A not so famous but still important oceanographer‚ a scientist who spends her whole job under water. This scientist’s name is Sylvia Earle. Sylvia Earle attended a university and went to college for about four to five years. Sylvia Earle decided to become an oceanographer when she was just in middle school. She knew she loved the sea since she was little. Sylvia Earle was born on August 30th‚ 1935. She is currently 81 years old and was born in Gibbstown Greenwich‚ Township New Jersey. She
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Sylvia Plath; What Was Behind the Mirror Perhaps the first thought to mind when the name Sylvia Plath is mentioned is pure ironic tragedy. What a destructive death for a woman with a seemingly jubilant life. It is know to most that she was a poet and author beyond her time‚ beaming with creativity and writing poetry in her early teen years. However‚ with longing for fame struck the bittersweet reality of holding the title for the most unfortunate life. How can it be‚ that a woman struck by dire
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One of the earliest times that I remember committing an act of kindness was the one that made my mother the most proud. I was in the fourth grade and considering that I had just moved to a new school‚ I wasn’t exactly the most extroverted person in my grade level. Maybe that was why everyone was so shocked to see me‚ of all people‚ standing up against a bully. I remember what had happened perfectly. I was sitting in the seat behind a boy who was known to have a few special needs but nothing serious
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Passage Analysis: A Complicated Kindness “This town is so severe. And silent. It makes me crazy‚ the silence. I wonder if a person can die from it. The town office building has a giant filing cabinet full of death certificates that say choked to death on his own anger or suffocated from unexpressed feelings of unhappiness. Silentium. People here just can’t wait to die‚ it seems. It’s the main event. The only reason we’re not all snuffed at birth is because that would reduce our suffering by a lifetime
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yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath of a young girl finding that when she should be most excited about her life‚ she instead finds that things aren’t what she expected‚ and that the culture of the 1950’s doesn’t seem to allow for all that she wants‚ which begins her descent into depression
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Sylvia Plath’s‚ The Bell Jar takes readers deep into the chaotic minds of not only Esther Greenwood‚ but also Plath herself. Many people believe that The Bell Jar is intended to be an autobiography with Plath using Esther to portray some of the issues that happen in her life. In 1953‚ Plath gets invited to be a guest editor and during this time she endures a mental breakdown. This parallel reveals the sources of the madness for Plath‚ Esther and women all over. According to Esther‚ this madness comes
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In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar‚ the appearances of color in the story gives the readers some of the idea how the characters’ are throughout the novel. The most interesting thing is when the color in the novel appeals to the abnormality of the personality and emotions of each character. Esther Greenwood‚ the main character in The Bell Jar‚ has a very significant mental development from the beginning of the story. Her mental breakdown is affected by the other characters and the environment. In this
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Catalina Bustamante 9-5 The Bell Jar Essay 868 words Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel‚ The Bell Jar is an allegory of how deep and damaged a character can transform and feel trapped in their own surroundings. This is the story of Esther Greenwood a young girl‚ who wins a scholarship which is envied by many‚ every day‚ through every day actions that scar her emotionally and psychologically. Throughout the novel‚ Plath illustrates that every single action that may seem very insignificant
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Kindness Is Cooler‚ Mrs. Ruler by Margery Cuyler is about a teacher teaching her students they should be kind to one another. Some of her students weren’t being respectful to their fellow classmates. Which she tried to teach them a lesson‚ so she assigned them to do ten deeds of kindness for homework. The students that were assign to the ten deeds came back to class so excited to tell their classmate about their ten deeds of kindness they did from home. All of her students were so happy to hear what
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Isolation and Alienation in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Kate Finnegan In Sylvia Plath’s modern novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ the main character Esther isolates and alienates herself throughout the book because she mentally ill. Because her descent into a deep depression is slow and she leads a productive life when the reader first meets her‚ this descent seems rational to the reader in the beginning. Esther has an artsy soul. She is a writer and dreamer. When she does not make it into the writing program
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