tried by Charles Carter‚ an air force pilot but currently a handyman. Both Cade and Carter are hired by Niles Putnam‚ an architect‚ to teach and take care of his challenged son‚ thirteen year old Freddie Putnam. Freddie is a slow learner and has never been to school. The only reason for not sending Freddie to a proper school or allowing him to mix with other boys is because Putnam doesn’t want anybody to taunt or pity him. Cade has an unsuccessful teaching career because of his drinking habit
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who survived. All of Ann Putnam’s eight children died. The only one who survived was Ruth. For this reason‚ Ann Putnam accuses Rebecca of using witchcraft to kill her eight children. Thomas Putnam also uses revenge just like his wife‚ but for greedy reasons. To clarify‚ Thomas Putnam uses the witchcraft trials to get the land back that he thinks is rightfully his. In act #1 Thomas Putnam says‚ “He had no right to sell it. It stands clear in my grandfather’s will that all the land between the river
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begging the question. That is‚ presuming the participant of the experiment to already reside in the external world when the purpose of the experiment is to test this in the first place. It is with these objections in mind (as I cannot perceive how Putnam can respond to these objections) do I declare Putnam’s argument against BIVs as
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are motivated by greed‚ jealousy‚ and hysteria to accuse others of witchcraft. In the play greed motivates Putnam to accuse his neighbor. In the play many people have been accused for witchcraft‚ and for many reasons. Giles Corey tries to bring evidence to the court the Putnam got his daughter to falsely accuse Jacobs of witchcraft for their land. “I have it from an honest man who heard Putnam say it! The day his daughter cried out on Jacobs‚ he said she’d given him a fair gift of land‚” says Giles
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The works of Tocqueville‚ Putnam‚ Berman‚ and Tsai highlight that neither the claim “civil society is good for democracy” nor “civil society is bad for democracy” is completely accurate. However‚ this raises a question: under what conditions does civil society strengthen democracy? I highlight two factors: first‚ to what extent do civil society groups allow for equal access to power?; second‚ do associations create meaningful obligations to others? In other words‚ the nature of associations influences
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In Rosalyn Schanzer´s Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem‚ extreme disorder in civilization took place due to massive amounts of unjust witch accusations. In early 1692‚ mass chaos struck Salem Village‚ Massachusetts. In a ravenous sprint to gain revenge and play a game of kill-or-be-killed‚ approximately 200 people were accused of witchcraft. 20 of these were executed. Families turned on each other‚ civilians accused one another of unimaginable things‚ and all because of two
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In this engaging and complex book‚ Robert Putnam discusses why upward mobility in the United States of America has progressively gotten worse though the recent decades. Putnam describes many diverse variables throughout this book that has led to this steady decline and has put them into four main categories: Families‚ parenting‚ schooling‚ and community. To make it easier to summarize and process‚ this paper will be split into these four parts. After the summary of Putnam’s substantial thesis‚ this
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is in pandemonium and certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts. Miller uses three characters that shows this internal battle : Abigail Williams‚ John Proctor who must weigh the importance of his family against his reputation and the Putnams. vengeance is the act of taking revenge for things that went wrong in their life.. In the Crucible‚ Abigail Williams took advantage of circumstances to carry out vengeance against different people. For Abigail Williams‚ she made use of the paranoia
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represented by Reverend Parris‚ or greed for land/wealth/power as represented by Thomas Putnam. Arthur Miller points out all of these in his play “The Crucible.” He shows how it leads to the corruption of a once good community. The greed and quest for power blurs the truth of many in the town of Salem‚ and causes great destruction in the families of a once “moral Christian” society. These statements prove that because Putnam has so much land it means he has power and status in the community. If he has his
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for the killings of‚ “witches‚” in the play. Even though Abigail plays a major role in causing the problems that arise in the plays plot‚ the Putnam’s have a major role in causing problems as well. Mrs. Putnam has lost seven babies in the story. Being all sorts of mixed emotions‚ Mrs. Putnam is raged with vengeance at finding whoever is responsible for killing her babies. At the time that her babies have died‚ the obscured accusations against the townspeople about
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