1.0: ESL LEARNER`S TEXT The following student essay is based on a reading from the December 1999 exam: an essay: “Getting Close to the Machine” by Ellen Ullman. Why do we have computers? Computers are invented in order to facilitate the satisfaction of our needs. We want to satisfy our needs daily and computers are composed of our thoughts and of how we would realize the action performed by the computer. In Ellen Ullman’s “Getting Close to the Machine”‚ the effects and compositions of a programmed
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that leaded to her tragic death‚ “The Joy That Kills.”(Chopin 517). On the other hand the play Trifles‚ has the same moral as‚ “the story of an hour” but a completely different outcome. This play is about a couple that does not take any part in the play‚ and we only learn about them throughout the character’s dialogue. As in the story Mr. Wright is killed by his wife Mrs. Wright. The way the play closes shows us that her reasoning for murdering her husband is more than just an unhappy marriage. Although
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It has five main characters and it is about a murder case solving scenario where the detectives were trying to solve it and women attempted to hide the truth from the men because of various reasons. There are two main female characters in Trifles. Mrs. Peters‚ the wife of the detective and Mrs. Hale. They are neighbor and when they go and collect something from Mrs. Peters’ house they discover the dead body of Mr. Wright. While the whole cast of characters will have their lines in the play
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Feminist Symbolism in Susan Glaspell’s "Trifles" Have you ever wondered; just how much can one person take from another? What amount of cruelty and abuse persuades the fury in a typically passive person to leap into aggressive action? Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles shows us just how far one woman‚ Mrs. Wright‚ is pushed before she snaps. This is a classic tale of spousal abuse‚ based off of a true story‚ which was not too uncommon and almost expected back in the late nineteenth century. Back
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Part 1 You are going to read three extracts which are all concerned in some way with travel and tourism. For questions 1--6‚ choose the answer (A‚ B‚ C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. EXTRACT FROM A NOVEL ’Oh‚ Lyn‚ you can’t be serious.’ Bridget Cooper flicked her auburn hair back in a careless gesture that distracted every man within a two-table radius‚ and glanced at me reprovingly. ’You look like death warmed up‚ you know. The last thing you should do is take another
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Reading Synthesis Essay for September 23rd In this week’s readings we focused on gender roles and feminism. This is a topic I knew little about going into the readings but I have since learned a great deal about the struggle of women in our culture. Pop culture is not a female friendly business and it shows throughout the modern culture. In most blockbuster movies men play the main leads and the heroes are almost always a man or a woman who acts masculine in nature. Television shows are the
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throughout history. The unrevealed crimes were hidden from the government whether or not they were justified. Although the government plays a huge role in determining certain actions as crimes‚ one’s conscience is the real determining factor. In “The Trifles” by Susan Glasbell and “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen‚ both of the main characters commit crimes that they feel are justified. Mrs. Wright is accused of killing her husband in the play and justified by her neighbors for suffering through her emotionally
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Reading EXPLORER 1 Answers Contents Unit 1 – Amazing Animals Unit 2 – Travel and Adventure Unit 3 – Music Festivals Unit 4 – Other Worlds Unit 5 – City Living Unit 6 – Clothing Fashion Unit 7 – Dinosaurs Come Alive Unit 8 – Stories and Storytellers Unit 9 – Tough Jobs Unit 10 – Pyramid Builders Unit 11 – Legends of the Sea Unit 12 – Vanished! Unit 1 Lesson 1A Lesson Overview Target Vocabulary: Amazing Animals Animal Intelligence Answer Key Before You Read A.* 1. T; 2. T; 3. T; 4
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The word trifles means a thing of little meaning or value according to the free online dictionary. In the play we see a lot of trifles; to me these trifles are the material things that pretty much helped solve the case in the play‚ for example; the mess in the kitchen‚ the dirty towels and the fruit. Mrs. Peter (to the other woman): oh‚ her fruit; it did freeze. (To the lawyer.) She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break. Sheriff (rises): well
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Akbar Prof. Fallas ENG 102-70 8 Aug 2011 Trifles Characters in Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles separate along gender lines definitively in step with the social distinctions between men and women that were coming under fire by the 1920s. While this was likely a hot issue for audiences when the play was first performed‚ the developing subtext of gender issues is distanced from the conscious mind of participants through the vehicle of setting
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