Knot

The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell takes place in the turn of the twentieth century in America when women were socially oppressed by men. The characters are introduced into the play as they enter into the unkempt house of John Wright, who had recently been murdered. In the play, there are three men: Sheriff Peters, County Attorney Henderson, and Hale, the man who discovered that John had been killed. Along with the three men, there were two women: Mrs. Peters, the wife of the Sheriff,…

Taking a Look Into the Past, Understanding it Now American author Elizabeth Wayland Barber, who is an expert on textiles, wrote the book Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times in 1994, which takes the reader into the world as it was many years ago. In doing so, it enlightens one on how and why the women created textiles and eventually advanced and created other things. Today people know the clothes worn were made and the blankets used were created, but do…

there are multiple discussions about the quilt Mrs. Wright was working on. Mrs. Peters and Hale were wondering whether Mrs. Wright was going to quilt it or knot it. The possible knot on the quilt would be excellent practice for hanging someone, like Mr. Wright. The investigators would have no idea of this connection, dismissing quilt or knot as pointless chatter between the women. Mrs. Hale and Peters find multiple pieces of evidence in the house, such as the bird cage and the dead canary. Since…

Have you ever seen the Nutcracker ballet during Christmas time? Or have you danced for years and are finally deciding to dance on pointe? Ballet has been for hundreds of years and is still important to many people today. One of the main parts of ballet is pointe shoes. Pointe shoes are worn by all of the female dancers, except very young girls. The most important parts of the pointe shoe are the box; the end of the shoe that has pieces of cardboard and fabric glued densely together to support…

Scout”, the phrase usually met with chuckles when mentioned at high school. You see, people who don’t do it just don’t understand. It’s hard to stay involved in such a time-consuming activity when a lot of people in my life think all we do is tie knots and go camping. The Boy Scout program is what you make of it. Some people are in fact only there for the campouts and other outings that we plan and go on. Others, like me, see the greater benefits in the scouting program that a lot of people fail…

Alexander the Great has been revered as military genius, tactician, and godlike conqueror. Many of the accounts taken down of his life make him out to be the hero of Western culture and practice. The peoples he conquered and the territories he took over worshipped him as a god and even placed him alongside the likes of Zeus and Ra. The main source used to gain knowledge of Alexander’s life stems from historians and philosophers, such as Quintus Curtius, Plutarch, and Arrian. These writers…

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Rebecca Skloot, the writer for the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, has been obsessed with Henrietta since she was sixteen-years old. Skloot tried looking up more information about Henrietta and her family but she couldn’t find any information. That’s when Skloot decided that she wanted to tell Henrietta story by writing a book. With Rebecca trying to get in contact with Henrietta daughter Deborah. Skloot didn’t know that the family would become hostile to the fact that they didn’t…

yanked with anger. Later Mrs. Peters also states “We think,”...”that she was going to-knot it.” Knotting is a sewing technique used to attach the layers of a quilt by basically tying knots. The other commonly used technique for this step is quilting which is where you attach them while at the same time making elaborate designs. Knotting is both faster and easier. The women deciding that Mrs. Wright was going to knot the quilt is metaphor for saying that they figured out that Mrs. Wright was…