... her 13th birthday from her parents, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The diary's universal appeal stems from its blend of wartime and her discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent. She immediately started writing her intimate thoughts. Her first entry read as follows; "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never ... office. When Anne and her family went into hiding from the Nazis, who were victimizing and arresting Jews, the diary went with her. For the two years she spent in hiding, the diary was her con...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... . Michihiko Hachiya, is a journal that records many experiences of the Japanese in Hiroshima on the day of and the days immediately following the bombing. The diary is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving, as Hachiya tried to record the personal experiences of those he came into contact with, as well as the medical complications that arose from radiation sickness in the aftermath of the bomb. After reading the selection, I found myself almost ashamed, because, as ... to civilian Japanese sentiment in 1945, and the perspective of those in the midst of the horrors at Hiro...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... extract 1 - The Diary of Anne Frank with extract 2 - Go Ask Alice the writers have both used a certain context and purpose which determines their choice of language and use of tone. These texts convey elicit and melodramatic tones in addition to creating a particular version of reality. The reader is encouraged to gain an understanding of the text's meaning and also the attitudes, beliefs and values that are presented as a result. The Diary of Anne Frank ... is set in the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War 2. Frank a German Jewish-teenager and h...

• Word Count: 1107
• Approx Pages: 4

... He feels that the dropping of the bomb was 'the first major operation of the cold diplomatic war with Russia. Also an American historian, Gar Alperovitz, wrote a book titled Atomic Diplomacy. His book contains a diary entry from 28 July 1945 by U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal that describes Secretary of State James F. Byrnes as 'most anxious to get the Japanese affair over with before the Russians got in ... '. Also Byrnes' assistant Secretary of State, Walter Brown, has a diary entry that suggests that Truman and Byrnes saw the bomb as a way to reduce Soviet ... inevitable ev...

• Word Count: 2005
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... kept a secret. Ellen is taken to Annemaries uncle's house where they are able to escape to Sweden by hiding in a hidden compartment of a boat. Both Ellen and Annes family are hiding from the nazis to prevent them from being relocated. The diary of Anne Frank takes place in Amsterdam, Holland and my book both takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1943. Ellen pretends to be ... part of her friends family in hiding but in annes diary she and her family and friends are in hiding together in an attic. I would ... recommend this book because it shows how the holocaust affected everybody and ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... kept a secret. Ellen is taken to Annemaries uncle's house where they are able to escape to Sweden by hiding in a hidden compartment of a boat. Both Ellen and Annes family are hiding from the nazis to prevent them from being relocated. The diary of Anne Frank takes place in Amsterdam, Holland and my book both takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1943. Ellen pretends to be ... part of her friends family in hiding but in annes diary she and her family and friends are in hiding together in an attic. I would ... recommend this book because it shows how the holocaust affected everybody and ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Forward, 2013). Jews had faced quotas in universities, were blocked from various professional fields and barred from certain neighbourhoods (The Jewish Daily Forward, 2013). War diary of the Canadian Provost Corps, Camp N (Sherbrook, Quebec), February 1941. The entry from February 22 reveals the anti – Semitism attitudes towards the internees who were refugees from Nazi Germany," (Vancouver Holocaust Education Center, 2012). By being labelled as " ... an ordinary citizen would have been able to do and judging by the war diary of the Canadian Provost Corps, the Jewish refugee inter...

• Word Count: 2212
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The diary of Anne Frank play was an excellent play with minimal errors although repeated ones. Set in Amsterdam during World War II on the second floor of a warehouse, where Anne, her parents and sister, Peter and his parents and a unpleasant dentist were hiding out, so the Nazis wouldn't find them and send them to a concentration camp. I think what the cast and the crew of this play were trying to ... that you were actually in a theater watching a play. Although the only fault that there was in his acting was at the beginning when he was supposed to be reading Anne's diary simultaneously wit...

