Anika R's SAS Blog (2015-22)

What does your name mean? My name is Anika, which has multiple different meanings across many languages. In Sanskrit, Anika translates to brilliance, sweet-face (?), edge, splendour and/or collection. It is also another name from the Hindu Mother Goddess, Durga. The name Anika is a common name in Scandinavia (typically spelled Annika). In both Latin and Hebrew, Anika means grace or favour. I am not too sure about this, but apparently in Japanese, Anika is a apricot from Nara(?) Who named you?  My parents. My name was originally meant to be Prianka, but my mom decided to change it to Anika last moment. Heritage? None. Any special stories?  The main intended meaning of my name is after goddess Durga, because I was born slightly after Durga Puja.

• What have you learned about the American Government? I have learned more about the three branches of the government, Legislative, Executive and Judicial, which I did not know much about before this unit. I also know a lot more about the system within these branches, like how the chief justice and associate justices serve for life, so that they are unbiased by their political alignment and don't have to be worried about being reelected. I learned a lot about the different views of the political parties. • What questions do you still have about the U.S. gov't? I still want to know more on the origins of the political parties, such as how the Democratic and Republican parties became the two main parties and why their symbols are a donkey and an elephant. Were there parties at one point that never made it to the modern day? How much has the Constitution changed over time, and what were the changes it went through?

Original goal found here. I've actually decided to modify my goal just the slightest so that it can fit my schedule better. I had originally planned to just go to the gym and walking 3 times a week for 45 minutes. I did this, but only maybe once every two weeks until there came up other health reasons that prevented me to go. I've decided to just do the 30 minutes a day for each weekday, because it fits my routine, for the same amount of time to UNFINISHED https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/walking/art-20046261 http://time.com/4748377/commute-biking-walking-longevity/ http://myhss.org/well-being/downloads/Walking101Guide.pdf

My Top 10 Movies that had a Profound Influence on Me " If music be the food of love, play on !" - Duke Orsino ( Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ) Number 4: During Fall Break of 2017, I found a movie that instantly reorganised my life. As far as breaks go, they get very boring after the first two days. As I said, after the second day of break, I started dawning upon a startling truth. Being at school, in a constantly moving environment, crowded with thoughts of new information, this confusion gave me ideas of what and how to draw. At home, with nothing happening, I felt dry and drained. I was spiralling myself in a fog of cluelessness. I was lazing at the edge between insanity and apathy, scrolling through various YouTube feeds simultaneously. And just perchance, I stumbled across a video with quite an odd thumbnail: A young lady donning a fake moustache being clung to by Helena Bonham Carter, titled "Twelfth Night". Clicking that video was quite possibly th...

Hey Insecurity, You suck. A lot. Don't play the victim here, you know you're the root cause of literally everything. Ok yeah, I will admit that you have made me realise many of my own faults, such as how overly cautious and guarded I kept/keep myself. BUT HEY you ruin everyone's life at one point. That's a pretty dumb move. For example, Napoleon Bonaparte was apparently so insecure about his height since he was mocked in the British papers, he started wars to prove himself. And he's taller than me by almost 6 inches. Lucky for me, I'm not that insecure about my height. Pshh, not that much at least... I'm 5ft 3/4in, okay, that's tiny in my standards. Insecurity, I'm not sure what your purpose or goal in life is. Maybe it's to just absolutely ruin everyone's life, maybe it to shrink your prey's confidence. Which or whatever the reason is, I think we all have enough power to get over you. Probably not forever, but enough for us to...