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    Personal Evaluation and Reflection on the Group Project Your performance both as an individual and as a member of a team in the light of your assessment of other group projects. As an individual myself as well as being part of a group member in this project‚ I understand that I have areas to improve on which before this‚ never realized. T he most significant that I realize needed improvement is constant adjustment of one self‚ no matter on project matter‚ or relational matter. Project wise‚ what

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    The connection between a person and nature is evident‚ and has been since the beginning of time. People are a major part of nature‚ being both influenced by it and the influencer. The natural world influences humans‚ whether it is known or not. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening‚ symbols such as the ocean‚ Grand Isle Island‚ and the moon demonstrate ecocritical ideals by advancing plot and portraying Edna Pontellier’s character growth. The novel’s representation of the ocean demonstrates Edna’s

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    Essay Response John Updike’s “The First Kiss” uses many significant rhetorical devices‚ including metaphors‚ descriptive diction‚ and symbolism. These three devices help Updike convey his perspective on baseball and convince that though it can be serious and extremely competitive‚ the sport is meant to be a fun experience for both it’s players and fans. The metaphors used throughout Updike’s writing help develop a common attitude toward baseball; they reference both the fans and performances of

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    Kate 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”

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    ASSIGNMENT Question: Discuss the role of sexual politics in Louise mallard’s possession of self assertion. Answer: Kate Chopin is a very famous American writer of the nineteenth century. She was an independent woman who did not confine to the socio-political bonds of the society. Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” published in 1894 is about a woman who receives the news of the death of her husband and the sense of freedom that she experiences after his death. The protagonist of the story

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    Theme Comparison: The Necklace & The Story of an Hour A short story‚ “The Necklace” (“La parure”) by Guy de Maupassant in 1884 and a poem‚ ‘The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin in 1894 are literary works that are very comparable yet are different. The two women‚ Madame Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard‚ portrayed in these literary works are protagonists who have trouble because of conflicting expectations imposed on them by society. Both Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard want something

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    Immoral. Sensual. Daring. These words reverberated into a woman’s world while society forcibly stamped their disapproval and rejected the Kate Chopin outright. Unconventional‚ intelligent‚ and gracious‚ she matched society with her quick Irish wit and charmed anyone who knew her. Not satisfied with the women’s role in society‚ she provocatively stirred emotions‚ thoughts‚ and ideas in her writings. Two such classic examples are “The Storm” and The Awakening. The idea for a woman to have sexual

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    Awakening‚ Kate Chopin explores the desires of a woman who is being oppressed by a patriarchal society and societal expectations. The protagonist‚ Edna‚dreams of living a life that is free and true to herself. The motif of birds and wings are used to illustrate Edna’s struggle with marital oppression and marital awakening. Chopin suggests that the only way for the oppressed woman to achieve her dreams is to break away from social expectations placed upon married women. As the novel beings‚ Chopin uses

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    louise seems to be helped by the mediations that she does. Her look on life is based upon her things she sees more clearly. She feels she now received sublime but highly personal revelation in which traditional religion religion plays no part she plans to “live for herself”(story of an hour‚ page 353)‚ when she thinks of her “soul” she thinks of it conjunction with her “body” and she thinks of both as “free”(353) this seems

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    A major point in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is the representation of weather that is taking place throughout most of the story. This storm is the reason that Calixta’s husband and son cannot return home from the store and causes her to run into her former lover Alcée Laballire. A storm is typically something that can be frightening‚ builds in intensity‚ and invokes chaos momentarily in the outside world. As Bobint points out in the story‚ the storm created “sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister

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