"The story of an hour- is a story written by Kate Chopin, an American author. ... In Kate Chopin's short story, The Story of an Hour, many ironic elements are used to help the reader understand the fate of the main character, Mrs. ... This is ironic because in the short hour that she had left, there would be no years to come for her. ... The Story of an Hour, in Cassill, R.V., ed., The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, sixth edition, New York: W.W. ... Kate Chopin's use of irony in her short story, "The Story of an Hour," stands in direct contrast to the subtle manner in which sh...

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The Hours and Mrs Dalloway both display and illustrate many examples of gender and power struggles or conflicts. ... I will discuss how such feelings bring about the power and gender struggles that are displayed in both The Hours and Mrs Dalloway. ... I will also consider these issues in Mrs Dalloway and will compare them in both Mrs Dalloway and The Hours. In The Hours, Virginia Woolf begins her day by making the decision not to have a proper breakfast. ... In The Hours Virginia's character comes across as someone who is constantly brooding. ...

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Mother Savage In the short story of Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant, we learn of what life was like for a widowed mother whose only son goes off to war, the setting taking place in Virelogne, France during the Franco-Prussian war. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) lived during this time and parti...

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Twelve needed to be taken to the hospital by friends (48 Hours). ... They are not allowed to use the bathroom more than once every eight hours per shift, and workers can't drink water on any more than two occasions (48 Hours). ... Those who work shifts at night are without emergency medical care (48 Hours). ... Most workers work well above the two hundred hours of legal overtime per year; some work more than six hundred hours. ... A Vietnamese labor law states, "The labor user and the laborer may agree to work overtime, but not for more than four hours a day, two hundred hours a year...

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 Introduction 2 Review of Literature 3 Introduction 3 Summary by source 3 Source 1: When it comes to carbon footprints, location and lifestyle matter 3 Source 2: The well-heeled leave biggest carbon footprint 6 Source 3: Carbon footprint of low income households; does addressing fuel poverty conflict with carbon saving? 7 Source 4: The distribution of UK household CO emissions. 8 Comparison of sources 8 Methodology 9 Variables 10 Questionnaire 12 Collecting the data 11 Calculations 15 Analysis of Findings 20 Processing of Findings 21 Conclusion 21 References 21 Appendix Error! Bookmark ...

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The story takes place in an hour, so the characters can only do so much or go anywhere in particular. ... "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin, is a story that depicts woman's lack of freedom in the 1800's. ...

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Over a two-day span, each athlete would be monitored while undergoing two maximal strength tests, one two hours after sexual intercourse and the other ten hours after sexual intercourse, and a one-hour arithmetic stress test paired with an arithmetic mental concentration test. ... The stress test and arithmetic mental concentration test consisted of the athletes biking for an hour at a level of 75 watts. ... The athletes were asked if they felt a decrease in ability 12 hours and then also 30 minutes after sexual intercourse and how they felt 12 hours and then also 30 minutes after sexual inter...

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Animals with few natural predators ten to sleep longer (15 hours) as there is no danger. To grazing animals with many predators who only sleep 4 hours This theory doesn't explain why sleep involves a loss of awareness as this places the organism at a greater risk Characteristics Sleep There are two types of sleep: Non-rapid-eye movements sleep (NREM sleep) Rapid-eye movement sleep (REM sleep) NREM One cycle of NREM sleep last for around 70-90 mins and it consists of 4 distinct stages. ... We go through this cycle around 4 to 5 times during an 8 hours period of sleep during the night. ....

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Unions, coalitions of workers pursuing a common objective, began to form demanding only ten instead of twelve hours in a workday. ... Everyone worked eighty hours or more a week for extremely low wages. ... The National Labor Union in 1866 managed to establish an eight-hour workday in 1868 for federal employees. ... "Bread and butter" unionism was the term given to his philosophies that higher wages and fewer working hours could achieve the goal of a better life for the working people (Labor). ... On May 1, many workers struck for shorter hours. ...

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Though the "burn-in" can generally be "washed" out using gray images or continual full color ranges over several hours, burn-in is a significant factor and hindrance to the plasma technology. ... Advantage: Plasma For scenes with lots of dark and light shown simultaneously from film originated material, DVD content, or action in games relying on lots of black content, plasma will outperform. 3) LONGEVITY LCD manufacturers claim figures between 50,000 and 75,000 hours for LCD monitors/TVs. ...

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Just one hundred years ago we could see O"Henry's little secretaries typing for ten hours a day. ... Hours, after work, spent in front of windows of an underwear store, cheap food and little dark rooms with gas lighting in the evenings. ... There are days when she works for 16 hours, twice more than she should, but she is paid for these hours. ... There are epidemics of common cold at winter, loud talks, when all you need are couple of hours of concentration, smoking, radio and quarrels. ... In addition working for long hours with computer affects our ability to concentrate. ...

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Just one hundred years ago we could see O"Henry's little secretaries typing for ten hours a day. ... Hours, after work, spent in front of windows of an underwear store, cheap food and little dark rooms with gas lighting in the evenings. ... There are days when she works for 16 hours, twice more than she should, but she is paid for these hours. ... There are epidemics of common cold at winter, loud talks, when all you need are couple of hours of concentration, smoking, radio and quarrels. ... In addition working for long hours with computer affects our ability to concentrate. ...

