Essays on Upstairs

It was on a cold January night when the local police were informed of a suspicious activity reported by the neighbors in a locality. An old woman possibly living all by herself had not been seen or heard of since several days, whereas the locals had reported her of being very active and outdoorsy. Yet since two days, she had not been seen outside her home, and when a neighbor visited her, he returned back without an answer even though he waited for several minutes. They tried her number, but she would not answer as well. The police were ...

Susan Gaspell’s “Trifles”, written exactly a hundred years ago, brings out the gender disparity and the male dominance experienced by her in her society. The plot, the investigation of the murder of John Wright, brings together a few men and women in John’s farmhouse. The ladies prefer to stay back in the kitchen and share their views among themselves, instead of joining their husbands who go upstairs where John was found hanging. The two separate narrations, coming from men and women, enable the playwright to bring out the different gender perspectives, or the opposing perspectives of male ...

The Institutional Affiliation

“The gift of fear” by Carlos Andres Gomez The gift of fear is a Tedx talk performed by Carlos Andres Gomez, a popular poet, speaker, writer, and actor. As a speaker and performer, Carlos won liking and admiration of masses, including students, young people, and adults. He talks about things that matter to everyone, about problems, or feelings, or states that are familiar to many people. The gift of fear is one of such stories, the story which many people were ashamed or afraid to tell, the story that touches and impresses.  At the beginning of the talk, the ...

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” talks about several themes in relation to war. He uses meta-fiction and writing about writing as a major style in which to relay his message. The memories of the war keep getting off his mind. He wants to write the story but in other times he feels that it is not necessary. Vonnegut applies meta-fiction in his writing in order to bring the various effects of war: psychological and physical. Through the use of various characters in his work, Vonnegut is able to depict clearly the situation during the war. It is ...

The poem “Home-Baked Brad” is about femininity and it deals with the writer’s feelings towards cooking. There is symbolism as well because the role of women is depicted by bread. This product baked by women represents the warmth that only women have. The author of this poem, Sally Croft is trying to make the readers visualize the feminine desire and the sense of power as well as tenderness. The woman in this poem embraces her role of the caretaker in a household. She is a traditional woman and is good at cooking which is a way for her ...

If we want to comprehend and control the ethical conduct within a business organization it is important that we understand how people behave in general. (Nelson and Trevino, 2014, p.19) Each person determines their own individual morals, values and ethics. In a business setting it is important that a set of ethical guidelines be established to regulate how the organization will conduct itself under various circumstances. Leadership is invaluable in enforcing these guidelines. According to, Ethics and Leadership, there are three things that will benefit a leader in influencing ethical behavior in an organization: 1) understanding ethics, 2) being ...

This is my story of how I survived and helped other survive when the apocalypse happened five years ago. The world for me did not end with a bang nor a whimper, but with silence followed by flickers of orange that darted outside my vision as I slept.. At first I just tried to go back to sleep, chocking the flickers of light up to daybreak seeping through the curtains. Suddenly there was a noise like nothing I can describe. I was definitely awake then staring in the darkness at the wall on other side of my bathroom. Well ...

First and foremost Stanley Kowalski is a son of a Polish immigrant who lives in Elysian Fields in New Orleans in some room in a shabby settlement of the French. He is married to Stella the sister to Blanche Dubois. And they appear happy from their marriage contentment even though they live in strange and desolate shanty. Just moments after Blanches arrival Stanley comes in with duo friends Mitch who stays with his sick mother and Steve who lives with his partner upstairs. Stanley is less hospitable to Blanches as he expresses descent humor and apparent accommodation that is blended with an ...

In ‘A Rose for Emily’ William Faulkner uses the first person plural – ‘we’ – to narrate the story, and it is as if this unnamed, pluralized narrator speaks for the whole town in telling the story of Emily Grierson’s life. There is only one very significant moment when Faulkner switches from ‘we’ to ‘they.’ Overall, when the reader reaches the end of the story, it can be seen that Faulkner uses this unusual narrative device to satirize the town and to criticize its attitudes. Emily Grierson lives a solitary life, but comes from a formerly rich and important family. Because ...

Introduction:

Susan Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and co-founder of the Provincetown Players, America’s first modern American theater company. A powerful woman of time she has a lasting effect into today’s literary world. In her writing, she looked at the inequality of how society treated sexes differently and the difficulties of women faced if they tried to live independently by trying to live their own lives without relying on men and how they circumvented the attempts at social repression. . The Provincetown Players provided a stage for her to mature as a writer. The Provincetown Players were as the ...

