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    After reading the short story called “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin‚ I feel the setting in this story is very interesting and designed because there are different objects symbolise to other abstracts which author wants to tell readers. The main character‚ Mrs. Mallard‚ who experiences an hour that she learns her husband died from a railroad accident‚ deserves to freedom in this society. During this hour‚ her emotions alerts from grief to delighted‚ from nervous to comfortable‚ and from untrammeled

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    experience emotions is to encounter polar opposite feelings at the same time. In the story of an hour the main character Mrs. Mallard experiences grief and joy in around the same moment. The story shows how situations can be perceived in different ways depending on your outlook. In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard copes with the supposed death of her husband through polar opposite emotions that happen in less than an hour. Mrs. Mallard copes with what she believes to be the loss of her husband in a

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    believe that a woman should develop some professional skills and have a job. Anyway‚ the question ‘to work or not to work’ is quite often raised in many families because the issue is not so clear. In my presentation I’d like to dwell on the advantages and disadvantages of the situation in which a woman has to combine family and career. I will start with the drawbacks the family may suffer from. I’ve singled out 5 of them. 1. It’s very hard sometimes to juggle family and career. A woman experiences

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    SAP NetWeaver influence on development of further SAP business solutions Master thesis project Prepared by: Diana Gold Oguzhan Osman Erim Prof. Mark Smith Academic supervisor: KTH‚ 2008 Abstract Thesis work presented in this report is a joint work of two students of Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) over a period of twenty weeks under the supervision of Prof. Mark Smith. The main area of investigation is SAP NetWeaver and its influence on further development of SAP applications

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    English 102 09‚ February 2012 Freedom and Confinement In “The Story of an Hour”‚ Kate Chopin showed how even the news of someone else’s death‚ if told the wrong way‚ can be lethal. Louis Mallard was described as a woman who has heart troubles. Louis’s sister told her‚ her husband has died in a railroad disaster. At first Louis was overwhelmed with sadness and despair‚ but after crying for some time‚ she begins to imagine the years ahead; on her own without anyone to oppress her. She is overjoyed

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    Chopin “The story of an hour” When you wake up from a dream sometimes your palms are sweaty‚ your heart is racing you feel as if you just ran a marathon. Other times you want to close your eyes peacefully and fall back into the place you just were. A dream is a surreal form of a story. Your imagination runs wild; you have no control of what is going to happen next. In contrast while reading‚ writing‚ imagining a story‚ one has a sense of where the story is heading. In “The Story of an Hour” the plot

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    “The Story of an Hour” Symbolism Essay In the short story‚ “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin‚ the reader is introduced to an hour of a character’s life. Throughout the story there are many symbols to help the reader understand the emotions and changes of Mrs. Mallard after hearing of the loss of her husband. The two symbols mentioned in this short story are the open window and the heart trouble that Louise had. Louise Mallard also repeats the word “Free” in the story‚ which gives insight

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    Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that tells of the feelings and thoughts of Louise Mallard after she learns of her husband’s death. When the story starts the readers already know of a tragic event that has happened‚ and the characters have no idea. This is because of the POV that Chopin wrote the story in. This story is told in the third person point of view‚ and because of this it makes the story a lot more dramatic but understandable. If the story would have been told in the

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    Comparison of The Lottery and The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour”‚ by Kate Chopin; this story was about a wife who was told that her husband had died. The wife went through many emotions but the main emotion she went through upon hearing about her husband’s death was elation. She felt free from his presence in her life‚ but at the same time‚ she also felt sadness. She did not feel sadness for her husband’s death. She felt the sadness for her happiness about his death. “When she abandoned

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    In “The Story of an Hour‚” Kate Chopin writes of a Mrs. Mallard that has just been told of her husband’s death. When she first hears the news‚ Mrs. Mallard is saddened and in tears so she locks herself in a room to be alone. Although at first it seems to be so she can be alone in her sorrow‚ but eventually the reader begins to understand that Mrs. Mallard isn’t distraught or devastated like a normal wife that had just learned that her husband had died‚ she’s seems pretty indifferent (albeit shocked

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