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Many people want to change the way we look at things, only a few succeed. Sylvia Earle is a modern American oceanographer, marine biologist, and a former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA is an organization that works to predict change in the weather, coasts, and oceans. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also works to protect and manage marine and coastal ecosystems (“About our Agency”, 2018). Earle is one of the first people to…

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath is about a girl named Esther who is a young women from the suburbs in Boston. She is working for an editor in New York interning at a magazine during the summer. She feels like she doesn’t fit in or belong with society and this is leading to depression. After many suicide attempts, her mother sends her to a psychiatric institution where she meets a female doctor named Doctor Nolan who eventually helps her overcome her problems and depression. I chose the signpost…

indeed”, also questions “when and if” is she would feel anything at all for her child. (Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 495, 454) What made matters worse in Plath’s case— a representation of many women her age— is her instability in her career as well when she became pregnant with Frieda. There was a “gulf between her desires and ambition.”( Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 273). She was still attempting to find and establish herself as a career…

within restrictive conventions of the patriarchal society which they live in. Finally, the protagonists flee the restraints of society through avenues which are detrimental to themselves; via suicide in both “The awakening” and “The collected works of Sylvia Plath” and insanity in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Arguably it is not the restraints of society which lead to their demise but the intrinsic flaw within the characters and speakers. The matter of female liberation and individualism is brought…

Dr. Sylvia Earle is an 81-year-old oceanographer. Over the years she has spent more than 7,000 hours in the ocean. During this time, she has gained an abundance of knowledge of the oceans. Her discoveries of the ocean have given us a better understanding of the oceans. She also has awakened us to the current state of the oceans. Dr. Earle is an aquanaut, an author, and was the chief of NOAA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Earle was born in Gibbstown, New jersey in 1935.…

but were extremely limited in many aspects of their lives. In the late nineteen-fifties, women were pressured into conforming to specific criteria which corresponded to their roles as members of the female gender. Sylvia Plath discusses such roles throughout her literary works. In Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, she employs imagistic motifs in order to confront the issues that…

The Bell Jar is a classic story of feminism in the mid 1900s. Esther Greenwood goes through periods of severe depression, happiness, and boredom. The reader watches her develop as she learns what’s really important in life. The book starts off with Esther working for a New York magazine, where she excels. The problem is that she doesn't fit in with the eleven other girls, causing her to distance herself. Spending a month on the job, she learned a lot about friendship, but she also realized that…

Commentary on “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath It is important that when reading the poem “Mad Girl’s Love Song”, written by poet Sylvia Plath, the reader first knows key information about Plath’s life so that they may better understand the context of the poem. Sylvia Plath was born in 1932, and she began attending Smith College in the year 1950. While she was attending the college, she got a job as an editor for Mademoiselle magazine. “Mad Girl’s Love Song” was published in Mademoiselle…

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, 5 And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceiling: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, 10 Chunks of sour cottage cheese. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door With bacon rinds and chicken…

and patriarchal society in which the main character lives.” (CITE) Moreover, even though the novel was written before the insurgence of the feminist movement a decade later, it is well recognized as a piece of feminist literature. Knowingly or not, Sylvia Plath quickly gained fame and praising for being a voice against patriarchy. She was called “the accidental feminist” because of her constant discourse about the hardships of being a woman, and even more, a female writer. Her novel is not an…