#keepyourEnemiesClose And Your #Tools Closer. #essentials #Honduran #tote.

Beautiful #carrots for #afternoonsnack I need more of that for my #nutrition #livinghealthy #goodfood #nutritionalvalue

Too sad and serious to ignore. This must be stopped! #myanmar

“It’s been happening since our grandparents’ time. We haven’t had a day of peace. Every night the military would knock on our door and demand that we give them sheep or goats. The police would stop us on the way to market and arrest us for no reason. Just for being Muslim. They’d take us to the police station and make us clean the toilets. If you asked ‘why,’ you’d be beaten. On the night they came to burn our village, we barely survived. The bullets came through our walls all night. My brother was shot in the stomach. I thought any moment would be the end. At first light I put my daughter on my shoulder and started to run. There were pieces of people all over the road. Every time I passed a dead body, I would switch her to the other shoulder.” ————————————— This week I’m sharing a series of first hand accounts from Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya are a persecuted ethnic minority who have been violently evicted from Myanmar by Buddhist extremists. Over the past year, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven from their homes and are now residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Their living conditions are already dire, and monsoon season is approaching. As we share their stories, we are raising money to help build inexpensive bamboo houses for them. (Almost all the refugees are currently living in plastic tents.) Bamboo houses can be built for $600 a piece, and we’ve raised enough for almost 300 so far. Please consider donating: http://bit.ly/2H0w5lm

Yes! #flysian #parmesianoreggiano #ipa #beeroftheday #instabeer #drinkmore #enjoylife #2018

Too numerous to mention: #planB #reymuertoreypuesto #afaltadepan #2018 #explore #enjoylife (at La Patisserie Chouquette)

Besutiful music #naples #florida #newyear #2017 #lifeisgood

Taino Crown #placesoflove #crowns #hideout #wearyourcrown #beproud #lovethyself #tainoculture #caribbeanstyle #caribbeansoul

#nosoyYoelruidodelMar #rope #teamarroyYa #sitecojo #come2017

Entry #1: "The Story of an Hour" - Kate Chopin (1894)

Question #7:

                The last line of the story: “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills.” In what way is this an ironic statement? What is gained by having the doctors make such a statement rather than putting it in the mouths of Josephine or Richards?

A.      I believe this statement is ironic because her relief and happiness came after learning about her husband’s sudden death. The unexpected death of Mr. Mallard, although emotionally impacted her at first, it made Louise feel liberated, and enthused about the promise of an enjoyable life. Contrary to what I assume she had experienced prior to hearing the fatal new, Mrs. Mallard quickly developed an appetite for life which the author made evident when using figures of speech in the passage that follows, for instance…

“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”

With this imagery, the author tells me that Mrs. Mallard found herself awake, with all her senses aware of her surroundings, and ready to move on the very same day she learned about what turned out to be her husband false death news, ironic indeed.

By having the doctors make this statement, the author accomplishes to depict the views of a male society of the time, which refused to assume responsibility for the pain and suffering they caused their female companion, masking it instead with what seems to me a scornful language for their family circles, which only kept and still keeps women felling oppressed.

Question #8:

                What view of marriage does the story present? The story was published in 1894; does it only represent attitudes toward marriage in the nineteenth century, or could it equally apply to attitudes about marriage today?

A.      Right in the middle of the American Women Rights Movement, I feel the story presents a negative, but true to the time view of marriage where in most cases the woman is mistreated, oppressed, and even abused (physically and emotionally) due to many reasons, the lack of appreciation for her hard work at raising the very same men who later go out to marry, and mistreat their new wives just as their fathers did with their mothers. Perhaps men’s fear of losing their mate once they are educated and self-assured, which makes them much more attractive to other men, if we look at it from a psychologically perspective… the possibilities are endless.

 Today, women do have the right to work in the same industries as men, earn close if not the same salary as men, have the right to go to school, vote, come and go as they please, but unfortunately many are still victims of the same type of physical and emotional abuse others suffered 100 years ago.  

Today, the institution of marriage suffers for these reasons, as well as for the fact that young ladies are raised to not accept the treatment described above, which I think is great, but many times strive to be so strong and protective of themselves, investing their emotions far less in relationships that is almost impossible for a man to break that virtual wall down, in order to “sweep them of their feet.”

Cuando no se puede dormir, abre un libro. "Ya no funcionaba aquello que el anciano rey había llamado 'suerte de principiante.' Lo que funcionaba, sabia el, era la prueba de la resistencia y del valor de quien busca su Historia Personal." #elalquimista #paulocoelho #literatura #autoreslatinos #prosa #PhotoToaster #cuandonopuedesdormir

I woke up like this... what's your favorite Roots' song/album? #doyouwantmore is that joint! #90s #90shiphop #90shiphopjunkie #rap #mc #dj #graffiti #breakdance #theculture