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    After careful deliberation I have prepared a state in respect to the question posed about hiring new faculty here a Smith & Gray College. The governing board requested that we either utilize more tutors or hire new faculty to support the evermore growing need here at Smith & Gray College. According to the last board meeting it has come to my attention that Smith & Gray will need to fulfill 10 instructional positions. After reviewing the financial budget and attending an information conference

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    In USA Today essay, Yes, “A College Education Is Worth The Costs”, writer Rodney K. Smith begins his essay by painting a very vivid picture of a student in debt, and angry about his lack of job. Coming from a family that values education, the writer stands for pursuing knowledge in order to succeed in life. With this believes, the writer’s purpose for this essay is to reassure and reinforce the necessity of education in life. Smith hopes he can help push people to go to school, and have a good career

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    “Yes a College Education is Worth the Cost,” writer Rodney Smith discusses how students of this generation don’t care about receiving a great education for the future. Throughout his essay he explains how a college education is worth the cost. He stated that people between the ages of 18-34 say they would much rather get a job and make money than spend money to go back to school to obtain a higher degree. Smith’s family grew up in Oklahoma and they viewed education as an investment. Smith was influenced

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    Role of Food in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

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    aforementioned Ladies’ Day luncheon, which is reminiscent to Esther’s rebirthing and purifying bath rituals. Esther gorges herself during the banquet in attempts to satisfy her starvation, however this binge eventually leads to purging. Caroline J. Smith notes in “‘The Feeding of Young Women’: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Mademoiselle Magazine, and the Domestic Ideal” that “purging seems to be the necessary and inevitable result of [Esther’s] disordered eating” (16). The purging appears to emulate

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    Sylvia Plath Controversy

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    That’s Not How You Bake a Cake, Sylvia Sylvia Plath was an American Poet known for her confessional style with brilliant wordplay. She had an interesting life filled with love and losses. Sylvia Plath was and is still a major source of controversy. Sylvia had a troublesome childhood plagued with death and depression. She was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts (Biography1). Her parents were Otto Emil, a German professor and entomologist, and Aurelia Schober, a teacher (Poetry29)

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    Sylvia Plath’s work is marked with her trademark style, one full of enigmatic analogies and ambiguous metaphors. Sadly though, the life of Sylvia Plath was indeed shorter than anyone expected. Nevertheless, in the thirty years Plath meandered through the world, she left an everlasting impact. Remembered as one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the twentieth century, Plath cultivated a literary community unlike any predecessor. Additionally, since a sizable portion of Plath’s work was read

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    Sylvia Plath’s novel, The Bell Jar, shows that the mores of America contribute to the mental deterioration of some of the most creative and introspective of people. The novel is basically an autobiography-one which is a strange mix of mundanity, grotesqueness, barbarity, nature, and glamour. Something dark and insidious perturbs the author’s stand in protagonist, Esther Greenwood, in both traumatizing and prosaic circumstances. The novel remains iconic in American culture due to its resonance with

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    LeBouef 1 Breana LeBouef Mrs. Smith English III 9 November 2014 The Bell Jar: Literary Analysis With Author Biography Sylvia Plath is a renowned poet and author. She fantasied the world with her powerful writings. Beloved to the world, she truly changed women 's status. She wrote distinctively from her own life experiences. This is cleared showed in her book, The Bell Jar. This book offers a theme of rebirth and a theme of feminism. The 27th of October in 1932, Sylvia Plath was born

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    in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27th, 1932. At a young age Platt found a liking to poetry and earning a scholarship to Smith College in 1950. During her years in college she interned for magazines as guest editors. In 1953 Platt attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. She received help and returned to Smith and obtained her degree in 1955. After graduating from Smith she left America and traveled to England to attend Cambridge University where she met poet Ted Hughes. They married in 1956

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    information to write the book? In the article , “Betty Friedan” by Mario Kaplan from the Jewish Women’s Archive website, it states , “In 1957, she surveyed two hundred of her Smith College classmates and found that many of them suffered from “the problem that has no name.” Betty Friedan was also a psychology student at Smith College. She was one of the first women to actually speak and write about “ the problem with no name”. She wrote an article in Good Housekeeping with the title “ Women

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