“I don’t think of all the misery‚ but of the beauty that still remains”‚ written by Anne Frank. Anne Frank a young jewish girl born on June 12th ‚ 1929. She lived in Frankfurt am Main Germany‚ where many generations before her also lived. Her family consisted of her dad Otto Frank‚ sister Margot and mother Edith. Anne and her family lived a carefree until‚ Adolf’s sudden rise to power became more real and threatening. The family soon left Germany and moved to the Netherlands in Amsterdam. In Netherlands
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The next section‚ “The Dreaming Demon”‚ contains a character named Peter Los who contracted smallpox on his road trip from India and is still alive today but with significant damage to his skin‚ organs and has gone into hiding. He was taken to the largest hospital in the town of Meschede called St. Walberga Krankenhaus‚ which is staffed by nuns from St. Mary’s. Peter was placed into an isolation ward inside the hospital‚ which had its very own floor partially detached from the hospital to lessen
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The book Gathering Blue is the story of a young weaver named Kira who lives in a community. The community is somewhat primitive and does not have running water and people live in cotts made out of brambles and sticks. Kira’s mother dies and Kira has to sit with her at the field per the way they mourn. When she returns to rebuild her cott on her mother’s space‚ another woman with a scar across her face challenges her for the land area. Kira has a foot that drags and has much pain from it. She has
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In I am Malala‚ Malala Yousafzai tells her story from her past to the present. She includes what happened in her home valley and the Taliban‚ a political group that are trying to get rid of all “Non-Islamic” people and their actions. There are five parts in the book. Part one is called‚ “Before the Taliban”. Malala talks about her life before the Taliban invaded her home valley of Swat. Part two is called‚ “The Valley of Death”. In this part‚ the Taliban come into her valley and she talks about what
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Marriage is a private affair had many amazing morals in it that a lot of people in this world face. Many people across the world live this way‚ the way that Nnaemeka was supposed to. Okeke choosing who his son was supposed to marry. Every day people have to make the decision that he did. Two major themes stick out in this book are that you make your own decisions and that family is important. If Nnaemeka wouldn’t have made the decision he did the book wouldn’t have turned out the way it did. His
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The story of Grains of Sands is a fabulous story of a man named Benson M. Karanja. Leaving Kenya at the age of 35 years old‚ Dr. Karanja faced many ups and downs to end up being the president of the Beulah Heights bible college. Dr. Karanja’s journey throughout this book demonstrates the parable of faithfulness‚ obedience and humility. His character through difficulties and hard time as properly shows his ability of leadership. A model by his faith and educational achievements‚ Dr. Benson Karanja
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In 2013‚ Paul Kalanithi’s world was flipped upside down: he had been diagnosed with stage 4 Lung Cancer. He went from treating others‚ to others treating him. The way that he had previously looked at life had vanished and has was now seeing it with completely different eyes. In the beginning of the book he talks about his upbringing and how he was the child of two Indian immigrants. He was born on April 1‚ 1977 in New York. Kalanithi goes on to discuss his schooling achievement including where he
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The Imitation Game follows the story of mathematician Alan Turing and his life revolving around cracking enigma. The movie opens in post World War II England after a break in at Alan Turing’s home. The story of cracking enigma begins as Mr. Turing’s interrogation begins. Throughout the flashbacks into cracking enigma the movie shows the audience further time jumps to Mr. Turing’s childhood. In Mr. Turing’s childhood he is bullied and harassed‚ but when he meets Christopher and is introduced to cryptography
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When we were younger reading was easy‚ the morals were spelled out clearly and extra thought was rarely required. However once we out grew Aesop’s Fables and moved on to more advanced reads‚ where deep thinking‚ and interpretation is necessary to understand the meaning the author intended us to receive. In Kavitha and Mustafa by Shabha Rao‚ Rao uses observational descriptions of Kavitha’s use of vision and hearing to help portray her theme. Rao shows how observational Kathiva becomes due to her
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One of the main philosophes of the Bhagavad-Gita is the spiritual battle that people have to tend within themselves. Arjuna hard has time accepting the fact that he has to fight against his family. That is main dilemma in chapter one how can he kill his own family? That is when spirituality comes into play. He does want to go against his religion‚ but at the same time he finds himself momentarily questioning it. Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that Contacts with matter make us feel heat and cold‚ pleasure
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