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    Frank Norris is noted as one of the first novelists to influence Naturalism in American literature. After discovering the idea from a French novelist‚ Norris began to incorporate it into his writing. He used Naturalism to express how the environment influences a person’s attitudes and behaviors. Norris effectively executed this and conveyed the ideas of scientific determinism to his audience during the Progressive Era. Many of his works have become widely recognized due to their impact on America

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    Anne Frank Research Paper

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    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a young teenager’s personal diary written from 1942-1944. Anne was a fun-loving girl living with her family in Amsterdam‚ Holland. Anne’s father gave her a diary for her thirteenth birthday and it was her favorite present. She decided she would write daily entries about her life in her new diary Anne hoped her diary would be like having a real friend and not be so lonely‚ therefore she named the diary “Kitty.”

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    The main character of the play‚ “The Diary of Anne Frank” written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is quite blatantly Anne Frank — a thirteen year old jewish girl. In 1942‚ due to the ongoing war and infamous Nazis‚ Anne and her family were forced into hiding to escape a life stuck concentration camps. Another family‚ the Van Daans‚ were caught in the same situation‚ and stayed with the Franks in the Annex. Later‚ a man named Mr. Dussel would also come hide with them. In the two years of living

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    excited of entering adolescence. You agree that you have a whole lifetime ahead and are planning to become a successful journalist one day. But this particular girl never got to fulfill her dreams before facing the death itself. Anneliese Marie Frank was born during the hard times in Frankfurt am main 1929‚ June 12th. She grew up in a loving family of three; mother Edith‚ father Otto and her sister Margot (Annefrank.org). Although

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    Anne Frank Good at Heart

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    aren’t born bad and don’t die bad. Most of the time they are forced to portray a character‚ different and distinct from what they are‚ sadly they adapt that character and forgot who they really are. "It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals‚ they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe‚ in spite of everything‚ that people are truly good at heart." from the Diary of Anne Frank (last entry). I’ve been thinking about what it would be like to be that daughter

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    stronger person who can have a better understanding of life and the right thing to do. Anne Frank and Eva Benitez prove this by despite their situations‚ learning to trust people even though it was difficult considering all they’ve been through. These actions illustrate how both “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Freedom Writers” have characters who learn that when you trust someone‚ it makes your life easier. Anne Frank started as a closed off person to her mother who never really

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    Frank Lloyd Wright in his Broadacres combines many different characters used in Ancient landscape designs. One of those characteristics is with the Broadacres designs use of 90 degree streets in areas. The ordinal streets is similar to ones seen in Ancient Romes’s cities such as “Djeila and Timgad” (Ching‚ pg. 155). The straight lines in the design block certain areas into sections and create form of grouping of buildings in areas of both designs. Although the Broadacres design had ordinal streets

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    Frank Stella - Hyena Stomp

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    Date: 3p.m. Week 13 Thursday June 6‚ 2013 Name of File for turnitin: ____________________________________ Office Only Received Date .. / ../ .. Initial …………. One of the most influential and independent artists of the 19th Century was Frank Stella. In this essay I will discuss and analyse one of Stella’s most intricate and precise artworks‚ Hyena Stomp (Stella‚ 1962). Stella’s use of line and neat brushstrokes were a reaction to the dominant abstract expressionist movement of his early

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    praised and evil was punished. They did not particularly care if that was a false interpretation of the way life really was. When men such as Frank Norris‚ the author of The Octopus‚ wrote angrily of the injustices and poverty to be found in America‚ readers turned away. The Octopus made them change their minds. The course of the novel and the reality of its characters held the readers’ attention. It is so powerful a book that people had to care about the wheat growers‚ almost against their wishes. The

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    Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra was a very successful singer and actor. Born in Hoboken‚ new Jersey on december 12‚1915. Natalina Della and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra were both immigrants that moved to the U.S before Frank was born. Growing up in Hoboken Frank started singing at a saloon. That wasn’t enough in high school he joined multiple glee and choir groups. This is when he met his first wife Barbara Sinatra and his career took off. Even though he was a drinker and he went through

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