The novelist Claire Messud promoted The Woman Upstairs, in which the protagonist is a woman of 42 years who rebels against the role of a nice girl which society has given her. Readers expectations with The Woman Upstairs were at a height had not reached, or Edmund Hillary reached Messud dreams not even muss. It is a book that humor dictates whether you like it or not and, like the sons of the emperor, create followers and detractors alike due to the lack of plot and characters that not everyone will fall into grace. It is a reading over appearance and reality, disappointment and ...

Criminal law

Robbery Scenario After a night out with your significant other you are walking back to your vehicle when a man jumps out of a dark alley and demands your purse. He says if you do not give it to him now he will kill you. Before you know it he rips the purse from your arm and runs off. This is a robbery and includes both the mens rea which is the thought the man had that you would be a good target and he was going to rob you, and the actus reas or actual physical act of the crime.

Arson

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“Careful dear,” my mother lovingly caressed my hair as I bumped into her while frantically running upstairs on my way to the roof top. I would be nine years old tomorrow and she still treats me as if I am a three. I didn’t in the least like her gestures of love. ”Why can’t she just keep her hands off me? Why on earth she has to make a show of it every damn time I am near her? Just the thought of her touching me makes me puke,” angrily I mused as I continued to run upstairs. I ...

Every employee expects to work in a place where their physical safety and health conditions are put into considerations. It is the duty of the management to provide a safe and healthy workplace and at the same time put into considerations factors such as the employees’ physical health before assigning them to specific tasks. As seen in the case of Joe, he is assigned the duty of carrying heavy boxes to an upstairs storage room with no climate control and has a low ceiling despite his health condition of suffering from arthritis. In addition, he is supposed to carry over three hundred ...

In the one-act play, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, the Wright household sees the entry of the sheriff, his wife, the neighbors, county attorney and Mr. and Mrs. Hale. They all enter the kitchen while Mr. Hale describes his visit to the house when Mrs. Wright behaving in a bizarre way had eventually expressed in a hebetudinous voice that her spouse was dead, upstairs. Mrs. Wright is never seen onstage. The men seem to be sure of the fact that she had killed her husband as she had queerly claimed that someone had strangled Mr. Wright while she was sound asleep. While ...

This essay critically examines the nature of duchenne muscular dystrophy. The condition, affecting 1 out of 3,600 boys, is an inheritable disorder arising due to mutation of the dystrophin gene. To a great extent, duchenne muscular dystrophy can be effectively managed by controlling the symptoms that lead to its development. However, currently, there is no cure for the condition, but with advances in medical technology there is hope for a complete control of the disease through gene therapy.

Clinical Presentation

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a disease which causes weakening of muscle and leads to eventual death. The condition appears in the ...

The theme of The Graduate is the emotional journey of an innocent and confused

recent college graduate who is exploited through an affair with a family friend who is a

married woman. It is satirical and often times comedic in its reflections of the social and

sexual mores of the 1960s.

A tight close up of Benjamin Braddock’s face opens the film, a sharp contrast of

his face against the stark whiteness that surrounds his head, symbolic of a Christ-like

halo. It appears as though he is alone but he is actually on a plane, interacting with no

one - isolated in thoughts and emotions. More symbolism of isolation with no one there

the luggage chute, he ...

Elder Abuse

There have been increasing cases of elder abuse cases in the news recently. The abuse occurs where an individual has been entrusted with the duty of taking care of an elderly person yet does not act in the appropriate manner. There are elderly patients who are neglected and not cleaned or their environment cleaned causing the aged person to be exposed to more sicknesses due to lack of hygiene. There have also been cases where the elderly are physically, emotionally and verbally abusing causing the person to live in fear. The elderly are prone to financial manipulation, theft ...

In ‘A Rose for Emily’ the central character is arguably the narrator. William Faulkner uses ‘we’ – the first person plural - to tell the story, and this anonymous narrator is the town itself almost telling us the dramatic events of Emily Grierson’s life. There is only a single very important moment when Faulkner changes for deliberate effect from ‘we’ to ‘they.’ Overall, when we come to the conclusion of the story, we understand that Faulkner uses this highly unusual and little-used narrative device to mock the townsfolk and to condemn the attitudes of the citizens. Emily Grierson lives ...

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre. Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from his ...

With the division between the south and the north on the issue of slavery, the fugitive slave act was passed in 1850. According to the act, if slaves ran away and caught, they were to be returned to their masters. This act was one of the most controversial because people who supported the freedom of the slaves did not embrace this law. Northerners did not obey this act despite the harsh terms according to the fugitive act. According to the act, a northerner who refused to help in the capture of slaves was jailed in addition to the one ...