...Kalvin Scott Dr.Dorsey English IV 4th period The Story of an Hour 9/09/15 In “The Story of An Hour” we are opened up to Mrs.Mallard’s sister,Josephine preparing to break the news of Brently Mallard’s alleged death.We are told in the very first few lines that Mrs.Mallard has had heart trouble in the past and great care has been taken to break the news to her.Most of the story takes place in the Mallard’s home,mainly in Louise’s bedroom.The setting takes place there because right after the news of Brently’s death Mrs.Mallard goes to her room to celebrate. In the story Irony is shown when Louise reacts to the new’s of Brently’s death.As a reader you expect her to fall down sobbing over his death,but instead she goes to her bedroom,sits in her chair,and looked out the window.The window starts to whisper “Free,Free,Free!”,Louise then realizes that Brently really loved her.Louise is overjoyed that she has a “Free!Body and soul!Free”.The reader see that Louise excited about Brently’s death,but Josephine does not see this.This is a case of Dramatic Irony as we read how happy Louis is and how Josephine begs her to open the door thinking she is grieving. As we get near the end of story Situation Irony occurs as we expect Louise to live happily ever after,but this does not happen.As we know great care was taken to break the news to her,as we were informed of Louise’s heart troubles.Basically we the readers know she was almost being...
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...“Free, free, free,” is what Mrs. Mallard repeatedly stated after she left the room from hearing of her husband’s unexpected death. She faked her feelings in front of everyone crying with such sorrow in her sister’s arms. Her internal dialogue contradicts this though, she felt as though she was trapped in her marriage. During this time period arranged marriages were a very common thing. The story takes a twist though, for when she comes back down the stairs her friends and family are waiting with a surprise. She faked her feelings in front of everyone crying with such sorrow in her sister’s arms. In the time the story was written women were given few rights. They were not allowed to be without a man, and they were not able to be the ones to ask for a divorce. The only way out of her marriage was through the death of one of them. It’s in some ways comical how real this thought was....
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...Brooklynn Stilwell Dr. Redfield English 112- 20 November 2014 MLA Annotated Bibliography: Rhetorical Analysis; the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin, characters, setting. “KateChopinorg. Kate Chopin International Society. N.d. web. 20 Nov. 2014. http://www.katechopin.org/the-story-of-an-hour/ This website is from the Author herself. There are many beneficially things from this website. She has a list of characters, the time and place, the themes, when this book was published, etc. It has a lot of helpful information and the story behind this story. I thought what was really neat on this website was there is a place for a question and answer box. This is a very important source because this particular website was written by the author of the short story I chose. There are many websites that can be helpful to have credible sources. But, when you have a source that is from the author herself, it is helpful and more credible. Lorcher, Trent “The Story of an Hour”: Analysis of the symbols & Irony.” Bright Hub Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. http://www.brighthubeducation.com/homework-help-literature/60196-the-story-of-an-hour-irony-and-symbolism/ This educational website out of the many that I read over, was informative. As many of the websites state, the symbolism in this story is not as obvious as you may assume it is. Reading this states that the initial heart condition that Mrs. Mallard has is a symbol of...
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...required to evaluate an opportunity How to do homework: Read the case as a bedtime story and then read the questions at the end of the case; don’t answer the questions at this time Think about the case for 24 hours, then review chapter 2 Think about chapter and the case for another 24 hours to let your ideas form in your mind from the case, Chapter 2, and the topics discuss in class Finally, prepare your PowerPoint slide using critical thinking to answer the questions and summarize your thoughts into concise statements Keep it simple, but show me your understanding and learning 2 Summary 1 Background Hannah Long – Agricultural Economics Matthew Hammond – Mechanical Engineering Josh Maxwell – Grad School of Management Josh, Hannah, and Matthew meet in Business and Sustainability class Biodiesel is a class project 3 Summary 2 The Challenge Energy dependence is a world wide problem Usage is not sustainable, for it is not renewable Current energy industry is committed to current business model due to large assets, investments, and infrastructure Problem: find a form of fuel or technology that can mitigate the current negative affects on the environment of petrol-based fuel while utilizing the existing infrastructure Urgency: heightened by astounding growth in the global population and per-capita consumption of liquid fuels 4 Summary 3 The Concept Biodiesel is a vegetable and/or...
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...way of reaching your target and prepare to overcome unexpected difficulties in advance. Planning develops the ability to prioritize the tasks. If I did not plan my project I would have not known what tasks I was required to do and what my time limit was, which could have lead ultimately to the failure of the project. The purpose of evaluating my performance in relation to planning is so that I can identify what I did well and what I did not do well. This will help me to carry out better planning in the future I hope that by improving my planning techniques. It will help me in all aspects of my life. Planning techniques used: I used five different techniques to enable me to produce final product. These techniques were action plan, summary action plan, mind maps, Gantt chart and critical path. These are techniques used by professional companies for their planning. The techniques I used were generally effective and helped me to a number of tasks and a final product by the final deadline with required quality. Action plan: To plan my project, first of all I and the other people in the group read the brief and identified the tasks that we would be required to do complete the project we wrote them down on paper. We produced an action plan by ordering these tasks and broke them down into simple steps. This helped me to see how many individual tasks I need to do in order to finish this project. I then typed this up so I could see the big picture. I would use this technique...
