started to carry out witch-hunts in search of Communist supporters. Joseph McCarthy was a paranoid man‚ he questioned and accused many people of being communist or spies for the Soviet Union with having little or no evidence‚ This is known as McCarthyism. When on trial the accused had two options‚ they could refuse to answer the questions and have the possibility of losing their occupation and friends‚ or they could follow their demands and rat out friends and even family of being Communists. The
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Fear is simply a four-letter word‚ yet it can infect an entire world. McCarthyism in America during the late 1940s and early 1950s was driven by the fear of power rising in communist ideas. Author‚ Arthur Miller‚ paralleled the paranoia to the Puritans during the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693. In Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ seven young girls found power in the town of Salem and exploited their new control by accusing the townspeople of witchcraft. Fear inspired by witchcraft drove the trials
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This document is the testimony of Paul Robeson before the house committee on un-american activities‚ aka HUAC ‚ dated from June 12‚ 1956. The HUAC was an istitution which was originally established in 1937‚ Under the chermanship of MARTIN DIES‚ who was a membre of the democratic party‚ a lawyer and a passionate anti-communist. The goal of this institution was to investigate on un-american activities‚ but by the time‚ it was more concentrated on the possibility that the ACP had infiltrated the federal
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Cited: Schrecker‚ Ellen. The Age of McCarthyism. Boston‚ New York: Bedford/ St. Martin’s‚ 2002.
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Cold War‚ Cool Medium: Television‚ McCarthyism‚ and American Culture (review) Michael C. C. Adams Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies‚ Volume 34.1 (2004)‚ pp. 83-84 (Article) Published by Center for the Study of Film and History DOI: 10.1353/flm.2004.0003 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/flm/summary/v034/34.1adams_m.html Accessed 24 Sep 2013 22:26 GMT GMT Book Reviews | Regular Feature Bond girls
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Morals reflect both the being you strive to become and the individual you truly are. The value morals hold in both society and our own minds are vastly immoderate. The degree to which we hold ourselves to our own moral determines our integrity. An adherence to a code of moral or artistic values‚ incorruptibility‚ is what’s known as integrity. A lack of integrity is often recalled far longer than actions within integral standings. Both John Proctor‚ from The Crucible‚ and Ed Murrow‚ of Good Night
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I believe that the things happening around the time of this book being published influenced Fahrenheit 451 like the blacklisting‚ and McCarthyism. These subjects are around the time of the Cold War which was a big time conflict at the time of Fahrenheit 451 being published which was a time of government intervention on civil rights‚ businesses‚ newspapers‚ TV shows‚ and movies‚ and all around censored. Blacklisting is a nice interesting topic that I actually find insightful when comparing blacklisting
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against the government misinformation & propaganda that were headed their way. The characters in the play are faced with the same tragedies & sentences that befell people during the McCarthyism trials; he uses the ‘Salem Witch Trials’ as a metaphor to draw national attention towards the doings and executioners of the McCarthyism propaganda. Arthur Miller uses allegory in his play‚ The Crucible‚ to show the similarities between the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare. During the McCarthy era‚ freedom
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journalist‚ who famously counterattacked Joseph McCarthy’s pervasively corrupt campaign. This was a rare feat‚ as most politicians and journalists witnessed how McCarthy could shatter their careers‚ lives‚ and reputations. Murrow attacked McCarthy and McCarthyism on his half-hour program See it Now‚ which he co-produced with Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba. In one of the boldest statements on network television‚ the team shed light on McCarthy’s disturbing speeches and corruption‚ shattering the illusion of
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The McCarthy hearings and the Salem Witch Trials are events in history that shaped the Americans of that time’s process of thought. The McCarthy hearings‚ led by Joe McCarthy displays a eerily similar appearance to the Salem Witch Trials. However‚ both has a uniqueness in them that allows us to distinguish apart as two important and seperate entities. These similarities include their motives and the actions taken against them‚ but due to their different time periods‚ the view of both and the outcomes
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