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    is when this line was said. She understands that people do bad things and that we are all human. Another quote of Anne’s that shows this is " It’s a wonder Miep has a life‚ considering we always have her run errands." this shows that Anne knows that Miep has a life and can’t do everything for the families. Anne is telling them to just let Miep live without bombarding her with their everyday errands. Clearly‚ she takes other people’s feelings into consideration during tough situations. This shows that

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    helping them escape.The presence of intolerance can inspire people to put others before themselves as seen in The Diary of Anne Frank and Escape from Sobibor. In many ways people put others before themselves in The Diary of Anne Frank. To begin‚ Miep and Mr. Kraler obviously put others before their own well being. As stated when Mrs. Frank said “ Thank you‚ Miepia. You shouldn’t

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    played through dialogue. As described by Anne “we’ve had bad news. The people from who miep got our ration books have been arrested. So we have had to cut down on our food.”(p167) Anne explains that there was so little food that couldn’t be provided towards them‚ because of the situation they had to cut down on the way the food was shared such as giving smaller portions this also provided that they did not want Miep to get in trouble by taking bigger portions of food than the usual that was given towards

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    Book Report on the Freedom Writers Diary Ten years ago‚ The Freedom Writers Diary was published and soon became an international sensation. Today‚ more than one million people have read it‚ and they have even made it a motion picture starring Hilary Swank. As the freedom writers all graduated from high school and keep on advocating their deeds‚ the journey continues. Through the report I would like to divide them into four sections to discuss: origin‚ differentiation

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    The Secret Annex One of the hardest struggles occurred during the 1900. This struggle was none other than the holocaust. In this piece of writing you will learn of the hardships that a little 13 year old girl faced during hiding from the Nazi regime. This girl stayed with her family and another family as well in the little annex that had little to no room in general and for two families. The lack of food was another hardship since they had so many people and little food that they weren’t able to

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    was able to remain hopeful that people were good at heart. One example of a person that gave Anne hope in humanity was Miep and her courage that she displayed. Hiding the Jews was extremely dangerous and risky‚ and if caught was punishable by death. However‚ Miep took Anne Frank and her family in. Hiding and taking care of eight people was dangerous and exhausting work. Miep did not have enough money to buy eight people food‚ so she got illegal coupons to get food. She had to find a new supplier

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    from school life at day to gang violence at night. A new teacher at Wilson High School by the name of Myer Gies connects education with her troubled students’ daily lives to bring them together past the boundaries drawn by gangs. Myer Gies teaches at Wilson High School‚ located in Long Beach. She is the teacher of her 23‚ “below school average‚” students in room 203 where she teaches

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    Anne Frank is a very influential historical figure whose diary has helped everyone all over the world learn about the Holocaust and what it is like to be a Jewish person in hiding. The Holocaust was a time period where the Nazi’s killed as many Jewish people as they possibly could. The majority of Jewish people had gone into hiding during this time period. In her diary‚ Anne describes life in the Secret Annex and why they chose to live in the Annex rather than anywhere else. She also talks about

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    The Striped Pajamas. For example Mr. Frank had to leave when he didn’t want to. He did not know why he had to leave‚ he also was not very happy about it. In paragraph 11 it states “I’ve come to say good-bye… I’m leaving here‚ Miep.” Mr. Frank was also brave when he told Miep to burn his papers that he got. For example in paragraph 21 he says “ Burn them. All of them.” In paragraph 23 when he read Anne’s diary he wasn’t sure if he should burn her

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    To most people the Holocaust is one of the darkest periods of time in history. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied forces defeated the Nazis. During this time a genocide occurred that slaughtered 6 million people of the Jewish faith. Throughout this era of darkness many people risked their lives to do what is best. Although‚ with all of the bad things people do‚ it may be easier to think that there is evil in everyone’s heart. I strongly

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