Case Study : Trap Ease America

First, looking around the kitchen, the women notice that Minnie had left a lot of things “half done.” There was a table with “one half… wiped clean, the other half messy,” and a bucket of sugar half-filled. Minnie must have kept getting interrupted from her work. Maybe it was her husband or maybe it was her own thinking. The women know that to leave something unfinished it must have been something very importimportantnt. The second piece of evidence the women find is the log cabin quilt that Minnie had been working on. All of the quilt squares are sewn “nice and even”, except for one. The square looks as if Minnie “didn’t know what she was about.” It seems as if Minnie was nervous while sewing it. The women find it weird that Minnie was so careless on that square, when she was so meticulous in sewing the others. The final, and possibly most important, piece of evidence is the dead bird that the women found in Minnie’s sewing basket. Mr. Hale, we assume, “wrung its neck,” and it was something that Minnie really cared about. Mrs. Peters remembers a time when, “ there was a boy (who) took a hatchet,” to her kitten. She knows what it feels like to want to hurt someone who hurt something you care about. In the end, the women decide to hide the evidence from the men. Susan Glaspell’s use of logos is

Despite being a precise homemaker she provides rational excuses to everything wrong with Minnie’s home or life. Mrs. Hale took great defense when the attorney and sheriff were criticizing Minnie’s kitchen. She seemed to act like it was a direct insult to her own skills. She made the rational and informative snap that “Men’s hands aren’t always as clean as they might be” (pg 187). This implied that even though the kitchen was not perfect, it wasn’t just the woman’s fault for the mess. Her realization, after the thought of half sifted four still sitting in her own kitchen, of Minnie being interrupted in the middle of her kitchen (pg 188) made Mrs. Hale extremely uneasy in problem with undone things. Along with perfect homemaking skills Mrs. Hale had what we would describe as mild obsessive compulsive disorder as she inspected the quilt. The stitching on Minnie’s quilt had even strokes but one was uneven and described as worked on by a nervous Minnie (pg 191). Mrs. Hale logical and detailed analyzing of the uneven stitching allowed her a shared thought process with Minnie, but this did set her uneasy in the situation. The finding of an empty bird cage and then nosy look over of the cage offered readers a final defense from Martha Hale. After discovery of the rough handling of the cage, and the broken door (pg

In the story, verbal and dramatic irony are used to show the woman’s superiority in analyzing the crime scene over the men’s analysis. The two women in the story, Mrs. Peters and Martha Hale, analyze the crime scene much better than the men because they see the struggle of Minnie’s rebellion from her husband. In the story, “Wives themselves, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are able to determine Mrs. Wright’s frame of mind from

In the world today, media is one of the major ways that companies and businesses sell or inform the society about their products. Television specifically uses commercials to get the attention of their audience by using language, sound, visuals, and persuasive strategies. The commercial, “A Boy and His Dog Duck,” was created by the company IAMS. This commercial is meant to persuade their target audience into buying IAMS food for not only one stage of their animal’s life, but for all stages of its life. The commercial that IAMS created, is quite effective for middle-class new mothers wanting their children to have a long-term companion.

      If it is ironic that the women find the clues, it is even more ironic that they find them in the mundane household items to which the men attribute so little significance. "Nothing here but kitchen things," the men mistakenly think (287). Because of their weak intuition, they do not see the household as indicative of John's and Minnie's characters. They do not see beyond the cheerless home to John Wright's grim nature, nor do the dilapidated furnishings provide

In recent years, the economy in the United States has been in what most would see as a recession. American people differ in the way they react to a recession. Some, such as Michael Moore, feel it becomes a downward spiral as big business and it’s stockholders gain more money and power, and it’s workers gain less money and stability.

