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…a big space we didn’t use. We were also force to leave school and had no rights to anything but to wait for the Nazis to do what they wanted to do with us. Couple of months before the Nazis invaded us, my parents received a letter from the Polands advising…

…messages to his generals. It consisted simply of switching each letter with the letter that was 3 letters further down the alphabet. For example "Stephen" would become "Vwhskhq". To decrypt the message, the receivers would simply subtract 3 letters from…

…to the pronunciation. That means, unlike modern English, there are neither silent letters nor any other unnecessary letters. Second, the spelling adapted the sound value of spoken Latin, the language with which linguistic scholars have more historical evidence to work…

…these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand" (NIV). In a letter to his parents, he paraphrases "that at the last Day, we shall not be examin'd [by] what we thought, but what we did; [namely] GOOD to our…

…and not to surrender. The technique employed within the cipher was a simple three-letter shift of the Roman alphabet. So a simple message like ?Hold On? would be encrypted as ?Krog Rq?. Now without knowing the key (the fact that it is a three letter shift down the alphabet…

…a letter to the family, letting them know that he and Eb were alive and well and were fighting for Grant's Army. He said that there was death all around them, but that they were trying to keep their spirits up. Shad and John would soon be leaving to join…

…Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne, a man who personified a literary battle between good and evil, had an ambiguous and unique writing style that was greatly advanced for his time. Although literary works such as, The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman…

…and cannonballs. Sherman also threatened the civilians during his occupation of Savannah, right before he began his march. In a letter he wrote to Brigadier General John E. Smith in Cartersville Georgia, he showed his total disdain for people of the South who…

…It has been known that skilled readers (adult readers) have at their disposal two different procedures for converting print into speech. It has been thought that there is a dictionary look-up (lexical) procedure and a letter-to-sound (non-lexical…

…students be expected to learn what the curriculum calls for them to learn, when the teachers themselves need an education in what they are teaching. Such was the case for Jacob, an African American junior from the South Bronx of New York City. In the letter…