While Number the Stars and The Boy Who Dared both successfully address the difficult issue of the Holocaust‚ I found Lois Lowry’s novel much more child-empowering. Annemarie’s story remains somewhat separate from the horrors of Nazi Germany comparative to Bartoletti’s work‚ but Lowry puts that separation to good use. For example‚ when Annemarie struggles to understand the occupation of Denmark and asks her father‚ “sometimes I wonder why the king wasn’t able to protect us” (Lowry 15). This passage
Premium Childhood Developmental psychology Parent
COMPUTERS AND GIRLS. The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto‚ California‚ all have the same access to computers as boys. But researches say‚ by the time they get to high school‚ they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender gap in technology. Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Woman says‚ “Girls tend to be less comfortable that boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather that for problem solving‚ rather than to discover
Premium Computer 21st century Software engineering
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Mark Herman opened my eyes to a different side of the Holocaust. The film was told through the point of view of a young child outside the camps and how this horrific event looked to them. Bruno being so young and naïve had no idea what Shmuel was going through. For example‚ when Bruno first found the fence and Shmuel he asked if he had any friends and Shmuel responded with kind of and Bruno was jealous that he had someone to play with and that Bruno was all alone
Premium Nazi Germany Nazi concentration camps Adolf Hitler
It was the middle of June‚ Martha and Karen were spending their day at the mall. Martha and karen were a lot alike‚ and so was Robert‚ who had been following them for awhile. The three of them enjoyed two things; violence and perfume. While martha and karen were trying on perfume Robert watched them closely. He watched the way they talked and the way they ignored his presence. Martha and karen didn’t even notice him from only ten feet away. It seemed the closer he got to them the less they paid attention
Premium English-language films American films Family
World War II Extra Credit Movie Assignment: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ is set during World War II in a Nazi commandant and soldier home‚ a couple miles outside a Jewish concentration camp. The main character‚ Bruno‚ is an eight year-old German boy who is the son of the new commandant at the concentration camp. The story starts as Bruno and his family are moving out of Berlin since his father was offered a promotion as a commandant. Bruno is just told
Premium World War II Nazi Germany Family
Reading Journal on the Excerpt from Karen Armstrong’s Autobiography. The author is very expressive of her feelings‚ and I believe it is these feelings that she wants to let out to the world in her autobiography‚ there is not one point but an entire phase in life that she expresses in her writing. The feelings and mind-set of one lost‚ looking for an identity to fit into; can be a point she is trying to convey but then again‚ there is a lot of flow in her words that makes this point
Premium Feeling Feelings The Beatles
Here’s to Your Health Reading Response Essay In the article “Here’s to your health” it states that alcohol advertisers use myths to convey people into buying their products. These myths have a job to tell people a lie or a fact that will get people interested with the product. To start‚ one myth says that alcohol can bring people success. Another myth states that drinking has the ability to make people more attractive. The myth also gives people an idea to think that alcohol and athletics are
Free Alcoholic beverage Friendship Drink
On August 6‚ 1945‚ a US Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber‚ named the Enola Gay‚ piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets‚ dropped a nuclear weapon nicknamed Little Boy over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay opened its bay doors and dropped Little Boy at approximately 8:15 a.m. local time. Upon reaching 1900 feet above the city‚ Little Boy detonated. The initial blast killed over 45‚000 people instantly (Lallanilla‚ 2014). Some people believe that this was inhumane; however‚ the bombing made the
Premium Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear weapon Little Boy
In this book I think that David Sheff lays down a great visual into the life of his son Nic. He tells us how brilliant Nic is‚ that Nic has a great imagination and that all of his teachers think that he is a very smart and intelligent boy. But on the other hand he also lets us know that Nic is torn between the fact that he has to live two lives‚ one with his father‚ David‚ and one with his mother‚ Vicki. In the beginning it was good because his mother did not live to far from him but when she relocates
Premium Drug addiction Heroin Caffeine
Essay Analysis Philip Ross created a great essay in “The Boy and the Bank Officer.” He carefully chose creative and descriptive language while keeping the rhythm of the essay. He created an informative and insightful essay about a boy and a man’s experience while at the bank. This essay shows that people do care about the well-being of others‚ even if it is for their own good. The essay‚ “The Boy and the Bank Officer‚” starts out with a nameless man who thinks back to a old friend of his. The
Premium Bank Word Feeling