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    At 1:14 PM on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, the investigator and associate pulled into the Café Escadrille parking lot located at 26 Cambridge Street, Burlington, Massachusetts. The investigator and associate parked the vehicle and walked toward the main entrance of the restaurant. The investigator observed the parking lot was clean, and free of trash and debris. The landscaping, trees and shrubbery were manicured. The stairway and the handicap ramp egress were well maintained, the handrails were

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    Taco Bell's Success Did Taco Bell’s success result from a top down or bottom-up approach to change? What situations drove this change, and what leadership approach did John Martin use? What was the old (previous) leadership style and what was its limitation? • Taco Bell’s success resulted from a top down approach to change. Along with the new organizational structure came the job position of Market Manager. Management added this new position to send a strong signal that they wanted

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    Over the span of Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel, The Bell Jar, hero Esther Greenwood perseveres through battles as her New York way of life gets ugly. She builds up an unpredictable fixation on death which thwarts her in finding her character. Her new thinking style just makes the way toward revealing her actual self significantly all the more intense, as self-destructive considerations cloud her psyche and she spirals into a condition of depression. Amid this time of massive battle , she adapts more

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    The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a realistic fiction novel that tell the story of a young women’s spiral towards insanity and her strive towards social acceptance. Plath writes of Esther Greenwood, a very talented and successful scholar, who receives the chance to intern for a magazine in New York City. This internship is when the audience is given their first glance into Esther’s lack of feelings and empathy towards her own well being. The novel remotely mirrors the renowned author’s experiences

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    Through the character of Esther, Sylvia Plath explains the struggles of women in the male dominated society of the 1900’s in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. Some of the many problems women faced during this time were marriage, motherhood, and feminism. Throughout the novel, Esther is influenced by many people and struggles to find herself in a patriarchal society. Thus, Plath, through her semi-autobiographical novel, is able to expose problems women faced in the 1900’s. One of Esther’s

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    with her appearance and how others perceived her. We can all relate to feeling self-conscious, or feeling the need to put on an act to impress others. At our core, most humans just want to please those around them. That's why, when people read the Bell Jar we sympathize with Esther. Perloff explains a few of Esther's various reasons for putting on different masks, "For Doreen, Esther wears the mask of a tough cookie, wiling to be picked up by strangers on downtown street corners. For Betsy from

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    Identity In The Bell Jar

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    The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a book about a young woman who is facing life the unexpected way. Esther is trying to place the puzzle pieces in order but it isn't quite working. There is a different view of humanity in this book and it gives chills to read what she went through. Esther goes through struggles that show her true colors within throughout the book. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath dips into the idea for the search of social identity, the idea of “melting pot”, and what the American Dream

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    Sylvia Plath was an American author whose books reflected mostly on her life as well as showing her feelings and opinions about certain things. She had one of her books, “The Bell Jar”, published under a different name because it was so autobiographical (source 2). Although she was successful, depression tormented her horribly (source 2). Although she had bad depression, and attempted to commit suicide with sleeping pills, she was still successful with her works (source 2). Sylvia’s poems and books

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    Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath each present a female protagonist who experiences madness as a form of rebellion against external factors. Firstly identifying the internal fragmentation of each protagonist, Natalie romanticises madness as method of rebelling trauma, while Esther’s declining mental health can be read as a rebellion against pressures to conform. Secondly, mental illness is romanticised in the illusion of control Natalie gains in her rebellion against reality

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    Sometimes, the books I choose to read and the things I choose to hear gives its own intentions of overwhelming me with forced ideas of “ intriguing strangeness” and in addition to thoughts of “demoralization”. In Sylvia Plath’s, The Bell Jar, these overwhelming intentions of forced ideas are met. Plath’s poetic style of writing unified with her bizarre life experiences, the setting in the mind of a 1950’s “psychotic” American woman, as well as the scenery of the life of the wealthy, the poor, and

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