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…, and is taken under the wing of a club DJ instead of a record-label executive. Her character, named Billie Frank (after the two great vocalists?), makes all the usual stops on the rags-to-riches trail, but the movie rushes past them. We're in the strange position…

…but always broke the engagement as the wedding day would approach. Most of the biographies about him tell of his problem with women and repulsion from sex and say that it was evident in his writings. In an entry in his diary he wrote “Coitus as the punishment…

…embraced the bomb as a military weapon whose use was fully condoned and never questioned. Truman's feelings that the bomb was a necessary military weapon can be seen in his diary on 25 July 1945, in which he recorded that he had told "Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson…

…Inside the Mind of…Jack the Ripper In the novel The Diary of Jack the Ripper, by Shirley Harrison, we examine the question of whether or not this is the diary of James Maybrick, who is Harrison’s candidate for Jack the Ripper. Various pieces…

…Bradley Jon Stromsodt Western Civilization since 1500 Crime March 19,2001 Articles by: Richard van Dulman, Rituals of Execution in Early Modern Germany Keith Wrightson, Infanticide in European History Stephen P. Frank, Popular Justice…

…beliefs. Therefore, many people are not as safe as they would like to be. I believe this quote by Anne Frank best summarizes my overall perception of the world: “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't…

…of the experience of World War II. And to make this clear I want to refer briefly to a story with which many of you will be familiar: The Diary of Anne Frank. In this well known story, a group of Dutch Jews seek refuge in an attic from the persecution of the Final…

…Paul Newman and Sal Mineo; and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). In relation to the particular two months in question, it is widely accepted that, for whatever reasons, Hughes's departure released for Plath a new sense of poetic freedom and led…

…in the games they could play, but evidence from journals, diaries, letters, and newspapers of the times indicates that the “ladies” of some wealth included dancing, “spectatoring of horse and boat races, skating, sleighing, kolven and golf. The physical activities…

…. If anyone knew that their small contribution helped save a life, or went to saving the lives of millions, that would be a wonderful thing to experience. If giving a small contribution made you feels better, why wouldn’t you? Anne Frank said,” Giving to someone…