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...Book Review: “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” Nicole True “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” by Jim Bishop takes its readers on a captivating journey through the events that took place leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s death. The unique writing approach taken by the author presents a detailed hour by hour summary of the day when president Lincoln was killed, beginning with the morning of Friday, April 14th, 1865 and ending the following morning. Every chapter represents an hour, though scattered throughout the book are various sections that give insight to the assassination. Some of the most notable extra chapters are, “The Days Before”, “The President”, and “The Conspiracy”. These parts are intended to give enough background information so that the reader is able to make connections and, in Bishop’s words, “[place] the events of the day in context.” Throughout the book the reader examines the step by step course taken by major characters,...
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...Assignment 1.2 Summary and Personal Response – Revision Mike Sopkowiak Anna Cahill English 115 08/12/2013 Assignment 1.2 Summary and Personal Response Final Draft In the essay “Farm Girl” Written by Jessica Hemauer I think one of the main points in the story is the work ethics that are taught at a young age turns to make them successful at life. A family of three girls Jessica who the story is told from her perspective. And Sisters Angie, Melissa and one boy Nick that work on the farm to provide for themselves. They all do chores get up two hours before school and start milking the cows feeding the calves and cleaning up the barn. When there are done with their morning chores and get cleaned up they are rewarded with a hot breakfast. Hemauer, j. Farm Girl While attending school Jessica express a desire to be like the city kids get up an hour before school, attend before and after school functions. She doesn’t tell her friend’s that she has to do all the chores at home and that’s why she doesn’t play basketball or any other sports. Her dad has a family meeting letting them know the farm is growing and more chores will need to be done. Hemauer, j. Farm Girl In eight grade she pleaded with her dad to let her play basketball and he said yes just make sure your chores get done. She quickly became the team’s starting point guard, she was thrilled to be on a team and still kept her word with her father. She did her chores in morning and after basketball, she felt she was...
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...Outline for Informative Speech Your name Tornadoes Purpose: To inform the audience about tornadoes. Thesis: In order to better understand tornadoes, it is important to explore what causes tornadoes to develop, how researchers classify types of tornadoes, and odd occurrences that may be associated with tornadoes. Organizational Pattern: Topical I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: What can hurdle automobiles through the air, rip ordinary homes to shreds, defeather chickens, and travel at speeds over 60 mph? B. Relevance: Illinois rests on the boundary of what tornado researchers call tornado alley. This is the area of the country that receives the most tornadoes every year. According to a 1995 brochure distributed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Illinois averages 27 tornadoes a year. Also, nearly 5 people die every year in Illinois as a result of tornadoes [ AID]. In fact, according to Tornado Project Online!, a website hosted by a company that gathers tornado information for tornado re searchers, the deadliest tornado in U.S. recorded history occurred in Murphysboro, Illinois. In 1925 a violent tornado killed 234 people in this Southern Illinois town. C. Credibility: I grew up in the heart of tornado alley and have been interested in this weather phenomenon for a very long time. Also, I am a trained weather spotter for the Bloomington/Normal civil defense agency. D. Thesis: In order to better understand tornadoes...
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...Write a summary of “The right Passengers” in about 150 words. In the short story ”The Right Passengers” our main character is Nadeem Riaz,a Pakistani taxi driver in New York. Nadeem is looking for customers that can make up for the hours he spent in traffic from the airport and also for half hour where he was chased by the police. He decides to look for customers in Manhattan’s bar district because it’s packed with drunk people that needs a taxi in the middle of the night. On the corner he finds a couple, a young Pakistani man and a Caucasian girl. The couple is kissing and panting on the back seats and Nadeem is use of that kind of behavior. What he’s not used to, is that it’s a Pakistani and a Caucasian girl. He finds the boy’s behavior disrespectful and sinful, because that’s not norm in Nadeem’s country of origin. Characterize Nadeem Riaz Nadeem Riaz is immigrant with a green card that drives Taxi in New York. He is also the first person we meet in the story. Nadeem seems to be a tradition-bound man and he is also described as a man that lives by the rules of Islam, and it also seems to be that Nadeem has not quite adjusted to western lifestyles. In the story he tells he feel he´s stocked her and will only be staying for a short time, and that actually describes very well that Nadeem has a hard time being adapted for the American culture. In the story, he says to Faisel: “Gentleman. I am cared one of my children will turn into you when he grows up “This sentence...
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...Success Summary Success is something we as individuals strive for. There are numerous amounts of interpretations of success depending on who you ask, what they do, where they come from, their family background, their intelligence and much more. Malcolm Gladwell examines several scenarios of individuals whose environment, along with their ambition and motivation affects their ability to succeed in his third book Outliers: The Story of Success. The extraordinary individuals that triumph throughout Outliers range from hockey players born on the “perfect date,” to rock stars putting in 10,000 hours of work. From geniuses with exceptional IQ’s who do not succeed, to a Jewish immigrant in America who went from rags to riches, Gladwell tells their...
