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A Look into World War 2 Through Correspondence
Weekly Writing 10/11 This week was one of exploring and sharing. We spent days researching about the topics we chose for this project based on world war 2 and gathering letters to back up our claims. I really enjoyed the process, although it was difficult at times to find letters that could exactly match with…
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Women in War: A look into the Overlooked
Amal Khdour Exploring human correspondence in war is a look into different perspectives and the words of the overlooked voices affected by turmoil, no matter what part they play in society. A prime example of this is women during WWII. Their letters give us insight into how women grew as individuals during this war through…
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Point of Views
Weekly Writing 10/4 This week we looked at short stories and epistolary fiction. We took a look into human connection in midst of a time made up of terror and separation. It was so interesting to listen and read stories being told in the way of letters, not only was it more personal but it…
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Love is Resistance
Weekly Writing 9/27 Growing up I’ve always been drawn towards romance novels and movies. Love, and human connection is just as important and impactful in times of peace as in war. It tells us that in times of turmoilI and fighting that can dehumanize us, love is resistance. I’ve learned that in my country, Palestine…
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Letters at their end
Weekly writing 9/19 This week we read and analyzed last letters from the Holocaust and completed a think pair share activity to go over the two specific letters we chose to read from the Holocaust letters collection. Discussing our letters with partners was very interesting, not only to be able to talk about what I…
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Writing Project
For my project on letter writing in World War 2 I plan to explore, read the letters of, and write about women in world war 2. I found an incredible source online from Bryant University called U.S. Women and World War 2 Letter Writing Project, that not only runs through the significant impact that women…
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Connected Through Words
Weekly Writing 9/13 My History classes growing up delved into so much hardship, war, battle, and tragedies. Time and time again World War two was studied or mentioned like the different battles, the Holocaust, politics, Pearl Harbor, etc. However in my personal experience we never really discussed the Japanese Internment camps in depth and there…
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Pink, Blue, and Purple Paper – Flipping through old letters
This week we dived into the world of communication from the past and familiarized ourselves with not only how people communicated during war and day to day life but also what it looked like. We read through an article that explained how soldiers would communicate with their loved ones back home through V mail, telegram,…
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Weekly Writings
Letter Writing Letter Writing to me means diving into new worlds, it means exploring not only the minds of others and what they want to convey to another person but it helps me understand different time periods in the world their relation to the change of humanity and our writing. I love writing in my…
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Letter Writing
Letter Writing to me means diving into new worlds, it means exploring not only the minds of others and what they want to convey to another person but it helps me understand different time periods in the world their relation to the change of humanity and our writing. I love writing in my journal daily…