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    In “My Year of No Shopping,” American author Ann Patchett (2017) assesses how one can sacrifice his/her desires in order to save money, time, and other valuable moments of life. The author here reveals how one can live without a year of no shopping. In order to support her idea, she describes two friends where one is convincing the other on how she is living without shopping. Inspired by her friend, the author also pledges for a year of no shopping. As time went on, she realizes how well…

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    Throughout the writings of Kate Chopin, there is a resurfacing theme of women's depression and lack of freedom where men have control over them. In the story " The Story Of An Hour," Mrs. Mallard exemplifies a woman who is affected by oppression by her spouse. Chopin uses word choice to emphasize the enlightenment that Mrs. Mallard embarks upon as the story progresses. Equally, Chopin's use of irony shows how Mrs. Mallard feels about her husband, moreover; her freedom. Also, Chopin uses…

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    While The Machine That Won the War by Isaac Asimov and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin are both very ironic stories, they have two different types of irony. The main theme of The Machine That Won the War is a machine, called the Multivac. Yet it is found out the machine really did not win or even help out in the war, ironically contradicting the title. The results were just being doctored by John Henderson, the main character, and his superior, Jablonsky, to make it seem the machine actually…

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    silent killer in this case; heart disease is. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) “About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year” (CDC, n.d.). Out of all of those cases, about forty seven percent of deaths occurred outside of the hospital. This suggested that most people either did not know or did not act on the early warning signs of heart disease. As a result of this data, the CDC surveyed the general public about heart disease in 2005. To their…

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    Pinpointing what factors lead to heart disease, in the case coronary heart disease, is a difficult task. However, it is an important task because knowing what leads to heart disease is the key to preventing it. After all, the goal of medicine is to prolong life, medicine cannot achieve this without further examining potential factors that can lead to heart disease. Annotation: In examining psychosocial and medical approaches, Stephen and Marmot first discuss how stress in different levels of…

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    What is the title of the text and what is the text about? The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin relates about a woman suffering from a heart condition, whose husband just died. Some relatives try to tell her the news in a careful way, to make sure her heart wouldn't give up on her. At first, she cries inconsolably, but then she retires to her room and locks herself in. Although she is aware that her husband loved her very much, and she knows that she will certainly cry for him at his funeral,…

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    to his involvement in study protocol, 16-H-0144, Impact of Elastin Mediated Vascular Stiffness on End Organs. XX is from Manchester, England. He was diagnosed with supraventricular aortic stenosis (SVAS) and experienced multiple cardiac arrests and heart surgery associated with this diagnosis. He currently experiences hypertension, difficulty regulating his temperature, difficulties with memory, migraine headaches, GI pain, and anxiety. XX is color blind. XX’s mother reported no concerns…

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    females who exercise will have a higher relative-VO2, higher a-vO2-difference, higher stroke volume(SV) and higher cardiac output(CO) at their peak work rate; than individuals who do not exercise. In addition, we predict that females who exercise their heart rate(HR) will be lower before and after exercise than in females who do not exercise. These subjects performed high intensity exercises on an ergometer until exhaustion. Cardio-respiratory values were analyzed during and after exercise with…

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    or sign to appear as that person. Irony is something when you don’t expect the expected. For example, in the short story of “The Story of an Hour” when Mrs. Mallard realizes that she is free and walks downstairs she sees her husband walk in and her heart stops and she dies. In the short story, Richards, which is Brentley Mallard’s friend, told Mrs. Mallard that her husband had just died and her sister tries to comfort her while going upstairs.…

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    a female protagonist who goes beyond this role in a way that breaks social norms. In this story, Ms. Mallard, a wife with heart problems, is told that her husband has died in a “railroad disaster” and instead of entering into the stereotypical grieving process she finds a new sense of freedom (1609). This…

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