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1. Brian Doyle, Irreconcilable Dissonance 308 - 311
Eduardo Porter, What Happiness Is 456 - 459
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour 395 -398
2. Different views of happiness in relationships.
3. Brian Doyle, Irreconcilable Dissonance 308 – 311. Many couples are getting a divorce these days. There are many dramatic reasons to why a people get divorced. Individual’s might be married for years and in a blink of an eye in can all be gone, just from the spouse calling it quits. The author is telling the reader that marriages no longer hold a true meaning, divorces are so common now and people are using bizarre excuses to get out of a committed relationship.
4. Eduardo Porter, What Happiness Is 456 – 459. Happiness can have multiple meanings to

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