Short Biography: Anna Akhmatova

Strong is a fitting name for a woman of valor and strength. Anna Smith Strong was a very courageous woman who assisted our country tremendously during the American Revolutionary War. She demonstrated an immense amount of bravery through her work, and I believe we can learn an immense amount about courage when reflecting upon her life.

The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand is set in a dystopian society where the idea of collectivism is prevalent. Collectivism is the idea of a group having more priority than any of the individuals in it. Throughout the novel, the characters refer to themselves as “we” instead of “I” and refer to each other as their brother men. Equality 7-2521 tells the reader that whenever they feel tempted, they are to repeat the phrase “We are one in all and all in one.There are no men but only the great, WE, One, indivisible and forever.” (Rand, p.19)

The definition of belief is the trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something. It is the sole source of power for any idea, opinion, and most importantly, religion. A belief can relent the possibility of anything to happen. The only thing that matters is what the belief is put into, whose faith is put into what. Time stretches and ignites the way for people to conquer anyone or anything, to topple buildings and strain people to unimaginable limits. In times such as the Middle Ages, also known as the Medieval Period, belief was common and death, a result of it, even more so. Battles during this time period, typically centered around religious differences, were often and hard won. Full of bone, blood, and the faint reassurance that such

Anna Knight was a young black girl, born into a poor family in Mississippi. She learned about Seventh-day Adventistism at an early age and gave her heart to the Lord. After attending nursing school at Battle Creek College in Michigan, Anna began to do missionary work at her home in Mississippi and then later in India. Later in her life she returned back to the United States and worked all over the U.S. Under the employment of the General Conference Anna went, teaching, healing, and influencing young men and women to be medical missionaries for the Lord all over the world. Anna died in 1972 after living a life completely sold out and dedicated to the Lord and His work.

psychological view of Communist Russia, which the author is from, tell a story about a character

Robert Alexander’s The Kitchen Boy is a work of historical fiction that captures the execution of the infamous Romanov family during the Russian Revolution through their kitchen boy, Leonka. In the beginning, the reader finds out the narrator claims to be the Romanov’s kitchen boy, who is now very old, and is recording the story of his personal encounters with the Romanov family for his granddaughter, Katya. We also learn that he is now living in Oak Forest, Illinois and his real name is Mikhail Semyonov, also known as Misha. Misha, the main character, shows the reader the daily activities and interactions of Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra, along with their entire family --- four girls and a young boy. At the end of the novel, the reader finds

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was an activist for Native American rights. The group consisted of individuals who were fighting for Native American rights, and was called American Indian Movement. This group also sought to publicize the wrong doings of the government. They told the events of misconduct that occurred to the public, and made it well known that the AIM group and people associated with the group doesn’t think Native Americans are being shown the same right as other citizens. The group expressed their thoughts on many occasions and many different locations, and in these stories being expressed the Native American people and tribes are being disrespected. In doing this protesting, the group displayed the injustice that was imposed onto them from the leaders who are running the government.

Resonance from the guns roared as its dense smoke engulfed the blood-stained Reservation. The pungent odor from the corpses accumulated in the mass grave overwhelmed Chaska’s puny unfledged proboscis. Chaska’s mother and father were a part of that pile. His mother tried to save his father from dying, but the result was both of them getting shot and killed. Chaska was a timid and timorous eight-year-old boy with short black hair and a tanned colored body. He wore tattered black clothes with stains and rips covering it. Chaska lost his family, except his dog Ohitekah. Ohitekah was a bold and brave German Shepherd with black marks covering most of his brown body. Chaska sat on the eroded ground, staring into the enormous hole as he embraced his pet’s

Haley Tanner’s “Vaclav and Lena” is a novel that has its unique ways of connecting to the readers’ past and their personalities. Its plot might not be related to anything people here in this country might have experienced, but the minute details that the book introduces can really stand out to anyone who comes across them. These little details all revolve around the relationship between two Russian born children, Vaclav and Lena. They grew together as a two peas in a pod but their innocence and ignorance soon leads them into separate paths. It was the day when “Lena, who has been his only friend wince they were small, does not want to be seen with him” (41). Being brushed aside like this is far from heartbreaking. As I read that paragraph, more than once,

Shukhov reveals how he survives the day in and day out in the gulag. In One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Shukhov is in the gulags for being wrongfully convicted of treason. He must deal with the destruction of humanity, created a ritualization for eating, and most important, he treats time as a valuable possession.

