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    In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury Of Her Peers,” Mr. Wright is found dead in his home, strangled by rope, and his murder framed as if his wife, Mrs. Wright is not involved in any way. His neighbor, Mrs. Hale, and the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, go over to help search for cues to help solve the case. The main goal of the men is to convict Mrs. Wright, commonly referred to as Minnie Foster in the past, of murdering her husband Mr. Wright. The lawyer assisting in the search says if they can find any…

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    convict Minnie Wright. She argues that the story’s justice system is unjust because of the lack of representation of women in the system, the lack of consideration for Mrs. Wright’s side of the story, and the overall absence of empathy that she believes is crucial to sentence someone. While it can be agreed that men held little regard for the opinion of women in the setting of this story and that Mrs. Wright was justified in killing Mr. Wright, would the story be different had it been…

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    In 1953 Dieter Rams Successfully took a position of an Architect in Otto Appel company who became the main representative of the ‘’international style’’ in Frankfurt. His first job was to practice architecture for 2 years. One day, Rams' friend told him about in-house architect position in Braun company. Dieter Rams didn't know a thing about this company, but he decided to apply for a job anyway. The young architect had no clue that his work would be crucial for design history and that it…

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    A common rural village in 1954... Once a chain of horrible assault and murder cases targeting womenfolk occur in this secluded and peaceful countryside, the village gets terrified at strange panic called 'serial murdering incidents’ detective Paul has neighboring hoodlums assembled and urges them to confess to recent crimes, but fails to get any remarkable outcome. By means of neighbor circumstances and personal connections, detective Paul, often believe in his own sense to identify who is bad…

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    Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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    murdered and his wife was committed. Glaspell then turned the play into a short story titled “A Jury of Her Peers”. Trifles has many meanings that associate with it. In the play trifle is used as something of little importance or value. For example, Mrs. Wright was more concerned for her jam that would freeze in the winter than her dead husband in the other room. Another example, the men only searched the house where the man dominated. First, during that time a women’s duty was based on…

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    Prize-winning playwright who composed the play “Trifles” in 1916. The play was centered around the death of Mr. Wright who was strangled to death with a rope in his farmhouse. As Mr. Hale, Mr. Peters, and the county attorney seek to find evidence to convict Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters utilize what the men refer to as “trifles” to conduct an investigation while packing necessities to keep Mrs. Wright company while she is in jail. From my interpretation, “Trifles” portrays how women and…

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    Use of symbolism in the “Jury” and “Lottery” is to create a direct meaningful image of what that symbol represents and means. In “Jury” they use the symbol of a canary is a symbol of Minnie’s life before being married and a bird cage to represent Her life now being married to her husband. In “Lottery” they use the symbol the black box meaning a tradition that they follow but do not follow how it used to be long time ago. The reader will know that symbol is important in the story and get a more…

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    A Crime Scene Analysis

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    They found vanessa dead with a wound to the back of the head. So far the husband of the victim and the recently called electrician from the day of the murder has also been interviewed. From studying the crime scene it is in ruled that the husband was angry at his wife vanessa for wanting to leave. At the scene of the crime there is a woman's suitcase that is packed and sitting as if a woman would be leaving the home. As a rule a fully packed woman's suit case would mean a women in the home…

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    “Trifles” Questions for Discussion 1. We can learn that it was Mrs. Wright who killed Mr. Wright. This isn’t evident with the Sheriff and Attorney’s investigation, but Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale’s findings clearly point to Mrs. Wright being the murderer. 2. The meaning of trifles is “a thing of little value or importance” it could also be the dessert. The sheriff saying, “Nothing here but kitchen things” is ironic because he disregards everything that’s in the kitchen thinking its useless. In…

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    At the beginning of the play Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters enter the house and stay in the back, close together near the door. It is hard to determine if they knew each other before. After a while, men notice the mess in the kitchen. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters try to defend the hostess of the house. Sheriff is making fun of women, “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves”. Men are very condescending towards women and their house duties. This piece was…

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