Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ ‘Whiteness I Remember’‚ and Ted Hughes’s poem‚ ‘Sam’‚ are two poems which describe an experience of Plath’s when she was a student at Cambridge. She was out on her first ride when the horse she had hired the normally-placid Sam‚ bolted. Although Ted Hughes’s is describing the experience he uses insinuations throughout the poem to let out his perception of his marriage with Sylvia Plath‚ hence infuriating‚ the conflict in perspective between the two poems. The ideas of ‘conflicting
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intangible‚ an example is that‚ Lieutenant Jimmy’s photograph of and emotions for Martha. The other gentlemen’s of the unit are introduced through explanations of the things they brought with them‚ as illustion‚ Henry Dobbins‚ who brings extra food‚ Ted Lavender who carries items such as tranquilizer pills‚ and Kiowa who brings a hunting hatchet. The author presents readers to the novel’s main characters by explaining the items that the soldiers bring with them. The amount of detail the writer offers
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Meg Jay: "Why 30 is not the new 20" Notes When Meg Jay states‚ “Forget about an identity crisis and get some identity capital… Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that’s an investment in who you might want to be next.” She is implying that one should not waste their twenties finding out just who they are‚ but to use that time to set goals and seek out to accomplish them. “Dating in my twenties was like musical chairs‚ everyone was running around and having fun” A part
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Hughes makes reference to Plath’s problems‚ implying her “exaggerated American grin “as false‚ having a purpose of its own. The content Plath was there for the “cameras‚ the judges‚ the strangers‚ the frighteners  the extended metaphor suggesting the intrinsic connection issues between Hughes and Plath were caused from external forces. Furthermore the allusion of her “Veronica lake bang†and “what it hid...â€suggests that appearances can be deceiving and raises questions about Plath’s
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What is changing is how we behave‚ how we act‚ how we connect with others‚ how we transmit our emotions‚ knowledge or experiences. It is not the essences of the subjects in study‚ Humans and technology‚ but the relations between the two. In her TED video‚ Amber Case (2010) “We are all Cyborgs now” https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now#‚ show us how technology let us adapt to our environment and how this relation has been changing. She also shows us that in fact‚ this context
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In the Ted Talk‚ Poverty‚ Money and Love‚ Jessica Jackley addresses the worldwide issue of poverty. Poverty is a challenging hardship to address because no matter how much a person contributes or tries to help the problem‚ the large scale complication will continue on existing. As humans‚ we naturally want to care for people‚ but sometimes we struggle with the concept of not being able to care for everyone. I really connected with Jackley’s speech when she said she got lost in the immense idea of
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As members of Future Business Professionals‚ we are writing to recommend a speaker for the fall semester. After researching several TED Talk candidates‚ we recommend that you invite Hanna Rosin. Rosin’s TED Talk‚ “New Data and the Rise of Women‚” offers an interesting perspective on gender roles‚ which will highly appeal to FSB students. In this memo‚ we will summarize Rosin’s talk and explain why we recommend her. Hannah Rosin is the co-founder of DoubleX‚ a website centered on news about women
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Thistles by Ted Hughes The title ‘thistles’ refers to a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles. The poem is very short and is separated into four stanzas of three lines each. The poem does not have a rhyming pattern but uses much alliteration. The poem conveys a negative mood‚ one that is aggressive and violent. In the first stanza‚ Hughes portrays an almost countryside atmosphere for the readers to experience. He uses alliteration: “hoeing hands” that describe the
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Kio Stark discusses the benefit of talking to strangers in her TED Talk‚ “Why You Shouldn’t Talk to Strangers”. She explains that although many grow up with the saying‚ “stranger danger”‚ it may not be so black and white. A simple greeting to a stranger has no real semantic meaning‚ rather they acknowledge somebody else’s presence. Through her recording of interactions with strangers‚ Stark has found unexpected pleasures and genuine emotional interactions through everyday conversations with stranger
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In this TED Talk video‚ Brene Brown‚ an author and public speaker‚ shared with us a topic about Perception. She began to research further into this topic and discovered that there was more to it than what was being said. Brown says that she discovered the meaning of connections. Being a social worker‚ she needed to understand the purpose of our lives. An interesting fact she found was that we like to feel like we are connected or bonded with something or someone. While we definitely need this emotional
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