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English, 27.06.2019 18:30, amandaestevez030

Read the two texts below and answer this question: how is miep gies’s life a “resonant affirmation of young anne’s belief in humanity? text 1: anne’s diary, saturday, july 15, 1944“it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything, i still believe that people are really good at heart. i simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. i see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, i hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, i can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if i look up to the heavens, i think it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”text 2: a righteous woman: miep gies protected anne frank and preserved her precious diarythe new york daily news, january 10, 2010 miep gies always downplayed her role as one of the brave band of friends who sheltered anne frank and her family from the nazis during world war ii."i simply did what i could to ," gies said on her 100th birthday last year. in the end she could not save anne and her family from betrayal to the nazis, even by risking all to protect them. but it was gies who preserved the young girl's diary that will echo through the ages as an expression of faith in the face of incomprehensible evil. gies was an employee of otto frank, anne's father. he was the sole member of the family to survive the death camps, where his wife and both daughters died. when he returned to amsterdam, gies gave him the work of literature that his younger child had fashioned while concealed in an annex of an amsterdam building. after that, miep lived quietly in the netherlands and was persuaded to tell her story in memoirs published when she was past 80. she died monday, the last of the four friends who hid the franks and four other jews. her life was a resonant affirmation of young anne's belief in humanity.

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English, 29.06.2019 06:30, mayyyaaa
Iwill give 35 points! text 1: anne’s diary, saturday, july 15, 1944 “it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything, i still believe that people are really good at heart. i simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. i see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, i hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, i can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if i look up to the heavens, i think it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.” text 2: a righteous woman: miep gies protected anne frank and preserved her precious diary the new york daily news, january 10, 2010 miep gies always downplayed her role as one of the brave band of friends who sheltered anne frank and her family from the nazis during world war ii. "i simply did what i could to ," gies said on her 100th birthday last year. in the end she could not save anne and her family from betrayal to the nazis, even by risking all to protect them. but it was gies who preserved the young girl's diary that will echo through the ages as an expression of faith in the face of incomprehensible evil. how is miep gies’s life a “resonant affirmation of young anne’s belief in humanity? a) miep gies became rich and famous because of her part in the frank family’s life. b) miep gies lived to be 101 years old. c) miep gies lived a life of such kindness, bravery, and sacrifice that she demonstrated in an enduring way anne’s belief in the goodness of people. d) miep gies lived quietly in the netherlands and was reluctant to tell her part in anne’s story.
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