I remember at the time when I started to go to school‚ my father used to tell me how bad the conditions were when he was studying. How he studied sitting below street lamps when there was no electricity in the house‚ how he was forced to do a job leaving his graduation incomplete when they had not enough money even to buy books. Still he continued working hard and completed his graduation successfully. When I see myself having everything I need or even more than that‚ I don’t think I have a reason
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Since before anyone can remember‚ women are expected to uphold expectations from society that some may say are reasonably unfair. Many of these expectations have been portrayed through writing that has since lasted hundreds of years. Although writing styles and techniques have changed as time progresses‚ authors have wrote about the same hardships in their work while still adding their own unique voices. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath and Stoner by John Williams‚ each author explores social expectations
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Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 during the peak of the great depression when unemployment soared over 20%. Although she was subject to a life filled with hardships and anguish‚ Sylvia allowed those hardships to shape her as a socially adept young woman. Plath excelled academically‚ and allowed her writing to be influenced by her rough past. After marrying a fellow poet Ted Hughs and having two children‚ she published hundreds of works that told of her tragic life and unreasonable thoughts. Soon‚ poetry
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SYLVIA PLATH “MIRROR” Truth or lie? What do we prefer to hear? Abstact: The paper analyzes the poem “Mirror“‚ written by Sylvia Plath. What it wants to show are the multiple meanings which depend on the different readers. The paper is intended to show the importance of the “mirror” and its reflection of the person looking into it. This paper also explains how a poem can serve a writer as an instrument to describe her/his life and feelings on a sheet of paper. Silvia
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Sylvia Plath lived a short‚ disturbed life‚ and much of her misfortune she has traced to her father. After her dad Otto Plath died when she was ten‚ she was able to identify his overwhelming presence in many other experiences she had during the remainder of her life. Coming from a German-born teacher‚ Sylvia Plath uses angry and emphatic language to identify the cruel and emotional experiences that the absence of her father has caused throughout her life‚ and she parallels his oppressive relationship
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these words‚ describing racial subcategories‚ seem neutral on their face like equivalent titles. But however the subcategories are listed‚ however neutrally the words are expressed‚ these words mask a system of power‚ and that system privileges whiteness” The categories of the words race and gender are not the only way to describe how it defines what subcategories of words the white privileged uses to pacify minorities to make them feel as though they are equal to them‚ which in turn obscures the
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people remember you by is also equally as important. Three character traits I would like others to remember me by are‚ being great with people of all ages‚ respectful‚ self-confidence and having pride in the way I carry myself. To begin with‚ the first trait I would like other people to remember me by is‚ being great with people of all ages. My mom always tells me I am a very good people person and I agree with her. I love working with people‚ I’m good with helping people with their problems‚ I am also
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‘Ambulances’ and Sylvia plath’s ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Death and Co’ The poems i am going to analyse are: • Lady Lazarus • Death and Co • Ambulances • Days It is understatement to say that both Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin have immense depth and subsidiary meanings to their poems‚ both writers expertly structure their poems and used varied techniques to convey their themes of death and instil their messages to their readers. Plath goes about it an autobiographical manner and parades death as a theatrical
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I remember that day very clearly. It was Halloween October 31‚ 2003. It was a school day‚ a long school day as I recall. It was a long day because the next day was important for me; I had the SAT test and my very last home volleyball game. It was my senior night. I was in frenzy all day. I remember English class and my teacher returned my “About You” essay. I read over it one last time to see how I scored‚ and was glad to receive an A on the paper. I read the part about my best friend‚ Ginny Blackburn
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famous Poem of Daddy by Sylvia Plath has a significant meaning of the subject of marriage and gender issues‚ as she express a hatred for the two most important male figures in her life. In the summary of the poem who let the readers know her father was an abusive man who was a fascist and a nazi. Plath uses many figurative metaphors to describe him for example “ You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot”(Lines 1-3). Plath truly describes him as a black
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