Anne Frank

Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps.

Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945.
Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947.

Anne Frank

On 3 May 1957, a group of citizens, including Otto Frank, established the Anne Frank Stichting in an effort to rescue the Prinsengracht building from demolition and to make it accessible to the public. The Anne Frank House opened on 3 May 1960. It consists of the Opekta warehouse and offices and the Achterhuis, all unfurnished so that visitors can walk freely through the rooms.

a statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdamm

CSDR

What is CSDR?

The California School for the Deaf, Riverside, is a component of the California Department of Education, Division of State Special Schools. The School serves 500 students from eleven counties in Southern California. The student body ranges from age 18 months through age 22 and reflects the diverse population of the region.

CSDR has earned a local, national, and international reputation for the quality of its instructional and residential programs and the breadth of its support services for deaf and hard of hearing students. Highly qualified staff provide deaf and hearing role models in the instructional and residential programs, and participate in an ongoing program of staff development.

The School provides an array of programs for parents and community members, including parent education classes, American Sign Language classes, Latino Family Retreat, and extensive outreach services.

History

On March 26, 1946, California assembly bill 75 was signed by Governor Earl Warren, future United States Supreme Court Chief Justice, authorizing appropriations to establish the Southern California School for the Deaf, later renamed the California School for the Deaf, Riverside

In 1977, Dr. Robert Lennan became the second school superintendent. One of the big changes during his era was the implementation of individualized education plan (IEP) as required by federal law.

In 2000, Dr. Rachel Stone, deaf since birth, became the fourth school chief and brought a number of changes including the increased respect to American Sign Language and opening up new opportunities for leadership among the deaf employees.

In 2006, Mal Grossinger was selected as the sixth superintendent of CSDR and remains in that position today. He is the second deaf superintendent to lead CSDR. Mr. Grossinger brings to the school over 25 years of experience in the field of deaf education. He is credited with bringing stability and unity back to the campus.

Adrenaline!!!

What is it?
Epinephrine also known as adrenaline is a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dilates air passages and participates in the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system. Chemically, epinephrine is a catecholamine, a monoamine produced only by the adrenal glands from the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine.


How does adrenaline work in the human body?
The adrenal glands may be found directly above the kidneys in the human body, and are roughly 3 inches (7.62 cm) in length. Norepinephrine  is also released from the adrenal glands when they are active.


People's experiences:


Here's a opinion of someone who loves the adrenaline:  " I am addicted to falling through the air, whether it be skydiving, bungee jumping or my new personal favorite, human slingshotting!

That rush of fear makes me feel so alive and reminds me how limited our time in this life is and renews my determination to experience as much as I possibly can"

My own experiences:

I use the adrenaline when doing sports or fighting. It feels that you are flying, that nothing can stop you. You can feel the anger and the focus of your mind and your body . And then you stop, everything turns quiet and slow, you see everyone and everything..... the time stops.

Cesar Chavez

César Estrada Chávez ( March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).


A Mexican American, Chávez became the best known Latino civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida.


Chavez was a charismatic, gifted speaker who inspired Latinos to band together and devote themselves to the farmworkers' movement. Claiming as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru, and Martin Luther King.


After his death he became a major historical icon for the Latino community, and for liberals generally, symbolizing militant support for workers and for Hispanic power based on grass roots organizing and his slogan "Sí, se puede" (yes it can be done).


César Chávez's birthday, March 31, is celebrated in California as a state holiday, intended to promote service to the community in honor of Chávez's life and work. 

The declaration of Independence of the United States

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. 


some facts: 

• But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776).
• For the first 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn’t celebrate it much on any date.
• By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the Democratic-Republicans, admired Jefferson and the Declaration. But the other party, the Federalists, thought the Declaration was too French and too anti-British, which went against their current policies.
• Celebrations of the Fourth of July became more common as the years went on and in 1870, almost a hundred years after the Declaration was written
• the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain was on  November 1776

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