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    the Story of an Hour

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    Jose Lopez Dr. Kent Harrelson English 1102 April 8‚ 2013 Analysis of Mrs. Mallard’s personality in “The Story of an Hour” Marriage is a relationship based on love which requires care‚ cultivation and defense every day. However‚ there are times in which the relationship between a wife and her Spouse is merely a slave and master-and. Life in the 1800’s was rather difficult for some women to deal with because society restricted women just because there was a general idea that they should not be

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    I. Major Issue(s)‚ Key characters George Stein is just the average worker trying to make a space for himself in Middle Class America. His primary motive for working at Eastern Dairy was to fortify his savings account and avoid the pursuit of a college degree. His parents‚ also middle-class workers‚ were pushing George to pursue higher education because they wanted a better life for him than they had for themselves. In George’s mind‚ working at Eastern Dairy seemed relatively easy. He could

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    The Story of an Eyewitness by Jack London is his report on the aftermath of the huge earthquake in San Francisco‚ California on April 18th‚ 1906. Mission Street I saw a milk wagon. A steel telegraph pole had smashed down sheer through the driver’s seat and crushed the front wheels. The milk cans lay scattered around. All day Thursday and all Thursday night‚ all day Friday and Friday night‚ the flames still raged on. Friday night saw the flames finally conquered‚ though not until Russian Hill

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    sad story

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    The way that Márquez uses names in Chronicle of a Death Foretold emblematizes the confusion between reality‚ fiction‚ and form. The story itself is based on a real occurrence‚ but the novel‚ while seemingly journalistic‚ uses anecdotal information as often as it presents the reader with the facts of the murder. For example‚ the narrator spends a few pages discussing the fact that Santiago Nasar was in love with Maria Alejandrina Cervantes at the age of fifteen‚ but he does not ever clarify whether

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    Topic: discuss the role of setting as symbolic of the story in “Hills like White Elephant” The different symbols in “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway are used to convey the different opinions‚ feelings and emotions of the characters and meaning of the story at hand. The symbolic devices and setting are used to effectively communicate the conflicts and obstacles that the two individuals are having. “Hills Like White Elephants” opens with this unusual couple drinking beer‚ at a

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    Short Story

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    Short Story Assessment Choose one activity to complete from the short stories read in class. All of these activities require that you combine information provided with creative output. Do not change the facts‚ characters‚ or themes of the stories. However‚ you may fill in blank spots with added information where necessary. You will be evaluated in the following categories: Thinking‚ Communication‚ and Application. 1. Make a mobile of five objects important in at least two short stories

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    A Wife's Story

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    A Wife’s Story Moving to a new country is an emotional hardship and even harder when you leave family behind. Bharati Mukherjee uses her outlook on American as a new country to tell her story. By using American culture‚ conformity‚ and loss‚ the gains and losses of a new arrival becomes apparent in Bharati Mukherjee’s “A Wife’s Story.” Mukherjee uses American culture to expand and express Panna’s out look on the new culture she is placed into. The normal ways of conducting herself in India

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    After reading Mitsuye Yamada’s Bedtime Story‚ I feel like I do “get it”. In my opinion the point of the story is to try and get a message out to the readers. I think the message is when one door closes another door opens. As read in the passage an old Japanese woman was walking around many small villages seeking a place to rest for the night. Everyone opened their doors to the elderly woman but denied her a place to stay for the night. After having no success with the people of the villages she decided

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    Toy story

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    This is story about toys. When I was a child‚ I didn’t have many toys‚ so I envy Andy‚ because it appears that he has many toys. He and other children characters seem to like doll toys. But I preferred stuffed toy animal. I have thought they come alive at midnight and play all sorts of pranks. In this movie‚ toys come alive when there is no one around. But they are very funny. If I watched it earlier‚ I might also have liked dolls. Woody is the Andy’s favorite toy‚ and the leader of his toys

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    Have you ever heard the story about the New York sewer alligators? I see some of you have. Well‚ the story goes like this; A family in New York decides to relent to their children’s requests for alligator pets. This‚ of course‚ is a terrible idea. The family either releases them into the sewers in purpose‚ or the gators escaped‚ depending on who you ask. Either way‚ there’s now a bunch of alligators in the New York sewers‚ striking fear into the hearts of the waste management service. How about

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