...Alexis Marques PSC 168 Extra Credit In Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, the book starts out in the year of 1967 and introduces an eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen who is in session with a doctor she never seen before; who tells her she has a “pimple and that she has been picking at it.” (pg 7) He then asked her if she has been picking at herself in general and Susanna nods (she agrees to anything that the doctor asks her). The doctor repeats that she has been picking herself and then says “you need a rest.” (pg 7) Before Susanna knows it the doctor makes a call, a taxi comes and he tells the driver to take her to McLean Hospital. Once at McLean, Susanna introduces a girl name Polly who had set herself on fire at one point, and that she was never unhappy, she was kind and comforting and never complained. Susanna describes Polly’s suicide attempt as one having courage and being dangerous at the same time. She compares danger and defeat to when one puts a gun in their mouth and is not able to pull the trigger, which is expressed in this quote: “But you put it there, you taste it, it’s cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you’ve been planning, when you’ll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You’ll have to find another way.”(pg 17) Susanna then reavles her suicide attempt, which she swallowed fifty aspirins and then went outside and fainted , while...
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...Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” introduced a murder case in a small village. There are two groups of main characters. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale represent ethical women, with copassion for the unfortunate. County Attorney and Sheriff represent the judicial officers who seek for judicial fairness. The two groups’ conflict, therefore, represents the conflict of judicial fairness and ethical concerns in the real world. County attorney and Sheriff are characterized as official officers from the government. Their job is to catch the criminal and seek the evidence to prove that the criminal is guilty. However, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are more focused on the feelings and motives of the law-breaker (Minnie). In the novel, Mr. Henderson and Mr. Peters threw all of their attention into searching for, and analyzing, the evidence. They did not worry about, for example, the messy state of the kitchen, “County Attorney: (Looking around) I guess we’ll go upstairs first --- and then out to the barn and around there. [To the Sheriff] You’re….nothing that would point to any motive” (Trifles, p.1043). His obvious concern is solely as to whether there is any evidence that could be collected. He didn’t think about how a good house-wife could allow the kitchen to reach a state of mess like this. When Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are talking about frozen fruit, County Attorney said: “Well, can you beat the woman! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.” (Trifles, P.1043). County...
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...IDOL : WARREN BUFFET INTRODUCTION Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist and widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century. Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway and consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was born to Howard and Leila Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska on 30th August 1930. He was the second of three children, and the only boy and his father was a stockbroker and four-term United States congressman. Howard Buffett served non-consecutive terms on the Republican ticket, but support libertarian views. He was quickly identified by his family and others as being exceptionally good with numbers. In his youth he made money by reselling cokes and delivering newspapers. At the age of 13 he filed his first tax return and deducted $35 for his bike as a business expense. Later, as a senior in high school, Buffett purchased a used pinball machine with a friend and set it up in a local barber shop. At his father's urging, he applied to the University of Pennsylvania and was accepted. Unimpressed, Buffett left after two years transferring to the University of Nebraska. After graduation, his father once again convinced him of the value of education, encouraging him to pursue a graduate degree. Harvard rejected Buffett, but Columbia accepted him. Buffett studied under Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing which is the beginning of his career. POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES ...
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...Inadequate protection of these issues will continue to cost US firms and employees billions of dollars each year. One recent case that has hit the US officials is the creation of 22 illegal Apple stores that resembles an Apple store that sells counterfeit products. Often, US firms specializing in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and telecommunications are major piracy targets. Before the technology even hits the production line, another Chinese business has copied and boxed cheaper versions of the same product. Washington and Obama have been hounding Chinese officials to buckle down on copyright infringement, intellectual property piracy, and counterfeiting. The US officials have filed formal complaints with the WTO and US trade Representative Susan Schwab has announced more complaints will be filed. Chinese officials have responded that these filings will bring “an unfavorable impact on bilateral trade.” With the WTO ruling in favor of the US, it signals that the US will continue to use...
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...A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell The short story “ A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell was published in 1917. The story is a version of the play Trifles which was written in 1916, however was not published until three years later. The fictional story is said to be based off of an actual court case from Iowa. The characters themselves are also part taken from the actual court case that took place in Iowa. In the story “ A Jury of Her Peers” the theme, symbols, and characters all show how different men and women are and at the same time, how men and women are alike. The story jumps into action when Mrs. Hale, Mr. Hale , Mrs. Peters, the sheriff, and the county attorney are at the scene of the crime and Mr. Hale explains what he saw and heard yesterday at the Wrights house. After Mr. Hale gives his story, the men decide to investigate the crime scene. The men tell the women to stay in the kitchen and look around for any clues to help them find out what happened. The men go out to look around the house to see if there is any evidence outside. The women find clues that incriminate Mrs. Wright but in the end they decide to not tell the men of their findings. At the beginning of the story Mrs. Hale is flustered with work in the kitchen when she is called upon by her husband to travel to the Wright’s house. Once there she finds out the horrible truth that Mr. Wright has been murdered. While she listened to her husband give testimony about what he had heard and...
