Answer:
The secrets of life is honesty, It is hard to live by the rules of honesty at times though.
Explanation:
An independent clause is a clause that can stand on its own if The comma is taken away ( if the comma is taken away, it will still make sense).
So if we take away the seond line
The secret of life is honesty
is a full sentence without a comma
and
It is hard to live by the rules of honesty at times though
is a full sentence also without a comma
The theme of the story expressed in that action is the submission and lack of freedom of women in marriages in those times.
In Chopin's "<em>The Story of an Hour</em>", Louise Mallard feels free when knowing that her husband passed away because she felt imprisoned being married to him. Given the patriarchal society and the way women were seen in her times, she never could really live the way she wanted and had to submit to him.
1) steel
2) glass
3) copper
4) aluminium
5) timber
6) rubber
7) plastic
not entirely sure abour 3 and 4
Opaque- hard/difficult to understand .