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    She also had acted very poorly to Abigail after her affair with John that kick started a lot of events that lead to the trials. “I know you clutched my back” (Miller 14).Elizabeth proctor is the catalyst of the Salem witch trials. Elizabeth proctor is the catalyst for the Salem witch trials because of her relationship with Abigail Williams. When Elizabeth discovered her husband‚ John Proctor‚ had an affair with Abigail she reacted with such anger that made Abigail and Elizabeth enemies. Instead Elizabeth

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    What caused the Salem witch hunts? | Michael Kimbrough October 3‚ 2012 | The Salem witch trials happen in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. Some of the colony eventually admitted that the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then‚ the story of the trials has become famous with paranoia and injustice‚ and it continues to be in peoples imagination more than 300 years later. | |

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    The Salem witch hunt was a wave of paranoia and ignorance and caused hundreds of innocent people to die. This started in in the spring of 1692 and did not end until September in 1962 because people really stared to doubt the truthfulness of the trials. The first convicted witch was a woman by the name of Bridget bishop. This was a large impact on history and even had many books such as the crucible and many others. The other main cause is that back in this time most people did not understand things

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    No one would deny that the 17th century was a century of witch hunts; thousands of women were accused and then subjected to tortures and interrogations such as being completely shaved so that the courts could ascertain if she had a witch’s or devil’s teat. Witchcraft was considered a crime against the church or state; an act of treason and a capital offense.” This meant that women found guilty of witchcraft or devil worship were put to death. The 1604 Act against Witchcraft and Conjuration was the

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    It was the year 2517‚ and it had been thirty-one years since a human had been on planet Reach. Thirty-nine years earlier‚ it was attacked by the covenants‚ an intelligent alien race. Reach was a planet like Earth‚ but Earth was lost a long time ago due to the covenant. “Cortana‚ anything on the radar?” said John. “No‚” responded Cortana. Cortana paused as she saw the radar start to blink red. “Hold on! There’s a re-con team heading our way.” “How many?” “Three.” John ran behind cover and waited

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    The topic I chose to write about is the McCarthy witch hunts. The McCarthy witch hunt trials all started because of the fear of Communism in America which was known as the Red Scare. In the late 1940s a U.S senator in Congress‚ named Joseph McCarthy 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

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    reshape how we interact with each other‚ alter what makes us happy‚ and modify our capacity for reaching our full potential as individuals. And it’s caused by one simple fact: the human brain‚ that most sensitive of organs‚ is under threat from the modern world. Unless we wake up to the damage that the gadget-filled‚ pharmaceutically-enhanced 21st century is doing to our brains‚ we could be sleepwalking towards a future in which neuro-chip technology blurs the line between living and non-living

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    The Fatality of Detachment from Society The unconscious mind is a force that can affect our lives greatly without us even realizing it. This is a concept that is explored as a common theme in modern literature. When reading modern literature‚ one often comes into contact with characters who are exploring the inner workings of their minds. However‚ it is also very common to come into contact with characters who are completely unaware of the way that their minds work. Gregor Samsa from The Metamorphosis

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    TERM PAPER IN MEDIA MANAGEMENT Television: NBN Channel 4/ People’s Television Radio: DWIZ 882 kHz Submitted by: Babor‚ Joynilou Perez‚ Jovi Anne Princess CA4A Submitted to: Mr. Mark Awiten NBN BACKGROUND INFO NBN Channel 4 or the People’s Television Network (Telebisyon ng Bayan) is an existing government television in the Philippines. It was established in the year 1974 and was formerly known as Government

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