Kate Beckinsale

Deep below the surface of the Pacific ocean, there was city hidden. Where nobody would or could see, where magical creatures that no one could ever know. when they're once live the guardian mermaids of Shallow waves. Lunabelle Lunabelle where are you?! My mother yelled. I Stop Make little water bubbles, With my hand. I always wonder why, why do I have this power and how?.I had just gotten This power on my 14th birthday and I felt I was different but so different that I’ll have something so…

In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, readers can anticipate an eye-opening experience or revelation from simply reading the title of the novel. Edna Pontellier, the novel’s protagonist, experiences a unique awakening that forces her to question not only her societal role, but her own self identity. Kate Chopin presents feelings of isolation, freedom, and solitude within the mind of Edna, in a way that is all consuming. This consumptions adds a level of drama to the novel as these feelings take over…

The act of suicide is rarely seen as a positive embracing of freedom or an act of re-birth. Kate Chopin’s bildungsroman, The Awakening, suggests that it was impossible for a woman to be free within the confines of the social constructs and standards of the time in which she lived, ultimately resulting in the protagonist’s detrimental yet inevitable death. Chopin supports her argument by demonstrating the outcome of a woman who intends to break social barriers, defines sexual identity and its…

Bell hooks used a variety of strategies and techniques to attract her audience in her book: introduction to teaching and transgress. This paper will focus on the chapter on education as the practice of freedom. The strategies and techniques portrayed in this chapter include drawing readers with the first sentence, strategic formatting, short paragraphs, clear writing and a conversational tone (Hohenshel and Hand, 36). The chapter starts off with Bell Hook explaining why she was preoccupied by…

In addition, her emotional uncertainty is an unattainable freedom that she so desires and ultimately collaborates her thoughts of what she sees for her possible future. It is as if she is on an emotional rollercoaster feeling sadness and joy, but dismisses the idea that she should not be feeling happy very quickly and welcomed the future with open arms to many bright and airy days ahead and goodbye to all those long and dreadful ones. Similarly, Jennifer Hicks sates, “Although the emotion in…

Author, Kate Chopin, in her short story, The Storm, reveals an affair between two past lovers Calixta(wife) and Alcee(ex-boyfriend) making love to each other. There is a storm coming to Louisiana and Bobinot (husband) and Bibi(son) are stuck at Friedheimer’s store. While Calixta is home with her ex-boyfriend. The story takes place in the house of Calixta and Bobinot. The time of day is late in the evening and the time period is late 1800s to early 1900s. The story took place in Louisiana around…

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850; daughter of Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty. She had five siblings, but unfortunately her sister died in infancy and her brothers in their twenties ("Kate O'Flaherty Chopin"). Kate was the only child to live past twenty-five. Her father passed away due to a terrible train accident. In 1855 Kate was sent to a Catholic boarding school in St. Louis ("Kate O'Flaherty Chopin”). The nuns knew her for her intelligence, and she was top of her class.…

I have been observing a Spanish 1 class at Faith Christian School. For the teaching lesson, I chose to use a reader called Asi Leemos. It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students. It tells about their personal information, school lives…

Feminism in Story of an Hour Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour is a heart-clenching short story about a woman, Mrs. Mallard, who lives a life of servitude to her husband. Throughout the story, the audience is shown a clear example of a woman who struggles with the idea of inferiority, and begins to overcome this when her husband is pronounced dead. The relationship between men and women is very perceptibly outlined in Chopin’s work of feminism and tragedy, as Mrs. Mallard’s personality begins to…

When it comes down to reading, it sounds very exhausting and long suffering. Most of the people who likes to read, they must be fascinated about new idea and enjoys reading. Reading can be very challenging for those who doesn’t enjoy reading or doesn’t like demand of time in focusing on bunch of words. There is much easier way to read or shortcut of reading long readings. If the readers want to know about a book without having to read page by page, read has a shortcut to way to briefly…