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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Mina Hanna Vanessa Frazier ENG1A February 9th‚ 2014 Essay one Pain in War On one hand‚ the first essay “Regarding the pain of others” written by Susan Sontag in 2004. Sontag was born early in the twenty century; she was considered filmmaker‚ writer‚ and political activist. She used any possible way to teach people on humanity and human rights without being scared to be killed or go to jail at that time as it was not safe to talk about these topics back then. Sontag is discussing how people react
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People have their own perspective of people‚ but when it comes to a general idea of a group of people‚ stereotypes come into play. In Little Big Man by Thomas Berger‚ the descriptions of the Indians and the whites are stereotypical. In the nineteenth century‚ in which this story took place‚ many Indians were seen as savages‚ while whites were seen as more reasonable. One circumstance that points out this stereotype was when Jack was taken back to the Cheyenne because of some misunderstanding of a
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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 characterizes social stigma in this play with the murder of John Wright‚ the insensitive husband of Mrs. Wright. The key evidence is covered up by
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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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Susan Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright‚ actress‚ novelist‚ and journalist. Glaspell wrote the play Trifles which tells the story two investigations being conducted over murder of John Wright. While the male characters of the play conduct an “official” investigation the female characters find themselves inadvertently conducting their own “unofficial” investigation. However this is not a run-of-the-mill murder mystery play‚ in which the focus lies solely on discovering the
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In Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ the plot focuses on a single moral choice. That choice is doing the wrong thing for the right reason. “The play addresses the abiding issue of justice and contemporary issues of gender and identity politics.” (Moe). Throughout the play‚ Glaspell interweaves these issues until they are impossible to separate. In the first part of the play‚ Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters enter the now abandoned house of John Wright‚ Mrs. Wright’s husband (Glaspell 330). They are there
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time we spend most of our lives questioning and wondering what exactly a meaningful life is. "What is it that makes some lives meaningful‚ others less so?" (pg.1) is also one of the first questions asked in "Meaning in Life and Why it Matters". In Susan Wolf’s excerpt‚ "The Meanings of Lives"‚ the author attempts to define what a “meaningful life” is. The reason I specifically chose to use the word attempt is because I
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their contributions. One woman at the forefront of the fight‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ founded many organizations and travelled around the country giving speeches to support the women’s suffrage movement in the 19th century. Her diligence and dedication led to the passing of the nineteenth amendment in 1919‚ giving women the right to vote. She also fought for the rights of union workers and overall equality. Due to her tireless efforts‚ Susan B. Anthony established herself as a women’s rights advocate and
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger is a marketing book that uncovers the hidden truth behind word-of-mouth and social transmission. Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and begins the book with a catchy opening that instantly captured my attention. It was about Howard Wein who recently moved to Philadelphia. Wein earned his MBA in hotel management and helped Starwood Hotels start its W brand as well as handled billions of dollars in
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