The artist name is Judith Goldstein‚ a child Holocaust survivor‚ and she was born in Vilna‚ Poland. The name of her work of art is Joys and Sorrow. In 1941‚ the Nazis sent most of Vilna’s Jews to the Ghetto where Judith and her family spent the next two years. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto in 1943‚ Judith and her mother spent the next two years in concentration camps in Latvia and Poland. Somehow‚ Judith‚ her mother‚ and her brother survived and were sent to a banished person’s camp in
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The short story‚ Spilt Cherry Tree‚ was written by Jesse Stuart. In the beginning of the story‚ Dave and his classmates went with Professor Herbert on a field trip for biology class. They were all searching for lizards‚ bugs‚ snakes‚ frogs‚ flowers‚ and plants. Dave and five of his classmates had spotted a lizard in the old cherry tree up the hill‚ so all six of them ran up the tree after it‚ and the tree broke down. Eif Crabtree‚ the owner of the tree was plowing when it happened and he ran up and
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The Orange Tree There was a time where the smallest things seemed to be like they were the biggest. Like no problem big or small could ever be resolved. Back when getting in trouble for something you did was the worst of your problems. Back when using something that wasn’t yours was so bad that you felt like it was the end of the world. Back when orange seeds led you to such a huge problem that you felt like you couldn’t ever fix anything. This all began when i was just a young girl‚ around 6
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Katerina Siroruka Liberal thinkers are suspicious of state power and argue that the state needs to be limited. John Stuart Mill and Judith Shklar understand state power differently‚ to the extent in which may be harmful in the method and purpose of limitation. Mill believed that rulers are potential tyrants and that the citizens should be protected against a tyranny government. Shklar believed that the state should be protected against the abusive‚ cruel and evil powers that can be
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Adoration of Jenna Fox‚ by Mary E. Pearson‚ Jenna gets into a horrific accident. In an accident so severe as this one‚ most people would have been killed or crippled for the rest of their lives. Jenna’s parents‚ Matthew and Clair Fox‚ take the choice to save her. They basically remade Jenna into a new one. This was dangerous and illegal but they thought it was the right decision. I also very strongly think that saving Jenna was the best decision for Jenna’s parents to make. Jenna Fox was in a coma while
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resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians and fighters. This fierce fighting has led to public outcry for the two factions to come to a peaceful solution that will once again bring stability to the region. Sandy Tolan‚ author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab‚ A Jew‚ and the Heart of the Middle East presents the conflict through the true histories of two families‚ antithetical in nature‚ whose pasts ultimately lead them down a road of friendship. Despite a few exaggerations and assumptions‚ Tolan
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1 In the book‚ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ Francie Nolan lives in a world where she has trouble finding who she is‚ but eventually finds a way of discovering who she wants to be. Francie is an eleven-year-old girl living in Williamsburg‚ Brooklyn. You can find Francie sitting on her fire escape reading book‚ while imagining that she lives in the Tree of Heaven. The narrator says: “An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. That’s what Francie
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19‚ 2014 Chapter 2 Assessment In Judith Beheading Holofernes‚ created in 1599‚ Michelangelo Mensi da Caravaggio uses high contrast and vivid lines to capture the dramatic essence of the beheading of Holofernes. In this rectangular oil painting done on canvas measuring 57 inches by 77 inches‚ the realistic view of the physical and emotional human state is depicted in a vulgar manner. Caravaggio’s painting illustrates a book in the catholic Bible dedicated to Judith in which she depicts an example
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Terry Fox Rough copy (article for Grade 7 lawson project) by Caden Graham (In Mme Campos’s class) Twenty Second‚ February‚ 2018 Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete and cancer research activist who attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Terry Fox received Osteosarcoma which resulted with one of his legs being amputated. When he was in the hospital‚ he looked around and saw all the kids who had cancer. Seeing the kids with cancer inspired him to run for cancer. Although
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The Taliban In everyday life in Afghanistan‚ people live in constant fear due to a group of terrorists. The novel‚ Under the Persimmon Tree‚ by Suzanne Fisher Staples‚ demonstrates the cruel truths of life in Afghanistan. The book follows two girls‚ Najmah and Nusrat as they are faced with tough challenges everyday that will alter their lives forever. The Taliban impact the everyday lives of people worldwide in an awfully negative way‚ and the book accurately proves this to be true by following
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