Essays on Josephine

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“Answer the question, Jane Thomson,” Miss Smith says courteously, coldly, implacably, thus wiping the grin off my face. It is my friend Lucy’s sixteenth birthday, and we have been talking about her birthday party that she is going to throw on Saturday night. Naturally, we have been giggling and grinning from sideburn to sideburn as we usually do when we sit next to each other. That is why we did not notice our Geometry teacher come up to our desk. “Silence!” Miss Smith hisses, turning on the class. Terrified, my classmates watch us in dismay. A sudden hush ...

In the story of an hour, Richards is seen as a discreet person. He was the first person to receive the news of the death of Mr. Mallard, but he treats the information with a lot of professionalism and does not divulge the information to the public. He avoided several communications to the public due the condition of the Mrs. Mallard whom he thought could suffer the heart attack. Instead, he finds the most convenient way to pass the message through Josephine. He moves with speed to stop any unconfirmed message which could rich home and cause confusion. He ...

Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour is a thrilling story about a woman called Mrs. Mallard, whose husband is suspected to be involved in an accident. One of her husband’s friends, Richard, receives the message that Mr. Mallard had died in the accident and tells it to a number of people. Some people close to the wife of Mr. Mallard wonder how they are going to break the news to Mrs. Mallard. When Mrs. Mallard is finally informed by her sister Josephine, she is so grief-stricken that she goes to sit alone in a room, contemplating how ...

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Individuals read stories and books since they are interested in what is contained in those books and stories. Stories make us love or hate characters, provide us details, and build up to the point where we get the climax. "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin gives us the details all through the story to set up sudden climax of Mrs. Mallard death. For this reason, this essay examines the sympathetic character of Mrs. Mallard as presented by the author in the short story.

After reading this epic short story, I think that Mrs. Mallard qualifies ...

The manifestation of Josephine’s attitude is a lack of trust. She is self-sheltered, comfortable in her own company. And she is apathetic, unresponsive to the humanness of others. The natural way to treat this is by inviting her to get-togethers but it is highly unlikely she will commit to them—and may possibly be overwhelmed by it, and so, disappear. Smaller parties will be necessary, talking specifically to her is necessary. This way, Josephine being present for gatherings will not be missed, and she will feel empowered. The only way to unpeel Josephine’s lack of expression is to ...

In Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard, a woman "afflicted with a heart trouble" learns over the course of the story that her husband is dead. The story follows the progression of her emotions from shock and horror to a feeling of liberation and freedom, as she feels relief of the burden of being wife. A very controversial story when it was first published, Chopin's tale (like many of her works) deals with the unexpected ability of women to liberate themselves and operate separately from men (Jamil, 2009). This theme of female empowerment in a patriarchal ...

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 movie by Billy Wilder starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe. Set in 1929, the movie narrates how two cross-dressing male musicians try to escape mafia gangsters in Chicago as they witnessed a St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago. As a result, they decide to join an all-female band bound for Florida where they meet Sugar Kane, who becomes the love interest of one of the lead male characters. The movie illustrates how gender disguise has become rampant in society in order to avoid some misdemeanors committed against other people and its corresponding ...

Feminist accused the male dominated society of the subjugation of the rights of women. The history of the human race is marred with the oppression of the female gender. The injustice perpetrated by women can be attributed to the ideologies taught in mainstream religions that women are responsible for the fall of the human race and the current evil that has salvaged the society for centuries. Nevertheless, communities and ethnicities that do not subscribe to the mainstream religions undermine women in the society. Towards the late twentieth century, feminist’s movement arose as a result of the skyrocketing of the ...

This story is about a young woman who is unhappy in her marriage. She is a good wife, but she lives like her husband’s possession. Louise accepts these circumstances because she can’t change them, but deep inside she hopes that her life won’t be long. “Only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (Chopin 4). The title of the story is The Story of an Hour because Louise’s life changes only for an hour, during which she feels intense joy of freedom. The irony in the story is Louise’s death and ...

Architecture of every country embodies the history, traditions and the spirit of a nation, especially when it stays within a country it was created. The history of Elgin Marbles, a piece of magnificent art of the Ancient Greece, takes its origin between 1801 and 1805 when the lord Elgin illicitly robed the Parthenon and took away the beautiful sculptures that were later sold to the British museum. Several decades later there appeared a debate either Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece or not? On the one hand, these sculptures are an integral part of Greek history and culture. Even if they ...