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...1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF THE KEY POINT OF THE ARTICLE 2.1 Introduction Singapore is an urban city with a modern multi-modal public transport service system. However, there have existed gaps between customer expectations and customer perceptions, especially in using bus services. This report will analyze these gaps and how bus operators recover their service quality and satisfy their customers. 2.2 Summary of the key points of the article Recently, The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has allowed the first privately run feeder bus service to boost the network. This is good news for customers who are suffering of waiting for the bus for a long time at crowded bus stations during the peak hours and using congested buses. Customers are happy with the improvement of bus service. Previously, customers were frustrated because of insufficiency of bus service in peak hours. They have to wait from 30 to 40 minutes. But from now on, customers will be more satisfaction with the improvement of bus services in Singapore. Bus frequency has improved by 1 to 5 minutes instead of 10 to 13 minutes previously. The “peak period short service” 912P reduce waiting time and ease congestion. Extra supply of bus service will always be helpful with customers in reducing the crowded situation in some buses and reduce waiting time at the congested bus stations. 2. HOW THE ARTICLE RELATES TO THE CONCEPTS 3.3 Customers’ expectations of bus services “Customers’ expectations...
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...Complimentary Sample Summary Made To Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die THE SUMMARY Some stories stick with us forever. Long after we hear them, we could easily re-tell them. A lot of Aesop’s fables are like that: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, etc. We are all familiar with the opposite experience—reading an article that we can’t remember five minutes after we have finished, or listening to a lecture that leaves our brain as quickly as it enters. They are the opposite of “sticky.” Why do some ideas succeed while others fail? How do we nurture our ideas so they’ll succeed in the world? Many of us struggle with how to communicate ideas effectively, how to get our ideas to make a difference. This book is about how to do just that. In researching successful, “sticky” stories, six principles emerged. Sticky ideas shared certain traits that made them more likely to succeed. This doesn’t mean that there is a formula that guarantees success, but it does mean it is possible to greatly improve our odds. The six principles are: About the Authors Chip Heath is a professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Dan Heath is a consultant to the Policy Programs at the Aspen Institute. A former researcher at Harvard Business School, he is a co-founder of Thinkwell, an innovative newmedia textbook company. Published by Leaders Book Summaries. 872 New Britton Rd, Carol Stream, IL 60188 No part of this...
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...Summaries #2 (pg. 25 - 54) William Peel was a rather small man with pleasing manners. William was planning to escape from his slave owner, Robert H. Carr in a rather unconventional way. He planned on boxing himself up and then being shipped off. William was escaping because his owner had recently been selling slaves and he was afraid that he'd be next. So, William was boxed up by a close relative and then shipped off. He was in the box for a total of 17 hours. He suffered great misery due to the tightness of the box he was confined in. After a long trip, the box arrived in Philadelphia where a devoted friend was scheduled to pick him up. They did run into a couple difficulties. The box was very heavy, seeing as it carried a man, and it...
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...Communication Outcome 1: Written Communication (Reading) [HIGHER] Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8: Part 9: Part 10: Part 11: Appendix Appendix Introduction to the section Assessment information for this section Reading complex texts Defining the writer’s purpose Identifying the source of a text Identifying the target audience Summarising texts Identifying the writer’s attitude Evaluating a written communication Summary of this Study Section Answers to SAQs A B 3 7 9 13 19 31 37 45 49 55 63 69 70 Acknowledgements Grateful thanks are given for permission to use the following copyright materials. ‘Excluded by the system’ © The Sunday Times 7/5/2000 (http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/) ‘Fair Trade spotlight falls on pricey CDs’ © Adam Sherwin/The Times 10/2/2001 ‘Fan moves 5,000 miles to be nearer Man U’ © John Mahoney/Daily Star 12/2/2001 ‘Man or Mouse’ © Daily Star 12/2/2001 ‘Pay per view TV at the Beeb’ © George Cole/Computer Buyer November 2000 ‘Improving the hell holes’ © The Guardian (leader) 7/2/2001 ‘How to pay for a free lunch’ Ian Burley/Personal Computer World March 2001 ‘A leopard can't rebrand its spots’ © Charlie Fletcher/Scotland on Sunday 4/3/2001 ‘He loves me! He thinks I’m an old Land Rover’ © Sue Hepworth/The Times (Weekend Supplement) 10/2/2001. Illustration © Maria Colino. ‘A ruined life given heroic status’ Kirsty Scott/The Herald 5/5/1999 Every attempt has been made to contact copyright owners. Learning and Teaching Scotland apologise...
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...Every time that I’m hearing the word “Freedom”, I’m seeing a lot of things going on with it. If someone has it, he or she could do a lot of things in the world because they have a power to do things to make themselves better. There are three short stories, which the protagonist of the stories had the freedom. One of the stories, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin that talks about Mrs. Mallard saw a freedom for herself after having a thought that her husband is dead, but she felt it in just a moment. Second, the “A&P” by John Updike, which talks about Sammy who discovered freedom after he saw himself having more and better opportunities after he quits his job. The last is the story of Tillie Olsen “I Stand Here Ironing”, which talked about...
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