Susan Glaspell’s one-act play‚ Trifles‚ is based on actual events that occurred in Iowa at the turn of the century. From 1899-1901 Glaspell worked as a reporter for the Des Moines News‚ where she covered the murder trial of a farmer’s wife‚ Margaret Hossack‚ in Indianola‚ Iowa. Hossack was accused of killing her husband‚ John‚ by striking him twice in the head with an ax while he slept. Initially it was assumed that burglars had murdered the farmer‚ but a subsequent sheriff’s investigation turned
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anyways unless there is an emergency. I have been to different states‚ such as Iowa‚ where the roads were so bad that there were “No tow Bans” on the roads. This means that if you go in a ditch that your car has to stay there because they will not tow it out until the roads are better. In situations like this I feel that they should have to area businesses closed so that way people are not out driving. While I was in Iowa there were over 50 cars in the ditch within a 1 mile stretch. Many people could
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Rationale for a Dissemination Plan Name: Institutional Affiliation: Dissemination of information is one of the significant factors in any system development. The firm stakeholders‚ policy makers and individual in departments involved employs skills and research outcome to win out the approximations to achieve the set ends and aims. Through the use of newsletters‚ magazine‚ flyers‚ brochure‚ posters‚ presentation and interviews‚ the firm will pass along knowledge to the different individual
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Describe the nature of the early African-European contact. At first‚ the relations between the Europeans and Africans centered primarily on the trade of items such as gold‚ ivory‚ cloth and guns. Then things took a turn for the worse when trade turned to from gold‚ ivory‚ cloth and guns to humans. What is meant by enslavement? Enslavements is the making slaves of your captives or forcibly dispossessing an owner of property (people). How did the plantation system make slavery a lucrative
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for you they can cause yellow teeth and make you do bad stuff. A little bit about Officer Trapp! Officer Trapp has 2 kids one boy and one girl‚ and his son wants to be a cop when he’s older too. He also lived in Iowa City before he came to Clear Lake‚ and he was a D.A.R.E teacher in Iowa City also. Officer Trapp has made everybody very good about not doing
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Week 13 of the college football season has concluded‚ and one team may have secured its spot in the second annual College Football Playoff. The Oklahoma Sooners seem to be in position to reach the Playoff‚ yet the College Football Playoff Committee has final say on whether the Sooners will play for a chance to claim the Championship. After the Committee releases its latest rankings on Tuesday‚ the final Playoff rankings will be revealed on Dec. 6. For those that aren’t fans of the current top four
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* Mexican court expands gay marriage and gay adoption. // Contemporary Sexuality; Oct2010‚ Vol. 44 Issue 10‚ p8 This article discusses the legalization of gay marriage and gay adoption in Mexico. * The marrying kind. Bawer‚ Bruce // Advocate; 9/19/95‚ Issue 690‚ p80 No abstract available. * Standing on ceremony. Bawer‚ Bruce // Advocate; 3/5/96‚ Issue 702‚ p14 Reports on the passage of measures banning recognition of same-sex marriages in different states in the United States. Gay-marriage
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A Class Divided Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King‚ teacher Jane Elliott knew she had to do something. Riceville‚ Iowa‚ the town in which she lived‚ was entirely homogeneous and‚ as a result‚ she realized that her students had no firsthand experience with discrimination. A Class Divided illustrates Elliott’s spirited experiment and the life-altering impact it had on her students. Symbolic interaction theory is illustrated on the day after King’s assassination; Elliott segregated
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A Community resource that Mr. P could relate to in the Center Point‚ Iowa area is a club called the Better Breathers Club. This club meets all over the country but in Iowa there are meetings in Fort Dodge‚ Ida Grove‚ Des Moines‚ and Urbandale along with an online support community available as well. The Breathers Club would be a good resource for Mr. P to learn better ways to cope with his COPD while sharing situations and strategies that help his breathing with people that have the same condition
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Tucker Hickman Ms. DeGreef English IV 10 March 2017 The Great Depression The Great Depression (1929-1939) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downfall in the history of the Western industrial world. In the United States‚ the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929‚ which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of vital investors. Over the next several years‚ consumer spending and investment dropped‚ causing steep economic declines in industrial
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