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Both of the texts talks about the female protagonist's inability to control what her fate brings on her. Mrs. Mallard's society where women were presumed or taken to be inferior to the men led to her subordinate nature of her existence. Mrs. Sommers, on the other hand, likewise suffers from a reality where the shopping experience led to her spending all for herself instead of the pre-planned things to be bought and needed.
Explanation:
Naturalism is the idea that a person's fate or destiny is controlled by his/ her surroundings, be it the society or even the domestic sphere. This naturalism can be demonstrated by a person's characterization which shows him/her being constrained by the external elements in the society, especially women in a patriarchal society.
Kate Chopin's two short stories "The Story of An Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings" both revolve around the theme of women being suppressed in their societies. Mrs. Mallard was happy in her heart to hear of her husband's death for that means she is finally free from his "<em>powerful will bending hers</em>". Likewise, Mrs. Sommers life revolves around her family. So, when she go the money, she had planned don buying things for everyone. But the external forces in the market, when she went to shop, led her to spend not in the ways she had planned. She instead indulge on her needs and wants, leading her to spend contrary to the original plan. Chopin wrote "<em>Her stockings and boots and well fitting gloves had worked marvels in her bearing—had given her a feeling of assurance, a sense of belonging to the well-dressed multitude.</em>"
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Answer C will not help with his stress
Explanation:
Skipping meals will not help him concentrate, it will worsen his stress.
The correct answer is E. It has a lengthy duration
Explanation:
Moods differ from emotions mainly due to their durations as moods can last several hours or even days, while emotions are experienced for a short time. Moreover, moods are triggered by more complex situations or multiple factors and are not experienced as often as emotions that can be triggered by most situations. In the case presented, it is appropriate to categorize "satisfaction" as a mood rather than as an emotion. This is because the satisfaction lasted for multiple days, and therefore it has a lengthy duration (Option E), which is common in moods but not in emotions.
The fact that Noomi seems to live by the “don’t sweat the small stuff” concept. she is relaxed, laid-back, and never seems too concerned about meeting deadlines or finishing a to-do list means that Noomi has a Type B personality. Individuals with Type B personality are relaxed, less stressed, flexible, emotional and expressive, and have a laid-back attitude.
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Explanation:
M. Pollan (2006) describes in his book “The omnivore's dilemma: A natural history of four meals” that human kind has fighted to get food as a basic need since ancient times. Nowadays, modernity and the intervention of science have made possible to have almost all kinds of foods available at the supermarket, while in the past, in order to have food, humans needed to depend on their skills to grow or hunt their meals, because as omnivores as we are, we eat basically everything (vegetable or animal) and need it in order to survive. Though, we like to think that we now have a great diversity available, Pollan (2006) describes in his book that this is only an illusion, created by capitalism, because basically must of our food is only corn in different presentations, at the end, only corn…he refers “ there are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them contain corn” (p.11)
References: Pollan, M. (2006). The omnivore's dilemma: A natural history of four meals. Penguin.
