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    Gabe Wahl Period 3 AP Literature Mrs. Coghill The Bell Jar Overview Esther has extreme anxiety because of her concern with her future. Her fig tree metaphor helps display her concerns, “ I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story…From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked” (Plath 77). She wants to grab every fig because every fig represents a new path she can take for her future. She describes herself as neurotic

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    temporary, while others last longer. Author Sylvia Plath, who suffered from depression, wrote an autobiographical novel entitled The Bell Jar. In her novel, Plath uses a fictional character to walk her readers through her personal experiences (Plath 1-244). She describes in details the character, setting, plot and theme (1-244). Esther Greenwood is the protagonist in The Bell Jar. She is a young, college-aged girl who is an extremely talented writer (Plath 3). She is one of twelve lucky winners of a fashion

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    Here, Taco Bell had a customer that started a crisis for their organization, by saying that the hamburger meat used in the ingredient was not real meat. Furthermore, the customer file a lawsuit against the organization. Here, when a crisis occur the first step is to convening with your crisis management team. However, maybe only one team member is present at this crisis, it is their job to assess casualty. Once this done the terms member will contact all other crisis member were they can meet to

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    In the 20th century, there was a legend that if you have a ring of the queen in the Maria castle you can go in and out of the place of Queen Maria. And especially no one know what the ring look like. But with so much other people they still believe in it and now the legend have been pass some century. In the big circle black bed, there was a beautiful girl were sleeping under the white blanket. She is Isabelle and was an orphan whose parents died when she was very young. And all she know was her

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    The Indelible Self Possessed Poet: Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath once said, “ The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt”(Good Reads). Ms. Sylvia Plath was a novelist, poet, and a short-story writer (Monroe 2015). At the age of eight, she published her first poem which appeared in The Boston Traveller (Orr, Morrish, Press, et.al). Plath a terrific artist, which lead her to receiving the Scholastic Art & Writing award (Beckmann 2006). Sylvia Plath influenced literature in a positive manner because

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    The Bell Jar: Mental Illness The Bell Jar mainly focuses on mental illness. The main character, Esther Greenwood, lets a series of unfortunate events send her life in a downward spiral. Esther ends her summer internship with an unexpected attack from a new friend, Marco. After returning home, Mrs. Greenwood suggest that Esther sees a family doctor, who refers her to Doctor Gordon. Where she denies mental treatment after not seeing eye to eye with Doctor Gordon’s ideas. Esther Greenwood, much like

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    Work Sylvia Plath was an American author and poet. Her death at the age of 30 by suicide was the end of her long struggle with mental illness throughout her life, chronicled in her most famous work, her fictional, but inspired by her life novel, The Bell Jar, cited for its feminist themes and exploration of mental illness. Plath is considered one of the greatest poets and novelists of the 20th century, whose works were influenced by her mental illnesses, and still have relevance today. Sylvia Plath

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    How Do Real Life Experiences Change The Narrative? The award winning novel known as “The Bell Jar”, written by Sylvia Plath, is said to be a thin line between a work of fiction and a true story. Taking place in the 1950’s, it depicts the journey of an intelligent, hardworking young woman’s descent into insanity. With themes of sexuality, feminism, and mental illness, this book (published in 1963) was truly ahead of its time. Although it is technically a work of fiction, the story itself is a nod

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    Greenwood represents the struggle of women trying to hold their place in a modern, yet conservative society. Author Sylvia Plath uses the character of Esther Greenwood and figurative language to portray the disarming role of society in the 1950s. The Bell Jar revolves around Esther who is a wonderful student and an aspiring poet. She clearly struggles with societies expectations which tell her to be both educated and a homemaker. The dichotomies of her society leave Esther bitter and unable to decide

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    telecommunications companies in the world and is doing extremely well. As an example, AT&T provides to customers 4G LTE network, and people who utilized their services seem to be satisfied. AT&T has been around since October 5, 1983. Alexander Graham Bell was the founder. Verizon is a global IP leader, operating one of the worlds’ most connected public Internet backbone networks, delivering solutions that let customers securely connect, communicate and collaborate around the globe Verizon

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