Anne Gilchrist

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a novel written by her during her experience during World War II and the Holocaust. The readers of this story are able to understand and have a better perspective of what Jews went through. The diary begins on June, 14, 1942, which was two days after Anne Frank turned thirteen. She was fourteen when she went into hiding. She hide in a secret annex in Amsterdam for about more than two years. Her family, another family and a dentist hid in their fathers…

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “As Weary Pilgrim” in The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Beginnings to 1820 Volume A I get not only a since of exhaustion, but depression and a since of questioning or begging from God. The title “As Weary Pilgrim” means the poem is about someone that is tired so the since of exhaustion is validate and even more so coupled with the life as a puritan living in the new world. Bradstreet is begging God for death leading me to question her mental stability.…

Reign is a romantic, historical fiction television series that includes many surprises along the way. It is loosely based on the actual life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland. The series takes place in sixteenth century France. The first episode begins with Mary’s backstory which is actually quite accurate, including the death of her father when she was days old and her engagement at six years of age. The opening scene begins at the convent where Mary was being protected. England viewed Mary as…

Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during World War Two to escape from the Nazis. Together with seven others she hides in the secret annex on the Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. After more than two years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929 in the…

In the sixteenth century one of the greatest poets, play writers, author, actor, and business men, William Shakespeare known and will be known probably for the rest of time as the greatest Poets and plat writers, with his Creative, inventive, and intuitive style of writing in every one of his plays and poems. Throughout the entirety of his life we see his creative genius in the beginning, middle, and end of his life, always expressing his genius in everything he did throughout his life.…

(Oxford). Rationality was heralded as the answer to all problems and the path to a perfect society; while these views are considered extreme in today’s culture, reason is still viewed as mostly infallible. In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, the Merced doctors treating Lia were raised and educated in a Western culture that taught the superiority and successfulness of using logic to deduce problems, so when they are faced with the “irrational’…

Thomas More – Truly, “A Man for all Seasons” Today we commemorate the death (and the life) of Thomas More, who died on this day in 1565. To many, he is known through Robert Bolt 's biographical play “A Man for all Seasons”, later an Academy Award Winning Film in 1967. Bolt (interestingly, an avowed agnostic) was fascinated by the strength of character and conscience which sustained More through the crucible of Henry VIII 's relentless pressure to submit to his will. While countless of his…

More did not approve of the marriage from the start, as it went against the Bible and forced the Pope to issue a dispensation to allow the nuptials. Years pass and Henry creates a new church, the Church of England, and marries his former mistress, Anne Boleyn, and More…

Characteristics of a good King or Queen can all be defined as the following truthfulness, compassion, determination, and regulating. King Louis IVX and Queen Elizabeth I showed these characteristics throughout their reign. They both seen as a living symbol of God, and the people held their faith they had in there reigning regime so that, nothing could destroy their kingdom nor their faith. Louis and Elizabeth upheld the values of allegiance, bravery, and belief. In the 17th century in Europe,…

Anne Hutchinson created her own interpretation of the Puritan teachings and didn’t conform to some of the beliefs, just as Hester created for herself the new meaning behind the scarlet letter. Anne also was tried in court and found guilty of heresy similar to how Hester was tried on the scaffold and found guilty of adultery. Anne did what she believed was right and was not afraid to tell the truth. Hester was not…