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    way towards solving problems. In many stories we see how achieving small victories can also lead to a better response to conflict‚ and at the same time make for a healthier and happier person which is really the greatest result. Anne Frank’s “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”‚ Joanee Oppenheim’s “Dear Miss Breed” along with Mayo Clinic show how it is possible to sustain a positive attitude even while facing conflict and hardship. Understanding the type of situation is at hand‚ then intentionally

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    by Frank Sargeson Literary analysis The short story “A Great Day” is written by the New Zealander Frank Sargeson‚ one of New Zealand’s leading authors. He wrote this novel during The Great Depression in the mid 1930s. New Zealand was one of the countries that were affected by The Great Depression. Unemployment reached 12 percent at its worst and New Zealand’s national income decreased severely. The author explicitly emphasises this by bringing up the unemployment of both of the characters‚ Fred

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    deserve the worst. It was a shameful thing to do to humans because of what they were but there was hope inside some of the mistreated groups of people. People like Anne frank and the child from the homesick poem had hope during those dark times. There was fear inside both these people but hope made it fade away. Example of Anne frank having hope

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    Diary of Anne Frank RTL: Mood “It seems life is at a standstill” (Diary of Anne Frank‚ pg 749). This seems to capture the people in annex’s situation perfectly. The slow decent into madness clawing at each other and arguing while waiting for some news to arrive. They all feel trapped in the walls of the annex unable to leave. Though happiness shines upon them at times‚ it never lasts. They can only cling to what memories they have‚ and wait for the future to arrive. When the Franks and Van Daans

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    How would you feel if you couldn’t go outside to play on the streets with your friends or even call them for around two years? Accordingly‚ Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during World War II. As mentioned above‚ this resulted in exactly what it sounds to be. Anne Frank had to act as if she didn’t exist. In fact‚ her and a few other people all hid in an annex of rooms above her father’s office. Meanwhile‚ she received a gift during this time to write down

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    ! Analysis of ‘Getty Tomb’ by Frank Stella! Walking through the galleries at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)‚ it was difficult to choose just one piece of art to analyze. However there was one particularly intriguing yet minimalist piece that stood apart from the rest. The piece was called Getty Tomb‚ by Frank Stella. It was an abstract; nonfigurative square canvas that was methodically covered with a series of flat unmodulated black rectangular bars‚ separated by thin white lines. After

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    Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank What I am about to write is a summary of The Diary of a Young Girl‚ written by Anne Frank. This book starts from when Anne gets her diary on her thirteenth birthday. The book is about when Anne and her family have to live in the “Secret Annex.” On her thirteenth birthday‚ Anne’s parents give her a diary. She’s excited because she wants something in which to confide all of her secret thoughts. Even though she has a social life‚ she feels misunderstood by everyone

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    The Diary of Anne Frank Between 1941 and 1945‚ Jews were targeted and severely massacred creating the largest genocide to happen during the 20th century. During the Holocaust‚ over 11 million people were killed by German Nazis who came in power and believed that Germans were the superior race. One million Jewish children were killed alone. A chain of over 42‚500 facilities controlled by Germans were used to confine and kill Jews. About 500‚000 people were participants in the preparation and execution

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    World War Two was the year the Holocaust happened and families of many were put in danger. “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a playwright authored by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. This diary leads to historical events that is portrayed through dialogue and stage directions of these three families who lived in a storage room for about two in a half year. In further words historical events are played through dialogue. As described by Anne “we’ve had bad news. The people from who miep got

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    are yelling and saying that they do not want someone different from them. They believe It is disrespectful and that Ma might be talking bad about them. In Thunder on Sycamore Street it shows in this quote how a man can b judged based on his past “Frank Morrison and Charlie Denton have learned that their new neighbor‚ Joe Blake‚ is an ex-convict. They persuade the residents of Sycamore Street‚ including Arthur and Phyilis Hayes‚ to come together I running the Blake family out of town.” Meaning that

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