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How Did Anne Frank Impact Society

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A family member that goes to war is missed severely, even if they do get killed. The anxiety that takes over your body is almost unbearable. Just imagine how anxious Anne Frank was; when she when she went into hiding when the Holocaust began during WWII. Anne Frank was significant because she accomplished writing a book from her journal that she never knew would be a book, teaching us how hard her life was when a draconian leader was in power, and her journal made a huge impact on society.
Anne Frank wrote a book from her journal that she wrote during the Holocaust, not knowing anyone would find it, or even publish it. Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany (Gale). Anne Frank died March/April 1945 by the disease called …show more content…

A poem written by John Donne called “No Man is an Island” has a quote that agrees with most of Anne Frank’s thoughts. “Any man’s death diminishes me, every man is a piece of the continent (Donne).” Anne Frank wrote in a very similar way as this, in her journal she asks what is the point of the war, asking why can’t people live peacefully together, which makes a connection to John Donne’s “No Man is an Island.” “In 2013 Frank's diary was the subject of a censorship battle in Michigan. The mother of a female student at a Michigan school filed a formal complaint to have the definitive edition of the diary banned from Michigan schools. The definitive edition contains material that was deleted from the 1947 version of the diary. The mother claimed that the definitive edition contains pornographic descriptions of the human body. Free speech campaigners protested the mother's complaint. According to the Guardian, a Michigan school committee rejected the complaint, ruling that banning the diary "would effectively impose situational censorship." The National Coalition Against Censorship supported the school district's decision (Gale).” Whether the journal made a bad impact or good is an opinion like this one from this mother in 2013. It did make an impact to show why war isn’t good, what can happen when war goes too far, or someone like that gets into power. Though this journal does show why war must continue, for the protection of innocent lives from the crooked leaders in this

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