Understanding everyday communications is an arduous responsibility‚ especially when intentions are not easy to read. The most popular forms of communication‚ such as cellphones and social media‚ disconnect the intimacy in the usual emotions conveyed in normal forms of communicating. In corelation‚ identity also is affected by the miscommunications of everyday interactions. Psychologist Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning‚ It Was Friday” notes the difficulties that dissociated individuals
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In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles‚” elements such as setting‚ personality‚ and behavior are used to set the mood for this crime story. In this story‚ a woman is being accused of killing her husband‚ and what better than a play to act out such a thing. I feel that through the use of actions‚ costumes‚ and props‚ the visual elements in this play really help to bring out this murder mystery to life. In the beginning of the play‚ the scene starts out with the description of the house and its kitchen
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In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell it was a very interesting and suspenseful play. This play is about a women being accused of killing her husband. The play takes place around the 1916 where they try to find out who killed Mrs. Wright husband John Wright. Hale‚ starts telling what happen that day when he went to the Wrights home. That afternoon Hale was going to ask John if he wanted to go put up a telephone. When Hale starts to explain the situation to the sheriff and the county general in
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The Trifle Isolation Have you ever felt as though you were alone? Susan Glaspell wrote a play called Trifles. The story tells of the untimely death of Mr. Wright and the subsequent investigation. The investigation is being overseen by the county attorney‚ the sheriff and Mr. Hale who have brought their wives along to retrieve Mrs. Wright’s personal effects from the home. Everyone suspects Mrs. Wright of the death. The story has many themes but the one that stands out to me is isolation. This unfortunate
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ask what are some unique characteristics that only humans have. While some people believe that the learning differentiates between humans and animals‚ others think that souls and spirits differentiate humans from animals. In “Strange Creatures”‚ Susan Blackmore talks about the idea of imitation and the way that humanity creates “memes” that are a collection of cognitive units of information. Memes control human thoughts and actions. In Zadie Smith’s essay‚ “Speaking in tongues”‚ the author supports
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Billy the Kid New Mexico has had many well-known legends throughout its history. Billy the Kid was arguably one of most famous legends that New Mexico has ever had. Also known as William H. Bonney‚ Billy the Kid became a prominent and feared outlaw due to his violent nature. His life is still a heated topic throughout America‚ due to his unnatural cruelness and pain. His disturbing acts of cruelty caused many tragedies captured many lives‚ including his own‚ making his life one to remember
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but we are as much human after these procedures as we were before. What makes us unique‚ and different from any other species‚ is the ability to imitate. Imitation is a quality made available to us through the meme‚ a theory clearly pointed out by Susan Blackmore in her book The Meme Machine. A meme is defined as a unit of cultural information‚ such as a cultural practice or idea‚ that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. We humans have the ability to use it‚ and
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all the cleaning‚ cooking‚ and the ones who took care of the children. Women didn ’t really start having jobs that paid till the 1920 ’s - 1930 ’s. But until then‚ the men did the majority of the work out in society. In a play called‚ Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ which was written and took place in 1916‚ two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters lived in a small town where a murder had just occurred. While the county attorney and the sheriff try and look for clues around the house and try
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made it. [He] created it. [He] brought it forth from the night of the ages. ‘[He] alone. [His] hands. [His] mind. [His] alone and only” (Rand 59). Equality realizes that he is capable of inventing an idea from his own mind. In addition‚ the author Susan Blackmore from The Meme Machine proves that humans have a capability of imitating each other so that they learn. “When [he] imitate someone else‚ something is passed on” (Blackmore 3). This statement‚ therefore‚ gives hint that imitation is categorized
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Victim or Suspect? Inciting a debate over the morality of keeping a secret‚ Susan Glaspell captivates reader’s minds in her story “A Jury of Her Peers.” Through the exploitation of the personalities of characters Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters‚ Glaspell explores the chronicles of the discovery and subsequent investigation of the murder of John Wright. As the story unfolds‚ the question becomes not “Who murdered John Wright” but rather “Why was John Wright murdered.” This leads to the idea that Mrs
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