In the story of “The Lady with the Dog”, the character Gurov’ character changes because of the events that occur in the story. At the beginning of the story, Gurov seems heartless, he does not respect the people around him including his wife, “he has begun being unfaithful to her long ago -- had been unfaithful to her often, and, probably on that account, almost always spoke ill of women, and when they were talked about in his presence, used to call them "the lower race” (172). He also does not feel anything toward women and thinks “their beauty aroused hatred in him and the lace on their linen reminded him of scales” (175). Love could be a reflex action. People find themselves victim of it; frequently in the worst place, time and circumstances

I wrote a diary about Lenina’s thoughts in the Brave new world society. As a principal character, Lenina represents a model citizen that always follows its policies. But I think that inside herself she has desires and disagreements with it. Bernard´s behavior mentally confuses her, because he was always complaining about the governments ' ideologies and opposing to take soma. Which was dangerous because she likes him. The tone I use is informal and hopes to reach school students and adults audience.

Saint Petersburg, the setting of Crime and Punishment, plays a major role in the formation in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s acclaimed novel. Dostoyevsky’s novels focus on the theme of man as a subject of his environment. Dostoyevsky paints 1860s St. Petersburg as an overcrowded, filthy, and chaotic city. It is because of Saint Petersburg that Raskolnikov is able to foster in his immoral thoughts and satisfy his evil inclinations. It is only when Raskolnikov is removed from the disorderly city and taken to the remoteness of Siberia that he can once again be at peace. This is exactly what he does with the character of Raskolnikov, while in the process indicating that Crime and Punishment is not one of a crime, but one of a discovery of the motive behind

“The Rite of Spring” was certainly the most controversial piece of orchestral music of its time. The piece, composed by the Russian Composer Igor Stravinsky, included a great deal of uncommon musical elements. But was it really that uncommon? The world-changing ballet, “The Rite of Spring” was so controversial when it debuted in 1913, because it completely contradicted the common rhythmic and harmonic languages of the music at the time. The choreography and costumes were a main part of the reason why the audience reacted with negativity and riots. But the fact that Stravinsky’s music used similar melodic, orchestrational, and harmonic techniques of pieces written before, brings up the question: Why did the audience react the way that they did? Stravinsky’s music reflected his early life experiences. Consequently, Stravinsky was not, in fact, the first composer who was “committed” with composing such controversy, so again: were riots necessary? The result of the audience’s reaction caused by the ballet has not happened before.

Written between 1935 and 1940, Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” follows a grieving mother as she endures the Great Purge. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s General Secretary, unabatedly pursued eliminating dissenters and, consequently, accused or killed hundreds of thousands who allegedly perpetrated political transgressions (“Repression and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges”). Despite the fifteen-year censorship, Akhmatova avoided physical persecution, though she saw her son jailed for seventeen months (Bailey 324). The first-person speaker in “Requiem,” assumed to be Akhmatova due to the speaker’s identical experience of crying aloud “for seventeen months” (Section 5, Line 1), changes her sentiments towards deaths as reflected in the poem’s tone shifts. Akhmatova’s melancholic diction initially reveals her sorrow, but the tone transitions to serious and introspective when she uses allusions to religious martyrdom and imagery of fixed objects. These contemplations are later resolved when she integrates imagery of liberation to portray an ultimately triumphant and optimistic outlook towards the future.