Anne Boleyn

Woodville's Life As An Accused Witch Queen Consort Elizabeth Woodville remains a legacy in today's time. She impacted the future of England for centuries to come, because of her second marriage with King Edward IV from a royal family. Although controversial challenges such as witchcraft faced Woodville, she still made a lasting impact. Elizabeth Woodville and her family established a legacy that has had a tremendous effect in history to this date. Woodville was the first born of Sir Richard…

King Henry VII and Anne Boleyn Throughout the years, several couples have made history with their love stories. King Henry the Eighth was notorious for his many loves, but the one that stands out most of all is the lady some say he called for on his death bed, Anne Boleyn. Actually, a ten year time period or so occurred before King Henry and Anne could be together. Anne wanted “Queen or nothing,” so queen she became (Tudor History). Anne Boleyn came from a rather wealthy, known family. 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 Daans go into hiding in Amsterdam, Holland. In spite of…

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 that the books weren’t at the reading level of the students and would they would be…

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…

The Phantom of Love Love, an endless phenomenon that lasts even after death, entwines itself into a being at the first sign of life. Whitman and Dickinson, two famous poets of the 19th century, have similar views on the love of a child to its mother, the love of a friend, and the love of a spouse always being omnipresent and blossoming within oneself. These famous poets portray the common ideal of omnipresent love through the works labeled as “Love is anterior to life” and “As if a Phantom…

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…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story of a young woman’s struggle to remain true to herself despite society’s influence. After committing adultery with the Reverend Dimmesdale, this young woman, Hester Prynne, is branded with a scarlet letter A to signify her sin and humiliation. While at first, Hester refuses to give in the society’s influence, she conforms to Puritan standards by the end of the novel. From the start of the book to the end, a dramatic change in Hester’s attitude…

Anne Frank: Knowing a Girl Through her Diary Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is about her struggle to find her identity-not only as a teenage girl, but as a Dutch Jew who would eventually be persecuted for her faith. Anne Frank’s development from a giddy preteen into an introspective mature young woman as a result of being trapped as her religion is extraordinary. Anne Frank’s conflicts are rooted in her being trapped as a result of her religion. Her conflict begins once her father Otto…

In Chaucer’s satirical comedy The Canterbury Tales, and Shakespeare’s play King Lear, women are portrayed in a negative light. In both time periods, female characters are supposed to be submissive and obedient to their husbands; furthermore, as seen in the text, women are frowned upon for being knowledgeable and independent. Each author uses his work to promote their opinion on gender roles in society. In the fourteenth century, society was based on hierarchal status and women were at the…