allow the doctors to bother him too much." His temperature dropped and eventually the hematoma disappeared. Tsarina Alexandra‚ like Rasputin and Vyroubova who were obsessed with religion‚ believed that he had cured her son through the power of prayer. Rasputin’s debauched kind of lifestyle led Nicholas at times to occasionally distance him from the family. Even after Alexandra was told by the director of the national police that a drunk Rasputin had exposed himself at a popular Moscow restaurant
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is supposed to‚ She wears dresses‚ and she hosts tea parties‚ and gossips. She stands by the thought that only old‚ white families are of value‚ and that every family had a “streak”. Whether it is a drinking “streak” or an incest “streak”‚ Aunt Alexandra has something against everybody. She gossips and tries to make believe she is perfect. She despises Scout’s overalls and she tries so hard to force Scout to be the perfect Southern lady that Scout has no desire to become. Mrs. Dubose is another “perfect
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Throughout the book ¨The Overachievers:The Secret Lives of Driven Kids‚¨ Alexandra Robbins develops the theme of competition between the students at Whitman High School and the students she individually observed. The Journalist Alexandra Robbins returns to Whitman‚ where she attended her high school years to follow a few of Whitman’s upperclassmen and journal about their experiences in high school towards achieving admissions to top elite colleges and universities.The students she follows around
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Addie Febres The Mysterious Boy Once a baby boy just got born‚ the mother was happily rocking the baby in her arms. The dad said‚ “ What should we name the boy‚ Virginia?” Then she said‚ “I don’t know‚ David‚ I don’t know. ” But then that night a pixie warned the parents that danger has come‚ the pixie had bright pink eyes‚ dark blue hair‚ and wore a neon green dress. So the pixie agreed that she would bring
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Finch’s Landing where Atticus’s sister Alexandra‚ and her husband live. There‚ Scout meets Francis‚ Alexandra’s grandson. Scout thinks Francis is the most boring child she has ever met. She also has to put up with the fancy and clean Alexandra‚ who says that Scout should dress like a lady instead of wearing pants. On one night‚ Francis tells Scout that Dill is a runt and then calls Atticus a “nigger-lover.” Scout curses him and beats him up. Francis tells Alexandra and Uncle Jack that Scout hit him‚
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Maudie‚ both of them independent women. Scout is soon critized for not being the ‘perfect little girl’ like her Aunt Alexandra wants her to be. Aunt Alexandra is almost ashamed of Scout when she doesn’t want to wear dresses or act like a girl‚ especially when her missionary circle of traditional Southern women see her. Scout doesn’t know how she’s meant to act she has Aunt Alexandra forcing her to wear dresses but Jem telling her to stop acting to ‘like a girl’‚ when she plays with Jem and Dill if
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When Scout asks Aunt Alexandra is she can play with Walter Cunningham‚ who comes from a poor family‚ Alexandra denies the request “[b]ecause―he―is―trash” (Lee 301‚ ch. 23). The Cunninghams have good character‚ and Alexandra knows this. The only reason why she forbids Scout from playing with him is because he is of a lower class. These social rules are rigid and limit the
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stood out the most. Naturalistic in philosophy means an idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws and forces operate in the world. “All at once‚ in a single day‚ I lose everything; And I don’t know why” said Alexandra. The quote shows Naturalistic by stating everything getting taken
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happened to John Bergeson‚ who passed away. Most would have expected John to give all of his land to his sons‚ which he put majority of his life into. He often said to himself that Alexandra was like her grandfather‚ which was his way of saying that she was intelligent." which leads to him giving everything he worked for to Alexandra. He also states when talking to all of his children‚ "I want you to keep the land together and to be guided by your sister. I have talked to her since I have been sick‚ and
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through the treatment of the Cunninghams and the Ewells. The wealthy white people treat the poor whites with contempt. This is clear when Scout asks to spend more time with Walter Cunningham‚ a member of one of the poorest families in town. Aunt Alexandra refuses to let her niece interact with someone of such low status and forbids Scout to have him as her friend. Further‚ the Ewells have the lowest status of everyone in the town because they are poor; as a result‚ they are social outcasts in the
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