Alexandra

The book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee has many things in common with our modern day society, but it also has some striking contrasts. One of the major themes in the book is Scout’s maturity and her coming of age. This theme also includes the idea of Scout’s femininity. In the book women’s right were much different from what they are now, but in some ways not much has changed. In the book, one of the things constantly pushed on Scout is her need to be ladylike. In the society of…

all of the other gender biased statements, continues to influence Scout to believe that women are inferior to men, instead of making her own opinion. Moreover, another example demonstrating the gender stereotype is Scout depicts a time when Aunt Alexandra makes her cry when she tells her about the “finch women”, Jem says to Scout, “You know she’s not used to girls,” said Jem, “leastways, not girls like you. She’s trying to make you a lady. Can’t you take up sewin‘or somethin’?”(302) Insinuating…

In the book, The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins, the author revolves predominantly around multiple students at Whitman high school, though it also introduces other people as the story progresses. In this work of literature, Robbins uses the lives of many students to portray the life of “overachievers,” students who pride themselves in working countless hours through a laundry list of extracurriculars and the “intensifying pressures to succeed and the drive of overachievers culture” (15).…

Scout was performing in the Halloween theater piece at school and was dressed as a ham. I thought it was quite comical. Both Alexandra and I were tired, so I asked Jem to take Scout to the Halloween event and gave each of them 30 cents. A few hours passed by and I remember reading the newspaper while listening to the radio. I apparently had the radio quite loud as Alexandra told me off. I was also pondering upon the different aspects and consequences of the trial. As I was thinking of the…

She was named Elizabeth after her mother, Alexandra after her great grandmother, and Mary after her grandmother. Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926 at 17 Bruton Street in London (Current Biography Yearbook 17), to Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (“Queen Elizabeth II” 1).…

In the novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird ', Harper Lee presents the prejudicial problems faced in everyday American society in the mid 1930 's, a time where injustice was prominent, especially in the southern states of the USA, which is where this novel is set. The problems create a domino effect and allows the reader(s) to discover how they all fit together to create one large social problem; prejudice. Underneath the seemingly calm and lackadaisical impression the small town of Maycomb gives off…

sneaking into the Radley yard, even though they were afraid of Boo Radley. She also wears pants when girls were supposed to wear dresses. However, not everyone was okay with this. Although Atticus let Scout act unladylike, Scout says that “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra's vision of my…

“The revolution happened because I didn’t kill him in time to stop it” Felix Yusupov How far did the political and personal influence exerted by Rasputin lead to the downfall of Tsarist Russia?  General information on this topic Nicholas II of Russia was the last emperor of Russia (1st November 1894 to 15th March 1917). His reign saw the dramatic fall of the imperial Russian empire. After the Febuary revolution of 1917 Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne. In 1918, Nicholas and his family…

more commonly found than whites. When police officers spot a minority driving around in a white neighborhood will be pulled over and convicted of looking suspicious. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra claims Calpurnia isn’t a good influence on Scout, but she doesn’t get to know Calpurnia. Aunt Alexandra is an example of how common mistrust against blacks were. There are many people, especially those who are white, who neglect the problem of racism and say it is not a serious issue. While…

Aunt Alexandra sees herself as very right and mighty. She comes barging into Atticus’s family’s life without call or invitation. She is concerned with raising Atticus's children "properly," and appears during the summer of Tom's trial to stay with them. With…