"Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about
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significant emotion is happiness. Happiness can range from something as a big as winning the power ball to something as miniscule as a pet. The miniscule things are what tie us down‚ and make sure we stay sane. In the play Trifles by the playwright Susan Glaspell the thing that tied down a Midwestern farmwife Minnie Wright‚ was her little canary. The one miniscule thing that kept her sane from all of the sadness that surrounded her caused by her emotionally abusive husband. With the death of it‚ came
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Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ in 1950‚ and has lived there most of her life. She has come to be known as S.E. Hinton which speaks to the author’s remarkable identification with her audience. Hinton‚ famous for her novels about trouble young men‚ tried to conceal her female identity so she would not alienate male readers. Hinton says she began writing soon after she started reading. For many years‚ she concentrated on writing about cowboys and horses. She even completed two
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Cardiovascular System Anatomy & Physiology The heart is the pump responsible for maintaining adequate circulation of oxygenated blood around the vascular network of the body. It is a four-chamber pump‚ with the right side receiving deoxygenated blood from the body at low presure and pumping it to the lungs (the pulmonary circulation) and the left side receiving oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumping it at high pressure around the body (the systemic circulation). The myocardium (cardiac
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Skeletal System Study Guide – Use the lecture folder to help you answer these questions. The more detail you add‚ the better prepared for the test you will be. 1. What are the functions of the skeleton? The five functions of the skeleton are: protecting the vital body organs‚ giving shape to the body and providing support to body organs and holding the body upright. Others are facilitating movement and producing of blood. The latter function is done in the bone marrow. 2. What is the difference
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1. Name the circulatory system that carries blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart. Correct: pulmonary circulation 2. Name the circulatory system that provides blood to the tissues in the body. Correct: systemic circulation 1. Name the structure that is a double fold of peritoneum between the lesser curvature of the stomach and liver. Correct: Lesser omentum 2. Name the structure that is a double fold of peritoneum and holds the colon to the abdominal wall.
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Muscle Test #1 Study Guide 1. What are the primary functions of muscles? What are skeletal muscles made of? Five Skeletal Muscle Functions 1.Produce movement of the skeleton •By pulling on tendons that then move bones 2.Maintain posture and body position 3.Support soft tissues •With the muscles of the abdominal wall and the pelvic floor 4.Guard entrances and exits •In the form of sphincters 5.Maintain body temperature •When contraction occurs‚ energy is used and converted to heat
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James Craig 28 September 2014 Trifles “There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm” (1389)‚ Mrs. Hale stiffly replies to the Court Attorney’s trite comment about the untidy appearance of Mrs. Wright’s house. Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ was a play written for the Cape Cod Provincetown Players in 1916. Glaspell exposes sexism during this time period. Her play would later become the benchmark of the feminist movement and give her a reputation as a writer sensitive to these issues. Glaspell
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Silence Killing Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”‚ Suzy Clarkson Holstein and Judith Kay Russell give almost the same aspect of the story‚ one of the stories talk about the play being “dramatic and deceptive” and the other of being “artsy and silence justice” which both represents the story uniquely the same; which I agree with both articles meaning. The story is one about a woman who felt like a prisoner in her own home. The story is a play that becomes one of the most fulfilling of a nineteenth century
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1. Summary and Response. A. Born in Riverside‚ California‚ Susan Straight became an award winning regional author. Straight came from a simple beginning‚ a diverse family and no friends who were writers. Straight wrote her first story at the age of sixteen and wrote sports articles in junior high. As a junior in high school‚ she began writing short stories again. Straight does like to travel‚ but enjoys returning home as well. Straight makes no error in advocating the use of writing workshops
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