The short one-act play Trifles by Susan Glaspell‚ was years ahead of its time. Its time was 1916 but the subject matter is timeless. The aspect of this play that most caught my interest was the contrast between the men and women characters. This is a play written in the early 1900s but transcends time periods and cultures. This play has many strengths and few weaknesses‚ but helps to provide a very accurate portrait of early American women and the issues they dealt with in everyday comings and
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Just a turn off old Kunia Road‚ between Wahiawa and Waipahu‚ hides Kunia Camp. As you turn into the old plantation camp and drive up its dusty road‚ past worn down cottage houses‚ you see what is left of what was once home to many pineapple pickers‚ decades before. Kunia Camp was a small town for the workers and families of Del Monte‚ Inc. There was one main road‚ Kunia Drive‚ which ran from one side of the camp to the other. Besides the Del Monte headquarters‚ Kunia had a store and post office for
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Summer Camp Rosynka - AIESEC LVIV‚ UKRAINE Earliest Start Date 06.06.2013 Latest End Date 18.07.2013 About Summer Camp Rosynka The main aims of the "Summer Camp" project are - improvement of English‚ education of the tolerance and interest to other cultures in today’s youth and younger generation through the involvement of the volunteers from abroad to work in children’s camps. Job Description Department the intern will be working non-government organization Job Description1 working with children
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internment camps before they got the chance to react to the horrible news of World War II. Many Japanese immigrants were taken to internment camps. There is an excerpt from the book Nisei Daughter. (Sone) The excerpt is called Camp Harmony. In this excerpt from the book a girl is telling about her experiences at an internment camp. Internment camps were a horrible place where internees were given bad food‚ little privacy‚ and just crude living spaces. The housing at the internment camp is described
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Clay Baggett Race and Ethnicity Japanese Internment Camps of World War II To be the enemy‚ or not to be the enemy‚ that is the question. After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor‚ many Americans believed that the Japanese Americans‚ also called Nikkei‚ were disloyal and associated with the enemy. There were rumors that they exchanged military information and had hidden connections. None of these claims were ever proven. The U.S. government became increasingly paranoid about this new problem
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Literary devices used in the ‘ Trifles’ Symbolism - to express meaning indirectly. Example: An undone quilt Though the women are laughed at when they are discussing if Mrs Wright is going to quilt it or knot it‚ this really shows the reader what marriages were like at the beginning of the 1900s. Men see women as tedious and uninterested in the affairs of "important matters concerning men only"‚ and the fact that the women are the ones who found the actual evidence
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player at State University. During the summer she works at a youth all-sports camp that several of the university’s coaches operate. The sports camp runs for eight weeks during July and August. Campers come for a one-week period‚ during which time they live in the State dormitories and use the State athletic field and facilities. At the end of the week a new group of kids comes in. Mary primarily serves as one of the camp soccer instructors. However‚ she has also been placed in charge of arranging
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The Double Standard of Aging (1972) is an essay by Susan Sontag. It’s a rigorous analysis of the different ways in which women and men experience old age. Sontag sees old age as a more unpleasant experience for women than for men‚ because the social environment defines women more rigidly. Unlike men‚ who are valued for their capacities such as unique thoughts and actions‚ women are more likely to be valued for their innate sexual appeal and beauty. Female beauty is associated with grace‚ frailty
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homosexuals‚ etc. being killed‚ ten or twenty or maybe even fifty at a time. Some are burned alive. Some are gassed until death finally kills their immune system. The others take on the cruelest punishment. They’re forced to work in concentration camps where they are split up from their family and children. Children who couldn’t work were forced to death‚ some mothers coming along with their children if they refused to cooperate with giving their kids up. We ask ourselves‚ what made these men so
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of 130 females in my grade to attend the Women in Science camp. Here I learned about the many professions scientist can engage in‚ from forensics to astronomy. At this camp‚ I made it a goal to be a “woman in science.” At the time‚ I did not know specifically what type of science I wanted to become an expert in‚ but I narrowed it down with another major experience two summers ago at a camp referred to as the South Central Health Careers Camp. During the week‚ I was exposed to a variety of lines of
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