I. The book I read was Enchantress from the Stars‚ by Sylvia Louise Engdahl. She was born on November 24 1933 LA‚ CA. She went to school to become an elementary teacher‚ and stayed in it for 1 year‚ then decided she hated it. She then became a computer programmer for the Top Secret SAGE air defense system for 10 years. She really did like it‚ even though she thought school was boring‚ she thought that was interesting. It was like going to the best class in the world and being paid for it. She then
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In her article “What About Us?”‚ Sylvia Harvey maintains that mass incarceration separates millions of kids from their parents. As the author herself puts it “Among the many collateral consequences of mass incarceration is its impact on children‚ and the number who are affected is staggering.” I’m of two minds about Harvey’s contention that extended family visitation should be reconsidered. On the one hand‚ Harvey gives some convincing evidence that without extended family visitation‚ the majority
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Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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The main question raised in the One Day in Jozefow: Initiation to Mass Murder article is that of how did the Nazis get the manpower and successfully eliminate so many Polish Jews in a mere matter of eleven months. What is found is that the Nazis did not actually use real military force to clear the ghettos. When they were given orders leaders did not have enough men to successfully clear ghettos therefore they turned to normal everyday Polish police. They also gathered prisoners of war who were from
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Sylvia Deborde is a research scientist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who has developed a research interest in studying and trying to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms behind cancer cell invasion in the nerves. More specifically‚ Deborde’s research focuses on analyzing the vital role that Schwann cells play in perineural invasion‚ the process in which cancer cells invade the nerves. Deborde began the seminar by explaining how the nerves are part of the tumor microenvironment
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The book Speak is about a young woman who has just entered high school her name is Melinda Sordino. She has entered high school being disesteem by the majority of her old friends and much of the school’s population because at a party she called the cops. She only called the cops because she had too much to drink and was raped by a boy named Andy Evans a senior at her high school who is described as a “Greek God”. So after all this happens she starts battling with depression‚ but she is fighting it
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Different types of syntactic foregrounding are examined in this essay when applied to poems. There are three poems that are analysed‚ ‘Child’ by Sylvia Plath‚ ‘Women and Children First’ by Ingrid de Kok and ‘Bitter-Berry Daybreak’ by Ingrid Jonker which are used to analyse the terms accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and the creation of hierarchical relationships and how they affect literature. Accentuation is evident in all three of the poems. Accentuation
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house and shut her in the cellar. It would be an hour before they came to get her‚ but then Rat Court would be all over and she would say what she had to say and go home” (Plath 1). Explanation 1 Millicent puts up with the hazing in order to be accepted. She realizes agreeing and not making a big deal out of these initiations will get her accepted into the “Magic Circle” after. After analyzing her situation while locked in the cellar‚ Millicent comes to the conclusion that she should not have
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i dont know i jThesis Statement / Essay Topic #1: The Bell Jar as a Coming-of-Age Novel For most adolescents‚ the coming-of-age period is challenging and painful. For Esther Greenwood in “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath‚ however‚ coming-of-age is literally life-threatening. As she notices the differences between herself and her friends and attempts to find meaning in her life‚ Esther contemplates suicide and then makes several unsuccessful attempts to end her life using various means. The source
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become a follower‚ it is difficult to change‚ and may become trapped in the life of doing acts and deeds for the leader who takes all the credit while we starve just to keep in the category of a follower. In both short stories‚ “Greasy Lake” and “Initiation”‚ the main characters are confronted with decisions that makes it very hard for them to pull themselves out of. The two stories commonly share the same message that maturity‚ temptations‚ and peer-pressure arise all the time and how we deal with
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