family moved to Los Angeles‚ California during the Great Depression. She began her career by reading commercials for the radio in 1939 when she was seventeen years old. Betty White then started acting on television shows and movies. Since then‚ she has won several awards and continues to act. Betty White’s autobiography‚ If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t)
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According to Betty Friedan‚ “the problem that has no mane” is associated with the widespread of unhappy women in the 1950’s and 1960’s. When American women first tried to address the problem they only realized the dissatisfaction they were feeling and were embarrassed to own up to it. In the PDF I read that women would often say “I feel as if I do not exist” or “I feel empty somehow… incomplete.” Women all over were expected to be by being the typical perfect married housewife by taking care of her
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Multi-Cultural Exam One In the short story “In the Hour of the Wolf” (1949)‚ Betty Louise Bell asserts that Native Americans have to be assimilated into the mainstream white culture which causes them to have serious identity crisis issues. When the Indian’s leave their tribe‚ it puts a major strain on how they perceive their old traditions which molds them to be all alike white people. This short story supports the claims of how inferior Indian’s feel to white people because of the emphasized comments
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protection ended you need to leave the village within two days‚ no food will be provided to you by the village‚ only two gold coins. If you wish to have more gold you can exchange it with life stones. Did you understood everything?". Quite a long monologue to
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So you’ll be with that jenny downstairs while Nosi and I are upstairs? Elizabeth lives with me. She’s not going anywhere. - That’s not going to change. - How nice? A threesome. You’ll be here because you’re the mother of my child‚ and you need my help. Nothing more. Give me a weekend with him. He’ll return every single item he’s stolen. - I hope you won’t beat him up. - No‚ Principal. I didn’t steal anything‚ I... I’m trying to get a meeting with Thenjiwe Ntombela. Lelo’s parole officer
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protest writing. Radical writing is an extremely effective way of catching the public’s attention and catalyzing change. A sense of legitimacy is not intrinsic to an effective piece of protest writing‚ as shown by the comparison between the writing of Betty Friedan and Valerie Solanas. One is an extremely effective and respectable piece that had no exaggeration or radicalism in its message. The other is a radical and over the top piece that has no sense of legitimacy or
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How are Parris and Abigail presented in Act 1 (Scene 1)? The scene opens with the character of Reverend Parris “kneeling beside the bed” on which his daughter Betty lies in what seems a state of unconsciousness‚ after being discovered to have been “dancing like heathen” in the virgin forest. Parris “seems about to weep” for what the audience believes is for his daughters condition however we later discover that his concern lies predominantly with what the villagers will think of him. “And
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In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith‚ Francie and Neeley Nolan are children growing up during the early 1900’s. The brother and sister have to learn how to survive on bread crumbs (literally)‚ and make the most of what they do own. Francie is the main character of the novel‚ and from the very beginning‚ the readers can grasp the independence that inhibits Francie from a young age‚ unlike Neeley who is very dependent on his parents (especially Katie‚ his mother) to help him get along. When Neeley
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