working-mother in the 70s. The story concerns a well-off English middle-class family‚ at their country cottage. The central focus is on Martha‚ and much of the writing represents her stream of consciousness as she struggles to ensure that her family and guests are properly looked after. The misleading title soon proves to be an ironic comment on the weekend that Martha has to endure rather than enjoy‚ while she also struggles with social expectations of women from her husband and other adults. The
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that lie coming from a child‚ so therefore it had to be true. In the second act‚ Mary Tilford decides to run home to her grandmother’s house because she is unhappy with having to attend the school‚ she then gets the idea to tell her grandmother that Martha and Karen are lovers and make “strange noises” that scare all the girls. She says she has to whisper it in her ear because she doesn’t want to be heard‚ and feels like it is a secret worth whispering about. As she is whispering in her ear Mrs. Tilford
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2) Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap-Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? Martha has targeted women for her product. She feels that women are the best group to target because they don’t like the mess or the risks created by traditional mouse traps. But what Martha doesn’t know about is woman is a large segment that is too wide to be targeted properly. In the society‚ woman population is shrinking rapidly causing market that Martha is targeting is shrinking
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My dearest Martha‚ There is not a single second that goes by when I’m trekking through these dirty trenches and forget about my love for you. In fact‚ my love for you is the only thing that pulls me up the mountains every day and over the other side. Where I wish for it all to end. Where is wish to see you. I am longing to see your beautiful face on the other side. where I hope we can be happy‚ together again. What is it like back at home? How’s the weather? I can imagine that the sky is clear
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said to have come to Vietnam to visit her boyfriend. Martha‚ Jimmy Cross’s love‚ is another significant woman in his book. Martha was always on Cross’s mind and he looked forward to seeing her when he made it back home. O’Brien uses the women in his book as a theme that potrays softer emotional aspects that were present in the men before‚ but that progressively disappeared during the Vietnam War. In the short story "The Things Carried" Martha is always on Jimmy Cross’s mind. He constantly catches
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Double-consciousness under the White Gaze in Maud Martha The theme of double-consciousness was first defined by Du Bois in The Souls of the Black Folk. He put the term “double-consciousness” in "a world which yields him no true self-consciousness‚ but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation‚ this double-consciousness‚ this sense of always looking at one ’s self through the eyes of others‚ of measuring one ’s soul
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all here." "Wait!" Steve said. "My Dad and my sister are not here yet." Larry and Emily entered the house. "Thank God you two made it!" Martha said. "Everybody‚ in here!" Steve’s family ran inside the Kronos time machine. "What is this?" Larry said. "Hang on‚" Martha said as she was pushing buttons on the control panel. "There‚" Martha said. "What is going on here?" Larry said. "What is this room?"
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cheating on her husband‚ she still notes how much she loves George. She tells Nick of “George who is good to me‚ and whom I revile; who understands me and whom I push off; who can make me laugh‚ and I choke it back in my throat” (191). George and Martha‚ although broken‚ still love each other deeply. This indicates a real future in their relationship. However‚ between Michael and Jan‚ this love only seems one-sided. Jan forces Michael to sleep on a tiny bed and takes up an unused office space as
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1.Jimmy’s love for Martha is mostly fictional but Jimmy can not seem to get Martha out of his mind. Jimmy’s love can be seen as hope at first as Jimmy has something to live for but once his imagination threatens those around him is when the problems begin to arise. Jimmy believes Ted Lavender’s death is as a result of him not being engaged with the unit’s position because Jimmy was daydreaming about Martha. Once Ted Lavender was killed while under the command of Jimmy‚ Jimmy felt he could of avoided
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such as fear‚ love‚ and the longing to escape the war were the non-essential items that they carried. The story starts with Cross looking over the letters of Martha‚ an English major at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. Cross went on a couple dates with Martha before the war and she writes him letters while over in Vietnam. Martha views Cross as a friend while Cross wants them to become lovers and thinks about her often in this context. Cross usually looks at the letters at night in his foxhole
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