Anne+Frank

 ANNE FRANK

Background

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was born in the 12th of June, 1929 into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany. She lived with her father Otto, her mother Edith and her only sister, Margot. Their lives were pretty normal, Anne and her sister grew up with a mix of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant friends. Things suddenly began to change in 1933, the Nazis were becoming powerful. After the election on the 13th of March, 1933, things became clear that the country had a new leader: Adolf Hitler. Hitler changed the beliefs of the people and taught them to hate and intolerate the Jews or any other people that were not of the same race as him. Anne's father began to worry about the changes and how it might affect the well being of his family, so he moved his family to Amsterdam, in the Neatherlands. There, Anne and her sister had no problem starting a new school and making new friends. In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Neatherlands. Rules and laws were made that affected the Jew's freedom. A year later, they began to take Jewish people from their homes and sent them to concentration camps and prisons in Germany. Afraid that the Nazis would find his family, Otto Frank prepared a secret hiding place for his family to go to. They moved in with several other families a few months later. A month before they moved in, Anne recieved a present from her parents for her thirteenth birthday: a diary. When they moved into hiding, Anne was only allowed to bring a few things with her: a few pictures of movie stars and that diary. During her life in hiding, Anne wrote in the diary everyday. She called it "Kitty", refered to it as her friend and confided her greatest feelings and thoughts in it. Although Anne was only a young girl, the way she wrote in her diary was very expressive. She wrote about her feelings, her family, and what was happening whilst in hiding. She was bored and depressed in hiding, and looked towards her diary for support. Soon, Anne became inspired, and longed to write and publish a book that everyone would love to read. On the 4th of August, 1944, the hiding place was found by the Nazis. For the following months, Anne and her sister were moved from one concentration camp to another. Later, the girls were moved to a camp in Bergen-Belsen in Germany. In March, 1945, Anne Frank died at the age of 15 from disease. The only survivor of the Frank family was Anne's father, Otto Frank. He traveled back to Amsterdam where he found his daughter's secret diary. Having being moved by her words and thoughts, he published it two years later. Little did he know, did her diary become one of the most touching heartfelt stories of the world.

At first, Anne told herself her diary would be a book where she would confide all her secrets and thoughts and they would to be for her eyes only. This changed, however, after she heard a speech by the Dutch Minister Gerritt Bolkestein. Bolkestein had said that: "History cannot be written on the basis of official decisions and documents alone.If our descendants are to understand fully what we as a nation have had to endure and overcome during these years, then what we really need are ordinary documents -- a diary, letters from a worker in Germany, a collection of sermons given by a parson or priest. Not until we succeed in bringing together vast quantities of this simple, everyday material will the picture of our struggle for freedom be painted in its full depth and glory." From that, Anne was motivated to have her diary published once the war was over, and hoped her book could too, inspire others.
 * WHO INSPIRED HER?**



Anne Frank was considered a groundbreaker for her red and white checkered diary that she wrote in dunring the second world war. It showed the horrors of the Nazis, what the Jews had to go through and was the voice to the those who have died during the war. For a young girl, Anne was very mature and wrote beautifully. Her words have touched many deeply and inspired others to never give up or to lose hope. She kept writing that she would be okay, her family would be okay and looked on the brighter sides of things. Her diary taught people about discrimination, and about how important it is to love and respect others.
 * WHY IS SHE CONSIDERED A GROUNDBREAKER?**

+"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
 * FAMOUS QUOTES TAKEN FROM ANNE'S DIARY**

+"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be."

+" It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." (July 15, 1944)

+"I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden. But we all shrink from this thought. We still love life, we haven't yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping, hoping for . . . everything." (May 26, 1944)


 * REFLECTIONS**

1. What is success? I think success is the result of what one gets when he/she has tried their very best to achieve what they want by working and trying their hardest.

2. What personal qualities are needed for success? Qualities that are needed for success are reponsibility, commitment, hard work, enthusiasm, and determination.

3. Find a dictionary definition of success The definition of success taken from freedictionary.com is :The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted: attributed their success in business to hard work.

4. Form your own definition of success My own definition would be: to gain or achieve what one wants or desires; whether it is academically or socially, one must focus and commit themselves, with or without support, they do whatever it takes over time with hard work and determination to build and complete their goals..

5. Why do people fall short of achieving their potential? Some people fall short of achieving their full potential because they may become lazy and do not fully motivate themselves enough. Other reasons to why this happens could be to those who give up easily or procastinate too much.

6. Why does God want us to achieve our full potential? God wants us to achieve our full potential so that we get the best result and route that we want. Those who achieve their full potiental will be most likely to succeed, and easily fulfil their dreams.

7. What did you learn during Ms Rogge's workshop? During Ms Rogge's work shop, we learnt a lot more on the word success and its many definitions for different people and cases. I learnt that success, it is a journey, and it changes its definition at different periods of our life. For example, my definition of success for now could be to manage my time well and get good grades, but in the future i would have a much more different goal that i would have to achieve. During Ms Rogge's workshop, I also learnt about the many different characteristics of success, a few being: the ability to let go, focus, etc.

8. What do you think about this WIKI project - compared to a written assignment? What do you like and dislike? Compared to a written assignment, I think this WIKI project was much more fun and effiecient to do. Doing it on the computer, we wouldn't have to waste as much time writing out our assignment as typing it out would be much quicker. For photos we could just copy and paste, not needing to waste more time either drawing or printing. This WIKI project would also count as environmentally friendly as we don't use as much paper to print or write on- everything would be done on the computer. The bad things about this WIKI project is the editing thing. The fact that sometimes when you edit at the same time as another person, the information wouldn't be saved properly gets me slightly fustruated. Another bad point is that I don't concentrate as well on the project as I would usually do if it were a written assignment as there are many distracting things-MSN, mail, etc.

9. Read 1 Corinthians 12:4 and 12:12-27. Search for the section where the writer explains how God made us all different so that we can function together to achieve a greater purpose. We are not all called to be successful groundbreakers at the same thing, but each of us has our own unique potential and giftings to achieve amazing things. Corinthians 12:4 says "There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit." This might mean that even though God made us all different with different personalities and goals, but in the end, we work together to make this world a better place. Corinthians 12:12-27 tells us that we are all a part of the body of Christ and we are all equally important and equally cherished in the mind of God. This means that everyone of us is part of God, and although every single one of us is made different, we are all equal no matter what we think or do.

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