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    This news comes from her husband 's friend, who says that Brently Mallard has died in a railroad accident. Mrs. Mallard 's sister, Josephine, mindful of Mrs. Mallard 's heart condition, breaks the news to her "in broken sentences" and "veiled hints" (193). But when Mrs. Mallard hears the shocking news, she undergoes a profound transformation that empowers her with a "clear and exalted perception" (194). As Chopin demonstrates, this heightened consciousness comes to the protagonist because of her

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    jane, mocks the rational ‘masculine’ explanation in not believing in faith but rather ‘figures’ in comparison Elizabeth’s ‘reading’ in pride and prejudice allows her to explore her self-identity. Both Austen and Gilman ironically mock the social convention of men’s rationality being above women’s creativity. However, one could argue that in all of Austen’s

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    FOOD AND BEVERAGES AT THE CONVENTION Linda Holland-Blackwell HOSP 309 American Public University System Food and beverage is an essential part of many meeting and careful planning can save a large amount of money. The planner must know how to negotiate and what to negotiate. Food and beverage is a part of an event that creates memories and provides a service that goes beyond just grabbing something to eat. The planner must know what to negotiate how to negotiate when it comes

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    The five social norms that I am glad exist are the standards of personal space, the expected standard for personal hygiene, the expected standard for manners in public i.e. avoiding belching or flatulating in public areas, the norm of individual choices, and the social norm of education being a standard. I am glad personal space is a norm mainly because of sanitary reasons and safety reasons. If this norm didn’t exist I believe we would have more difficulties with spread of infectious diseases.

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    Society and culture have created scripts (i.e., social norms) that dictate the ways in which we are to grieve. These scripts also prescribe the unique ways in which men and women are expected to respond to grief. Specifically, men’s grief scripts suggest that men will resolve to grieve in solitude as a demonstration of their self-reliance. Men may also have muted emotional response and expressed emotions are typically in the form of anger or guilt (Martin & Doka, 2011). Comparatively, women’s grief

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    The main characters do use their double lives to escape social regulation, although in differing ways and on each character different social pressures are acting. The women live alternative mental lives through fantastical journals whereas the men, due to their comparatively greater social freedom, are able to create alternative physical lives. Jack pursues a double life due to the pressures of rural, family responsibility. Algy does the same due to the authoritarian influences of his relatives and

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    In this paper I will be discussing two norm violations I witnessed, and one I committed. When I first received this assignment I had to get familiar with the terminology and understand what different types of norms there are. Norms are expectations of “right” behavior for a person to follow in society. Society created social norms to provide a guideline for members of society to follow. If we lived without these rules it allows people to not be accountable for their actions. Social norms are ideas

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    write, they will learn to like and appreciate writing as well as learning the language conventions as they write. Writing also has a big implication for teachers regarding students of different backgrounds, as it gives those students a better way of conveying messages and sharing a little bit of themselves so that they may be better understood and not left on the outside of the classroom due to social conventions. Gee and Hayes (2011) explain that “’language’ can mean different things”, for example

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    Madness is used as a literary device in order to introduce chaos and excitement. However, below the surface there is a warning, no one is safe from their own mind or fears. What is madness after all but just the absence of social norms and social conventions? So how can madness be characterized. What causes madness? Madness is when a person abandons society’s most basic rules and expectations and becomes a raw uncivilized thing. A mad person has not only abandoned civilization but also the rational

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    Social Norm Analysis

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    The society we live in is full of rules. These rules are sometimes laws that the government enforces on us, but there are other rules as well, the unspoken ones. Even though these rules are unspoken, the majority of individuals follow them without question. Every culture, group, and person has values. These values are what individuals use to define what is “desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly” (Henslin, 2015, p. 49). The “rules” people use to reflect these values are called norms

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