First Journal Entry It was March 5th 1770. In the past few years‚ the British raised taxes to reproduce their economic crisis. People in school were furious‚ the school canceled afternoon tea‚ and people wouldn’t but products from Britain anymore. But mom and dad seemed OK‚ they still drank tea and bought carpets or other products from Britain‚ dad said the King would make a decision for a reason‚ and as citizens‚ we should follow. Well‚ I disagreed with him‚ but it was no use. I went to Johns
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Grendel‚ you must have? I’m so scared that one night; I’m going to be one of those poor souls who get devoured by that monster. I never told anyone this‚ but one night I stayed up and saw Grendel. Unlike my friends who were passed out on the ground from drinking too much‚ I was sober and witnessed everything. He snuck in through the doors like a thief in the night‚ that I hadn’t notice he was there until I heard blood dripping on the ground and bones cracking as the monster crunched away in them.
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Auschwitz: a prisoner camp‚ an industrial camp‚ and a death camp “…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves‚ and at the same time of his house‚ his habit‚ his cloth‚ in short‚ of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man‚ reduced to suffering and needs‚ forgetful of dignity and restraint‚ for he who loses all often easily loses himself. He will be a man whose life or death can be lightly decided with no sense of human affinity‚ in the most fortunate of cases‚ on the basis
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Diary entry from Pip’s point of view. 08/12/2012 Saturday Dear Diary‚ Today was a new day for me again. I went alone to the churchyard where the tombstones of my parents and my 5 brothers are in the marshes near my house. I live with my sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband‚ Joe Gargery‚ a blacksmith as a burden as she never likes me and always tells me off for everything. I stayed there near the gravestones until afternoon was returning back home‚ when I heard a terrible voice which told
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statistics show just how many innocent children Hitler’s anti-Jew plans caused. Even though many Jews were murdered through Hitler’s anti-Jew assault‚ Hitler’s attempt to annihilate Jews and their culture failed. Many Jews survived Hitler’s camps‚ and even though many also did not survive‚ their values and histories were preserved in their poems and works of art‚ such as the poems and art created by the children at Terezin Concentration Camp‚ some of which are compiled in I Never Saw Another Butterfly
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look either it was a change that he didn’t allow under his roof. Although my mother went ahead a cut my hair anyway it caused so much drama in our home. The neighbors thought I was a family member visiting and ask my father about me when he came home from work one evening and he told them he didn’t know who they were talking about so he came inside and there I was sitting in the television. My father was so mad he made he my mother didn’t talk for a week. That was the last time I’d ever go behind his
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"But sir." Erick interrupted." In a siege timing is everything. The Southern Isles’ has a limited time to take the fortress before we receive help from Arendelle. This fortress is too big cor its current garrison‚ but once the army of Arendelle reach it it would be a hard nut to crack. A day of delay for the twenty-four-pounders is a day added to take the fortress and a day less to receive reinforcements." Nelberg looked in surprise at Erick. "You seem to know some concepts about siege warfare."
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political prison camps‚ besides the spreading of information about them‚ is complete invasion in North Korea to liberate my countrymen (Philling). The mentioning of liberation hung in the air between Shin and the interviewer; it was something that was so close yet so far from happening. Breaking the silence‚ the interviewer changed the subject by asking another set of questions. Shin was asked about what he learned after initially escaping Camp 14‚ how he has adapted to life outside the camp‚ and if there
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The Diary of Anne Frank ! This summer I read The Diary of Anne Frank. This book was a diary written by Anne Frank who was a young Jewish girl living during the German occupation of Holland‚ and was translated by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. In her diary she writes about what her and her mother‚ father‚ and older sister Margot went through because of their culture and beliefs. In 1942‚ Anne and her family went into hiding to avoid being sent to a concentration camp by the Nazi’s. !
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us‚ thank god‚ so we took this advantage and fought back against the Germans until British troops arrived. Although this was only a four day battle it had major significance because 6000 lives were lost and Canada gained an independent reputation from
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