To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. ... Being a leading lady in the town, she didn't like being in authority. ... "Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwning grins over his shoulder. ... She didn't need to be with him for protection, or she didn't need to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor's wife, she just needed the right kind of love and affection to bring out what was best in her. ...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Nazi airplanes had bombed the Spanish town of Guernica. ... The Surrealist poet Michel Leiris summed up the sense of despair engendered by Guernica: " In a rectangle of black and white such as that in which ancient tragedy appeared to us, Picasso sends us our announcement of our mourning: all that we love is going to die .." ... She never looked cross or humiliated; she always made you feel that they were acting in a play. ... So if you decided to live with him, you needed unusual strength an unusual maturity to find your part in his play and improvise the text"(Huffington 60). ... You pretend...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. ... This story takes us back in time to a place in our history where men and women played very different roles in their lives. ... Hale described her by saying "she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively . . . one of the town girls, singing in the choir. ...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School