This shows that women now were more independent in society; they were getting the same education as men. It established that females are smart and intelligent, talented, and prepared for anything. The Times also noted that “ Both schools have shown no real disparity in men’s and women’s performance. Students at Columbia, though, have compiled a petition asking the school to hire more female faculty.” This suggests that more women faculty were required at universities and…
In Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams described her mission for the Hull-House in Chicago to offer a center for educational learning and to improve the city 's conditions. The Hull-House was successful in achieving her mission by offering classes to gain domestic and educational skills and opened opportunities for young women. Although, the lack of immediate response to social problems by the government and the ethnic divide between the neighborhood and the residents of the house limited its attempt to provide service to the poor. The Hull-House offered classes to the poor to learn domestic and educational skills.…
1. Discuss at least three ways that evidence/crime scene was mishandled and could have been managed better. One of the main evidence that was mishandled by the prosecution were DNA tests. The state crime lab failed to find any player’s DNA match to the found DNA, so the prosecutor requested a private crime lab to conduct their own tests.…
The men in the story affirm her thoughts when they “laugh for the ways of women” (8) when, in reality, it is the “silly” women who stumble upon the most incriminating clue in the entire crime scene. The addition of the female characters Minnie, Martha, and Mrs. Peters and their symbolic relations to the id, ego, and superego, respectfully, all work to show how an individual’s mind truly works. One time or another, everyone has been…
Statement of Research Question Does a defendant’s gender and/or sexual orientation affect jurors’ decision making during intimate partner violence cases? Does a defendant’s gender and/or sexual orientation affect judges’ sentencing making during intimate partner violence cases? Rationale Understanding the mindset of jurors is important when trying to understand how legal system and justice will be implemented within courtrooms. If mental biases are present within jurors, this can affect how justice is granted to defendants and the defendant’s alleged victims.…
The Queens Supreme Court is the 11th District Court of New York. I interned in the Civil Court division, which handles various cases of a non-criminal nature. I interned under, Justice Martin Ritholtz, who handles cases of both civil and a commercial nature. Within the Queens Supreme Court, there are only three judges who handle commercial cases, thus many of the cases that Judge Ritholtz saw were of a commercial nature. Most tended to be non-serious car accidents.…
Absolutely, a huge amount of effort goes into jury selection by both the prosecuting and defending attorneys. This is another reason I believe that they probably play the most crucial role in the courtroom process. Ultimately, the defendant is convicted or acquitted as a result of the work done by the lawyers. However, an interesting point was made to me recently that I had not considered. What about the victim?…
Weak, domestic, and familial are some of the words women in the nineteenth century were defined as. The societal expectations of wives during the nineteenth century included separate spheres, roles that they had at home, devotion they showed towards their husbands, and education they had. In the short story, “The Birthmark”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in the nineteenth century gives an internal view of roles between women and men. Aylmer a men that craved science experiments, science being the main source for him, science being the one for him, he compared his love for science with the love of Georgiana, his wife. Georgiana a young woman, fancied by many men, and was very beautiful, but she had a charm on her left cheek that was seen…
If you had just murdered your spouse, would your first concern be of your canned cherries? A comparison of the short story “ A Jury of Her Peers” and the dramatic adaptation of Trifles can start with the many similarities. The setting is well defined in both, as the story takes place in Dickson County, Nebraska. This is in the farm belt of the United States, with all of the characters lives revolving around the rural atmosphere in the early part of the 1900’s. The season is cold and wintry, symbolic of the ill-fated marriage.…
The overarching topic of this reading is Societal Changes in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The first reading is in the U.S history textbook and it mostly talked about both women and men’s opinions on women’s rights, changes in family life during the industrialization era, and trying to get through the inequality between men and women by education. According to Mr. Stanton, “he believed that since women are vulnerable, they enjoyed men’s protection.” He is saying that women are weak to stand on their own which is why they need men to protect them. With the mockery in his tone, he also hinted the women to know that stronger human being will always get more rights.…
Mrs. Hale, however, is critical of men’s arrogance and feels that Mrs. Wright should not suffer for defending herself against a patriarchal environment. The women do not like the men’s attitude towards Mrs. Wright’s personality. They feel that the men are only interested in Mrs. Wright’s conviction as opposed to understanding her late husband’s abusive tendencies towards her. The men’s lack of understanding influences the women to gang up and protect Mrs. Wright since they can relate to her predicament on a personal…
Often times, in the early twentieth century, women had little chance to become more than the usual family wife - child bearer, cleaner of the house, slave to the kitchen - and could not become anything more for themselves. This is how oppression in Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers presents itself. A man, John Wright, has just been killed, and Mr. Peters, the sheriff, is heading to the home where Minnie and John Wright used to live - the former in jail and the latter dead. In his company, his wife, Mrs. Peters (who pleads for Martha Hale’s company), Lewis Hale (Martha’s husband), Martha Hale herself, and a county attorney, Henderson.…
The men never stop to think why such a meek, small, birdlike woman would ever consider or possibly kill her husband. They don’t even assume that the clear evidence was in the kitchen they assumed that the kitchen was just a sign of a bad housekeeper that Minnie was. The men only see what…
Throughout the early 1900’s, women were viewed by society as inferior to men. Those of the female sex were expected to cook, clean, and only speak when spoken to. Susan Glaspell criticizes these concepts in one of the most well known forms of feminist literature, “A Jury of Her Peers”. The story’s central point focuses on the murder of John Wright committed by his wife Minnie as the Hales and the Peters investigate the crime scene. Despite the women finding valuable evidence substantiating the crime, their husbands viewed their discoveries as petty trifles that only women worry about.…
My Substitute Capabilities Two women solve a murder with their instincts in a suspenseful story written by Susan Glaspell called “A Jury of Her Peers”. The characters in “A Jury of Her Peers”, precisely the women, each used an alternative literacy to understand what events went on the day a farmer’s wife committed a crime. Alternative literacy is one’s ability to interpret actions of living things or events through counts of practice and knowledge of the matter. Reading animals and people are the alternative literacies I acquired through everyday experiences, and seek to obtain more. When I was young I used to find stray animals and take them in as my own.…