Alexandra

In the article, “It’s Time to Pay Attention to Sleep, the New Health Frontier,” written by Alexandra Sifferlin, she discusses the importance of sleep and how it is essential in living a healthy life. Sifferlin talked about Lynn Mitchell, a 68-year old woman who was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in 2011. She was only getting an hour of sleep a night. The cancer affected her lifestyle as stated in the article, the brain cancer was not only affecting her mentally it was affecting her…

Aunt Alexandra and Atticus didn’t always see eye to eye on how Scout should be raised. Since Atticus had been raising Scout alone since she was two, he had never forced her to act like a girl, as it was something he probably wasn’t familiar with and wouldn’t have been able to teach. He simply wished that Scout would make her own decisions and learn from her own experiences. Jem was taught by Atticus, since Atticus was a gentleman Jem simply had to observe. For Scout though, observing wouldn’t…

Nowadays, a syndrome of ‘overachievism’ fills the halls of High Schools as students overload their schedules with numerous rigorous classes and get hyperly involved in extracurricular activities. In the Overachievers: the secret life of driven kids by Alexandra Robbins, the overachieving Yale graduate goes back to her high school a decade later only to discover that the mindset of students is transforming into a obsession with grades and number of AP classes, not the joy of learning and early…

The novel opens with Alexandra, a strong and independent woman, visiting a doctor’s office in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, a town that looks out of place on the vast prairie. The streets are empty except for one young Swedish boy named Emil, Alexandra’s little brother. Emil is distraught; his gray kitten was chased up a telegraph pole and has no way down. Emil and the shivering kitten wait for Alexandra to return. Upon her arrival, Alexandra disciplines her younger brother, then goes to find…

aunt of Atticus’s children, Alexandra is a more isolated and biased character. She is a not a central character, but she is essential to the story, and is crucial in contrasting against Atticus’s morals. Along with contributing to the novel’s plot, Aunt Alexandra’s presence in the novel helps to develop a theme: the idea that people in a community are not always the same, and you must come to adapt to their ways of life. Lee includes a brief background of Aunt Alexandra to introduce the new…

not shamed for their gender reversals, Alexandra is actually seemed to be praised for being masculine. Alexandra is the character that the audience gets to see gender reversal in. Carl is also described differently than the stereotypical man. While Alexandra and Carl are the most prominent characters that show gender disregard, or reversal, there are characters that show gender disregard in subtle ways. Lou and Oscar are seen as masculine, but when Alexandra, a woman, is given the family…

Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandra. Calpurnia is a good mother figure because of the way she raised Scout and Jem and the way she taught them to act around other people. Calpurnia brought Scout and Jem to church one Sunday and she spent all her time into making sure that the kids looked perfect so she could show them off to the town and say “these are my kids”. Calpurnia has also been part of the Finch family since forever and the Finch’s think of her as family and they love…

their mother. That is when Aunt Alexandra steps in to be their feminine influence. She tries to show Scout how to be a proper lady. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Aunt Alexandra is prejudice, proper and motherly to Scout and Jem because of their lack of a motherly figure in their lives. Scout and Jem live in Maycomb with their Father and their friend, Calpernia. Calpernia takes care of the children and helps around the house. When Aunt Alexandra comes to visit, she sees her as…

different parenting styles. Although Atticus and Aunt Alexandra are siblings, they differ in every way. However, the most important difference on Jem and Scout are the parental views of Atticus and Aunt Alexandra. Atticus represents the new, modern, progressive style of parenting while Aunt Alexandra believes the old fashioned, traditional ways of the Old South. Atticus cares more about behavior than fitting in the Finches “mold” than Aunt Alexandra. This is shown when Scout begins to fight…

Swedish women named Alexandra Bergson. The story begins when Alexandra was a young woman as her father’s health was declining. The doctor sadly told the family that there was nothing he could do for their father and that he was to die soon. Before Mr. Bergson’s death he gathered his four children together and told them he was leaving Alexandra, who was merely a teenager at the time, in charge of the farm. It was a lofty task for such a young girl, but her father saw something in Alexandra that…