Trifles Defense Critic Essay A critic once said‚ “Trifles is a lousy play. By the third page we know who dun it‚ so there isn’t much reason to sit through the rest of the play.” This statement is a closed minded opinion. Susan Glaspell‚ the author of “Trifles”‚ does depict the murderer in this detective story but leaves the audience sitting in question of the motive for the mariticide. The play “Trifles” is an interesting and a great play because it offers questionable motives‚ the truth of the
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We are a combo of good and bad. We all have our bad days and bad habits but we also have good in us. This story challenges the idea of the “straight mind” and the “crooked mind” and how they balance. I believe we balance both of these equally. The story goes that there are two brothers. There is the right handed twin who represents the good or the straight mind. Then‚ there is the left handed brother who represents the bad or the crooked mind. The book illustrates the balance the brothers create
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words that made them react. Denice Frohman’s poem‚ “Dear straight people”‚ wasn’t the first poem I had heard‚ but it really resonated with me. She starts off playfully‚ and as she continues her words become more intense‚ but when she softens her words again‚ she says‚ “Dear queer young girl‚ I see you. You don’t want them to see you so you change the pronouns in your love poems to ‘him’ instead of ‘her’. I used to do that. Dear straight
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Susan Fine wrote a book by the name of “Initiation”. This book was one that was meant to tell a story and hopefully inspire people. It was also wrote to let people know that they are not the only ones going through things. This book was based on a boy that goes by the name Mauricio Londono. He was raised in poverty and wanted a escape. In this he found a school he could attend which he thought he wishedd he had as a life‚ although when he got there it was a different story. He tried to use people
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examples‚ when a child gets lose in the street‚ and you see her crying laughly there‚ you will grow a feeling that you need to help her‚ and make she smiles instead of the cry. That is because we leaned of others and we grow our compassion as well. Susan sontag asserts that people may choose not to look‚ it means they can make the decision to ignoring something or perceived something. And then‚ Ascher contends that people can not deny the existence of the helpness as their presence grows‚ it means
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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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possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn’t choose to go to Wonderland- but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own” (Cain 266). When tying the arguments from her novel together‚ Susan Cain talks about the power given to introverts‚ and what amazing things can happen when they choose to embrace that power. Cain published Quiet in order to explain the role of introverts in society. She emphasizes that her book is directed to all members
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of factors to consider‚ not only the ones mentioned above. When you want to deliver a message to a crowd and you want effective communication‚ it is very important to take this in consideration in order to have effective listeners. In the Chilean mine collapse case some factors to consider before communicating the incident to the public are the family members of the trapped miners‚ the mining business itself‚ other miners from other businesses‚ copper industry‚ and the country of chile. What effect
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The work “Mine is better” that is in the textbook “Beyond Feelings” by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero is written to talk about the mind frame of a child up to adulthood of the “Mine is better than yours” concept. In this work it specifically discusses how we go from childhood to adulthood always wanting the better and best things in life. It displays the competition of growing up with people to compete with and have the better things than that other person has. In this work the author is trying to explain
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An advertisement taken from the September 9‚ 2002 People magazine issue uses the straight sell and educational technique to encourage people to buy a digital watch. This article describes an atomic digital watch that is controlled by radio and automatically reads the official standard frequency and time transmitter in North America. The radio signal gets the time from the most accurate clock in North America‚ which is based in Colorado. In Colorado‚ the United States Government has an F-1 Fountain
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