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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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    College Online Composition A Surprise Birthday Party Throwing a surprise birthday party for someone is not an easy task‚ it takes a lot of patience and planning. Surprise parties are usually thrown for friends and family members on birthdays or accomplishments they have made‚ and are very fun to participate in. In this event of a surprise party‚ everyone is aware of it except for the person the surprise party is being thrown for. You have to know where it’s going to be held‚ have everyone on

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    A birthday surprise 26.09.11 Ninas birthday was planned by her friends. They wanted to do a trip to the Kakadu National Park. The friends thought that there would be only freshwater crocodiles and these were not aggressive and much smaller than the saltwater crocodiles. And only two or three people died each year in a crocodile attack. So they thought that there was no reason to be afraid. There were also Rangers who checked for them‚ even by helicopter! When they got into the park they

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    Big Surprise Have you ever done something no one has ever expected? Like surprised someone that cried? I have surprised my whole family in America when I moved here. No one was expecting us to come; especially my aunt. When my family and I were moving here from Poland‚ we planned to surprise everyone. Our goal was to fly here and surprise my aunt‚ my dad’s sister‚ for her birthday which is exactly on April Fools’ Day. So it makes it the perfect day to surprise someone. The only people that knew

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    Reaction Since I have already read this story as a junior in high school I do not have a very strong reaction to it‚ although I can recall my reaction from when I first read this sad short story. I read this in my AP English class in high school and I had the teacher that stressed how everything had a meaning. Since this skill was already burned into my brain by the time we read this work by Kate Chopin‚ I could easily pick apart and decipher the meaning of this story. I believe that Kate Chopin carefully

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    Story of an Hour Questions In the short storyStory of an Hour‚ Chopin illustrates that societal expectations will subdue and repress one’s identity. Firstly‚ in the very first paragraph it is noted that Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with heart trouble; naturally‚ one would presume that she is of quite some age‚ however‚ in the eighth paragraph it reads‚ “She was young‚ with a fair‚ calm face‚ whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength.” (Chopin‚ 8th paragraph) This comes as a surprise

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    and death in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” which is a very short story is infused with an immense amount of irony and foreshadowing that somehow hints to the ending of the story before you even get to the first paragraphs end. The main character Mrs. Mallard has a deeply inflicted heart of being the oppressed subject of her husband’s wrath that ironically takes her life at the end of the story. After reading the short story many times I found that irony

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    man‚ but society says no. Mrs.Mallard in The Story of an Hour wants exactly this. So‚ when she hears that her husband has been killed in a railroad accident‚ she doesn’t think twice about how she feels. She believes she is free‚ facing the welcoming spring air‚ enjoying life as if she hasn’t lost her beloved husband. But‚ not for long. Her dreams are shattered as her “dead” soulmate walks through the door‚ and her heart stops. Literally. In this story‚ you’ll find that there are plenty of hidden

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    Apparently with no surprise A happy-go-lucky flower gets its head chopped off by the frost. The sun sees the whole thing from up above‚ but doesn’t give a flip. Somewhere above‚ God watches it all thinking what a swell job he’s done. Oh Dickinson. You’re really quite something. Get out the microscope‚ because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The first thing we notice is that we’ve got a little personification going on‚ meaning that

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    A LOVE STORY WITH A BITTERSWEET ENDING Broken Promise Not all love stories have their happy endings!   One day‚ there was a girl named Natalia who loved someone far away from her. She loved Ken so much. Their relationship was like a roller-coaster ride. They didn’t see each other always. Days have passed and Natalia met a new guy.   It was on June 2009‚ classes started. Natalia went to school and they had a new classmate who transfered to their school. The guy named Nathan came from a far

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