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    and opinions‚ I must read and make connections and respond on those connections. With that being said I will start with what captured my interest. While going through the first couple of lines in the dialogue I began to paint a picture of Henri and Jeanne. Henri came across to me as a stubborn old scrooge who wants things his way or no way. He is very persistent about the races and his wife not attending. As they continue to converse he brings up all the reasons why she shouldn’t accompany him to

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    dreary and had no hope for their countries and others. In Night and Farewell to Manzanar‚ Elie and Jeanne were both treated horribly‚ but Elie lost more faith in his piers and humanity itself. Jeanne went through horrible experiences just like Elie in Farewell to Manzanar. “I’m going to kill you this time” (Houston 68). Throughout the books‚ both of the children’s families changed for the worse. Jeannes father threatened to kill her mother numerous times and Elie’s father lost his hope and will to

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    Violet Ramirez Ms. Olivas English II Period 1 28 March 2017 Synthesis Essay “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”― Elie Wiesel. In the memoir‚ The Night by Elie Wiesel tells a story how twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel himself spends much time in trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In a train car eighty villagers have to survive on slightest food and water. When Elie Wiesel is 16 the United States Army in April 1945 saved him‚ but it was too late

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower once said‚ “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” (www.leadershipnow.com[->0]). This is just how Jeanne Lewis a graduate from Harvard Business School approached management. She motivated and pushed her followers to accomplish the things she felt needed to be done. As a leader within Staples Inc. she was able to accomplish a great deal by recognizing the readiness of her followers and applying the correct leadership

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    work in several different art galleries and began to create storefronts that he built to scale. Since 1972‚ they worked exclusively with Wolfgang Volz the photographer‚ and at least five of their projects were made into documentary films. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are not only known for their grand scale in their installations‚ but their determination to get past all of the red tape and bureaucracy to bring their enormous visions to fruition. I have picked out ten of their most interesting projects for

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    and sent away to a cramped camp. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Japanese Americans were sent away to internment camps. Americans believed that they were spies and they needed to be locked away. In a book called Farewell to Manzanar‚ a girl named Jeanne is sent away with her family to Manzanar‚ an internment camp in California. They must put up with the stereotypes and hardships they face in order to preserve their dignity. When Jeanne’s family is let out of the camp‚ they face racism and exclusion

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    Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki was a seven year old girl who survived The Bombing of Pearl Harbor. She was a normal young girl. She liked to watch the boats dock and go to school. However‚ one thing was missing in her life: her identity. She was a Japanese girl who didn’t embrace her culture. After 7 years of a normal life‚ Jeanne was forced to move to a Japanese ghetto on Terminal Island in Hawaii. She felt so out of place from what I could tell‚ and didn’t fit in because‚ again‚ she

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    Prejudice tore apart families‚ destroyed lives‚ and lead to murders and deaths. As the Jews in Germany were persecuted‚ the Japanese were in the United States. Many of these Japanese had lived in the United States all their lives. In Farewell to Manzanar‚ Jeanne W. Houston explains her experiences on an interment camp at Manzanar. The prejudices against the Japanese forced them to move to interment camps. These consisted of‚ usually‚ temporary barracks surrounded by barbed wire fence and guard towers. These

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    still remains an active and important matter in the United States. Immigrants make up a lot of America’s population. In fact‚ in 2014 the immigration population made up 13.3% of the overall population in the United States of America(Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova). This is a significant

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    Characters: Georges Méliès The Station Inspector Hugo’s Father Mama Jeanne Etienne Rene Tabard Hugo is the kind of “smart” kid that adults are constantly chasing after. He is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in a train station. Hugo is an orphan‚ and his uncle‚ who’s supposed to be taking care of him‚ is a drunk who just so happens to have disappeared. Therefore‚ Hugo runs the clocks in the station‚ and spends his days avoiding the Station Inspector‚ who is not the nicest of people

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