Too Much Joy

the window where Mrs. Mallard has her realization. She is free now. She views how everyone is trapped in the shackles of their world. Mrs. Mallard knew that she was going to mourn, she had an emotional attachment towards her husband but she saw beyond that. She knew what she was going to get “and she opened and spread her arms to them in welcome (58.) Spoiler alert, we’ve reached the end. Now the greatest irony occurs, the death. Mr. Mallard, Brantley, is alive and enters the house. In her new found happiness of freedom, seeing her not-dead husband’s face does it all, she has heart attack, dies of horror, and her story ends. Doctors arrive and reveals she has died from too much joy. After all, what else would a women with weak heart die from? Her grief consuming her and the truth was too much, death by joy had to be the reason. Her friends and family knew she loved him, why would they assume anything…

Pain. The feeling is more than I could bare. A quick intake of breath and my lungs fill with steam. A squeal escapes; it is not much of a noise. My arm covers my face, and I run. I run from our small kitchen to our living room. Dad is on the couch and looks up when I run into the room. The pain is too much to even to make the smallest of noises. I run in my mouth open and top half of me soaking. He rises quickly and pulls me to the stairs and calls for mom. “Ronae, get down here now.” He says…

who I had not seen for nearly 9 years, could be walking to my front door any minute now. The thought frightened me and so many questions popped into my brain. What was he going to say? How would he respond to what I had to say to him? I loved Anh very much, but the idea of me and him reconnecting left me scared; petrified, even. I started trembling. It soon dawned on me that I had not properly prepared for any of this. I had not told Anh so many things like how I was diagnosed with a brain…

quickly, they can’t drag Hugh with them whether they want to or not. Before Jim and John leave, Jim insists they do a proper burial of Hugh. The only problem is, Hugh is still alive. It would be unethical to bury a live man, so John tells Jim to shoot him. This gives Jim a decision to make. Does he euthanize Hugh to put him out of his misery? Or does he leave him for dead? Either decision goes against his morals. Jim decides to leave Hugh with his water bottle and runs away, thinking he…

nurses can acquire a more sensible attitude to understand their patients of same and different culture. Kris Holloway is the author of the book Monique and The Mango Rains. Kris was inspired to write this book because she had a great experience with her friend Monique Dembele in the village where she was living. This story takes place in the village of Nampussela, Mail to the West of Africa. Since 1989 Kris was volunteered to work in the Peace Corps for two years until 1991. Kris was…

we allow our emotions to control us. As a result, frustration is the normal response for unwarranted stress. Not being able to bloom like a flower or flourish with success allow stress to build up and it becomes very challenging to combat. The most burdensome of all these negative emotions is dealing with toxic people who will suck the life blood out of you like a thirsty vampire. It 's easy to become stressed out by outside influences like these, especially when life becomes too busy to handle.…

forced to move to San Francisco when her dad’s job needs him on the west coast. From beginning to end we watch her adjust and cope, not from the perspective of Riley, but from the perspective of her emotions (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear). Not only does the audience watch Riley grow, they get to experience the development of her emotions and how it affects Riley as a person. The main character is Joy. She is the first emotion introduced and experienced by Riley, and over time the…

to do a lot of work in order to pass their classes. She spends a good amount of time with friends which is important to her. Her routine of getting up every morning around eight is helpful to her because she knows how much time she has to get ready for her day. She also spends a reasonable amount of time relaxing and doing things she enjoys which is good because college can become stressful if there is no…

cared about getting the treatment for Johnny done. So, outside Dally's restaurant, there was a phone booth that requires only five cents and thus Ponyboy put five cents and spin the phone dial thing every time he gets a number because that times they had the old phone technology. Then, a guy picked up the phone and said- "Hello mister/missus may I help you". Later, Ponyboy said- "I have a question and it's very important- that is my mate have an emergency situation it is he has died from his…

Bertrand Russell, a British mathematician and philosopher, says in “The Happy Life” the “happy man” is: “Such a man [that] feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joys that it affords” (790). The man Russell describes is someone who enjoys the world around them, and this ultimately makes him happy. Too often people don’t stop and think to live life, but will strive for a happy life that is not feasible for anyone. It is important to live life…