Ronald Wilfred Jansen visited Anne Frank's home addresses in Frankfurt am Main, Aachen and Amsterdam; her hiding place the Secret Annex; and the Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps where Anne Frank was imprisoned. His book describes her history and the objects that today still remind us of the environment in which she lived. His motivation for writing this book is that it was one of the last opportunities he would have to contact the people who knew Anne; these people revealed some new facts about her and her world. Other contemporaries of Anne Frank also contributed fascinating information about her surroundings. By tracing her footsteps, he gained a more complete picture of Anne Frank and her environment.

Ronald Wilfred Jansen visited Anne Frank's home addresses in Frankfurt am Main, Aachen and Amsterdam; her hiding place the Secret Annex; and the Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps where Anne Frank was imprisoned. His book describes her history and the objects that today still remind us of the environment in which she lived. His motivation for writing this book is that it was one of the last opportunities he would have to contact the people who knew Anne; these people revealed some new facts about her and her world. Other contemporaries of Anne Frank also contributed fascinating information about her surroundings. By tracing her footsteps, he gained a more complete picture of Anne Frank and her environment.

🌟 Discover the profound legacy of Anne Frank in this compelling new book, a deep exploration of her life, thoughts, and enduring impact. 🌟 📖 "Anne Frank: Voice of Valor in Veiled Times" delves into the heart of Anne's journey, painting a vivid picture of her courageous spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity. This book is not just a biography; it's a tribute to a young girl's resilience and her unwavering hope in humanity. Inside the Book: 🌍 Historical Context: Understand Europe in the 1940s and the events that led to World War II. 🏡 Life in Hiding: Step into the Secret Annex where Anne and her family hid, learning about their daily struggles and the dynamics of their secluded life. ✍️ Anne's Diary: A deep dive into her diary entries, revealing her dreams, aspirations, and fears. 💔 Tragic Journey: Follow the heartbreaking path of the Frank family from their hiding place to the concentration camps. 🎗️ Lasting Impact: Explore Anne's influence on literature, education, human rights, and her role as a symbol of hope in modern times. Why Read This Book: 🌈 Gain a new perspective on one of history’s most poignant stories. 📚 Ideal for readers interested in history, human rights, and inspirational stories. 🎓 A valuable resource for educators, historians, and anyone seeking to understand the past to shape a better future. 💬 Engage in meaningful discussions about tolerance, empathy, and resilience. "Anne Frank: Voice of Valor in Veiled Times" is more than a book; it's an emotional journey, a call to action, and a reminder of the power of hope. 🕊️ 🛒 Add to your collection today and let Anne Frank’s story inspire and move you. Available now on Amazon Kindle and Paperback. #AnneFrank #History #Inspiration #MustRead #VoiceOfValor 🌟📚

Departing from the present need for cultural models within the public debate, this volume offers a new contribution to the study of cultural icons. From the traditional religious icon to the modern mass media icon, from the recognizable visual icon to the complex entanglement of image and collective narratives: The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons offers an overview of existing theories, compares different definitions and proposes a comprehensive view on the icon and the iconic. Focusing in particular on the making of iconic representations and their changing social-cultural meanings through time, scholars from cultural memory studies, art history and literary studies present concrete operationalizations of the ways different types of cultural icons can be studied.

"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on aid workers, the torture and 'disappearing' of al-Qaeda suspects by American officials, the flouting of international law by states such as Sri Lanka and Sudan, or the shambles of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh, the prospect of one world under secular human rights law is receding. What seemed like a dawn is in fact a sunset. The foundations of universal liberal norms and global governance are crumbling."—from The Endtimes of Human Rights In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights. Historically, Hopgood writes, universal humanist norms inspired a sense of secular religiosity among the new middle classes of a rapidly modernizing Europe. Human rights were the product of a particular worldview (Western European and Christian) and specific historical moments (humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the aftermath of the Holocaust). They were an antidote to a troubling contradiction—the coexistence of a belief in progress with horrifying violence and growing inequality. The obsolescence of that founding purpose in the modern globalized world has, Hopgood asserts, transformed the institutions created to perform it, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and recently the International Criminal Court, into self-perpetuating structures of intermittent power and authority that mask their lack of democratic legitimacy and systematic ineffectiveness. At their best, they provide relief in extraordinary situations of great distress; otherwise they are serving up a mixture of false hope and unaccountability sustained by “human rights” as a global brand. The Endtimes of Human Rights is sure to be controversial. Hopgood makes a plea for a new understanding of where hope lies for human rights, a plea that mourns the promise but rejects the reality of universalism in favor of a less predictable encounter with the diverse realities of today’s multipolar world.

This volume contains papers presented at the fourth Elon University Media and Religion Conference held at Elon University, April 13, 2013