Life of a Slave in the Middle Passage Dear Diary‚ My name is Emem Okeke and I am 13 years old. I have just come off of a train transporting me to a plantation in America. I have been separated from all of my family (my mother‚ father‚ my brother and my sister) and I am most likely going to a different plantation. I was living in Sierra Leone when I got kidnapped. My tribe was a peaceful one‚ and we weren’t in any wars at the time‚ but while all of our tribe was asleep‚ another tribe ambushed us
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Throughout Anne’s journey in the annex she was always looking to the brighter side of everything. She documented in her diary named kitty everything that happened while living in hiding. One of her famous quotes written in her diary in July 1944 was‚ "In spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart." Anne could of felt this way during her ordeal for so many different reasons and ways. The quote reveals
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Proven by The Diary of a Young Girl‚ by Anne Frank‚ the play by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett The Diary of Anne Frank‚ does not have a justified use of dramatic license because the authors twist the characters to be very different than real life‚ the story is misleading to the readers about a historical time‚ and there was an absence of characters in the play. The falsification of Mr.Van Daan’s and Mr. Frank’s personalities allows the readers to believe that the characters
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From a young age‚ many children decide to write in diaries‚ which follows with the widespread phrase‚ “Dear Diary”. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies written by Julia Alvarez‚ one of the main characters‚ Maria Teresa expresses her point of view in the form of diary entries‚ similar to that of a small child. At the start of chapter four‚ which is told in Maria Teresa’s perspective‚ she writes‚ “Minerva says keeping a diary is also a way to reflect and reflection deepens one’s soul. It sounds
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I’ve just finished reading The Diary of a Young Girl‚ by Anne Frank. Anne Frank’s diary was begun on June 14th‚ 1942 and her last entry was on August 1st‚ 1944. Her diary was mostly about the Holocaust‚ when her family went into hiding. Anne’s family included herself‚ her sister (Margot Frank)‚ her mother (Edith Frank)‚ and her father (Otto Frank). This story was set in Prinsengracht‚ Amsterdam. I chose to read this book because stories that relate to war‚ really interest me. It all started on
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Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi Future is a mystery‚ is like a baby that is still in her/his mother belly‚ you know is there but you don’t know how he/she looks like. Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi teach us that there is a world out there that we don’t know about and sometimes we have to break the rules of life‚ family and even religion to survive and make things happen. Someone once said "the worst things in life come for free to us". "You gotta fight for every breath and tell death
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SLEEP DIARY Date _______________ Complete after awakening: Time you went to bed _______________ Time you fell asleep _______________ Time you woke up _______________ Number of times awakened during the night _______________ Amount of time awake during the night _______________ Total Nighttime Sleep _______________ Comments on quality of night’s sleep: ____________________________________________________________ Did you feel groggy after getting up in the morning? Yes _____ If yes‚ for how long?
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Diary Entry 1 We Africans had everything we had possibly wanted: Shelter‚ food‚ and family & friends to rely on. But we were all lacking something as a continent‚ and that was ‘freedom’. Now I’m going to explain how I was captured and brought up to be a slave. It was a typical day in Ghana when my mother asked me to go and milk the cow at our farm that was just before the woods. I had always been an exploratory person and this time I wanted to go and discover the woods. I had always been told
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Throughout Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl‚” you can tell that Anne‚ the writer‚ matures a lot throughout her diary. She makes a lot of transformations mentally‚ and you can tell she is really growing up. One page where you can see her mature is in pages 127-128‚ of her diary entry on January 2‚ 1944. She even discusses her previous immaturity. That alone makes the reader think that she is very self reflective‚ and she always thinks of her past mistakes. In this entry‚ there are several signs
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Anne Frank is often misunderstood by many people throughout the story and considers herself as having no “true” friends. In order to feel that void she humanizes her diary‚ “Kitty‚” to store her deepest thoughts when others would not understand or care to listen. Shortly after receiving the diary for her thirteenth birthday‚ Anne states‚ “Paper has more patience than people‚” (pg.6) confirming her thoughts about the people surrounding her. However‚ the statement could never have been truer for Anne
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