kids to move into a new house‚ but it’s different knowing that you’re forced to live in an attic‚ and if you leave‚ you’ll be killed. She was only be 13 when she moved into the hidden attic‚ enduring the stresses that came with it. The Frank’s and Van Daan’s stay hidden for 2 years and 1 month during WW II from the Nazi’s. The theme of Anne Frank story is her ablility to stay positive will dealing with WWII. Reading how Anne Frank tried to stay positive during life changing events because of
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This photograph taken by Eddie Adams on 1st February 1968 during the Vietnam War shows the execution of Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem‚ also known as Bay Lop by South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan‚ chief of the national police. The prisoner’s hands are tied as “Colonel” is about to pull the trigger. This picture was taken in the city of Saigon on the second day of the Tet Offensive; a series of attacks on all of South Vietnam’s major cities by the communist North Vietnamese and Vietcong rebels
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activities and philosophical situations that take place through the week. The writing will have a special focus on metaphysics‚ on how it highly impacts and relates to a high school student’s daily life‚ by using tools regarding this topic by Alain Badiou‚ Van Inwagen‚ Plato‚ Aristotle and The Matrix. Philosophy is the invention of new problems‚ however not all situations can be philosophically analyzed. That is why a current philosopher from metaphysics explains in his text “The Event” how are these
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In the wonderful book Flipped‚ written by Wendelin Van Draanen there are many characters but there is one character that stands out‚ Juli‚ she stands out because she is positive. One example of her positiveness‚ is any time she gets beaten down she always finds someone or something to raise her feelings back up. Another example‚ is she get nmjs help raising her feeling from Bryce (Sometimes)‚ Chet and mostly herself. After the sycamore tree was cut down‚ Juli was mostly mad at Bryce because Bryce
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The Running Dream Hidden Themes The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen is the heart wrenching fictional story of a teenage runner who faces and overcomes unthinkable obstacles. Through the almost impossible to put down story‚ Draanen potrays several themes. Some are easy to expose and others you must dive deeper into the context. The Running Dream has not only one but many themes. Sending a moral through a story is vital and Draanen does it amazingly. She does it in which a way in which it is
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Mikayla Russell Hist 1160 October 1‚ 2013 History 1160 Assignment One: Chapter 4: European Material Life‚ 1600-1800 Document One: Page 96 A Meal of Gruel in a Dutch Peasant Family is an engraving done by A. Van Ostade in Paris in 1653. During this time era‚ there were many wars taking place‚ like the Thirty Years War‚ and this time was in the middle of the age of exploration. Since most of the wealth of the Dutch Republic‚ as well as all over Europe‚ was going towards funding these great
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The readings in the Reader by Judith Van Allen and Janheinz Jahn show what life was like for women and their roles in society. Jahn tells the life of a girl named Ewumi and describes what her duties were like as a woman. From a young age‚ Ewumi experienced what the gender roles were and how she was expected to live as she got older. When she became of age‚ she was able to pick a suitor. This surprised me because I thought that the women did not have a say in who they married. Women were expected
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Grandpa Chet is not a quiet lazy grandfather like Bryce thought. He actually has a voice and a great personality. But does he have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? In Wendelin van Draanen’s realistic fiction novel Flipped‚ Bryce’s grandfather‚ Grandpa Chet‚ has a growth mindset. In Flipped‚ Grandpa Chet has a growth mindset. An example on page 91 is “They are not trash Rick. They are good‚ honest‚ hardworking people.” This proves that Chet has a growth mindset because he is standing up for the
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treated the same and no certain gender is better than the other. Anne feels that if a woman wants to do something that “only men can do” or she wants to make something of herself. She should go for it and not be afraid. In the story Anne and Mr. Van Daan have a disagreement about women. Mr.Van Daan begins to compare Anne to Margot and other women that dont talk up to men‚ that stay home to cook and
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body experiences a nuclear winter. A nuclear winter is a colossal nuclear war that changes the climate in great proportion. This is caused by the soot and smoke trapped in the Earth’s stratosphere. The short story‚ “The Portable Phonograph” by Walter Van Tilburg Clark‚ depicts the challenges that four men have to face as a result of the catastrophic effects of a nuclear winter‚ and how music and literature can keep one’s sanity in tact. Author James Roberts explains in great detail‚ the extreme repercussions
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