Summary Of The Fourth State Of Matter By Joan Beard

Meghan Daum’s “On the fringes of the Physical World” is about the author getting an email from a fan of her previous works. The one email then turns into a relationship between Meghan and the fan PFSlider. It goes from a few emails a night to a few phone calls a night and eventually to actually meeting. Meghan develops feelings for a man she has never met but only talked to online and on the phone and becomes very baffled by the whole situation. Once she finally meets him she realize the lust she has for him over the phone is not the same in real life. But this doesn’t stop her from continuing to talk to PFSlider and even stop her from going to visit him in LA. After a few months of meeting a few times but constantly talking PFSlider gets a

Chelsea Rathburn’s “After Filing for Divorce” compares the emotions that the speaker feels after filing for a divorce to the morning after a wild party and all the mess someone might find after waking up and realizing all the destruction that is left in the aftermath. Rathburn’s speaker recalls how she felt in the beginning of the marriage and now how she feels after filing for the divorce. She sees the wreckage that is her life, the dread of the cleanup, and how her happiness has strayed so far from where it began.

Mrs. Mallard and Mrs. Sommers have a fair share of intemperance. Mrs. Mallard has come to the realization that the death of her husband is not only a tragic occurrence, but also a beneficial cutting of her previously binding marital ties. The crisis of her grief has given her new insight on her life, and Mrs. Mallard understands that her marriage has limited her independence and freedom. Due to this realization she immediately forgets about the accident and starts to think about her freedom: ““Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering” (paragraph 14). It is only an hour after Mrs. Mallard has received the bitter news of her husband’s death. Considering that her husband is gone, instead of mourning, she is overwhelmed with the freedom she

5) List the three common states of matter in order of highest potential to lowest.

There are many people in this world that can prove that our past experiences contribute to the shaping of our present day selves and lives. Whether our past contains hidden skeletons in our closets or not, we cannot keep it a secret nor can we run from it. But if we decide to do so the past will only come to haunt us. In the novel In The Lake of the Woods, we see that there is a fine line between love and insanity. And John Wade –the antihero of the story- is drifting on the border line. One day, John awakens to find Kathy Wade, the love of his life and wife, gone without a trace along with the boat. Although author Tim O'Brien presents us with many theories for her

Control is one of the most difficult things to master or exercise but also one of the most worth it. Jo Ann’s “The fourth state of matter” is a distinct representation of the everyday struggle between knowing when to let go and when to hang on. She struggles with her ability to control and accept the events in her life.

In this section, Jeannette Walls starts off, in the present time by telling the readers about her seeing her mom on the street, that she hasn’t seen in a long time. Jeannette uses emotional words like blustering and fretted to show that seeing her mom was an emotional time. Later in the section, she goes way back into her life to when she was three years old and when her family and her was living in the desert. She started off telling a story of when she was on fire. This story was intense, it was really dramatic on her parents part, her dad was screaming at her and the doctor a lot. Then she talked about when they moved to Las Vegas, her family lived in a motel room, which didn’t last long, they had to leave Vegas in a rush, because her dad was cheating in blackjack and the dealer found out. The last story in the section is where her family drove to San Francisco and stayed in another motel. One night her dad was at the bar, across the street. He left Jeannette and her three other siblings in the room. Jeannette got bored so she decided to play with fire and that let to a big disaster resulting in the whole hotel burning down.

Her marriage also causes her to lose control. Even within the one thing that is supposed to hold strong, she is alone. Her husband, leaving her on a daily basis to work, insists that she cannot write nor visit friends and family. Thus, he leaves her alone during the day to sit

1. Mrs. Mallard was in a marriage with her husband which passed away in a train accident at work. Mrs. Mallard was heartbroken that not only her husband had passed away, but his friend also passed (so they thought). She was saddened at the thought of having to be alone at first. She loved her husband, but felt a sense of relief that she didn’t she wasn’t going to let his passing hold her back in life. She had her husband in her spirit, heart, and soul.

One event in a person’s life can greatly impact their way of living and instances of this in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and this includes experiences of loss of a loved one, forgiveness and unrequited love. It’s universal that our experiences as people affect us and shape who we are.

We had dinner, we laughed. Unsuspecting of what was to come. We went back to that place only a few weeks after she died. Again, my mom handed my brothers and I ten dollars for a souvenir. The walk to the restaurant took forever. We had parked in a different place, so we took a longer walk. Dinner was full of remembrance. We hid our sad memories with forced smiles, choked laughs, and unswallowed bites. And, after an era, the torture was over. We forgot which way our car was, so we chose a path. It was the wrong one. We walked further and further away from our car, until we realized we had went the wrong way. Just as we realized, I noticed the man. The same man from the night with Nancy. He was awake, and sitting against the wall. He didn't beg, he didn't cry. He was still. I turned around with my family, getting ready to walk back the whole way. As I turned, I had a glimpse of something shiny on the man’s face. There was a single tear, frozen, sitting on his

This story actually hit home for me, being that I am a student and that my soon to be husband is a truck driver. Norma Jean had a daily routine, whether it was speaking to the husband a few times a day or engaging in multiple activities during the week. She anticipated the time she would spend with him when he came home. And they would enjoy each other company and proclaim their for each other each chance they received. Some would think that there was no problem at all but maybe a sense of distance and wanting companionship. However, once the husband was hurt or even in my case was off the road the home environment changed. The routine would become altered and the speculation of another body began at home would entitle a change in a household.

Upon hearing the death of her husband's, Mrs. Mallard went through many different emotions. The first emotion is grief, the author tried to compare Mrs. Mallard to other women that would've responded to the news of their husbands death with "paralyzed inability" ( "she

States of matter are the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Historically, the distinction is made based on qualitative differences in bulk properties. Solid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume and shape; liquid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume but adapts to the shape of its container; and gas is the state in which matter expands to occupy whatever volume is available.

This story is about a wife named Louise Mallard who has heart trouble, so she must be informed carefully about her husband’s death. Her sister, Josephine, is unfortunately the one who has to break the news to newly widowed wife. One of her husband’s friends, Richard, learned about her husband’s death when he was reading the newspaper and heard about the crashing of a train that Brently was on. Louise is devastated when she learns of her husband’s death and runs upstairs to be alone. Louise sits down and ponders about life while looking out the window and hears a vendor yelling what he is selling. Still crying, she looks into the distance wondering what’s next. She is nervous for her life ahead and doesn’t know what she is going to do without her husband. She starts to think about what life is going to be like without having anyone telling her what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. She starts to feel warm inside knowing she is finally free. Louise knows she will become overcome with emotions when she is forced to see Brently’s body. She imagines the years