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Berlin: City Split in Two.
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First published January 1, 1971
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Nancy Garden
44 books460 followersA versatile writer, Nancy Garden has published books for children as well as for teens, nonfiction as well as fiction. But her novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two high school girls who fall in love with each other, has brought her more attention than she wanted when it was burned in front of the Kansas City School Board building in 1993 and banned from school library shelves in Olathe, Kansas, as well as other school districts. A group of high school students and their parents in Olathe had to sue the school board in federal district court in order to get the book back on the library shelves. Today the book is as controversial as ever, in spite of its being viewed by many as one of the most important books written for teens in the past forty years. In 2003 the American Library Association gave the Margaret A. Edwards Award to Nancy Garden for lifetime achievement.
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April 6, 2018
I’m not sure how did I find this book, all I remember is me searching for something entirely unrelated to Berlin on archive.org and the book was there in the search result.
The writer did not narrate much on what was before the fall of Berlin, so I followed her lead and forgot about the Nazis troops. Instead I focused on the suffering of the Berliners During the time of the wall.
As I was reading their stories, I felt their pain, pictures of children and women in grieve and men humiliated in their own lands. Not so different from the picture I imagine of my own people when I recall the history of my country under colonization.
The American writer describes in details how east Berliners suffered under the communist system in the east, and I was reading with rage about the cruelty of the soviets toward civilians, on the contrary to freedom and luxury which west Berlin enjoyed under the allies supervision. But then I remembered how my friend used to say, “People will always tell you about the good they did, but they will always hide their shameful actions”. Now, I will try to find what a communist writer thought of West Berlin, and testimonies of Berliners themselves.
On the last pages, the writer provided an abstract definition of Democracy, part of it reads “In Athena,………., All citizens could make laws and could vote”
I wonder how the writer can forgot to mention that Athena citizens of her own sex were denied both the right to make laws and vote back in the time of Athens!
“Ancient Greek women – with the exception of the Spartans – had virtually no rights. In fact, they weren't even regarded as citizens, were excluded from many public spaces and were basically seen as the property of their fathers and husbands.”*
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* http://stepfeed.com/ancient-egypt-was...
The writer did not narrate much on what was before the fall of Berlin, so I followed her lead and forgot about the Nazis troops. Instead I focused on the suffering of the Berliners During the time of the wall.
As I was reading their stories, I felt their pain, pictures of children and women in grieve and men humiliated in their own lands. Not so different from the picture I imagine of my own people when I recall the history of my country under colonization.
The American writer describes in details how east Berliners suffered under the communist system in the east, and I was reading with rage about the cruelty of the soviets toward civilians, on the contrary to freedom and luxury which west Berlin enjoyed under the allies supervision. But then I remembered how my friend used to say, “People will always tell you about the good they did, but they will always hide their shameful actions”. Now, I will try to find what a communist writer thought of West Berlin, and testimonies of Berliners themselves.
On the last pages, the writer provided an abstract definition of Democracy, part of it reads “In Athena,………., All citizens could make laws and could vote”
I wonder how the writer can forgot to mention that Athena citizens of her own sex were denied both the right to make laws and vote back in the time of Athens!
“Ancient Greek women – with the exception of the Spartans – had virtually no rights. In fact, they weren't even regarded as citizens, were excluded from many public spaces and were basically seen as the property of their fathers and husbands.”*
_______________________________
* http://stepfeed.com/ancient-egypt-was...
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