The narrator from Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska holds a nihilistic view of the world‚ and he only expresses concern for his baby‚ the young female cohort to his crimes. In this song‚ the killer speaks directly to a “sir” who is later revealed to be the sheriff. Moreover‚ the killer feels zero remorse for his transgressions and explains to the sheriff that he only wanted to have a “good time” with his baby. Even so‚ he says that he killed for no other reason than that there is a “meanness in this world”
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Anne Frank is a brave young girl‚ who writes about her family’s encounters while hiding from the Nazis. She writes from the heart‚ and leaves a detailed diary of her daily life. Through her writings‚ we are given a glimpse into the daily trials and tribulations of her ordeal. She writes with such honesty‚ that we are able to feel all of her emotions. She is quite upbeat‚ and believes in a bright future for her and her family. Her writings also display the feelings of the other members in the house
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Historical Perspective from “The Diary of Anne Frank” The historical events in the play helped the readers understand what was going on when Anne and her family went into hiding during World War II. In 1935 the Nuremberg laws are passed in Germany stripping Jews of their rights as German citizens. Laws passed over the next several years further isolate Jews including the requirement to wear a yellow Star of David. Germany invades Poland triggering the beginning of World War II. Growing Nazi restrictions
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Heather Herring ENG 2130 13 February 2013 Puritan Women Roles and Anne Bradstreet’s Thoughts on These Roles The Puritans were a very religious group of people. They always worshipped God and followed their church duties. They also saw men as superior to women. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan woman born in the 1600s. She was a brilliant writer and wanted her talents shown‚ but she had a hard time with this profession because of the roles Puritan women were to have. Today her work is very well
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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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Many of the actions that we do in our daily lives are pretty grotesque if you think about it. To live our lives as we do we need to acquire a certain mindset that keeps us from thinking about the facts behind it. In Mary Roach’s Stiff‚ she discusses how people adapt to dealing with cadavers. The way that they deal with cadavers is similar to how we deal with things in our everyday life. Roach often discusses how people that work with cadavers regularly psychologically orientate themselves to accept
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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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