mental health. College is supposed to be an unforgettable experience‚ yet for many students it comes in the form of depression. This onset depression may start before college‚ yet college has a great impact on the suicide rate of young adults. In The Bell Jar‚ written by Sylvia Plath‚ the main character‚ Esther Greenwood‚ struggles with suicidal depression on top of being a working college student‚ something Plath relates to entirely. Many people
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STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE PAST TO THE PRESENT Ancient India:- In ancient India‚ the women enjoyed equal status with men in all fields of life. Works by ancient Indian grammarians such as Patanjali and Katyayana suggest that women were educated in the early Vedic period. Rigvedic verses suggest that the women married at a mature age and were probably free to select their husband. Scriptures such as Rig Veda and Upanishads mention several women sages and seers‚ notably Gargi and Maitreyi. According
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opinion‚ and are able to recognize their own stances in comparison to that of society. Comparing and contrasting essays‚ and effectively analyzing them allow students to see past certain obstacles society imposes upon them‚ including racial differences. In this paper‚ I explore the ways in which “Individuality and Experience”‚ as authored by John Dewey‚ and racism as presented by bell hooks in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of Freedom‚ play a pivotal role in the lives of students
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Literature Research Essay: Reading the City. Cities are places which enable the realisation of the self‚ or conversely cities separate the self from creativity and imagination in spaces of alienation and estrangement’ (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). Discuss the city as a site of self-enhancement and/or ‘alienation and estrangement’ in the texts on the unit. Our surroundings manipulate the way we react and interact with both others and ourselves. We are like putty waiting to be moulded by the
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presentation of mental instability in The Bell Jar and Ariel. The point of living has been a theme in literature that has been used on many occasions‚ Hamlet sums it up with the question “To be or not to be”. The myth of Sisyphus also investigates the real point in living. Plath’s work is an altogether more tortured catalogue of mental illness and summing up the answer to Camus’ question. [A] Plath expresses sequences of mental instability throughout her work‚ The Bell Jar often references this with the
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Criticisms for “The Bell Curve” As the book breeches many controversial subjects about race and intelligence‚ there have been many people who have said that the findings in Herrnstein and Murray’s joint publication are not only filled with bias‚ but also fail to represent common testing errors that may leave the minority at a disadvantage. In an article entitled “Bias in mental testing since Bias in Mental Testing”‚ Robert Brown and his colleague Cecil Reynolds refute the use of cognitive assessment
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Nightsong: City By Dennis Brutus Sleep well‚ my love‚ sleep well: the harbor lights glaze over restless docks‚ police cars cockroach through the tunnel streets; from the shanties creaking iron-sheets violence like a bug-infested rag is tossed and fear is immanent* as sound in the wind-swung bell; the long day’s anger pants from sand and rocks; but for this breathing night at least‚ my land‚ my love‚ sleep well. Nightsong: City is essentially a love-song to the writers’ homeland
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Transformation to an Abomination” The assertion‚ “people never change‚” can be disproven as people change differently in various environments. The chapter “Sweet Heart of the Song Tra Bong” in‚ The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ shows how Mary Anne Bell is affected by the tough conditions of war. Mark Fossie‚ the boyfriend of Mary Anne‚ tells her to fly out to Vietnam so that they can be together. Once she arrives‚ Mary Anne quickly reveals her curiosity by taking an interest in activities to help
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The Bell Jar This autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath follows the story of Esther Greenwood‚ a third year college student who spends her summer at a lady’s fashion magazine in Manhattan. But despite her high expectations‚ Esther becomes bored with her work and uncertain about her own future. She even grows estranged from her traditional-minded boyfriend‚ Buddy Willard‚ a medical student later diagnosed with TB. Upon returning to her hometown New England suburb‚ Esther discovers that she was
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THUA THIEN HUE AND HUE CITY 1. Basic information Area: lt has the natural area of 5‚053.9 square meters spread in the long and narrow land‚ with the average width of 60 km and the length of 127 km. It is along the direction of North West - South East parallel with the coast‚ with various terrains of mountains‚ hills‚ coastal plains and lagoons. 2. Location a.Geography location Locates in the North Central Coast of Vietnam‚ approximately in the center of the country at latitude of
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