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For hundreds and hundreds of years, woman all over the world have been struggling to be seen as an equal gender to men. From gaining rights in political areas to gaining rights to wear what woman want, people are always putting up a fight for equality. In this essay, I am going to talk about all the amazing woman who helped us get to where we are today. First, I am going to tell you about Malala Yousafzai. As a child, Malala believed strongly in fair education across genders. She was born July…

Sylvia Plath, a poet and novelist from after world war II that had written nine books in her time and many different poems as well was was published by her ex husband after she died. Sylvia lived a short life of 30 years, but left an ongoing impact in the world before she left. She was born in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts but then later moved to London where she ended up having two children with Ted Hughes and later died February 11, 1963 of a tragic suicide. Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist,…

person can trust others and them self. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932. In 1950 Plath won a scholarship to Smith College. While she was a student, she spent time in New York City during the summer. A Fulbright Fellowship brought Sylvia Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes. The two married in 1956 and had a stormy relationship. Plath and Hughes had two children Freida and…

times, we express our thoughts that don’t reflect our reality, rather than showing what we need because of the lack of it in our lives. Sylvia Plath was an amazing American novelist and poet. She excelled academically during her attendance in Smith college. Also, she got awarded a coveted position as guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine. Despite the success in her life, she got into depression that led her to several attempted suicides. After her first suicide, she started to get treated, and…

Plath’s novel The Bell Jar can be described as one of the most depressing books ever written. Unfortunately for Plath, the novel has part of her story that is roman-a-clef, meaning they are based on her actual life. In 1950 Plath started attending Smith College and in 1952 she became a student editor for Mademoiselle just as Esther does (Scott). Furthermore, Plath describes her experience at Mademoiselle as an “unbelievable merry-go-round month” (Scott). While she was working at Mademoiselle…

Greenwood, is a nineteen year old college student who lives through a summer in New York City as a guest editor for a fashion magazine. Because of her severe depression once returning home, Esther is put into a mental hospital, where her treatment only made the mental illness worse. Similar to Sylvia Plath, an article explaining The Bell Jar wrote: “Esther feels she is too ugly and too smart to compete for men with the fashionable coeds she encounters at college” (“Explanation”). The Bell Jar…

details six months in the life of its protagonist, Esther Greenwood and the events of Sylvia Plath's twentieth year; about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. In the narrative's opening chapter, Esther, an over-achieving college student, is spending an unhappy summer as a guest editor for a fashion magazine in New York City. After her internship ends, she returns home to live with her mother where she grows depressed each day, suffers a mental breakdown and severally…

in her own novel. Sylvia in New York City is electrically alive; Sylvia in her own novel is drained from it. In 1953, Sylvia Plath had applied for an internship with the magazine, Mademoiselle. Before her summer in New York, she was attending Smith College and was feeling overworked and in need of an escape, “Everyone wanted to be one of Mademoiselle’s guest editors, but Sylvia needed it--- some shot of…

Smith College has been the focus of efforts to mitigate climate change. However, with the changes of climate already taking place, Smith College needs to take steps to prepare the college for the changes which will be coming to the area. To begin taking steps to address climate change impacts on campus a vulnerability assessment of Smith College was developed. The assessment was developed by looking at literature on expected climate change in the region, and by talking to stakeholders both on…

How Much Should the Author’s Life be Known Authors Sylvia Plath of “The Bell Jar” and Justin Torres of “We the Animals” both incorporated many of their personal life events and struggles into their debut novels. By incorporating their hardships into their literary work, the two books provide an extensive look into both of the author 's frustration and fanciful imagination. In “The Bell Jar”, the protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is first described as a studious girl who, through her education,…