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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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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Compare the ways in which Plath and Hughes write about relationships. You must include in your response detailed critical discussion of ‘Morning Song’ and at least one other poem by Plath. Morning Song was written at the time of the birth of Plath’s first child Frieda‚ in April 1960. The poem’s title marks a new beginning and the start of the relationship between Plath and her newborn daughter‚ ‘Morning Song’. It’s a positive start to the poem and almost sounds like a nursery rhyme. The poem
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Compare and Contrast how both stories use a Gothic Convention Intro: In the two gothic tales‚ “the red room” and “the tell tale heart”‚ there are various similarities and differences. Both were written in the Victorian era as at the time many people believed in such things as ghosts and curses. In this essay I will explore and identify the different ways that the author implies fear and suspense‚ linking to gothic conventions. Both stories‚ “the red room” and “the tell tale heart”‚ use gothic
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This passage from Woolf provides greater insight to Irene’s conflict between her different identities‚ as a women and as a person of color. Woolf talks about how “the mind is always… bringing the world into different perspectives” (97)‚ and this is true for Irene‚ thought Clare can be seen as a stand in for the world in many ways. Throughout the book Clare causes Irene to question her own actions and beliefs as a woman of color. Clare represents the world of “passing” which Irene has chosen not to
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presentation of psychological disorder and the pressure that it forces on the mind are intrinsically linked due to the circumstances in which they take place. One of the most patent presentations of minds under stress is reflected in the way that Plath and Kesey portray a gender dominated society. Both novels display a governing gender that suppresses the other‚ labelling them ‘mad’ in a society that they rule. In ‘One Flew Over…’ most of the patient’s lives have been heavily affected and destroyed
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