Clea Koff Author/Forensics Anthropologist Clea Koff : is an amazing woman who spends her life solving crimes and speaking for those who no longer have a voice. Using her skills as a forensics anthropologist she aided in the Rwanda genocide by reassembling the skeletons and identifying individual victims and their cause of death. Clea Koff known as “The bone woman” at the age of 23 in 1996, went to Rwanda, where she was the youngest member of the first United Nations team to exhume and investigate a mass grave. In April 2004, Koff had her book “The Bone Woman” published through Random House, which gives account of her involvement in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide where 800,000 men, women, and children from the Tutsi civilian population were murdered when Hutu extremists from the elite political group blamed the Tutsi minority population as a whole for the country’s increasing social, economic, and political pressures. And were buried in a mass grave.
Anne Frank is one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust because of the diary she kept during this time. The Frank family went into hiding in an empty room behind Otto Frank’s company building, also known as the “Secret Annex”. The Families spent two years in hiding without ever once stepping outside the building. On June 12, 1942, Anne received a red checkered diary for her 13th birthday. Writing allowed Anne to maintain her sanity and spirit while in hiding.
Gerda has used Jane Schaffer writing strategy in displaying various themes in the book. One of the themes is sustaining power of hope. The topic sentences of paragraphs that contain bad information are powerful and contain information about hope. Gerda went through a lot of misfortune for example her parents were sent to camps and died there and she was sent on a death march. However, she never lost hope and this is shown by the first sentences.
I will plant you a lilac tree, and autobiography by Laura Hillman, shows the value of family, friendship and courage. Both in a victim's life and universally. This book illustrates how having these two values helped Hannelore Wolff, a victim of the holocaust through the hardest times. Overall, family, friendship and courage are key values to every person's life. Hannelore Wollf receives tragic news one afternoon while at school after weeks of worrying why her parents have not witten her.
When Allie left that summer, in the book it said how Noah wrote her letters for two years. In the movie Noah wrote Allie for exactly 365 days. Allie never got any of them because her mom hid them. Allies parents did not approve of Noah, he was poor and underclass, or as Allies mom called him trash. There were a couple of scenes in the movie that were not mentioned in the book.
When Melissa Cooper-Prince’s eleven-year marriage suddenly ended last year, she was disillusioned, angry, and heartbroken. “I felt blindsided. I needed an emotional outlet,” so the Rockford mother began painting while her children, Hannah, 9, and Cooper, 4, were visiting their father. At first she created small, simple watercolors, but as she became more immersed in the cathartic process, she ventured into other media—as well as more technically, and emotionally, challenging compositions. Having taken only three Art and Design courses at Hope College many years ago, Cooper-Prince had limited experience as an artist, but she realized that “it was a form of therapy” as she would become lost in her art for hours and hours reflecting on her life with and without her husband.
A Rose For The Anzac Boys A Rose For The Anzac Boys by Jackie French is a breath-taking novel about a young New Zealand girl who alongside her family experience the traumatic horrors of World War I, this novel shows extra ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their country and others in awful circumstances. Midge Macpherson is an important character who volunteered to go to war and as a result of going to war she learnt a lot about life and death. Midge is a courageous and brave young character who is from Glen Donal New Zealand. Midge is a 16 year old orphan who attends a boarding school in England with her two best friends Anne and Ethel due to her parent’s passing and both of her brothers Tim her twin and Dougie her elder
In her mind, she'd become a young mother again with a three-year-old boy and a younger sister. Russell's father, who she met when his car broke down leaving the local moonshine distillery, had not yet died in his early thirties from diabetes because insulin wasn't available.
Uncle Toms struggle to freedom with the assistance of Eva, a white girl who owed her life to Uncle Tom, presented to thousands the compassion between a white and a slave. Politicians, who avoided topics of slavery and hoped not to be asked questions concerning slavery, were now thunderstruck. Uncle Toms Cabin succeeded to touch the hearts of its readers. The novel became a bestseller with over 300,000 copies published. The novel brought a sense of remorse to its readers; this is exactly what abolitionists needed to keep growing the supporters of anti-slavery.
Hurston was sent off to boarding school during her early teen years. Her mother had died, and when her father remarried, it just seemed convenient for her to be away at school. One account I read tells that when the end of a term came and the other students went home, Zora was left with no one to take her home. This describes, a little, how life was for her after her mother died. She excelled at school and graduated from Howard University, an all black college.