The novel “Daughter of Time” written by Josephine Tey and published by ‘Simon and Schuster’ is one of the most interesting literary works well-disguised as a novel. The classic, published in the year 1951 for the first time dates back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gives an account of Richard III . The story has a fascinating plot with likeable characters. The most interesting part of the book is the way Tey presents history in the form of a mystery. She portrays history as a science, which involves a constant effort to analyze and learn from the truth rather a mere recitation of names, ...

The articles written by Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson (132-134), Nancy Babbitt (137-139) and Henry Dreyfuss (162-168) showcased their crucial contributions to modern industrial design. Discussing within the pre-Second World War context, Barr and Johnson (132-134), in their exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) named “Machine Art,” highlighted the aesthetic qualities of functional industrial products, while Babbitt (137-139) discussed her interview with Belle Kogan, who envisioned innovations in plastic design. Dreyfuss (162-168), writing after the Second World War, focused on the importance of ergonomics – of which he was a proponent, in industrial design through a discussion of two line ...

Kate Chopin, the author of the short stories, "The Storm" and "Story of an Hour," was a tremendously forward-thinking and feminist author - in both of these tales, marriage is viewed as a restrictive hold on the women who are the subjects of each story. In "The Storm," the desperate Calixta temporarily frees herself of her stifling marriage by engaging in a passionate love affair with a paramour from her past who finds himself in her house in the wake of a nasty storm. Meanwhile, in "Story of an Hour," a woman discovers that her husband has passed away, and starts to have fantasies about ...

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The Life of Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott Smith James was born on April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, the third of four children of Obadiah and Bernice Scott. Her family lived on a farm that it had owned since the end of the American Civil War, as Southern society transitioned from a slavery economy to an interaction of free people. Her family was not very wealthy, but her father was the first black man in the neighborhood to purchase a truck. The children did have to pick cotton during the Great depression to help bring in money, but her father ...

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According to my reading, I found that the positive characteristics of personality should be developed through sport training (Parker & Stiehl, 2004).The physical activities such as sports wholly enable the athletes to develop skills, commitment, sports-spirit, strategies, discipline, punctuality and respect in to their personality features. Hence, sports through appropriate strategies comply with the six fundamental aspects of character, which are: respect, trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, good citizenship and caring (Arizona Sports Summit accord, 1999). Nevertheless, sports cannot necessarily have positive implications on these personality traits, particularly if ‘winning’ is being stressed upon (Barez, 2008). In fact, the ‘emphasis over ...

Culture Specific Characteristics that May Impact Nutrition Counseling Strategies: A Case Study

Culture Specific Characteristics that May Impact Nutrition Counseling Strategies: A Case Study

With regards to traditional foods, Josephine’s culture primarily depend corn tortillas and beans as the basic traditional diet. In fact, Josephine’s 24 hour dietary recall shows that she consumed the connoted foods for breakfast. Based on Josephine’s culture, preparation of the beans is through frying, whereas the tortillas are handmade and eaten warm (Herrin & Larkin, 2013). Other meals that are considered ideal in Josephine’s culture include, cabbage served with a slice of avocado or tomato salad, fried plantains, scrambled egg, a brand of coagulated cream ...

Kate Chopin’s, the story of an hour, is well crafted in terms of its plot, content, and character choice. However, one of the overarching literary devices that Chopin employs is irony. First of all, the story begins with a friend contemplating on how to explain the news of the death of Mr. Mallard to his wife. Mr. Richard struggles to make sure that the news of death is unveiled to Mrs. Mallard in a way that it would not cause harm to her due to her heart condition. Josephine who is the Mrs. Mallard’s sister is used as the ...

Approach to cancer care

Introduction Cancer is a group of diseases that are characterized by unregulated cellular growth. The uncontrolled cellular division leads to malignant tumors that invade and destroy surrounding organs and tissues. It may eventually spread to other far parts of the body from where it started through the bloodstream and the lymphatic system. Basically, there are three forms of cancer depending on the affected body parts: carcinomas (surface tissues such as the breast), sarcomas (soft tissue or bone) and lymphomas that affect the bone marrow or the lymph nodes (Pories, 2009). The disease accounts for 25% of total mortality annually ...

