Anna

Why do political scandals revolving around sexuality and sexual relations matter to the larger political context of a nation? Anna Clark in her novel Scandal asks this question of her readers, in her quest to understanding how sex scandals shaped the influence of politics in eighteenth-century England. Clark effectively argues that scandals were employed as a tactic to mobilize the public in political situations but that the scandals were not always successful in creating public participation.…

Introduction “You’ve got some steel in you Scabbard... so perhaps the name is appropriate.”- A one line description by an onlooker describes the character of my story’s protagonist Anna Scabbard. Throughout my extended project I have explored that ‘steel’, that callous and determined attitude she presents. I have done this by way of exploring academic sources, such as psychopath profiling or medical journal descriptions of the symptoms of traumatic brain injury, as well as looking into the…

Would you like to know what your Taurus (Scorpio, Libra etc) man is thinking? And if you are broken up – would you like get him back? Now, this one is going to be interesting! What do you think of astrology? During my early days of dating I thought that astrology was created just for the sake of entertainment. I used to roll my eyes here and there and gave my girlfriends a hard time. They thought I was ‘not getting it’ meanwhile all I thought it was them who were ‘not getting it’. Anyway, fast…

Anna Atkins, the first women photographer, had many talents and I chose her book covers “Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns” because I thought it was the best example that both spoke about what she did for photography as well as science. Her work was not just art but it itself was groundbreaking for other women photographers and scientist alike. This process, of documenting ferns, allowed people to understand what they looked like, size and scale, giving proof to science and the botanist…

America, what even is America? Besides a country, it is an amazingly diverse place. Built by people all around the world. Two authors by the names of John F. Kennedy, and Anna Quindlen express their thoughts in essays. Although, both essays are supporting America’s diversity, they both use different tones to relay the message. While Kennedy uses a more factual approach, Quindlen uses a more sophisticated tone. Both Essays although are not completely different. They share similarities. Both…

August 3rd is a wonderful day. It’s in the summer, it’s hot, and best of all, that’s when I, Anna Wozniak was born! I’m 11 years old, and I was born in Richland, Michigan, in 2004. I am in sixth grade at Gull Lake Middle School. I love lots of things, but I love my family, my hobbies, and my personality the most. Family, family, family! Family is a very important part of my life. I have an eight-year-old brother named Louis. He is funny, but he is a troublemaker. My amazing mother’s name is…

The Life of Anna Freud Born in Vienna on December 3, 1985, Anna Freud was the youngest daughter of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Anna was a mischievous little girl and a friend once wrote “Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness.” During Anna’s childhood, relationships were lacked with her fellow sibling and the rivaled relationship between Anna and her sister Sophie steamed from craving of their father’s attention. Anna spent her summers at health camps to help her try to…

Stasiland is the first book of the author Anna Funder. Funder won a prodigious nonfiction writing award for Stasiland. Funder, born in Australia, currently lives in New York. Previously, Anna Funder was an international lawyer. Anna also worked in Berlin for a German communication production service. Anna Funder amalgamated various sources to present a detailed account of the time period she calls “Stasiland.” Funder used personal accounts as sources. She gathered information from face-to-face…

The Authoritarianism of Santa Anna The Mexican American war was a turning point in the history for both the United States and México. The end result of the war was México losing about half of their territory to the United States. In a time span of 22 years, Mexico would be engrossed in a period where their president changed 36 times, of which Antonio López de Santa Anna would be president eleven times. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly, if all or one of Mexico’s political figures was responsible for…

Anna Pavlova was born on February 12, 1881, in St. Petersburg, Russia. She joined the Imperial Ballet School, were she made her company debut in 1899 and rapidly became a prima ballerina. Her way forward was performing in The Dying Swan in 1905, which became her mark role. She then joined the Ballet Russe in 1909 and formed her own company in 1911. Pavlova died in 1931, after contracting double pneumonia while on tour. Because Anna graduated as a coryphée, she was able to bypass the typical…