Maroon curtains were drawn on the play’s performance. People stood up and clapped their hands‚ for what they assumed to have been a brilliant performance of the high school students. The dimly lit auditorium was flooded with color when the lights flickered back on. Everyone‚ except for me‚ started to stretch and mingle about the room. Some people went to the refreshment stand or to the washroom during the intermission. Conversations started to ignite as well as ringing phones made the place feel
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The Life and Writings of Sylvia Plath After reading and discussing many poets and their written work‚ I have realized that not only pain‚ but any emotion that the poet is feeling‚ plays a large part in how the poems express themselves through their writing. I have chosen to explore Sylvia Plath and the poems she has written and how her pain and personal experiences have influenced her poetry. Similar to many other authors of the twentieth century‚ Sylvia Plath’s writing was influenced largely
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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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6/03/13 Thinking 1. What is a thought? An idea or opinion produced by thinking or occurring suddenly in the mind: "Mrs Oliver’s first thought was to get help”. Thought generally refers to any mental or intellectual activity involving an individual’s subjective consciousness. It can refer either to the act of thinking or the resulting ideas or arrangements of ideas. Similar concepts include cognition‚ sentience‚ consciousness‚ and imagination. 2. What do scientists say? As scientists
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source of social status and contentment. • Plath suggests that the government‚ consumerism and the patriarchy cause the dehumanization of people‚ especially women who are restricted to the stereotype of the household wife. This is demonstrated in the repetition of the word‚ “It” in place of “She” or any other more personal term. The US promoted the domestic lifestyle image‚ which is expressed in The Applicant “A living doll‚ everywhere you look.” Plath voices her opinion on the way that women were
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Sylvia Plath was born to middle class family in Massachusetts. Plath published her first poem when she was 8.She was bright‚ sensitive‚ was a perfectionist at everything she attempted. She was a brilliant kid‚ getting A grades in school‚ winning the top prizes. She was a model daughter. By 1950 when she joined Smith College she already had an remarkable list of publication. However Sylvia’s perfection was only superficial. Under this lay personal issues some of which probably were the result of
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“Dating vs. Just Talking” We are Dating but not “exclusive”‚ Just talking with “no strings attached”. Sure we’ve used or heard these terms used a time or two. Amazing how society interprets relationships. Although these relationship styles may have some similarities‚ they do however differ. Whether using the term dating or just talking you’re still in the phase of getting to know a person un-exclusively just in a different manner. Just talking‚ (McNealy‚ 2010)is when you are interested in and
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Sylvia Plath draws upon her personal experiences to blend a range of powerful emotions‚ weaving them cleverly throughout her poems. ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ explore her intimate struggles and how the abandonment and betrayal of masculine figures in her life shaped her views on life and death. Her carefully selected language is crucial in exhibiting her feelings about the oppression of herself as a woman and her demand of dominance over the men around her. The protagonist of ‘Lady Lazarus’ is
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Wood Ear Mushroom for Promoting a Healthy Diet When you think about mushrooms‚ you typically get the classic image of a mushroom right before your eyes. Well‚ this changes when you see the Wood Ear Mushroom‚ which is rather different in shape and appearance than other mushrooms are. It tends to be roughly shaped like a cup or ear and it is characterized by a rubbery texture. Its name is Auricularia polytricha‚ but this mushroom is also known as black fungus‚ wood ear‚ Judas ear‚ cloud ear or tree
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ANALYSIS OF “SPINSTER” BY SYLVIA PLATH The word “Spinster” ‚which is the title of the poem written by Sylvia Plath‚ in its literal sense denotes “single‚ unattached or free”. With this plain interpretation alone‚ you supposed to spot in an instant what could be the perspective of this poem‚ you may think that it is all about a person who lives alone‚ unmarried or unaided. This is merely gazing on the title itself‚ but when you come across on the entire poem deeper leaks on its real context will
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