Women have been portrayed to be weaker than men by the media and society, in general. They have been shown to be less valuable in the workplace, with most media showing them as deserving the smaller roles in the workplace. These aspects, coupled with other factors have led to the characteristic wage gap between men and women in the work place. All over the world, women receive less compensation for their work than men do. For instance in the US, women at the same level as men make on average 22% less or 77 cents on the dollar (Cames, ...

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Females are often misunderstood both in real life and even in literature, this can be perceived from analyzing how the minor characters treat the main female characters in stories such as “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. Reading the two stories create a notion that the society where the main female characters live in as well as the minor characters does not understand what the woman feel or think. The demonstrated treatment of the minor character towards the female characters suggests gender, sociological and psychological tendencies of neglect, death, abandonment ...

George Simmel (1858-1918)was one of the major contributors in the study of social science. George Simmel’s work offer important prepositions in the understanding of social construction of space and of group behavior. George Simmel was born in Germany, in the city of Berlin and studied history and philosophy at the German University of Berlin. Georg Simmel’s theory on sociology was primarily focused on the different forms of associations that link people with one another hence forming groups. According to Simmel, humanity has the behavior of simplifying interaction to a small number of group size that they can ...

“The Story of an Hour” stands out to be Kate Chopin’s most famous stories. Different critics and scholars have written various subjects and themes addressed in Chopin’s work. The story portrays the inherent conflict between social norms and the need for personhood. The story bears a short yet interesting storyline.

The protagonist, Louise, is informed of her husband’s death but later discovers he is alive after all. The story describes of how she endures a series of emotions after hearing her husband’s death, who is believed to have succumbed to a railroad tragedy. Her sister, Josephine, strives to ...

The diversity of Indigenous Australians

The indigenous Australians are people who had diverse lifestyles and life opportunities. The diversity of the lifestyles and opportunities of the indigenous Australians can be linked to the multifaceted and varied cultures (Harvey, 2005). Different cultures of the indigenous Australians have survived for a long time because the aboriginal Australians have been able to become accustomed and change over time. Moreover, the lifestyles and opportunities of the Indigenous Australians have been passed from one generation to another whereby the new generations have inherited the lifestyles and opportunities of the older generations given the reason of their birth. Some of the ...

1. Jill’s decision to confront Rachel about what was wrong was the thunderbolt that broke the deadlock with her friend Rachel and restored the friendship. Jill’s problem-solving attitude helped the situation by creating an environment where the two friends would resolve their differences. Rachel’s willingness to open up about her feelings about Jill was also helpful. Jill expressed her dissatisfaction with Rachel’s comment about her diet and her continued sarcasm on the issue. Jill also opened up about her feeling of being unwanted by Rachel and Tina. While Rachel has an avoiding style, Jill is a ...

Analysis - "Story of an Hour"

In Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard, a woman "afflicted with a heart trouble" learns over the course of the story that her husband is dead. The story follows the progression of her emotions from shock and horror to a feeling of liberation and freedom, as she feels relief of the burden of being wife. A very controversial story when it was first published, Chopin's tale (like many of her works) deals with the unexpected ability of women to liberate themselves and operate separately from men (Jamil, 2009). This theme of female empowerment in a patriarchal age shines through this short ...

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The book, the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the books of Robert Asprey. It is a summary of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, basically as a man and finally centers on his life as the king and the emperor of France. In this book however, Asprey tries so much to dwell on the military life of Bonaparte and thus avoids more issues on his child life. The author of this book tries so much to expound on the abilities and the achievements of this ruler. As a statesman, a husband, a lover and as a king, the author tries to bring the personality ...

Introduction

The book, the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the books of Robert Asprey. It is a summary of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, basically as a man and finally centers on his life as the king and the emperor of France. In this book however, Asprey tries so much to dwell on the military life of Bonaparte and thus avoids more issues on his child life. The author of this book tries so much to expound on the abilities and the achievements of this ruler. As a statesman, a husband, a lover and as a king, the author tries to bring the personality ...

Literary Comparison of The Story of an Hour and The Necklace

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant are both short stories associated with the trials and tribulations of marriage, as well as love. Both stories also deal with the emotional and physical changes that are attributed to personal life changing events. In The Story of an Hour, the plot revolves around a woman, Louise Mallard, and her reaction to her husband’s death. In The Necklace, the plot is based upon a married couple M. Loisel and his wife Mathilde, and the turmoil a necklace has caused them. Although there are similarities in the ...