Located on acres in Arlington, Texas, the park was the first to On August 1, , sprinter Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the meters to win gold at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Three days earlier, Johnson had also won the meters, making him the first man in history to win both events at the Olympics. Four years earlier Charles Whitman takes a stockpile of guns and ammunition to the observatory platform atop a foot tower at the University of Texas and proceeds to shoot 46 people, killing 14 people and wounding Whitman, who had killed both his wife and mother the night before, was The act was intended to revive the sagging spirit of detente between the Soviet Union Union General Ulysses S.
Within a few months, Sheridan drove a Confederate force from the Shenandoah Valley and destroyed nearly all possible sources of Rebel supplies, helping to seal the fate of the Live TV. At school, Anne - unlike her sister Margot — was not in the top of her class.
According to Otto, she disliked mathematics, but was enthusiastic about history. When Anne had to give a talk about the Roman emperor Nero, she even wanted to go beyond the material covered in her history book. When Anne went to secondary school, she had to take the tram. She was quick to judge and not afraid to voice her views, and I think that's why not everyone liked her.
To me, Anne was above all a dear friend. She wanted us to spend time together every day to talk or play or do homework. When she was alone, she was easily bored. I liked to be with her, too, but sometimes I just had other things to do. And then, all contact with her friends came to an abrupt end. Anne had to go into hiding with her parents and sister, as the Nazi anti-Jewish measures in the Netherlands made it too dangerous for them to stay in their own home.
In the Secret Annex, Anne was left to her own resources. She had a hard time being the Benjamin in the Secret Annex, surrounded by adults. Adults who constantly commented on her behaviour, too. The whole day long I hear nothing else but that I'm an insufferable baby.
Anne had the hardest time dealing with her mother Edith. Instead of 'mother' Anne calls her 'Mums': 'the imperfect mother, as it were'.
Otto noticed that Edith and the adolescent Anne did not get along well. However, she truly was an excellent mother, who put her children above all else. She often complained that Anne would oppose everything she did, but she was comforted to know that Anne trusted me. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
In addition to her diary, Frank filled a notebook with quotes from her favorite authors, original stories and the beginnings of a novel about her time in the Secret Annex.
Her writings reveal a teenage girl with creativity, wisdom, depth of emotion and rhetorical power far beyond her years. In May , researchers uncovered two hidden pages in Frank's diary that contained dirty jokes and "sexual matters," which the teen covered with pasted brown paper. Frank also wrote about her menstrual cycle, saying it's "a sign that she is ripe," devoted space to "dirty jokes" and reference prostitution: "In Paris they have big houses for that.
The pages were dated September 28, , and were part of her first diary - the one she intended only for herself. After the end of World War II, the Secret Annex was on a list of buildings to be demolished, but a group of people in Amsterdam campaigned and set up the foundation now known as the Anne Frank House. In , the Anne Frank Center USA launched a national initiative called the Sapling Project, planting saplings from a year-old chestnut tree that Frank had long loved as denoted in her diary at 11 different sites nationwide.
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Who knows? It might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and only that reason do we suffer. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English or representatives of any country for that matter.
We will always remain Jews, but we want to, too. GdnChildrensBks AnneFrankquotes "Nature makes me feel humble and ready to face every blow with courage!
GdnChildrensBks AnneFrankquotes "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank, whose teenage diary has become the most famous diary in the world.
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