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Kate Chopin’s, The Story of an Hour, is captivating tale telling the story of all the different conflicting emotions and revelations a human can experience given a grave situation. Although short in length this story does not lack depth and is charged with ominous overtones. The Story of an Hour speaks true the dilemma women…

In Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Dahl conveys dramatic irony through the devious and cold-hearted character of the wife, Mary. After Mary kills her own husband, she goes to the grocery store to set up an alibi. She talks to the clerk to make him think that Patrick is at home waiting…

Abstract This study investigates the gut microbiota’s role in hibernation. It will involve euthermic 13-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) during summer when they are active and winter during hibernation season. We investigated this in aroused squirrels using cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS), a technique that provides a real-time indication of fuel use by measuring the ratio…

Speak is an ironic title for a story where the main character, Melinda, chooses not to speak. In the captivating novel, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino enters her first year of high school. Prior to the start of freshman year at Merryweather High School, Melinda goes to a party with three other friends,…

Washington Irving once wrote in his short story Philip of Pokanoket : An Indian Memoir: “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” Washington Irving was one of those great minds. Irving, author of many great short stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle,…

These days most theater goers would pay one hundred dollars to see an exceptionalperformance of Romeo and Juliet , but as we go back to the year 1599, people crowdedthe doors of The Globe to pay a penny or less to see plays done by Shakespeare and manyothers. The Globe not only played (no pun…

These characters were mentioned in the novel, appeared once, mentioned many times or have no major contribution to the storyline. Don Pedro Eibarramendia – the great-grandfather of Crisostomo Ibarra who came from the Basque area of Spain. He started the misfortunes of Elias’ family. His descendants abbreviated their surname to Ibarra. He died of unknown…

Into The Wild, traditionally a book written by Jon Krakauer, was produced into a movie based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn. Fresh out of college, pressured to move on to law school by his parents, protagonist Christopher McCandless, later re-names himself Alexander Supertramp and ventures out on his own with few…

Medicare Fraud Medicare fraud is a topic I am familiar with due to working in the Durable Medical Equipment industry for just over ten years in various departments including compliance. While in compliance and billing management positions, I have attended webinars regarding fraud as well as kept up to date on ever-changing Medicare regulations. For…

Beowulf was a prideful, boastful, and extremely strong individual, who was faced with multiple tasks throughout the course of the poem. Although he had many great characteristics to him, there were certain things that were out of his control, things that affected him and his nation. Two of these limitations were his desire for glory…