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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Michelle made it to her favourite high school, Whitney Young; after excelling in her academic education, she decided to try and make it to Princeton. She went to her first appointment with the school counsellor to have a talk about college life, as she was in her senior year. She recalls nothing much of the experience as all that she can remember the woman saying to her is that "you're was not Princeton material." It damaged Michelle's self-esteem quite a bit but she bounced back from the experience; she was determined to prove her wrong. It took a lot of studying and hard work to get there as she always got her high grades through hard work. However, Michelle was obviously pleased when she got the letter through the post to let her know that she made it into Princeton. This was a big achievement for her because not only had she proved the counsellor wrong, but she also achieved something that her parents could ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, We are finally entering part 3 of If This Is A Woman, by Sarah Helm. So far, we've looked at Ravensbrück and how women were treated there, at the beginning of the Nazi reign. Then we looked at Auschwitz Berkenau and the awful conditions that women were living in there, at the beginning of the Final Solution. Part 3 however, is a little bit different because it's talking about 1941-1942, where women were serving at the front in places like Stalingrad, when the Nazis had tried to take over parts of Russia. Many of the women were doctors and nurses and were aiding the injured in battle. However, some were caught by the German army along the way. They were forced to walk for miles and miles across treacherous land. They were hauled into carts and locked in with barbed wire, so they couldn't escape, even though they were starving. The first camp they went to, they were forced to work on munitions for the German front; the ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Recently I've been reading Becoming Michelle Obama by Michelle Obama herself. I wasn't really sure what to expect with this book but my mum read it before me and she said it was really good and she was the one who actually recommended it to me. I've also seen this book mentioned on the Zoella Book Club and I gathered that it was clearly a popular book amongst many. To be honest, I cannot disagree. So far, it has been a really interesting book to read, and I think that Michelle is a real inspiration. She does talk a lot about the black rights at the the time she was born, during the 50s and 60s but it's authentic to her era and some of the things she described were raw and true. She talked about the segregation between the south side of Chicago and the north, where a significant number of white people lived. She also talked about how her friends regarded her, as a young girl. She was taught at a very young age, by ...