The play‚ The Crucible’‚ illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people‚ as people did during the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s and the Salem witch hunts of 1962. Many Americans were wrongly accused of being Communist sympathizers. The activities of the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to be linked with the witchcraft trials that had taken place in the town of Salem. This provided Miller with the catalyst to write The Crucible’. Without the
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capital and public policy in Australia (pp. 105-135). Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies. Portes‚ A.‚ & Landolt‚ P Putnam‚ R. D. (1993). Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Putnam‚ R Putnam‚ R. D. (2000). Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community. New York: Simon and Schuster. Putnam‚ R Queensland Office of Economic and Statistical Research (2003). Small area crime profiles. Retrieved October 15‚ 2003 from
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segregation was still prominent in the 20’s and 30’s‚ many of the most famous jazz musicians were black. Throughout the movie jazz is played excessively. In one scene‚ an African American woman is shown singing at a party‚ in another scene; Amelia and Putnam are dancing to jazz playing on the radio. The movie shows how the music was played during this time period. It was generally on the radio or played during live performances in small cabarets‚ dance halls and ballrooms.(10) Throughout the movie music
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Puritan society was greatly influenced by the millennium which led men and women to marry for particular reasons. This can be proven throughout Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible where Puritan couples in Salem‚ Massachusetts such as the Proctors‚ Putnams‚ Coreys‚ and Nurses chose to wed because it provided specific roles for each spouse‚ it allowed them to fulfill their religious duty of procreation‚ and also because it gave more authority to women. Specifically John and Elizabeth Proctor chose to
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2-19 are obese. (Putnam‚ 2012). Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child’s health or wellbeing. Unfortunately due to the rise of obesity in children it is being recognized as a serious public health concern. It is predicted that the United States life expectancy will decline for the first time in recent history‚ as a result of increasing childhood obesity. (Gittelsohn‚ Kumar‚ 2007‚ pg. 55). There are many ways that parents and caregivers
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all other villagers in the village. Abigails uncle‚ an old merchant in Barbandos who was very successful‚ also has a desire to control the entire village so he can become the Puritan minister. Another member of Salem who is seeking to have power is Putnam‚ he exploits the entire trial in hope that he gains land from all the accused families in the witch trial. Each one of these people do anything and everything they can to get what they want‚ power. The huge desire for all this power brings them to
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pious pillar of the community who unfortunately could not withstand the power of hysteria. There were many reasons that Rebecca was accused‚ but it was mostly the hatred exhibited towards her by the Putnam family. She was against Samuel Parris as Reverend of the Salem Town Church‚ while the Putnam
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"John Proctor: I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem-- vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem‚ but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom‚ and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance! (Miller‚ 379)". This quote by John Proctor was spoken in response to one of the many motives in the Salem witch trails in The Crucible. The witch trials were seen by some as an opportunity to obtain personal gain
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many others used the hysteria to their advantage as well. Reverend Parris strengthened his position within the village‚ no matter how brief‚ by making scapegoats of people like John Proctor who questioned his authority. The wealthy & ambitious Thomas Putnam gained revenge on Francis Nurse by convicting Rebecca‚ Francis’s wife‚ of the uncanny deaths of Ann Putnam’s babies. In the end‚ hysteria thrived only because people benefited from it. It postponed the principles of daily life and allowed the acting
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1982".[c] The classification was invented by Herbert Putnam in 1897‚ just before he assumed the librarianship of Congress. With advice fromCharles Ammi Cutter‚ it was influenced by his Cutter Expansive Classification (developed in the 1880s) and by the DDC‚ Dewey (from 1876). It was designed specifically for the purposes and collection of the Library of Congress to replace the fixed location system developed by Thomas Jefferson. By the time Putnam departed from his post in 1939‚ all the classes except
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