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    Sylvia Plath

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    people. There are many types of relationships‚ some functional and others far from being workable. I will demonstrate this through my texts of; Little Fugue‚ and Morning Song both poems written by Sylvia Plath; the movie‚ Love Actually; and the book‚ Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce. Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath is my first example of how we all perceive our different relationships. This poem is about Plath talking of her father and herself and the lack of communication between the two. Throughout

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    Heron Jones Somnambulism

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    Everyone ultimately has one common desire; to achieve happiness. In Kohn’s essay‚ “How Not to Get Into College: The Preoccupation with Preparation” and in Heron Jones poem‚ “Somnambulist” they discuss that individuals are not achieving happiness because they rely on extrinsic motivators to produce intrinsic happiness. Kohn and Jones argue that people use extrinsic motivators to provide intrinsic happiness for themselves without knowing the toll they are carrying; instead people should tend to follow

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    Scott-Heron calls himself a bluesologist. He is sixty-one‚ tall and scrawny‚ and he lives in Harlem‚ in a ground-floor apartment that he doesn’t often leave. It is long and narrow‚ and there’s a bedspread covering a sliding glass door to a patio‚ so no light enters‚ making the place seem like a monk’s cell or a cave. Once‚ when I thought he was away‚ I called to convey a message‚ and he answered and said‚ “I’m here. Where else would a caveman be but in his cave?” Recently‚ I arrived at his apartment

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    Janice Heron is the teacher who has the honor of teaching a “golden mean” this year. Janice Heron refers to her class as the “golden mean” due to the fact that her students in this years class consisted of low‚ middle‚ and high socioeconomic statuses. This classroom was also made up of an equal percentage of hispanic‚ white‚ and black students (Silverman‚ Welty‚ & Lyon‚ 1996‚ p.125). Throughout her eighteen years of experience with teaching‚ Janice Heron has had the opportunity of working with students

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    Sylvia Plath Mirror

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    SYLVIA PLATH “MIRROR” Truth or lie? What do we prefer to hear? Abstact: The paper analyzes the poem “Mirror“‚ written by Sylvia Plath. What it wants to show are the multiple meanings which depend on the different readers. The paper is intended to show the importance of the “mirror” and its reflection of the person looking into it. This paper also explains how a poem can serve a writer as an instrument to describe her/his life and feelings on a sheet of paper. Silvia

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    escape her predicament through attempted suicide‚ she married a surrogate father‚ "a man in black with a Meinkampf look" who obligingly was just as much a vampire of her spirit—one who "drank my blood for a year‚ / Seven years‚ if you want to know." (Sylvia Plath was married to the poet Ted Hughes for seven years.) When she drives the stake through her father’s heart‚ she not only is exorcising the demon of her father’s memory‚ but metaphorically is killing her husband and all men. "Daddy" is a poem

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    Sylvia Plath

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    ‘Plath’s poems seethe with anger‚ hope‚ desire and disappointment. Her poems reveal a perspective and a language use that are utterly unique’. Sylvia Plath poetry is unique because of her use of language and the perspective and themes she explores‚ creating powerful images and original metaphorical ideas to evoke a strong climax of feelings which express the struggles she experienced in her own personal life. Her poems ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ are confessional poems that use contemporary form

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    Name

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    thanksgiving to the Goddess for fulfillment of vows. Bonam means Bojanaalu or a meal in Telugu‚ is an offering to the Goddess. Women bring cooked rice with milk‚ sugar sometimes onions in a brass or earthen pot‚ adorned with small neem branches and turmeric‚ vermilion (kunkum) or Kadi (white chalk) and a lamp on the top. Women place the pots on their heads and take it to Goddess temple‚ led by drummers and dancing men. Goddess temples have names such as Mysamma‚ Pochamma‚ Yellamma‚ Pedamma‚ Dokkalamma

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    Citizenship. what does it mean? The dictionary definition means have the right to “live freely‚ work and vote “ be human. But what does that term mean to a white man in the 1800’s? A richer status? More intelligent? Or are they simply better than Them in their eyes? In my eyes you cannot judge someone for how they look Or how smart they are you judge them on whether or not they are a good person. Hell I have meet so many jerks and bullies in my life but when you understand that Maybe they were

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    Conservation of Forest

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    CONSERVATION OF forest is certainly a necessity that requires to be addressed as a priority. For the survival of human beings‚ a holistic approach is required to be adopted as regards protection of the plant kingdom as well as the wildlife with regard to the peaceful and mutually beneficial co-existence of all. To prevent any kind of ecological imbalance a very pragmatic action plan has to be formulated. Towards achieving this many legislation have been enacted in India and elsewhere. At the

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