Wilson & Co. Ideal dog food originated from 1954, the ad itself was found in “The American Home” Magazine. Finding current information for Wilson & Co. was challenging, since Wilson & Co. were taken over by Jim Ling of the Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) conglomerate around the 1970s. Fortunately, the company was a well-known meatpacking/slaughtering industry for dog foods during its reign. The advertisement made by Wilson & Co. could be discredited, by identifying the rhetorical strategies created from the advertisers. This is the nature of marketing and advertisement, by playfully rearranging words to create a force of attraction to targeted customers. This essay is going to identify fallacies used in Ideal Dog Food ad to demonstrate that using

She knew of no way to console Minnie because she herself answered to her own husband; there was no advice to provide. She couldn’t help remove a friend from a situation she herself was in, and so she avoided the instance altogether. After her presence in the John Wright case is requested by Mrs. Peters, Martha Hale finds herself standing in the kitchen of the Wright home filled with guilt even as she opens the door. Knowing the immense amount of unhappiness that resides within the home haunts her, but now it is too late. Mrs. Minnie had completed the task that she’d been working toward for years: escaping her overbearing husband.

Fear wafts throughout the air, weighing down on Amy's already heavy shoulders. She dashes to the bathroom intent on saving the pesky house guest from the endless pit it may now have to call home. Reaching into the germ infested loo, she pulls out a minuscule being shivering uncontrollably. The pest is soon bound into a tight bundle, engulfing it as though smothered by its mother. Once it is nursed back to health, Amy creates a dream home for it outside on our steps. Watching from a distance, she beams as it returns to its natural habitat. Just one pesky mouse, clearly not cared about by our cat, my parents nor I, somehow, Amy finds it within herself to put this unsightly mouse above her own

Lily came into the kitchen to get something cold to drink, when she found May on the floor making “a little highway of broken graham crackers and marshmallow bits” to guide the roach she saw out the door (172). This reminded her of when T. Ray told her that her “mother was a lunatic when it came to bugs… she used to make trails of graham cracker crumbs and marshmallows to lure roaches outside” (172) Because she saw May do the exact same thing her mother did, she started questioning if she could have learned that trick from May, or if it was from a book. Finally, she gathered up her courage and asked May if she had ever knew of a Deborah. She responded by saying “Oh, yes, Deborah Fontanel. She stayed out there in the honey house. She was the

In my personal opinion, I believe America is not still a place you can begin with the basics and get to upper class due to various obstacles. The obstacles consist basically of discrimination; racism, gender, and poverty. The people in upper class mostly consists of those with inheritances. First, I believe being an immigrant plays a big role in some aspects of reaching the upper class. In America if you’re an immigrant, it’s difficult or almost impossible to have the same opportunities as a citizen of the United States. For example, you’re not allowed to receive scholarships or grants. Which may be the only way some people can attend colleges due to money issues. Also, very limited government benefits. If not all educational opportunities

Cleanliness is something that can often be taken for granted and given the abundance of trash that the population produces on any day there must be a more cautious effort in disposal. While a majority of people know the impact, dangers, and disgustingness of not disposing of waste properly, there are still a number of people who are not diligent about waste discarding; hence the need for a park clean up. We understood that the entire population would not be drastically changed because of these little park clean-ups but we are adamant that it will have a local effect which has the ability to spread further and further. In this report I will discuss our process from idea initiation to the completion of the project covering the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling aspects of the project. Then give an assessment of the entire project and action detailing if we believed that we were

Martha hangs herself; showing that the variance between her internal and external life is too enormous and can’t possibly be tied

The audience and characters assume that Minnie is guilty, but with due motivation. “Two housewives, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, accompanying their husbands who are investigating the murder of a man by his wife, discover in the kitchen the clues which indicate the motive of the murderess” (Alkalay-Gut 1). The audience assumes that Minnie’s solitude, imposed on her by her husband, has lead her to be depressed. “Alienated from her husband, powerless and silenced by the circumstances of her marriage, and isolated from her neighbors, Minnie is an unseen woman long before she murders John Wright” (Noe 16). What if Minnie’s solitude was self-inflicted? Just as Mrs. Hale could have visited Minnie, Minnie could have visited Mrs. Hale and other women in the area, but chose not to. The audience assumes that John Wright treats Minnie coldly or harshly. Mrs Hale says, “No, Wright wouldn’t like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.” (Glaspell 1391). “Her life has been made miserable by an individual who has complete control of her” (Alkalay-Gut 3). What

In order to create our mission statement we would first look into existing statement's of competitor's but also realizing we need to expand it a little bit to include our global vision. We would tell them who we are, what we do, what we stand for and why we do it. We would let all members of our organization help with the statement. So we can make sure we all really believe it and it's not a lie (King, 1998).