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    “The Doll” Once upon a time in Northern Montana ‚ the deep in the haunted woods of QUARRYFALLS were screaming ‚ where the branches were never straight and where the leaves never grow‚ a 16 year old girl was running from nothing and screaming about a red eyed beast. The rest of the 302 POPULATION was asleep and could not hear her. That steals your soul and pierces your heart. She finally stopped in the middle of eight trees that surrounded her like they were alive(simile). It was wearing a pink

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    Releasing Women’s Identity as Ideal Women Stereotype by Society and the Process in Pursuing It in Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll House Written by: Dewi Rigen Sulistini 07211144038 Chapter 1 Introduction A. Background Stereotypes are generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group. These classifications can be positive or negative‚ such as when various nationalities are stereotyped as friendly or unfriendly. However if talking

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    Mason Lewis Dr. Taylor English 110 7‚ March 2014 The Youngest Doll Throughout the year we have read many stories where reality and fantasy come into question. Once again we have this same problem with “The Youngest Doll”. What makes us question reality or fantasy in the story is the vivid description the author gives of the dolls that the aunt makes for the girls. With the description of the “wax mask of the child’s face” or the “porcelain of the hands and face”‚ it gives off the allusion

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    “Banndura’s Bobo doll experiment”. In the video‚ a set of children watched adults beat a Bobo doll. As the models left‚ the children began to display aggressive behavior towards the doll. They beat and constantly had agression to the doll. The display of rage and anger by the adults provoked the children to comitting the same atrocious acts displayed. It is interesting to note that not only did the children immitate the adults‚ but they also fabricated new and ingenious ways of giving the doll a beatdown

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    Trifles”‚ a one act play written by Susan Glaspell‚ is about a woman named Mrs. Wright who is suspected of murdering her husband‚ John. Throughout this play‚ Glaspell uses symbolism‚ irony‚ and the setting of the play and draw the readers in. The men investigating the scene are unable to solve the crime due to the fact that each piece of evidence is a domestic item that is generally specific to women. However‚ the two women that are also involved throughout this scene begin to pick up on these clues

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    Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” are both pieces of literature written by Susan Glaspell. They detail they events which occurred in a house after a man died there. This causes them to be quite similar. However the two works are not completely the same. One is a play and this lends it to being written differently than the other which is a short story. While these two writings are similar in some ways‚ they are quite different in others. The two stories are very different in a number of ways

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    When pondering a similar theme between "A Rose for Emily"‚ "Trifles" and "Winter Dreams" one finds that the fear of being alone is what joins the three. "A Rose for Emily" is a tale of how an eccentric woman refuses to let go of the ones she loves which eventually leads to her poisoning her boyfriend. In “Triffles” the murder of Mr. Wright is caused by him killing Mrs. Wright’s only companion: her canary. "Winter Dreams" tells the story of a man who due to his lack of decisiveness in his romantic

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    anticipated to carry the roles of caretaker‚ cook‚ mother‚ among other household duties. In addition‚ women were expected to be submissive and be the inferior of her husband; no voice of their own. It is evident that the setting of Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” took place in an era where women were just seen as the “wife” of a male figure. Only females of that time period understood the struggles of being a housewife‚ therefore they felt obligated to ally with each other to protect themselves against men

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    Meredith White Haney–Self English 102 4 November 2014 Voodoo Doll As Americans‚ we have the right to freedom of speech. Which basically means we have the right to say whatever we would like to say. Granted‚ some of the things that we say can be offensive and can hurt others that we are around. Just because we have this right‚ does not necessarily mean that we can take it all for granted. In culture today‚ people think that they can get away with almost anything‚ including with what they say.

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    play a center role in Trifles as they dictate how the characters behave‚ emphasizing the differences between men and women in this time period. The men are labeled as the workers/investigators who are dominant in this society while the women are subordinate/lower status individuals that are confined to the home and feminine concerns. Mr. Hale even claims that he “didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much of a difference…” when referring to Mr. and Mrs. Wright (1108 Trifles). Mr. Hale is blatantly

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