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Introduction Many children watch television everyday, and recent studies indicate that children watch between three to four hours of television a day. ... According to a recent study, three out of four hour-long programs on network television contain some sort of sexual content (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1996). ... In 1996, three out of four family hour programs on the major networks contained some kind of sexual content. (Kaiser Family Foundation) That is 75% of the family hour programs! ... However, 30% of family hour programs featured scenes in which the primary emphasis revolved arou...

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Before World War II, the Kellogg Company created four six-hour shifts to replace the traditional three daily eight-hour shifts, and the new shifts resulted in increased employee morale and efficiency (Alternative). ... Over time, the American workforce has begun to change course from being willing to spend every hour working to learning to manage the complexities of modern living. ... In a 2002 study by Rutgers University and the University of Connecticut, 90% of working adults said they are concerned they do not spend enough time with their families (Work Hours). ...

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They promised the women high wages, leisure hours, and silk dresses. Instead, the women worked 14 to 16 hours a day for an average wage of $1.56 a week. ... A woman had then worked 122 hours. ... In the 1830's in Massachusetts, children in the factory worked 12 to 13 hours a day. In 1845, the mills in Lowell set hours for children from sunup to sunset. ...

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What's Being Done with the Service? By Derek Raposa Table of Contents Introduction .2 What are Companies Providing to Ensure Employee Satisfaction? ." .3,4 Does Employee Training Play a Role in Customer Satisfaction? ..".4,5 What Does Southwest P...

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The hours worked in the factories were long. Generally, the girls worked 11 to 13 hours a day, six days a week. ... In the next two decades, unions campaigned for a 10-hour working day and against child labor. ... In 1851, for example, New Jersey passed a law calling for a 10-hour working day in all factories. ...

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In President Obama's State of the Union speech, he has called for a raise of $9.00 an hour. ... Even that isn't enough of an increase so over time they will be working on raising the minimum wage up to $12.50 an hour. ... This finally created the first minimum wage of 25 cents an hour (minimum-wage.org). ... They started it at .25 an hour. Over a long period of 77 years it is only at $7.25 an hour (bls.gov). ...

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The role of sleep in memory some evidence that neuronal connections may be remodelled during sleep, and this may explain why young birds and mammals need so much more sleep than adults some memory tasks appear to be more vulnerable to sleep deprivation than others sleep deprivation may produce effects in the brain that resemble those associated with aging the evidence now seems reasonably convincing that sleep plays an important role in memory consolidation - at least for procedural/skill memory it also seems most likely that it is the deep, slow-wave (non-REM) sleep that is importa...

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THE NEW DEAL'S EFFECTS ON SOUTH CAROLINA In the presidential election of 1932, the American people were looking for a change and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Roosevelt promised to act to end the Great Depression. He urged programs to deal with what he referred to as the "forgotten man- during the depression. These programs included legislation to end the financial crisis, grant relief, and regulation of agriculture and industry. FDR accepted the Democratic nomination for president with the words, "I pledge you "I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people-...

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However, perhaps the most convincing and specific signs, came in the early morning hours of December 7, from a string of radar that were to guard the harbor and from patrolling vessels that spotted Japanese submarines that morning. ... In the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7, they attacked swiftly and efficiently. ...

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Slaves had no rights, no control over where they worked or how many hours they could work. ... The hours were long and the slaves always feared they didn't pick enough. ... October through December, they had to work hour after hour to bring in crops before they rotted. ... Rice only took a few hours. Five or Six hours a day even on the busiest season they didn't work as much as the people who worked on the sugar or cotton plantation. ...

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I would try to arrive at the hospital within an hour of the laboring woman and her husband to ensure she would have continuous support. ... Once the bureaucratic part is over, mother and father are escorted to a delivery room where the entire labor, birth and first hours of life will happen. ... A woman's cervix typically opens one centimeter per hour until it reaches ten centimeters at which time the woman begins to push the baby out. Each birth I observed was a different length of time ranging from twenty-four hours to twenty minutes. ... Another policy is that for the first hour aft...

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Exhausted, they explained, after leaving only an hour later than us but arriving 4 hours afterwards. ... It took an hour of snailing along till we reached snow. ... I realised we only had a few hours to go and my adrenalin was mounting. ... We spent practically 5 or 6 hours watching movies that night until 2 or 3 in the morning. ... We still took the same bus, but it took much longer, approximately an hour to reach Cortina. ...

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Within a half-hour after death, lividity occurs. ... Whiteness is not possible more than five hours after death. By the four-hour mark, the body is usually completely stiff or is said to have rigor mortis, which begins with smaller muscles. ... twelve hours - the eggs hatch and maggots begin to eat tissues twenty-four to thirty-six hours - dry skin is consumed by beetles forty-eight hours later spiders and other insects begin to eat the bugs that are consuming the body A criminologist named Edmond Locard developed a theory in 1910 and it is referred to as the Edmond Locard theory. ...

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