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    Bluebeard's Egg Analysis

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    Sally is a woman who attends a college for taking night courses and to keep her busy. Also, she is a woman who thinks her husband, Ed is dull and stupid. However, as story goes by, she finds out an affair between Ed and her friend, Marylynn during the party. She witnessed Ed touches Marylynn's butt, and she realizes Ed is not the man she used to think. In addition, "Bluebeard's Egg" is somewhat similar to Fitcher's Bird. For example, Sally is the third wife of Ed, and she thinks she is clever.…

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    Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

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    Transitioning into adulthood is hard for any gender but it was especially difficult during the 1950s, a socially conservative time. As a woman in the 1950s, transitioning to adulthood was difficult and for Esther it was nearly impossible. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar provides the opportunity to view a young woman's journey into early adulthood during a period where gender roles, double standards, and social norms severely restricted the options and opportunities available to women. Further, when…

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    university states in his speeches, but an effect of what occurs between the students and professors in the classroom. The kind of education CNU professors are searching to accomplish is a term called “engaged pedagogy,” which is introduced by author bell…

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    The novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, is about a young woman name Esther Greenwood who is working for a magazine company as a temporary editor in New York. While working for a magazine company that often threw many female stereotypes at her, Esther is found in between either her sweet, innocent and safe friend Betsy, or the more daredevil, outgoing and rebellious friend Doreen. Seeing as Doreen is very open on a sexual front, Esther finds herself having a difficult time between the societal…

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    author Sylvia Plath definitely impacted American culture by writing about her battle with mental illness, like depression and her views on women's role in society. The roles for women in America at that time were not what Plath wanted. In novel, The Bell Jar, Plath shows her troubles with conflicting identities. Between trying to please her mother, trying to become successful, relationships, and mental illness. She also was considered a feminist because of her work about gender roles for women.…

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    North Church Case Study

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    The North Church located in Market Square of Portsmouth, NH was originally built in 1657 and was rebuilt in 1854, with the latest restoration in 1978 (CITE). The church was primarily built using brick, wood, and stone to commemorate the colonial style of Portsmouth and its ancestors beforehand. Brick is the primary material used to give the building a more structured look and show that the town has not drifted from its colonial roots. The brick also provides the building at the time a more…

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    The symbol of the bell jar is clearly an important idea, as the book is titled after it. After reading this novel, the reader understands Esther feels she is trapped in a fishbowl of emotions, an idea Esther explains as a “bell jar, with stifling distortions” (241). Esther fears this bell jar, because she associates it with her depression. This looming jar seems like it should “descend again”, terrifying…

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    herself. As written in “The Bell Jar”, in Sylvia Plath’s book The Bell Jar her main character Esther is constantly searching for her identity through the novel which put pressure on her to become something greater. Esther ends up losing her sanity because she searches so much which leads her to her depression. (The Bell Jar, 30). Sylvia Plath uses Esther in her writing to show what she went through as a way to deal with her depression. As Helene Henderson writes, The Bell Jar is about a college…

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    Eti-Personal Narrative

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    I am sorry that I missed your cal'ls today. Im not long home with Eti in bed. I spoke with Sally Glossop today and she advised me to keep Eti out of school untill after half term. She thought that it would cause far to much anxiety to come to school at a time like this. I must say that I do agree with her and so would anyone else that is working with Eti on a mental/ medical level. I know you need your attendence numbers up and you need to keep ofsted happy but I must put Eti first. As you…

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