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    Comparison of “The Story of an hour” and “Enfranchisement of Women” Kate Chopin’s short tale, “The Story of an Hour”, is a writing of irony. It tells of a young women, who’s husband has just died and who seems to be in a state of grief, when she is truly embracing her new found freedom, where she is no longer repressed by her husband. This short story shares similar themes with the article, “Enfranchisement of Women” written by Harriet Mills. An article about the subjection of women in society

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    and the reader's point of view. When you read a story there's two different people. There's two different culture identities and it influences other stories too. When you look back in the story An Indian Father's Plea you can see the difference about the stories we have read there are some comparison. And that's what makes it unique about that story and the other stories we've read. “I Would like to introduce you to my son” that's what the story An Indian Father's Plea starts with. It starts

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    A story about an affair during a storm, a story about a woman telling her daughter how to be a good woman. Are they the same or different? Even though the short stories “The Storm” and “Girl” have things in common they also have multiple things that are different. The authors use their own language and uses their own way to get their point across. In the stories “The Storm” and “Girl” the authors use their own way to tell the story. “The Storm” is a story with multiple paragraphs that are explained

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    These two stories remind me of this quote “Don’t change just to please someone else.” as stated by Tiny Buddha. This quote reminds me of these two stories because in both of the stories the main character changes himself to make his peers happy. In the short story “Charles” the main character wants his parents attention and will do anything for it. Laurie comes home from his first day of kindergarten and says“ Isn't anybody here? ”At the table he knocked over his little sister's milk. The little

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    In both Cisnero's short story and Okita's poem, they talk about what it means to be an American. They both say that physical appearance and cultural heritages do not determine anything, this is just a mere part of their spirit. Some things in these two texts are similar and some may be different. Cisneros's story talks about her awful grandmother. Her grandmother thinks that America is a corrupt country and she doesn't like her grandchildren acting like they are from here. She talks to them

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    and the relationship were complicated of people live in late nineteenth century at the poor and the Great Depression Era. “The Story of an Hour” and “The Use of Force” are the two story that represent the image of how people live in the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin shows Mrs. Mallard, the character in the story who has heart problem, is given the terrible new about her husband suddenly pass away by the train wreck accident. And “The Use

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    Cinderella stories. They will be comparing in one paragraph and contrasting in the other. The 4 stories are Ashenputtel, Yeh-shen, Algonquin, and Interview. My favorite story was Yeh-shen. One of the similarities I have found is that 3 of the stories were written long ago. Also that 3 of them have some sort of magic or magical creature. 2 of them had a gold shoe. Then the main character got married towards the end of the story. I found that there are many differences of these stories. Here are

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    oices of a Panamanian girl and a Spokane Indian In the short stories “Drive” by Christina Henriquez and “Happy Trails” by Sherman Alexie, both authors use the first person narrative voice and present their cultures and events to the audience. The authors created two characters, a 48-year-old Indian narrator, and young Panamanian girl Marisol. The two narrators share some significant similarities. For example, they are both from working class people who live with their mothers, whose homelands have

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    I am here to talk about the short story and the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains”. The short story was written by Ray Bradbury. The poem was written by Sara Teasdale. I am going to talk and explain the differences about the poem and the short story. There are many differences about the short story and the poem. Ray Bradbury had the idea to write the short story after reading the poem written by Sara Teasdale. I am going to talk about the poem written by Sara Teasdale. In the poem “There will

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    The ransom of red chief story and movie had its differences and similarities. Some similarities Bill and Sam kidnap Johnny red chief. Also in the passage and film Johnny tries to scalp Bill. Another one that includes Bill is Johnny plays games that torture Bill. For example Johnny rides bill 90 miles like a horse then feeds him sand in the place of horse feed. Also Sam and Bill sign the ransom letter as two desperate men. In result of that the father of Johnny sends back a letter that says to pay

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