The trial of Bertram Cates revolved around the concept of religion as part of school curriculum. The people of Hillsboro truly believed in the teaching of religion in public schools‚ whereas Bertram Cates and Henry Drummond did not believe religion was part of the necessary curriculum and thought evolution was a valid explanation for the creation of life. The duty of teachers is to educate and inform young minds about the real world and how past events relate to today’s society. Inherit the Wind describes
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The play‚ Inherit the Wind‚ by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is about a trial with a teacher who teaches evolution. Bertram Cates knows that the studies of evolution is against the law but decides to teach it anyways. Henry Drummond is the lawyer who defends Bert Cates in the trial. Drummond’s changes his goals throughout the play. In the beginning of the play‚ his goal is to defend evolution. Throughout the play his goal is to prove Cates is innocent and win the case. After the trial he wants
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Inherit the Wind‚ a play written by Jerome Lawrence‚ and Robert E. Lee‚ is one of the greatest and most controversial plays of its time. It was written at a time of scientific revolution to benefit people of the day and in the future‚ however‚ people of the day had a hard time accepting new ideas. It is societies unwillingness to change‚ and accept new ideas that create racism‚ and hate groups of today. This unwillingness is one of the major themes of this play. This thesis will be further explained
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“When you’re through learning‚ you’re through” – Will Rodgers. The book‚ Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ takes place in a small town in the heart of Tennessee‚ Hillsboro‚ and the Bible Belt in the 1920’s. The play covers one of the first evolution v. religion cases in the South. A teacher named Bertham Cates thought the teachings of Darwin were fascinating. Even though it was outlawed to teach evolution‚ he decided to teach his students the teachings. Not soon after‚ he finds
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concepts and adopted ideas in order to obtain a better understanding of the world around it. However‚ it is very difficult for people to accept new theories that contradict their existing belief systems. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s play Inherit the Wind focuses on the rejection of evolution because of a society’s religious beliefs. The story defines the struggle that citizens of a rural area experience while attempting to maintain their faith in a partially secular world. The play started
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Inherit the Wind Journal In my opinion‚ the world was created through the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe. According to the Big Bang theory‚ the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state‚ which expanded rapidly. This rapid expansion caused the Universe to cool and resulted in its present continuously expanding state. This is how the world came to be the way it is today. Another common
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The Scopes Trial In the year 1859‚ Charles Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection‚ or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. In this book‚ Charles Darwin explains that species need to evolve and adapt in order to survive. Natural selection is the process in which over time certain species and/or characteristic of certain species‚ will evolve and flourish while others will not. Darwin outlines the scientific theory of evolution;
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Date: School: Facilitator: 5.02 Scopes Trial Directions: Use the primary source material provided within the lesson to complete the chart below. Who supported the Butler Act? Who opposed the Butler Act? State of Tennessee Fundamentalists William Jennings Bryan (defended the state of TN during the trial) John Scopes American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Clarence Darrow (defended Scopes during the trial) Select one of the 5 sources that support the Butler
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Scopes Trial The Scopes Trial is a famous trial that had one main topic to focus on: evolution. This trial was brought on because John Scopes taught his students about evolution. The trial happened in 1925 in Tennessee. For creationists and evolutionists‚ this was a huge trial because it was the first major account of the teaching of evolution. Although this seems as a simple matter between creationists and evolutionists‚ there is more to meets the eye. The Scopes Trial was more complicated. The
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Scopes was a twenty four year old teacher at Rhea County High School in Dayton. He was described as a modest‚ friendly‚ helpful‚ and shy. There is a discrepancy as to why he agreed to participate in this trial. When Scopes agreed‚ he told how he had taught from Hunter’s Civic Biology‚ the Tennessee approved textbook that contained a chapter on the evolution of man and Darwin’s theory of natural selection. He also admitted that every other teacher taught from that book as well. * Scopes believed
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