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    Pompeian houses. What do they each tell us about the status of their owners? Within Pompeii‚ the size and decorative aspects of someone’s home explained a lot about their monetary wealth and what sort of social status they upheld. People who had money and good social status would decorate their homes with High Greek culture for example myths and mosaics of Greek heroes. Whereas people from a lower class‚ tended to use less grandeur within the decorative style of their homes. The houses that I shall

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    Anne Frank Diary

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    These were the words of Anne Frank which were contained in her beloved‚ leather-bound‚ red and white checkerboard-patterned diary. Handwritten in her beautiful scrawl‚ these few simple words have impacted minds around the world and refreshed those with intents of hatred and harm. Despite the bad deeds of those around her‚ and the horrid happens depleting the population of her kind as a Jew‚ Anne Frank could still see the inner light shining through the dreary‚ gray smoke of all of humanity.

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    We have read three pieces of text about Anne Frank and her story as a teenage girl during the Holocaust. We have read a play‚ her diary‚ and a Memoir from a first account‚ all written at different time periods. The play took place at the beginning of November 1945‚ and retells the events that had occurred during the holocaust‚ it ends after Anne has died in 1945. The diary took place on Saturday‚ 20th of June‚ 1942 and ends on Thursday‚ 19th of November‚ 1942. These are all Anne’s entries in her

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    novel‚ The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros’s narrator‚ Esperanza‚ gradually learns there is no real correlation between a physical structure and a home; rather a home is made from things such as love‚ family‚ culture‚ tradition‚ and memories‚ not bricks and mortar. The opening vignette of Cisneros’s novel‚ introduces the reader to Esperanza’s intense feeling of displacement. Throughout the book‚ she feels as though she has no place to call her home. Although they have a house‚ she is embarrassed

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    Anne Frank Traits

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    Anne Frank once said‚ "In spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart." This quote was written right before the Annex was found by the Nazis. I feel this expresses three of Anne’s personality traits. It indicates how honest‚ humble‚ and brave she is. Even when her whole world is crumbling and she has every right to be angry at the unfairness of her situation‚ she still chooses to believe that people are good. Anne Frank‚ a Jewish girl alive during World War II‚ believed

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    Giordan O

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    GEORDANO-POSITIONING FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION Question 1: Describe and evaluate Giordano’s product‚ business‚ and corporate strategies Product: Giordano’s main product’s is casual clothes for men‚ women and children. They have different kind of brands which include Giordano‚ Giordano Ladies‚ and Giordano Junior. This business is a retailer itself. They started their business in year 1980 in Hong Kong. They sold a numerous kind of clothes to their customers to all kind of ages.

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    Anne Frank Speech

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    you admire can be applied to your own life for your benefit. When I am feeling unsure and having doubts about the whole process‚ no one inspires me to continue on more than‚ my role model‚ Anne Frank. As most know from reading her diary in middle school or studying her life in history class‚ Anne Frank was a young‚ Jewish girl during the 1930 ’s and 40 ’s. Her family and another hid in a "Secret Annexe" of her father ’s office building to avoid persecution from the Nazi ’s occupying Holland. Anne

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    permanent personal record that is kept of events‚ thoughts‚ and ideas associated with an individual. They retain great significance in an individual’s life‚ and hold a great deal of sentimental value. The Diary of a Young girl (1952) written by Anne Frank and the film‚ Freedom Writers (2007) directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ explore this cleansing of the psyche as individuals undergo an introspective‚ reflective process. Diaries hold a great deal of sentimental value‚ especially to those in society who

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    Anne Frank Injustice

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    During world war 2 many terrible things had happened. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of many truly horrific stories. Anne has lived way beyond her death. She obviously has because we still talk about her today. There is tons of books about her that keep her spirit alive. Her dream was to become famous. She definitely wasn’t famous during her lifetime‚ but after she died her journals were found and once they were published and the word got out she later then became famous. I think that what she had

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    Frank Norris's The Octopus

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    been intertwined in an epic of harrowing proportions‚ clashing under the backdrop of the law of supply and demand. There are those that are bent on progressive ideologies and reshaping the world in their own view‚ such as the railroad oligarchy in Frank Norris’s‚ The Octopus. Shelgrim is misled in believing he has no control over the expansion of the railroad that is outstretching and engulfing the land of the people‚ all under the guise that it is an inevitable outcome of “progress”. Due to insistence

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