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...Written in 1916 by Susan Glaspell, Trifles is a one-act play of a murder investigation of a farmer named John Wright. In the kitchen of the Mr. and Mrs. Wright, to help in the investigation Sheriff Henry Peters and his wife are being accompanied by Lewis Hale and his wife. Also in attendance is the county attorney Mr. George Henderson. Within this story, during his sleep, Farmer John Wright was killed having a rope tied around his neck. Now the murder suspect is not unknown in fact it was Minnie, Mr. Wright’s wife who committed the murder. Martha Hale as previously said is the wife of farmer Lewis Hale. Mrs. Hale is a type of woman that absolutely resents the stereotypical view of women that most men had in these times in society. At the first sign of Mrs. Hale’s dialogue in the story she is already somewhat combatant when defending her fellow women stating “There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm”, “Those towels get dirty awful quick. Men’s hands aren’t as clean as they might be” (Glaspell. Speech 32 & 34). This moment in the play is part of a small exchange between Martha and the attorney. Towards the end of the play, Martha Hale begins to become sympathetic towards Mrs. Wright. Although all evidence points to Mrs. Wright being the killer, Mrs. Hale remembers Minnie Wright as a sweet, lovely and cheerful girl, “She-come to think of it, she kind of like a bird herself-real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery. How-she-did-change.” (Glaspell. Speech...
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...Renita Roberson Eng.1302 W.34 Professor Miles April 28,2016 Reversion of Parole for Member of the Mason Family Dear Governor Jerry Brown: I am writing this letter as a petition in hopes of appealing the decision granted by the California State Parole Board to allow Leslie Van Houten consideration for freedom. Your decision reversing the board’s grant of parole for Ms. Houten’s release from the California Institution For Women should solely be based on substantial evidence that Houten is a dangerous threat if released back into society. With murder being the most inhumane act of crime, the continued punishment should be of a comparable caliber. It takes a great degree of motivation and psychological repugnancy to commit to the horrible acts in which Ms. Houten participated. There is an overwhelming mental barrier between final acts of defiance, and who is to say that once Houten is released she would be able to have full control of that barrier? Leslie Van Houten savagely held a pillow over Rosemary La Bianca’s face and watched as her family of cult members brutally murdered Mrs. La Bianca and her husband. Not only did she watch the attack, but also she admitted to violently stabbing Mrs. La Bianca a merely sixteen times even after realizing she had already been dead. This shows how much of little value human life means to her, because she engaged in committing a crime towards someone she’d never came into contact with prior to that night. Also, her consciousness...
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...Damontae Chapman KDunn English III 27 August 2015 Every person has a reason to do the things they do. Even though it’s illegal or inappropriate. Sometimes people do the things they do to save someone’s life or to protect them. In the play Susan Glaspell’s Trifles two woman find lots of evidence that are considered as trifles and didn’t tell the CA or the sheriff about any of it to cover up for Mrs. Wright. It was right for the women to do the things they did to protect Mrs. Wright. Based on the time period, the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, were justified in their actions of eliminating the evidence. All the sheriff and the CA did was come in Mrs. Wright’s house and be disrespectful about her stuff. So the two women Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale start to stand up for Mrs. Wright. So the CA say “Ah loyal to your sex.” It was the woman’s morals to do what they did. If they didn’t do what they did to protect Mrs. Wright then they would be just letting the CA and the Sheriff gang all up on Mrs. Wright “Here’s a nice mess”, said the County Attorney. They wanted to stand up for Mrs. Wright it’s kind of like she was getting bullied. Mr. Wright took the life away from Mrs. Wright she was probably bored all the time the bird was her only fun. “She liked the bird” it was basically her life. They did what they did to protect their friend...
