John Ames Mitchell

Source II: Wallace, Shana. “Beyond Imminence: Evolving International Law and Battered Women's Right to Self-Defense.” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 71, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1749–1781. In this article author, Wallace objects to the use of battered woman syndrome as a self-defense. Wallace also explains that as of 2004, battered woman syndrome statistically is the most widely used self-defense plea by abused women who kill their attackers. She provides two major criticisms on…

we don’t die, we shop. But the difference is less marked than you think.” (DeLillo 38) Murray criticizes the concept of consumer culture by indirectly suggesting that it influences the shopper’s identity. By accumulating labels and symbols, one is slowly killing their identity and replacing it with these labels and symbols. Furthermore, Babette’s preference for her green visor sheds lights on the ways in which consumerism manipulates ones identity. DeLillo, in this instance, describes how…

Robin Galloway Chemistry Mrs. Reichert 4/22/16 Want some toxins with your beauty? “But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose” this was written by an English poet by the name Anne Bronte, this can be interpreted to mean that you can not be rewarded with beautiful things if you do not suffer through the pain that comes with it, but when will people realize that some things are just not worth it? In our daily lives, we are exposed to numerous chemicals…

emptiness in her life. Isolation is the act of one being all alone and occurs many times throughout the story. The protagonist and her husband have recently moved to a more spacious house to care for the wife’s needs. John, the husband is a physician therefore is hardly ever home. “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious”(Stetson 649). Since John’s wife is isolated within the house, she becomes uncomfortable with the home.…

“So I live in one big weird collage,” Caroline says in Lauren Gunderson’s I and You. It’s evidenced by the play’s set that this is true. Caroline has been sick all her life and cannot go to school, so she spends much of her time in her bedroom. Because of this, her bedroom has become a reflection of her character and her life. Caroline’s “busy, colorful but not girly” bedroom has the sloped, angular walls of a finished attic room. This was a creative decision made by the set designers in the…

what she wants to see or maybe she wants to go out more but then she talks about a women creeping all day. I think that women is her she creeps when no one is around and hides when she sees someone. Maybe she wants to be outside but she is afraid that john might want her back inside because she is really ill or she is officially lost her…

I felt a cold breeze fall over my body. The feeling was nothing new but I had no blanket to keep the wind off of my body. How odd it was that last night I had gone to bed beneath layers of quilts and was now in a quite drafty room. I peeled my eyes open to find that I was not at the inn after all but in a room colored blue like the ocean. When I was sitting up a girl walked through the door and yelled a word so vulgar that I dare not write it. “Who are the HELL are you?” she exclaimed as she…

Yellow Wallpaper My mother and father are unlike most parents these days. My father John is a physician and my mother Jane is his patient. Mother has been very depressed lately, for reason which I do not know. My father says that our new home will help her recover, but I don’t think it is helping. Mother stays in the “nursery” which has windows which are barred. She says the wallpaper drives her mad and that there is a woman within it. My father copes with her by telling her to rest, but she…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator becomes obsessed with the unsightly wallpaper in the room that she rests in constantly. Her description of this room---and more importantly, the wallpaper---reveals her growing insanity and conflicting feelings about her husband. Each thing the narrator notices about the wallpaper exposes the chaos within her mind. Furthermore, she also utilizes a darker tone and vivid imagery, which gives the reader another deeper understanding of the narrator. The…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, the demeaning relationship between the alpha husband and the mentally ill wife demonstrates how the majority of women were treated in the late nineteen hundreds. The main idea of the short story comes from Gilman’s own personal experiences and are portrayed through the way the wife is treated in the story. The husband is manipulative and controlling throughout her life, and the manipulation only increases as her health begins to…