in on the side in which they prefer and ignore the other side of the argument. PMI is a basic decision-making tool formalized by Edward de Bono in 1992. He enhanced the pros and cons technique often used in decision-making by developing the "plus/minus/interesting" tool. It is a valuable improvement to the weighing pros and cons technique that has been used for centuries. The pros and cons technique is basically a two column list of reasons for ("pros") and against ("cons") a particular decision
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that needs to be stopped. bell hooks also suggests that both males and females have to acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy. hooks’ starts off her article with the definition of patriarchy‚ which is a single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. In other words‚ patriarchy is a political system that insists that males inherently dominating‚ superior to everything and everyone deemed weak‚
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“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath is an exceptional read. The story takes place in 1953‚ as Esther Greenwood goes through the struggles of depression‚ she learns how to cope with difficulties thrown into her path. The quote‚ “A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it must have something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man and woman” by Thomas Hardy is a perfect description of this book. In my opinion‚ this quote means that if there is no meaning
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Unraveling Parallels In her modern classic‚ Sylvia Plath tells the story of a neurotic woman on the grip of insanity. The Bell Jar presents the atypical coming-of-age of the successful and magnetic Esther Greenwood. As her mental health declines‚ she longs to escape her cosmopolitan life through taking her own. Though Neurotic Poets recounts the biography of Sylvia Plath‚ The Bell Jar reveals a more personal struggle with clinical depression. Esther’s failure to recognize her self-importance reflects
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The Bell Jar was published in 1963. The book dealt heavily with mental health and how it was treated and perceived at the time. The Bell Jar touched on gender issues at the time and was described as a feminist novel. In the 1950’s numerous historical events took place and references to those events were made in the book. The story centered around a young woman named Esther Greenwood‚ who aspired to be a writer. The book started off in the summer of 1953 in New York‚ where Esther was an intern
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“The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” Yasunari Kawabata Walking along the tile-roofed wall of the university‚ I turned aside and approached the upper school. Behind the white board fence of the school playground‚ from a dusky clump of bushes under the black cherry trees‚ an insect’s voice could be heard. Walking more slowly and listening to that voice‚ and furthermore reluctant to part with it‚ I turned right so as not to leave the playground behind. When I turned to the left‚ the fence gave
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A novel by Sylvia Plath named The Bell Jar which the main character Esther Greenwood struggles with finding her identity‚finding meaning with in her life and struggles with a terrible depression which causes her to fall into mental illness.The theme throughout the story is such a negative mind and full of madness . In the novel there’s the use of different elements to demonstrate the mental breakdown of Esther. For example in the novel there’s examples of metaphor‚simile and analogy that help highlight
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The Terracotta Bell-krater is a bowl for mixing wine and water that originated in Greece during the time period between 750-700 BCE. Known as the Geometric period‚ this piece of art is a perfect example of the Kraters that are commonly found from this period in time. Like the Terracotta Bell-Krater‚ many of these Kraters are very large and are decorated with geometric and linear designs. When viewing the Terracotta Bell-Krater‚ its characteristics such as its lines and color‚ foreshortening‚ and
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Carol of the bells was constructed to be a cheerful and merry Christmas song. It’s fast paced and has many rhymes. The rhyming makes the fast pacing make the song more cheerful and overall a better song. Literary devices used to create this song included personification‚ repetition‚ and rhyme. Rhyme played a big part in this song. Again‚ Carol of the bells is fast paced and rhyming made the song sound better than non rhyming words would. An example of a rhyme is “All seem to say‚ throw cares
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I believe that the second amendment‚ the right to keep and bear arms‚ has been the most important in protecting citizens from possible governmental abuse because this amendment assures that citizens will always have a way of defending themselves against any risks or threats to their freedom. This amendment is a reminder to the government that they cannot and should not try to stop citizens from having the right to bear arms. I chose this right because I believe that without the second amendment the
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