Lloyd Blankfein

In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters visit the home where the murder of Mr. Wright took place. While the women’s husbands look at the bigger picture, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find many major clues in unordinary places around the Wright place. These clues indicate the possibility that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. Although Mrs. Wright claimed to be asleep during the murder of her husband, it’s apparent that she strangled him, signified by the broken birdcage,…

William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist from Massachusetts. Consequently, he joined the abolitionist movement at 25 when he became associated with the American Colonization Society. However, he left the ACS at 30 when he came to the realization that many of the members in the society only wanted to move the free slaves out of America. After this, Garrison worked as a co-editor of an anti-slavery paper titled The Genius of Universal Emancipation. On January 1, 1831, he published the first…

proven to be a fantastic musical and Broadway classic for multiple reasons. To begin, many times lingering in one's head, the soundtrack to The Phantom of the Opera features dramatic and emotion filled music. From utilizing volume and dynamics, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer, has brilliantly utilized music to keep one captivate in the show between and during intense mood changes. Aside from just the sound, the writers have made heart touching lyrics to further lure the audience in such as…

Frank Lloyd Wright believed that organic Architecture was the new style of Architecture, he wanted to represent a new way of designing, his own style which best represented his believes. Nature for Frank was like God, he believed that the building itself should not be included on top of the landscape but it should be introduced within the landscape. Frank Lloyd wright took his believes from his mentor Louis Sullivan with whom he’ll design many houses. The idea of including nature within the…

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…

In her short story, “A Jury of Her Peers” author Susan Glaspell indites about the investigation of a murder that occurred at a farmhouse in the country. Two women unearth evidence cognate to a crime that the Sheriff and the local prosecutor are investigating, a farmwife's murder of her husband. While sitting in the kitchen of the farmhouse, the two women uncover clues that point to a history of psychological abuse that led Minnie Wright to strangle her husband. The women discover the ostensible…

The 1800s was not a time period where all Americans were equal. White males held more rights than any other race and gender. To protest against unjust treatment, abolitionists, African Americans, women, and those who wanted to see a change in society and better treatment of all people, organized reform movements to bring awareness to certain issues. During the Second Great Awakening in the 19th century, the reform movements brought about major change for marginalized groups of people. The…

Rebellion is defined as being an action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention, this is exactly what some slaves attempted to do on a daily basis. Those who resisted were known as “quiet rebels”, they used subversiveness, and faked sickness, anything to slow work as a rebellion. Slave owners were constantly in fear of rebellious slaves, and did everything in their power to stamp out rebellion. Ruthless overseers were hired to frighten slaves, other slaveowners used beatings,…

The extraordinary friendship of William Lloyd Garrison, a white abolitionist leader, and Fredrick Douglass, a black abolitionist leader, demonstrated the ability for two diverse men from polar opposite backgrounds to come together for a common cause. Despite the strength of their unique bond as mentor and mentee, a bitter falling out ultimately separated the two and left a stain on their legacy. Despite working together for a common cause, they became estranged, especially because of their…

During the pre-Civil War era, William Lloyd Garrison steered abolition to a more radical approach through his writings in his newspaper: The Liberator, his creation of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and his extreme anti-Union ideas, which led to a schism in the abolitionist movement. His actions played a major role in the division of the abolitionist movement, and thus helped express slavery as a central ethical issue. William Lloyd Garrison created an abolitionist newspaper called The…