Tag: Class
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WWII Presentations
For class, we shared our presentation of any topic during WWII involving letters that we were willing to share. I focused on love letters from the book “Love Abe: A Jewish GI’s World War II Letters Home” by Bonnie Klapper Goldenberg. I read majority of the book and read some of the letters that were…
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WWII & Epistolary Fiction
In class, we discussed the ideas of letters being sent to either strangers or loved ones. It made me think about how letters have impacted communication to get their words out for good. When sending letters, it would either be about sending them a gift to feel safe or connecting with what’s happening in their…
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Love Letters in War
In class, I was afraid of the idea of listening to letters being read because of how uncomfortable I would feel. Turns out, I was right. I was very uncomfortable, but I enjoyed listening to the stories. I was uncomfortable because of how they would flirt back then, and I’m just too single to understand…
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Last Letters in the Holocaust
In class, we discovered that free writing is a way to clear the mind with writing that doesn’t need to be perfect. Before class, we read two letters during the Holocaust the were a persons last letter to their loved ones (family members, significant others, etc;). During class, we wrote a free writing for a…