through which the holiday of Thanksgiving was established as a national holiday. Hale believed that by institutionalizing the day‚ it would help to unite the Nation and to provide an American custom. Using Lincoln’s position and the general societal approval as her main points‚ she establishes the basis for her argument‚ and pleads her case to the President—the only person capable of making Thanksgiving a set holiday. Hale spends the majority of her letter to “discreetly” establish credibility in her
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Annelies Marie Frank is one of the superlatively well known Jewish Holocaust victims by virtue of the book that was published called‚ “The Diary of a Young Girl.” This book is a diary that she was writing in during the time when she was hiding from the Nazis with her family and the Van Daan family from 1942 to 1944. There has been a play based off the book called “The Diary of Anne Frank” and at the edge‚ Anne states‚ “In spite of everything‚ I still believe that people are really good at heart.” I believe
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Many military families may have their own “deployment diary”‚ as some may know‚ this can be a bit challenging for families. This article gives many challenging situations with being a military wife and trying to raise two young children while the husband is deployed. The couple have been together for ten years. During the full ten years the husband has always been in the military. While enjoying having friends and family around‚ her five year old daughter ask if she could look at pictures while sitting
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Dear Diary‚ Like Macbeth‚ I was a general in King Duncan’s army. People admired my bravery‚ they feared my wisdom. The facade that hid my emotions intimidated people; I wasn’t to be messed with. Macbeth and I were walking back from our victory in the battle when we crossed a heath which seemed unusually misty and foggy. It was as if I could feel the eerie presence of evil‚ and that’s when we saw them; three old looking ladies. We had crept cautiously to investigate the matter; the witches had been
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I chose to read a book that sounded really interesting to me. I found out about it last year during one of the Book Festivals. The book is called Zlatas Diary‚ and it is written by Zlata Filipović. It is from the Memoir/Autobiography genre. This is a diary that was published‚ and the author became really famous because of all the things that she had to go through‚ and because of her experiences. She had many journalists coming to interview her. The setting is in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina during
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Memory Failures Diary 1.Introduction The purpose of this assignment was to write down my memory failures that occurred throughout the semester. In my memory diary‚ I recorded specific details about the memory failures. I would analyze after reaching 15 memory failures and discuss the similarities and differences found. I evaluated my memory failures and related them to the memory concepts that we discussed in class. 2. Method The report of memory failures is based on my daily diary where I recorded
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World Literature Essay 2 The following piece is based on the play written by Henrik Ibsen namely‚ A Doll’s House. This a creative piece of writing in a form of a diary entry written by the protagonist of the story‚ Nora. She is displeased by the life she lives and as an act of despair she runs away to live her life in ‘freedom’ (as she puts it). By making Nora express her feelings in the beginning‚ those emotions will be critically analyzed and the reasons will brought into notice. This piece of
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3. As Mia in Princess Diary‚ write a reflection of your time when you went through the princess lessons. Me‚ a princess? At first I was shocked and rejected the whole idea which came about by the death of my father‚ Philippe Renaldi. My expectation in life is to be invisible and I am good at it. Being forced into this by my mother‚ I reluctantly agreed to attend “princess lessons” in preparation for my attendance to the State Dinner and Genovia’s Independence Day Ball. These lessons were conducted
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie is an inspiration to the younger generation. The novel targeted young adults when Alexie was writing it; however‚ she has got a positive response from many people. The fans of the book include students both teens and pre-teens who wrote letters to Alexie expressing the love they have towards the book. It was a surprise to Alexie when she received autobiographical letters
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various ulterior motives at work. Because of this‚ I have been left with nothing; my wife‚ Elizabeth‚ has been convicted and my neighbours are being killed off daily‚ accused of something that is all pretence. I have heard numerous rumours that Mr Hale has been attempting to get other prisoners to confess by saying that they have been conjured by the devil. He knows that the court is corrupt and supposedly wants us to salvage our lives
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