Leslie Bell On The Environment

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What is the environment? The environment is everything that surrounds, such as office, colleagues, school, classmates, and the city. When the environment changes, people need to figure the way to fit in; if one cannot adapt to the changes, he or she will be eliminated. Leslie Bell, the professor who taught courses on women’s development at U.C. Berkeley and the author of “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom” uses the word “Splitting” to argues that young women usually unconsciously divide their true feeling while exploring the unsettled nature of adulthood. In Bell’s essay, she also split women into two categories. In addition, Martha Stout illustrates the problems of psychological dissociation when she is

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