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    McCarthyism was very popular among American citizens after the Second World War. Despite the fact that it was intended to be helped by the fears and suspicions of the American people‚ it only lasted for a short period of time. McCarthyism appealed to the citizens of the United States very easily due to the previous “red scare” and other communist fears. During the Second World War‚ their fears became even more severe because of the powers that the communist nations had demonstrated. The appeal of

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    In “I‚ Tituba‚ Black Witch of Salem” by Maryse Conde‚ Maryse uses Tituba to challenge Colonialists assumptions. Tituba still follows her beliefs and hasn’t converted to the Puritan ways of Christianity‚ she uses proper english‚ and is not seen as a savage. In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller Tituba didn’t speak proper english. She was treated as a blame. If anything wrong occurred‚ such as the witch trials‚ Tituba was put the blame on just for the fact that she was a slave from Barbados. Also‚ in

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    DBQ: Salem Witchcraft Trial Hysteria of 1692 In the 1600’s rumors of witchcraft spread throughout England and even more so in New England. Though punishing someone by death for practicing witchcraft was not unheard of‚ it was all but common; that is‚ until the year 1692 in Salem‚ Massachusetts. From the tenth of June to the twenty-second of September‚ twenty men and women were killed‚ all by hanging except one‚ because they were accused and convicted of practicing witchcraft; the convictions

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    The Crucible-Mccarthyism

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    Wagoner English 11 Block 2 3 October 2012 Fear Makes People Crazy Fear can cause people to overreact and lose all rational thinking. The evidence for this statement is found in the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism. The 1692‚ Abigail Williams and a group of girls turned the town of Salem upside down in a fear driven witch hunt. The girls accused innocent people of being witches in order to avoid getting in trouble for dancing in the woods. Fear of being accused of witchery caused the town’s people

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    State Department of being full of Communists. The media immediately centered on McCarthy and his accusations. A Senate committee was immediately appointed to look at these accusations. The United States was already in the middle of a Communist witch-hunt. It was believed that the recipe for the atomic bomb was stolen by an American communist. With the Communist take over in Russia with Stalin and in China with Mao Tse Tung‚ the United States was already on the road to being conservative. The

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    In the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the summer months of 1692‚ over 200 people were accused of being bewitched and associating with the Devil. Within the matter of months‚ 20 people were put to death and seven died in jail. The event‚ which has come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials‚ stopped after September 22‚ when eight people were hanged‚ on what was named Gallows Hill‚ an event that marked the decline of the Salem Witch paranoia. Although the paranoia was such a drastically important

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    I‚ Tituba‚ Black Witch of Salem Maryse Conde’s novel I‚ Tituba‚ Black Witch of Salem is the story of a black woman who was born into a troubled life that was plagued with many challenges and struggles. Tituba was born a child of rape and this seems to set the pace for a life that was filled with tragic and unfortunate events. Unfortunately she seemed destined for misfortune and suffering for her entire life because during her time it was hard enough to be a black person‚ but to be a black woman

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    Crucible and McCarthyism

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    yet three hundred years apart. The Salem Witch Trials took place in 1692‚ the seventeenth century and McCarthyism took place in 1948 between 1956‚ the mid twentieth century. These two proceedings are known as two of the greatest mass tragedies in America. The Crucible is an allegory of McCarthyism or in other words the second Red Scare. During McCarthyism the United States was petrified of Communists influence. Many people in both the Crucible and McCarthyism who feared the court provided names

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    The Period Of Mccarthyism

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    Research Paper - What is McCarthyism? The period of McCarthyism‚ named after a republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy‚ is said to have begun well before McCarthy¡¯s own involvement. During this period‚ which lasted from the 1940s to the 1950s‚ Senator McCarthy‚ who strongly opposed communism‚ claimed to have a list of the names of the communists in America. Though it was later found that this was a fraud‚ it certainly arose fears of communism in the minds of the Americans. Events of the 1940s and

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    ABSTRACT: When the witch trials started‚ it seemed the only way to prove you were not a witch was to be a witch. People were faced with impractical‚ and certainly deadly tasks in order to prove they were not a witch. Tasks they would only survive if they in fact had witchlike powers. In this paper I will argue as to why these trials were irrational. I will draw on reasons and rational from individuals such as Beccaria‚ Wollstonecraft‚ Locke‚ and Voltaire. The history of the witch trials is a grime‚ gruesome

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