SUMMARY LETTERS FROM RIFKA November 30‚ 1919 Warsaw‚ Poland Mama‚ Papa‚ Nathan and Saul go to America‚ but Rikfa can´t go. Rikfa can´t go beacuse she has ringworm in her head. She stays and her family leaves. I think this is really bad beacause she´s only 12 years old and they can´t leave her alone in a big city. She has to go with her family. December 1‚ 1919 Warsaw‚ Poland Rikfa has to go to another country and leave her family. She will go to another family like immigrant
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St. John de Crevecoeur wrote an essay about the recently independent country America. The piece was featured in his collection of essays‚ Letters from an American Farmer. Crevecoeur defines Americans in this essay‚ to others around the world who wished to read it at the time. He goes in depth about the vast freedom and opportunities in America and compels others in lesser countries to come and flourish. Throughout the essay‚ Crevecoeur delivers his words proudly and boastingly. Crevecoeur explains
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Segni‚ Pope Innocent III was the son of a count and a noble Roman family. As a young man‚ Pope Innocent III studied theology in Paris‚ which at the time was the center of theological studies. He served as the Pope from 1198 to 1216 and is known for expanding and reestablishing the Pope’s authority over the Papal States‚ launching crusades‚ and reforming the church. During the years between 1203 and 1204 Pope Innocent III wrote advice letters to powerful church members from England to the southern
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nature; what was once the thirteen original colonies quickly expanded into one massive country with influence extending far beyond its geographical borders. Yet because the country covers so much land‚ many regional nuances and dialects are reflected in the works that come out from each section of the country. From accents‚ to food‚ to history and culture‚ no one place defines what America is as a country‚ but all combine to provide the sense of one American identity. American writers from the 19th
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Letters from Rifka is the story of a young Russian-Jewish girl and her family who leave their homeland in 1919 to travel to America. Persecuted in Russia by the soldiers and others who dislike Jews‚ Rifka’s family makes their way across Russia to Poland and the U.S. However‚ Rifka encounters many difficulties along the way. Initially worried that they will not make it out of Russia‚ the family runs into guards on the train on the way out (whom Rifka successfully distracts)‚ and unkind guards at the
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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur‚ a French aristocrat‚ wrote this essay after the Revolutionary war for all the world to read‚ most importantly the European nations. He wrote this essay to persuade people of other nations to immigrate to the Americas. Throughout this essay he uses strong diction and metaphors to persuade these people to move here. He begins his essay by stating that “a country that had no bread… no harvest…” He uses this statement to show the world that a nation that does not provide
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Letters from Rifka The genre of my book is fiction. The setting begins in a train station on September 2‚1919 in Berdichev‚ Russia where the sun rose above the trees at a train station and Rifka stood outside a boxcar. Rika is the main character and she is a 12 year old jewish girl from Berdichev who is trying to flee with her family to America. The main characters of the story are Rifka‚ her mother and father and her two brothers Saul and Nathan. Her and her family are trying to escape from
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Dear Editor My name is John Foulcher‚ renowned Australian poet. I have recently been surfing the World Wide Web and by accident I come up with your site‚ "Online Anthology of Australian Poets". The subject matter of poetry attracted me to wonder around your website. I believe my poetry should be included in your collection for I have lived and breathed Australian culture for just over 50 years now‚ I have recorded my way of life in my poems‚ and in particular I have a specific
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In this letter to John Adams‚ his wife Abigail is asking him to reconsider the laws of a new nation and that it does not repeat what his ancestors had done by rebuilding a masculine society. She understands what he is doing against Great Britain‚ but she also wants him to know that all men would become tyrannical if and only if they did not have their wives to set them straight. Her message is very explicit in that she states she does not want women to be forgotten and that they deserve the same
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John Doe Mr. Teacher English 105 Insert Date Summary /Response to “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King’s "A letter from Birmingham jail" was written in response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama who seriously criticized King for organization and participation in the protest march against segregation in Birmingham. King’s letter was an attempt to defend himself from these accusations and to criticize white heads and moderators of the church. In the
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