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    ‘The Crucible’ Character Analysis- Abigail Williams In the play ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller‚ the author uses characters from the 17th century witch-hunts to show the corruption behind McCarthyism. The play was published in 1953‚ a time when McCarthyism was actively affecting and contributing to society. The book is filled with false accusations during 1692‚ in order to relate to the time period it was released. In the play‚ the character Abigail Williams is in love with John Proctor‚ a married

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    1.  For nearly 90 years‚ Andersen had a culture of doing the right thing.  Moral courage defined the organization.  However‚ there was a gradual erosion of the culture. Name three cultural changes that contributed to Andersen’s problems and defend your position. The first cultural change was that Andersen embarked on a path that valued consulting service which charged hefty fees ahead of auditing in 1990s. Compared to its original major service‚ auditing that required accountants to insist independence

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    Arthur Dimmesdale’s Guilt and Hypocrisy By Ashlyn R. Thomas In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gripping tale‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ a revered Puritan minister suffers from cowardly guilt and hypocrisy after he commits adultery in this novel staged in the seventeenth century. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ who hides himself in the shame of his lover‚ Hester Prynne‚ protects his reputation among the Puritan people. The scaffold‚ a public symbol of disgrace‚ contrasts with the pastor’s silent sin of adultery. When Hester

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    life as being an excellent and graphic sketch of the state of the Highlands after the last Jacobite insurrection.” Greg Wilson’s last critic on Kidnapped is that Kidnapped remains extraordinarily popular among modern readers both young and old. Arthur Conan Doyle criticizes the novel in a good way. Doyle tells us that Kidnapped is an admirable piece of English‚ its well conceived ‚ well told‚ striking at every turn with some novel situation ‚ and some new combination of words. Doyle also mentions

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    itself in each of them.First of all‚ Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both want revenge on someone orsomething that has wronged them. Chillingworth’s wife‚ Hester Prynne‚ committedadultery. He seeks revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale‚ the man she committed adultery with.He does not plan to kill Dimmesdale‚ but he wants to make his life miserable. Ahabpursues revenge on Moby Dick‚ the white whale who took his leg while he was whaling.He selfishly makes revenge his priority‚ on a ship whose purpose is to gain

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    our consequences of our actions.” Tangerine by: Edward Bloor was about this boy name Paul Fisher moving to Tangerine‚ Florida where he learned to face his fears about his brother Erik. The character in the story that had the biggest impact on Paul was Erik. First of all‚ Erik knocked out Tino‚ Erik and Arthur killed Luis‚ and finally he was the reason for Paul’s eye problems. First‚ Erik got into a fight with Tino and knocked him out. On page 205‚ paragraph 6‚ it states “Erik lashed out smashing

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    The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual event that in 1692‚ led to the salem witch trials. It is a series of hearing before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.The play was written in the early 1950s as a response to McCarthyism when the US government blacklisted accused communist. Miller himself was to questioned by the House of Representatives’ committee on un american activities in

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    ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP CASE STUDY DUE: Sunday‚ May 12‚ 11:59pm 1. Discuss the environment‚ strategic‚ and organizational changes that occurred over the life of Andersen in the context of figure 11.1. 2. Evaluate Andersen’s claim that their problems on the Enron audit were due to a few “bad partners” in the organization. If you disagree with this claim‚ discuss what you think were the root causes of the problem. 3. Suppose you were Andersen’s managing partner in the early 1990s. Would

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    Chillingworth Character Analysis Roger Chillingworth once said‚ “I have already told them what I am! A fiend!” (163). The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the famous author in the 19th century‚ is a story based on sin‚ crime‚ and punishment. The story is about of a beautiful young woman from England named Hester‚ who is married to a man named Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth disappeared for years‚ but suddenly he appeared in the town that Hester lives. Chillingworth later found

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    Even though Hester Prynne‚ a honest adulterer‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale‚ a untruthful priest‚ are first to sin it is still viewed that Robert Chillingworth‚ an abandoned husband seeking revenge‚ has “violated the sanctity of human heart” (Hawthorne 234). To compare the sin that was brought on by choice and sin initiated by another should not be evaluated.There is no argument that Chillingworth’s revenge on Dimmesdale is evil‚ he plotted against Dimmesdale soon as he confirmed he was Hester’s lover. But

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