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Out of the two stories I read “story of an hour” by Kate Chopin and “gift of magi” by O Henry, “the story of an hour” most effectively employs the use of irony. Chopin’s brilliant ways of using the irony in the story was the main reason why his readers can’t always predict the path of the story as they are constantly can’t be sure of the twists and turns it will take them to. In "The Story of an Hour", there are lots of instants when the irony took its place in the story. One of these…

In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard is an intricate character with a multi-faceted personality. She is a woman who has recently been informed of her husband’s sudden passing. Distraught by this information, she locks herself in her room and begins to contemplate the nature of her relationship with her late husband. Louise soon realizes that without him she can live the life that she had been deprived of whilst living in the shadow of her spouse and is overcome with joy. But…

Over the past years, traffic congestion has become a serious problem in Metro Manila, specifically the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). This results in loss of travel time, and huge economic and societal costs. "Traffic in the capital and its surroundings is already costing the country about P3 billion ($64 million) a day, or about 0.8% of gross domestic product, according to government figures" (Presse, 2016). The demand for transportation infrastracture has increased because they asociate…

increase of travel time in a journey from an origin to destination. Travel time may become more variable and unpredictable as congestion increases. This situation causes the travel time is difficult to be predicted while commuting during morning peak hour. In addition, the new Park and Ride under government’s project near to Klang Komuter Station has been forecasted to increase the number of cars coming to the town and coincidentally making the traffic congestion worse. Thus, this study ensures…

Etse Lossou 10424363 Topic: Impact of Traffic Congestion on Commuters; a case study of Accra-Kasoa Road Literature Review Road Traffic congestion has always been a major problem all over the world. Both the developed and developing countries are battling with the problem but with different degree of commitment. On the 14 of October 2014, a study from INRIX and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) revealed that the total cumulative cost of congestion in the UK’s economy is…

and Antoinette discovers that she is one of these people that do not do ‘honest work’. Antoinette remarks about Colette that She is not the smallest bit modest, the smallest bit shy about heaving breasts, her pretty calves, her plump lips. Not an hour ago she was lifting her skirts and taunting Pierre Gille and calling out for the world to hear, ‘It isn’t free.’ All of it says there is only one possibility: The house of Madame Brossard is a brothel, a shuttered house of Paris. (Buchanan…

In this paper I will examine the two short stories ‘A Diary Of a Madman’ by Nikolai Gogol and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ tells the story of an unnamed married woman who--according to the narration-- suffers from a ‘temporary nervous depression’ and as the story progresses she gradually loses her sense of self and reality. The story of Ivanovich Poprishchin in ‘A Diary of a Madman’ progresses in a similar manner, as the anxious and socially…

“Neutral Tones” is a poem of failed love written by Thomas Hardy during the year of 1867. It expresses the bitter end of a relationship and the deep rooted feeling of regret. The poem is believed to be written about a woman by the name of Eliza Nicholls, who Hardy met during his first visit to London in 1863 (Bloom 37). “Neutral Tones” includes Hardy’s predictable references to God, gloom, and distaste for a relationship. In the poem, the speaker reminisces about standing next to a pond on a…

more than housewives, Kate Chopin writes of a 19th century woman who discovers a freedom so few women of her time have. This lady is Louise Mallard, who learns suddenly, but gently because her heart disease, of her husband’s death in “The Story of an Hour.” Even though Mrs. Mallard loves her husband, she welcomes the new change in her life, represented by the open window she gazes out of, which is a symbol for her newly found identity as an independent woman of the 19th century. Chopin uses…

Once you experience something of such great significance, it is hard to let that go and move on. This universal theme can be seen in both the song “Want You Back” by 5 Seconds of Summer, and the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. In “Want You Back” the band sings about a girl whom they have left and will always want back. In “All Summer in a Day” the author tells a story about students on Venus, who are in the absence of the sun, and are grieving the loss of it too. In both of…