* Helped change the cultural ideologies of the role women in our society. What current nursing practices are the legacy of military nursing? * Thanks to Nightingale we continue to practice by evidence based research. * 3. Although advanced practice nursing roles were formally introduced to the profession during the latter half of the 20th century, it has been argued that nurses began to function in
Aileen Wournos: Woman Serial Killer Leilani Daniels AP Psychology Background: Born Aileen Carol Pittman on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Wuornos' childhood was a troubled one. She and her brother were taken in by their grandmother when she was four years old after her father, who is claimed to be a schizophrenic and committed sex crimes with younger girls, hanged himself in prison. Their mother abandoned them in 1960. Her grandfather was an alcoholic and she had claimed he abused her.
Contemporary American Literature 30 October 2013 A Literary Analysis of “Trifles” In the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States was a country and society struggling towards progress. This was seen in the fight for women’s suffrage, as it was seen in other aspects of culture, such as art, poetry, and literature. This movement was known as the modernist movement. One example of modernist writing is a play titled “Trifles”, written by playwright Susan Glaspell in 1916. “Trifles” is a one act play that tells the tale of a group of women and men who seek clues in a tragic case of a confined woman suspected of murdering her husband.
Bob Ewell states the he was “Comin in from the woods with a load o’kindlin’ and just as I got to the fence I heard Mayella screamin’ like a stuck hog inside the house” on the night of November 21. After being thoroughly examined and questioned by Mr. Finch, Bob Ewell was dumbfounded when asked to write his name down there and then in front of the whole court. By asking Bob Ewell to write his name down he proved that Bob was in fact left-handed, this made it more likely for him to have beaten his daughter, who had bruises on the right side of her face. Following Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, the victim, gave her testimony. Mayella, age 19, seemed very fragile and started weeping as soon as she was asked to give her testimony.
When the door trim on the child’s closet was pulled out, the former telephone number and address of John Condon were written in pencil (Petersen). Handwriting analysis found that Hauptmann’s penmanship was stylistically consistent with the ransom notes that were sent by the kidnapper or kidnappers. He drew additional suspicion for having a prior criminal record that included burglary (Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping). On October 10, 1934 a New Jersey grand jury indicts Hauptmann on murder and kidnapping charges (Busch). The trial was set for January 2, 1935 and it was expected to be the trial of the century (Petersen).
This case proceeded in London and was said to be a strong influence in the abolishment of capital punishment in the United Kingdom. Evans was executed in 1950 for the murder of his wife and 13-month-old daughter. Evans maintained his innocence through the whole trial and told investigators that his neighbor, John Christie murdered his family. There was not much evidence against Evans and the case was said to be really weak but he was still executed on March 9, 1950. The police coerced Timothy Evans into a false confession by threatening him.
A Jury of Her Peers (1927), a short story written by Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers tells the tale of a murder mystery of a farmer named John Wright who is killed in his sleep while his wife Minnie Wright the prime suspect is sound asleep lying next to him. Mr. Peters, the county sheriff and attorney become suspicious during the investigation to know that the Mrs. Wright does not have any answers to who killed her husband. The sheriff’s wife Mrs. Peters is there along with friends of the Wright’s, Mr. and Mrs. Hale who are there giving a statement during the investigation. The two women are also suspicious that Minnie committed the murder but are reluctant to present evidence that could insinuate Minnie’s guilt.
The Crucible Topic One The Crucible is an intriguing play based on the ‘Salem Witch Trial’ which occur in 1692. The play was written by Arthur Miller in 1953. The word crucible meaning a severe test. One of the character is Elizabeth Proctor she’s John Proctor’s wife. She turns cold torward her husband when she discovered about his affair with Abigail.
These men have spawned movies and books. The question we must ask ourselves is: what causes men to change into monsters? For the infamous Charles Manson, leader of the Manson Family cult, the cause is very clear. Born the illegitimate child of a prostitute in 1934, Manson was then sent around the country to different caretakers and relatives. At one time his obsessively religious grandmother who was his caretaker, whose
The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith . The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman's exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death. Long considered part of the repertory of classic "drawing room" theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's Socialist political principles. The play is studied in many schools in the UK as one of the prescribed texts for the English Literature GCSE examination.