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Sylvia Plath; Along with authors such as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Bauvoir and Marguerite Duras, is one of the biggest female authors of 20th century. The Bell Jar shares more characteristics with Sylvia Plath’s life than just a semi-autobiographical novel. The main character of the book, Esther travels to New York to work as an intern in a fashion magazine, just like Sylvia Plath did. They are both poets, who lost their fathers at the age of 8 and both Esther and Sylvia Plath slowly falls into…

started and still rules the company American Wear. American Wear is one of the few remaining family-owned uniform supply companies, in the US. As a consequence of that, M. John Auriemma tends to treat his employees as members of his own family, and thus, takes to heart their interests. Indeed, in 2012, M. Auriemma has been recognized as a top employer by the textile rental association, for the high rate of employees’ retention in his company “American Wear”. This proves that a high percentage of…

Lyric poetry presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet as opposed to poetry that tells a story or presents a witty observation. Indeed, "We Wear the Mask" is a lyric poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that explores how in the late nineteenth century, African Americans could not publicly reveal their true feelings about whites' maltreatment without the risk of dangerous retaliation. Through paradox, metaphor, and apostrophe, the speaker ponders how oppressed black Americans are forced to hide…

students to wear school uniforms has been on the rise for the past couple of years. At public schools in the US, one out of every five has reported that students are required to wear uniforms from 2013-2014, as compared with one in eight requiring uniforms from 2003-2004. And with the rise in this school policy, so follows the continuation of the debate on whether kids should or should not be required to wear uniforms. Personally, I firmly believe that children should not be forced to wear…

Wearing a venetian carnival mask is a tradition for Italy. They would also wear it for other things and parties as well. They wore it to high their identities and their status. So people dont know who they are or even what they look llike. This had been a tradition for 7 years. 13th centuries would throw parties and they would have to wear these masks. They wanted to wear this because they didnt want anyone to know how they looked and what their status was. This tradition was in italy and…

themselves (“Should students have to wear uniforms?”) . If we force students to wear uniforms it hides the way one is feeling. By wearing regular clothing we can see how another is feeling (Browen) . Uniforms also give teachers/administrators unnecessary authority over a student (Browen) . Clothing is very crucial when it comes to expressing ourselves (“Should students have to wear uniforms?”).…

Third and even more importantly, police should wear body cameras because it prevents violence. Researchers at the University of South Florida released a report about a year long study of police wearing cameras. From March 2014 to February 2015, 46 officers wore cameras while 43 did not. Use-of-force incidents dropped 53 percent among the officers with cameras (Wing 2015). This study is trying to prove that the cameras have had a great outcome when used. The way the study compared two sides shows…

Who Wears the Pants? Clothing has long been a medium used to dictate and define gender throughout history. What women wear has often been regulated by the government or the church. Women started wearing pants during World War II when they were aiding in the war effort by working jobs that were typically male dominated. Though women more regularly wore pants, they were still thought of as masculine attire as shown in the Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter” painting, scrutinizing women for…

Should the Jews in France stop wearing Kippas? In the article of the week titled, French Jews struggle with an identity dilemma as violence increases, it is summarizing the dangers that the Jewish people are beginning to face because of the threats they are receiving from wearing their kippa.Because of this, Jewish leaders are beginning to warn one another the dangers of wearing their kippa. On the other hand, many Jewish people are determined to continue practicing their religion even if it…

The first sentence of the “We Wear the Mask” starts off with “We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to the human guile” This is exactly how the Marquis Evremonde is described as. The man with a “face like a fine mask” as said in chapter 2 book 7. He is a man who hides all emotions like those who wore masks in the poem, hiding. In the poem “Acquainted with the Night” it talks about rain and the night which goes along with motifs in A Tale…