William Lloyd Garrison

In society, there is always the desire to be “loyal to your sex” (Glaspell), to protect those that one relates to the most. In Susan Glaspell’s short story, A Jury of Her Peers, the characters personify that exact constant by protecting their peers, respectively, as a result of the historical gender segregation. To begin, the women in the short story are not friends, with the narrator of the story stating “She [Martha Hale] had met Mrs. Peters the year before at the county fair… she remembered……

“The day in the life of the Cracker Barrel Waitress” Arlington, Texas - Three servers from the local Cracker Barrel know all the tips and tricks to getting the best tips and staying on top of the game when it comes to serving. Angelique Ochoa has been a server for just under a year and believe that it is her bubbling personality that gives her the edge in getting tips from her customers. “If you are rude to them and act like you don’t care about the customers, I guarantee that you would be…

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a controversial play: controversial because, first time reader get a different idea about the play each time. Some come to the conclusion that this play is empowering for women because of its ending and how the women in the story choose and decided to keep information from the men. Other feel that this story goes in a total opposite direction, that the story shows a narrative where women are left feeling powerless and nothing but a victim of a patriarchal society.…

The Assassination of Mr. Wright This thrilling play, “Trifles” formerly known as A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell uses this play as a feminist outlook in the 1920’s to make a statement to her peers. This play first takes place in the out of order kitchen of an abandoned farmhouse. Five people enter the house two women and three men; George Henderson the County Attorney, Henry Peters the Sheriff, Lewis Hale the neighboring farmer who found the body, Mrs. Peters the Sheriff’s wife, and…

Core Assessment Essay Different readings are interpreted very differently based on the gender of the reader and as I read the play Trifles a few times many sexist ideals of the time or at least that era started to float around in my head. For example, as the attorney and sheriff search through the home for clues they decide there is nothing important downstairs since Mr. Wrights body was discovered upstairs “Nothing here but kitchen things.” This comment suggests that the men believe the lack…

Stitching Conclusions The physical world is filled with symbols. Symbols, physical objects that represent ideas, emotions, or philosophies, are universally recognizable and important, especially in the literary tradition. Authors use symbols to rationalize the world by connecting thoughts and people; they use symbols to explain and expose the reality of the world, society, and the human condition. Yet, in many ways, the significance of symbols transcends beyond their connections to themes.…

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Frankling Wright in the farming town of Richland Center , Wisconsin, United States, in 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was an orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer, and itinerant minister. William Wright met and married Anna Lloyd Jones, a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County .Originally from Massachusetts , William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his…

Before reading Invisible Immigrants, I always thought that everyone who crossed the border to come live in the United States always ended up having a better life here. This was not the case for women in Invisible Immigrants. Women are being neglected basic medical needs because there aren’t fully U.S. citizens. After reading Invisible Immigrants, I realized that there are many women who cross the border illegally and have to work in a place that doesn’t require Social Security number. Eventually…

The Detectives In the drama play “Trifles,” Minnie Wright is accused of killing her husband, Mr. Wright, in a brutal fashion by strangling with a rope in the middle of the night. The men, George Henderson, County Attorney; Henry Peters, Sheriff; and Lewis Hale, Wright’s neighbor are all trying to find a motive to put Mrs. Wright in jail for the crime, but the real detectives are the women, Mrs. Hale, Mr. Hale’s wife, and Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff wife. In the play, the women are the main two…

In the late 19th century, another famous American architect — Franck Lloyd Wright, who was an employee of Sullivan’s studio, inherited Sullivan’s idea about relationship between form and function. Wright thinks that architecture should be loyal to not only structure and purpose of itself, but also time, site, and the environment. Based on the idea of organic architecture, combining his practice in “Prairie Style,” Wright had further developed Sullivan’s idea forward it to a more throughout…