• Word Count: 619
• Approx Pages: 2

... , because they were Jewish, because prejudice infected a man who had the means to use it to the highest degree of it's ferocity. The Jews were not blinded by the terrible conditions that they were forced to endure, they were perfectly aware of the reasoning behind their predicament as the following quote from the Warsaw ghetto diary of Chaim A. Kaplan shows. "This (the German's hatred) is not a hatred whose source is simply in ... a party platform, invented for political purposes. It is a hatred of emotion, whose source is some psychopathic disease". Kaplan goes on to describe the extent...

• Word Count: 1016
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... resort they had to starve them to death. They chose this instead of shooting them because it took 10-20 days for the elephants to starve. So if the war was over they would save the elephants. They had three elephants. The first elephant died in 17 days. They then started to starve the other two elephants. about 10 days went by. When they then seen ... their owner they started doing tricks for him. Knowing they always got treats after doing a trick. The owner couldn't stand it anymore and had to feed them. He knew they had to die so instead of feeling sorry for them each day when seeing ...

• Word Count: 246
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary," A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is unconceivable" (Dwork, p.155). Infact many of these ghettos were "closed" meaning that the Jews that occupied the ghettos were forbidden to leave the area. Within the ghettos, there was belittlement of life. The segregated streets often had no working stores and closed places ... observed very closely but as expected, the children all became very ill within days. With the war looking like it would soon be over, the doctor decided to kill th...

• Word Count: 1214
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... seem like all the events in the entire story had really happened, including the existence of all the characters, in addition to the historical events occurring in the background to this story. Speaking of historical events, I'd like to criticize the organization of this book. The way that this whole book has been put together really makes it feels as if the reader was reading an actual diary, just simply a document of this person's life ... told in her point of view. Many dates ... ...

• Word Count: 1570
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... Paul and his friends' thoughts and conversation very successfully. The thoughts of Paul were the major thing in the novel that showed out the author's point of view. All most in every single event that happened in this novel, Paul had his own feelings and thoughts, this book seemed like a Paul's little diary, which recorded his pain and suffering. The descriptions of Paul's feelings were very meticulous, and gave ... the readers a impressive feeling about how terrible the war was. Also, the author pointed out that the war destroyed young men's lives both in mental and physical ways. Tho...

• Word Count: 1152
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... the causes of the Depression, and the second had to find ways to reduce the national expenditure and not have to go off the gold system. Even France who denied that the Depression was effecting their economy "called on experts to search for the causes of the financial difficulties of the country and propose remedies." (172) The United States next idea was the New Deal, but they were one of the last countries to do something of ... started to tag their pigs with different prices depended on quality. Lastly Switzerland and England regulated the diary industry. By 1937 many people thought ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... and won. However, for Hitler, a legally established dictatorship was in his reach. With the help of Joseph Goebbels, who had a lot of talent for writing speeches, organizing, and dealing with propaganda, Hitler could gain even more support for entering into the office. After only meeting Hitler twice, Goebbels wrote in his diary, "Great Joy. He greets me like an old friend. And looks after me ... supported the efforts of the Nazis. In the 1932 presidential election, over thirty million of the sixty million people who populated Germany at the time, voted in the Hitler vs. Hindenburg camp...

• Word Count: 2385
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... and won. However, for Hitler, a legally established dictatorship was in his reach. With the help of Joseph Goebbels, who had a lot of talent for writing speeches, organizing, and dealing with propaganda, Hitler could gain even more support for entering into the office. After only meeting Hitler twice, Goebbels wrote in his diary, "Great Joy. He greets me like an old friend. And looks after me ... supported the efforts of the Nazis. In the 1932 presidential election, over thirty million of the sixty million people who populated Germany at the time, voted in the Hitler vs. Hindenburg camp...

• Word Count: 2272
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

60 years ago, My grandfather's generation turned their heads while evil took hold of our world. His generation received a punch in the chin when it wasn't looking at Pearl Harbor. History tells us how his generation responded. My generation has turned its head while the evil of terrorism has taken hold of this world. On Sept. 11th, we received a punch in the chin while we weren't looking. How will my generation respond? I hope with the same patriotism, loyalty, and resolve that my grandfather's did. This is a tragedy. it should have never happened. I'm only 16 but this has affected my life and...