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...challenges on a daily basis. However, there is an ongoing trend, in which parents are being overprotective of their children. This consequently leads to their children being unable to explore the outer world and attain valuable skills which can be used later in life. Susan Cheever, an American writer and mother of two children, depicts in her essay, “My Little Bit of Country”, her childhood experiencing both city and country life. The essay was originally published in 2012 in the anthology Central Park. As the title of the anthology indicates, the story mainly takes place in Central Park, New York. The essay is told from Susan Cheever’s perspective, thus it’s not an omniscient narrator, but a 1st person narrator with access to her own mind. The story begins with Susan Cheever recalling the mornings of the summer, going to Central Park with her father, whom had just returned from the war. The essay progresses on chronically, with her growing up and moving into the suburbs, until she finally as an adult returns to the city, when she herself have children. Therefore it’s somewhat safe to assume, that the essay starts after the war in the 1940’s and ends somewhere in the present time close to the year 2012, when it published. Susan Cheever’s writing style is different and she is able to interact with her readers. Her use metaphors and adjectives when describing Central Park, initiates the reader’s imagination and senses, enabling the reader to place him- or herself next to Cheever, as...
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...Symbolism: Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Clothes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The play trifles tells the story of two male character investigators, investigating the murder of John Write, while the female characters covey their private unofficial investigation and uncover some disturbing evidence. This short play pays a toll on how women were treated back then hence the title trifles which means women during this period were considered trifles. The short story clothes is about a young Indian women who has an arranged marriage and a subsequent trip to America. This story reveals the symbolism that Divakaruni portrays, with great nerves Sumita moves to America with her husband and reveals her own her own identity...
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...In the play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, in 1916(), Minnie Wright is guilty of murdering her husband, John Wright. Some of the signs that Minnie Wright murdered her husband is when she was in the rocking chair, just sitting there alone, and Lewis Hale stopped by to talk to her husband John Wright. Minnie Wright seemed despondent and knew her husband was upstairs dead. She didn’t notify anyone about his death, seemed unconcerned, and “then she laughed about it”(). Although there was a gun nearby, John Wright was killed with a rope, as if it was personal. John Wright’s murder occured while she was in bed with him, and she claimed she didn’t hear a thing that happened to him. Minnie Wright also seemed guilty, when Mrs. hale and Mrs. Peters,...
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...Have you ever heard of the book The Lion,The Witch,And The Wardrobe.I have and it is about a girl with her siblings,that find a place out of this world at a mansion,in a wardrobe.In this wardrobe they have many great adventures.They also see things and animals that they never thought they could do.They discover many great treasures and some horrible things.The theme of this story is to ‘'treat others the way you want to be treated.’’ First of all,Lucy is the most compassionate person in this story in my opinion.She is a compassionate person for caring for others.She is the most compassionate person because she cried and cared for Aslan.She also,was worried about Edmund when he betrayed them for the evil White Witch.That makes Lucy the...
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...As the title of the drama by Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” suggests, the concerns women have are just trifles, small issues of unimportance that have no importance to men. The author effectively uses conflict, dramatic irony, and verbal irony to illustrate the theme of unfair traditional gender roles to the reader. The use of these literary devices causes deep thought-provoking interest makes this drama a successful literary art. Glaspell clearly illustrates the subjugation of women by their male counter parts and cause the audience to question the value of men and women’s perspective by creating tension filled conflict. Conflict should provide interest, suspense, and tension between two opposing forces. Right at the beginning of the drama the conflict is between the group of men who are investing the murder and the women who were there to collect the items for Mrs. Wright. The conflict between the two forces began when the men went towards the stove and left the women at the door .The author used the separation between the men circled at the stove and the women at the door to show how women are left out of important business and social transactions. When the young...
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...The title of Susan Glaspell's Trifles is central to the theme of the play in the way that it separates the world of men from the world of women. Mr. Hale's comment about women worrying over trifles is meant to be read almost as an insult. He implies that women are occupied with frivolous things while men are concerned with 'real' things or 'important' things. But women's trifles turn out to be much more significant than the men assume. The county attorney replies "And yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?" (Glaspell, 1413). He says this, but he shows that, in truth, he does not value the women for anything more than their housekeeping abilities, blatantly judging Mrs. Wright for not cleaning her roller towel...
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...Glenn Klosowski Jr. Professor Barker ENG 102 04 November 2015 An Investigation of "Trifles" Written in 1916, Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” begins as a murder mystery but soon becomes an examination of marriage and domestic life as an institution of repression and suffocation. Minnie is driven to kill her husband; by not providing a specific incident to trigger the murder, the presumption is that it is committed as a result of prolonged and systemic suffering over a period of time, as opposed to a crime of passion. Minnie is not so much murdering John as she is killing her marriage outright. The play rivets attention to Martha and Mrs. Peters, who ultimately solve the murder (although keep this information withheld), by exploring their unique...
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