Anne Fletcher

Advance Tech Writing Reflection/Team Reflection Imagine that you recently had a car accident and you were partially responsible. If you had to write and tell your parents about the accident, what might you say? Imagine how you might tell the story differently to your friends, or insurance company. Which details would you share with each group and which would you leave out? Would the order in which you told the various details be different? As one can see in this story, the way the story is told depends on a how one want to appeal to a specific audience. The end of one semester and the beginning of a new semester can be seen as a transition period for most students. For the extent of individuals, this period is all but a glimpse onto the next phase, or new semester, often not taking the time to reflect on the person they have become and what aspects of the past have shaped and molded there character. For a few that do reflect, this reflection may be a poignant awareness of the losses and struggles that occurred, as well as an appreciation of good fortune on the knowledge gained. In reflecting back on the Advance Tech writing course the following three areas will be influential on my character going forth in life: Audience, influence, and group dynamics. Audience When writing it is easy to forget about what type of audience one is writing towards. Whether consciously or not, one is always writing to an audience, this audience can be generalized or very specific. The Advance…

classical music. According to the documentary, Paul Whiteman was the reason for how Swing started in 1924 when he instructed George Gershwin to write “Rhapsody in Blue”, “The first pieces of symphonic jazz… A style of music that would influence classical composers,” (00:05:52-00:06:21). Moreover, the film explained the great importance Louis Armstrong’s inspiration had towards the development of Swing music, such as, the way he utilized improvisation and the feel of swing in his music.…

I was reminded of the nostalgia film series, Back to the Future, when Nike recently unveiled their self-lacing shoe as a community tribute to the actor, Michael J. Fox, who played the infamous time traveler character in the movies known as Marty McFly. Having watched the movies as a child with my father a handful of times and hearing about the new shoes, I realized how our technology is vastly advancing to meet the movie’s reality with our growing technology. Think about it, we have Elon Musk to…

The most ironic situation is that the parent’s of the greatest renowned English writer was illiterate. William Shakespeare, also known as the “Bard of Avon”, was a famous poet, playwright, and actor during the Elizabethan era. Several of Shakespeare’s prominent works, including Macbeth and A Midnight Summer’s Dream is still widely read today and used for educational purposes. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress.…

Unfortunately, her diary is left unfinished, for she, her family, and the other occupants of the annex are discovered by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. The general horror of war, coupled with the specific horrors that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews, is the major theme of the diary. Anne Frank, the young teenage girl who writes the diary, experiences the pain of war first-hand. In order to try and escape the Nazi extermination of Jewish people, her family and the Van …

She explained that, that is how racial hatred starts and told them a few historical stories, one being about the Holocaust. She was shocked to find out that the students had never heard about the Holocaust. After learning about the students’ knowledge about the Holocaust, she came up with the idea to introduce them to the book of Anne Frank. The school had the books, but unfortunately her students being from low poverty weren’t allowed to use the books, because the school administrators felt…

The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe written by Erin A. Sadlack “attempts to broaden the understanding of women’s paths to power in the sixteenth century.” Sadlack’s a credibility stems from her PhD in Medieval and British Literature. She is a professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses in Medieval and…

remarriage could cure the depressive and imbalanced symptoms of a person going through a traumatic event, such as the loss of a loved spouse. Walt Whitman, a famous poet, lived much of his early life moving from destination to destination, never fully settling into one place he can call home. While constantly moving, Whitman found inspiration in the most detailed settings and ideals. From one inspiration stemmed Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems written by Walt Whitman and later read by a…

In February of 1540, it was clear that the alliance between Germany and England would not last. Henry and Anne of Cleves simply did not get along. In July of the same year of their marriage, Anne was asked for her consent to an annulment (their marriage had not been consummated) and she quickly agreed. This is not surprising given the reputation that Henry had earned for himself already at the time. Raising up a huge fuss over a marriage that had not even lasted a year would not have been…

Anne Frank was a very sophisticated and bright young girl. She was influential to history because she was brave and helpful during the hard times of World War II. She helped us see what it was like during the holocaust since she logged everyday while in hiding. Anne was born on June 12th, 1929. She went to Jewish Lyceum, a school established by the German occupiers under the Amsterdam Jewish council. Anne harbored interest in literature; she was very vivid girl but not a prodigy. She was also…