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    Re: Salem Telephone Company‚ Salem Data Services Accounting Analysis Salem Telephone Company recently established Salem Date Services‚ a computer service subsidiary of the telephone company. The new subsidiary was established in efforts to earn the company increased revenues in order to relieve pressure to increase rates for the regulated telephone company. Salem Data Services accounting has shown profit loss for the subsidiary over the past three months. Peter Flores‚ president of Salem Telephone

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    The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was a time of panic and bedlam. Men and women of all ages were being “inhabited by the Devil” in turn making them witches. During the 1600s‚ English immigrants arrived in New England‚ a number of them being Puritans. The Puritans were Protestant Christians who were unhappy with the way England practiced Christianity so they moved to New England for a fresh start. However‚ once it was the 17th century‚ witchcraft became more well known and people became more worried

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    The Salem Witch Trials The Salem Village that is now found in present day Massachusetts has a haunting past that left colonists dead‚ filled with fear‚ superstition of witches‚ and devils. The Salem Witch Trials was a great disaster that happened in early colonial days. The Colony was one of the puritan colonies. This great disaster happened in the year 1692. Due to the fear in the colony a lot of people who were innocent and some that were guilty were put to death. One of the causes of this disaster

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    connection. In the articles "Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive." Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "Salem Witch Museum." Salem Witch Museum. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692." The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. William Griggs‚ township physician‚ was summoned. He insinuated that the girls’ ailments might have a supernatural source. His analysis was that the girls were bewitched. The people of Salem had a strong faith in the devil

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    How could two epidemics that happened hundreds of years apart be similar? The Salem Witch Trials and AIDS hysteria compares in many ways‚ especially fear. Both events were exaggerated to the extreme by everyone‚ started in a small group of minorities‚ and had severe consequences during the crisis. The Salem Witch Trials and AIDS hysteria was exaggerated by everyone that knew or was involved with the cases. One elementary school in New York found out one kid was diagnosed with AIDS so that fall

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    The Salem Witch Trials Many people have innocently went to prison or payed for crimes they have never committed over the course of history. The Salem Witch trials is the most known tragedy in which many lost their lives due to false accusations of participating in witchcraft in a puritan community. These trials would forever put in shame the name of Salem due to the injustice done to the innocent by people who wanted to take the guilt and shame off themselves First and fore more the

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    The crucible is a 1953 play that dramatized and partially fictionalized what happen  during the Salem witch trials in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. In the  play ​ The Crucible​ ‚ by Arthur Miller‚ the town of Salem is involved in what some might say the  “witch trials.” These trials negatively affected the community‚ the authority‚ the church‚ and the  individuals. Many people in the town were being tested for their faith and their lives.  The community of Salem was negatively affected by the witch trials. For instance

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    Everybody has heard about witches‚ but everyone just thinks they are a halloween character. They are wrong‚ do you know where witches even came from? Not a fairy tale book. It comes from long ago in Salem‚ Massachusetts. It was the summer of 1692‚ the people of Salem started getting accused of being witches. So everyone joined in and started accusing others. What was the cause of this nonsense? Some might say religion. However‚ in my opinion jealousy is what started the trials. There is more evidence

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    During the spring of 1692 the salem witch trials was caused because many women and men and children had believed that they were possessed by the devil. Many of the accused were put on trial and later hung. If they could not recite the Lord’s prayer then they were considered a witch. Other women who denied they were not possessed by the devil and many others agreed were forgiven of all there sins. Several different women and kids were caught in the woods dancing naked around a pot of an

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    Salem‚ Massachusetts August 19th‚ 1692‚ John Proctor stood on the platform he said as they put the rope around his neck‚ “I regret nothing! I will not admit to being a witch I am a full puritan and will not lie.” Than they pulled out the stool from underneath him and it broke his neck he died a quick but unjust death. What caused the people of Salem to turn on one another? There were a lot of settlers to travel from Europe to the new world among these people there were the puritans who are going

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