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    When you first look at the two stories “A jury of her peers” and “Trifles” you would notice that they look and sound really similar. By saying that I mean the two stories have a lot in common but are very different at the same time. The two stories are similar because they have the same setting and also the same characters and that’s what makes them similar. The stories are different because of the point of view and the genre. Between the two stories “A jury of her peers” and “Trifles” they have

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    and “A Jury of Her Peers’ are two pieces of literature that tell the tale of two women at a crime scene. With the exception of one scene‚ the two works are nearly identical in terms of story. Glaspell’s decision to write the story as both a play and a short story gives us a unique opportunity‚ the chance to view the story from a multitude of viewpoints. The play gives no clear protagonist‚ yet because of the nature of short stories Mrs. Hale is thrust into the role in “A Jury of Her Peers”. Looking

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    speaking her mind through art Within her short life‚ Frida was slightly crippled from polio‚ she also suffered from a street car accident and was left infertile. Her work was influenced by traumatic events and from her pain she created art. Many of her paintings were self-portraits‚ and the way she painted and the things she depicted liberating and interesting for many women’s . She was an intelligent woman in a society that wanted women to be pretty‚ submissive wives and mothers. Her struggle

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    When kids don’t get up it’s for a reason not because they’re lazy it because they’re tired of getting up at like 3:00 in the morning. In the article “The teen who woke up her school” by Jane Bianchi‚ it says “Missouri high schools start time 7:50 to 7:20 am” that’s way too early. In “Should schools start later” by Lisa .M. Herrington‚ it says “40% of american schools start classes before 8 am” again way too early. In the video “Abc news report” it stated “next fall or so the school board of edu might

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    Hillary Jordan. She decided to convey her feelings in a novel. In When She Woke by Hillary Jordan‚ Jordan implements the theme of displacement and corruption against homosexuals and criminals to portray the disadvantages of a puritanical government. Throughout the novel‚ the theme of displacement affect the novel’s characters. One example is Hannah Payne. Following the eviction from the Straight Path Center‚ Hannah ventured through the city of Plano‚ Texas. During this journey‚ Hannah was harassed by

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    skin was the mark of her slavery. Like an animal‚ it was a sign that she was "owned‚" and it was symbolic of her status as a slave with no more rights or consideration than what would be given a beast. From Nan‚ the woman who cared for Sethe when she was a child‚ Sethe learned that her mother had come "from the sea‚" and had been used and impregnated by many white men. Sethe’s mother had discarded the products of those pregnancies without even naming them‚ but had kept Sethe‚ whose father was black;

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    As a parent‚ giving your little girl the Barbie doll that she has always wanted for her fifth birthday seems like a harmless gesture at the time‚ but what most parents don’t realize is that Barbie often effects the way a young girl perceives her body. What many parents don’t think about is that when these young girls are playing with their brand new Barbie doll‚ their brain is registering everything about that doll. How popular and perfect she is‚ so naturally these girls are beginning

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    days‚ months‚ years? However‚ if a person thinks long term they would bring another person. Being alone is one of a human’s greatest fears because of a need to be alone. Being isolated from society can drive a person insane and even to their grave‚ so having somebody to converse with is important. Stories have repeatedly shown what happens while isolated such as: “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie‚ “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner‚ and “A Jury of Her Peers”

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    the Years of Her Life” are closely similar and vastly different at the same time. The similarity is that the children in both of the stories have feelings of heartbreak and pity towards their mothers at the end of each of the stories‚ and the relationships they share with their mothers are problematic to say the least. The mother in a new perspective did not pay attention to her child as much as she could have because of her condition‚ and this caused her child to dislike the treatment her mother

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    “Jury of Her Peers” and Trifles are two of the same story‚ one being a play‚ the other a short story. They both have some similarities but but also have some differences. The stories are almost the same as they do give out the same story of an investigation of a murder inside a farm home. They each tell the reader some information on what each the characters do and say. In both the stories‚ you find that one of the characters‚ Mrs. Hale‚ has an issue of things not not being finished as “it

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