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    do well in life‚ and there is also no doubt you enjoy wasting students’ time. Seven hours feels like an eternity and it is not really necessary. Five hours and a half hours is plenty. One hour for Language arts‚ one hour for science‚ one hour math‚ one hour for History and thirty minutes for lunch. I enjoy sleeping. It releases tension and stress that you put on me for the seven hours prior to that moment. But‚ what I don’t enjoy is the sound of my alarm. It just reminds me that I have to go and listen

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    consecutive shifts without adequate breaks or rest time. Most new graduates in the nursing field are required to do shift work hours due to lack of experience. Shift work hours refers to night shift 12 hour tour 8pm-8am or night tour 8 hours 12 midnight-8am.Working days are a privilege in the nursing field and it requires years of experience due to the tour itself being very heavy. What makes this tour heavy is the amount of movement such as patient going into procedures‚ bedside procedures‚ going for tests

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    Ellie Callahan Instructor Carolyn Beardsley ENGL111-17R 14 October 2014 Annotated Bibliography Rationale For WP3‚ I am planning to research and synthesize the perspectives on the value of a college education. In the core reading “The Story of an Hour”‚ by Kate Chopin‚ Mrs. Mallard is tired of being a housewife and is longing for more‚ like a college education or career. With this in mind‚ I plan to research the value of a college education and the many perspectives on it. I also plan to provide

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    There are many artistic components in the making of a film. The plot or the story behind the film is one the most important of these components. The makers of The Joy That Kills in making a film version of Kate Chopin’s short story The Story of an Hour took artistic license to its limits. The entire story was dismantled and then completely reinvented. Many characters that are barely present or do not even appear in the story emerge to play important roles in the life of this young woman with heart

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    Kate Chopin portrays realism in her three short stories: "Regret‚" "The Story of an Hour‚" and “The Storm.” The author makes her fictional work to represent stark of realities in life. The author uses symbols of forthcoming change‚ heart trouble‚ and emotional response in the short stories. She tries to find her identity in the stories. She depicts unconventional issues that women were going through during that time. She highlights that women were bound by conventional domesticity and took care of

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    The Story of an Hour: A Biographical Analysis Christina M. Salvador ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor:  Loretta Crosson February 17‚ 2014 The Story of an Hour The Story of an Hour; is this a story of transformation and final freedom from a male oppressor? This paper submits a biographical analysis of the short story written by Kate Chopin and finds that The Story of an Hour is the chronicle of the life of Mrs. Chopin and perhaps a cathartic release of unfinished patriarchal injustice

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    Louise Mallard’s Power Hour Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that speaks wonders in its one thousand words. The unique reaction of Chopin’s character‚ Louise Mallard‚ to her husband’s supposed death and her resulting death upon seeing him walk through the door allows for various interpretations to be made by readers. Through the events and thoughts of Louise embodied in the story‚ Chopin implies the oppression and lack of independence in Louise’s marriage and the joyful freedom

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    “A Sorrowful Woman” & “The Story of an Hour” The sadness and unhappiness displayed by both of the married women in “A Sorrowful Woman” and “The Story of an Hour” shows that marriage does not always bring the typical ending of most fairy tales. Thus being living happily ever after. It is evident that both of these women feel trapped in their marriages as many people feel today. Growing up with eight sisters I have also seen this feeling of entrapment in the world as well. In both of these stories

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    Film Review – 127 Hours Today I would like to recommend a movie to you called “127 Hours”. It is the true story of the adventure of a mountain climber‚ Aron Ralston. Ralston was hiking alone one day and incidentally he was trapped in a canyon with his arm stuck under a rock. He got very little water and food and even more worse‚ he had not told anyone where he was going. After being trapped for over five days‚ he realized that there was very little chance that someone would rescue him

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    Reading Kate Chopin’s ’Story of an Hour’ leaves on reader’s mind a strong theme of the gender disparity present in the institution of marriage. The narrative about a woman’s sorrowful state and life under her authoritarian husband introduces Mrs. Mallard first in the exposition paragraph as having a ’heart trouble’ which requires ’great care’(pg. 15). It is quite ambiguous as to whether the trouble is physical or emotional. Even so‚ Chopin uses this trouble as a way of symbolizing the suffering

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