• Word Count: 206
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... assassinated. This set off a chain reaction around all the countries in Europe. Now during the years, Austria had quarrels with Serbia, which had become more explosive. Therefore Austria seized the chance of a war between them by accusing Serbia for the assassination. However this war was supposed to remain local. Nonetheless the Austro-Serb quarrel explains the outbreak of the war, however it does not explain why it became ... a world war. These are a few reasons that are suggested for the escalation of the world war. However some are more plausible than ... we [Britain] could not be ...

• Word Count: 421
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... book takes place in Chicago's Southside, sometime between World War II and the present. The main characters are Ruth Younger, Walter Lee Younger, Beneatha Younger, and Lena Younger. Lena Younger is the mother of Beneatha and Walter. Ruth Younger is Walter's wife. Walter wants to have a liquor shop and wants the money that Lena Younger is suppose to get that belonged to her husband. Beneatha ... . Lindner that "What I am telling you is that we called you over here to tell you that we are very proud and that this is my son, who makes the sixth generation of our family in this country, and ...

• Word Count: 443
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... selling his novel in America, Cohn returns to his former home with an attitude of arrogance and a hunger for excitement, and frequently pesters Jake. The Sun Also Rises documents the people who came to be known as the "Lost Generation," a generation of broken dreams and destroyed naivete emerged from the World War I with an outlook blemished by bitterness and aimlessness. Jake and his ... given their lives meaning. Their lives become seemingly aimless, without a belief in any solid notion or a psychological or moral purpose. Most of Jake's friends are alcoholics. To these people, drinki...

• Word Count: 355
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is often called America's first great war novel, yet Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is more than just a tale about the civil war. Each person goes through his or her own personal struggle during the process of maturing. Some have this easy; others strive very hard to reach this goal of development. Although there may be constant struggles, there usually is one major event that creates somewhat of a bridge between childhood and adulthood. The Red Badge of Courage traces the steps and major events in the life of Henry Fleming, focusing mainly on his evolution into manhood. We meet H...

• Word Count: 178
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... get involved to help out, other countries may look at it through a bad point of veiw. In a powerfull countries point of view, everything surrounding us is weak and may be supported by us, but the weak countries dont think may not think of the powerfull the same way. In some places, like Europe, the United States needs to provide only a little encouragement. European countries will then focus ... on protecting their own territories and gain power as well. Korea and Russia are two examples of countries that are effected and effect the U.S. Korea has had issues with the US and after it was...

• Word Count: 442
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Canal. By deciding to destroy Soviet Russia in 1941, Hitler lost the war. As he defeated France and closed in on Paris in 1940, Hitler believed he could go after the rest of the continent after signing the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. "His instrument was the Tripartite Pact, signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, binding any two to come to ... the aid of a third if it was attacked." (Robert Cowley, What If, page 298). His pact was ... an ego. It was causing him to think illogically and go after a much-hated Communist Russia instead of looking east. The...

• Word Count: 369
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... War I. His reason for not going to war was because, " 'It offends [his] sense of logic. It offends [his] sense of scale'" (Page 22). The English government fakes Kingsley's death and gives him a new identity. Then they send Kinsley to France to find the truth behind the murder. Caption Shannon is the man that takes Kingsley to France. Caption Shannon has served in ... ; 'Unhand that girl this instant,'" (Page 173) showing he wasn't afraid of him. Kingsley shows his bravery more than once during the story. For example when Kingsley went up the ladder into the trenches in order ...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... marched out in her glory, with power and might to show. Showing to the world they were dangerous and a enemy if on the wrong side. George Bush and his campaign orchestrated and conducted a massive propaganda of a government campaign on the people of this country. September 11, finally gave the United States or should I say Bush a reason to declare war on Iraq which brought America to its ... national security a preemptive strike was carried out which bought us to invade. Saddam Hussein who was a clear enemy linked to Al-Qaeda who was responsible for the catastrophe on 9-11, and he held ...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School