Peter Salem On October1‚ 1750 Peter Salem was born. Peter Salem was a black African American soldier and patriot. Though Salem’s birth year is not certain he was born a slave in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. His owner‚ Jeremiah Belknap‚ named him after his hometown of Salem‚ Massachusetts. In America’s early years‚ Massachusetts‚ monitoring an insurrection by Blacks‚ made it illegal for them to serve in the military. When the need for soldiers increased during the French and Indian Wars Blacks were
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The Salem Witchcraft Trials “The Devil in Salem” by Peggy Robbins addresses the Salem witch trials that occurred in colonial Massachusetts in 1692. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was where it was more likely for people to believe in witchcraft in which it was known to be believed by the people that Satan would take use of human beings to carry on his war against heaven. It has been recorded that in Salem Village in the year of 1692‚ alone 170 witches were imprisoned and 20 were sentenced to death
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Lexical Features Structure Features and Rhetorical Devices of English Newspaper Headlines Ⅰ.Introduction Every time we pick up a newspaper‚ what come into our sight will be lots of news headlines. A headline has become an indispensable part of newspaper. The editor means to attract the reader’s attention through headlines. As a result‚ news paper headlines are usually specially designed to be short‚ concise‚ and informative to convey different kinds of information. We may be confused by the
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use for newspapers and other printed news sources are becoming less and less needed. The “digital” generation instead turns to internet sources and the television to hear the news. So what are newspaper organizations supposed to do to catch the people of the new generations eye? Because not as many people are buying the newspaper‚ circulation is declining and advertisement companies are failing to make a significant income. Newspaper companies know that in the future the daily newspaper model would
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witch craft in colonial Massachusetts. The trials started in Salem in 1692 and after that they spread all over the world. Most towns thought that there was witch craft going on. The witch trials are an important historical event as it resulted in the deaths of dozens of innocent people.There are many different stories as to how witchcraft began‚some say it started in Salem .Other
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Newspapers‚ the eyes and ears of the world . Imagine a day without them .I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s impossible but as humans it is our natural instinct to know what is happening in the world around us. Nobody wishes to live in ignorance ‚ hence newspapers have grown to become an essential part of modern civilisation. These neatly folded sheets which await us every single morning holds the voice of the world collected from north‚ east‚ west and south just overnight with a main objective to
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Structure of a Newspaper Article Each newspaper article has a title (called the headline) that is set in large type. The writer of a newspaper article is often not credited; if the author is mentioned‚ this credit is called the author’s byline. The beginning of each newspaper article (the first paragraph) is called the lead (one or two sentences long); the lead should summarize the main facts of the article‚ telling the 5 W’s (who‚ what‚ when‚ where‚ and why) and how. The first paragraph should
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The quality newspapers (broadsheets‚ Berliner…) The two newspapers we have chosen to compare are the USA Today and the International Herald Tribune. They are dating from Friday‚ May 29‚ 2009. First impression What strikes out is that the front page of the USA Today is more exuberant than the International Herald Tribune. The page counts six small pictures and three clarifying graphics. The font of the headlines are more bulky‚ different and short in its titles. Comparing this to the International
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classic example of all such social tragedies based on fear and ignorance is that of the colonial era ’s Salem Witch Trials. While Mc Carthyism was illustrated as a widespread fear of communism that led the United States to pursue unnecessary investigations‚ imprisonments‚ and often unprovoked acts against those who were often only remotely accused of being a "dreaded communist"‚ the Salem witch trials led to well over a dozen executions of local women accused of practicing witchcraft and directly
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Salem Witch Trials In the years 1692 to 1693 there was an unruly and unjustified cause stirring in the air and surrounding areas in a colony in Massachusetts where more than two hundred innocent colonials were accused of practicing and holding events in the name of evil and in events in witchcraft and twenty were executed. Called the devil’s magic‚ witchcraft was being seen nothing other than one whom holds innocents and a grudge of one whom was innocent of this misjudgment. Most of the
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