the events in Salem. One similarity that really stands out is Miller’s point that‚ “Both had the menace of concealed plots‚ but most startling were the similarities in the rituals of defense‚ the investigative routines: 300 years apart‚ both prosecutions alleged membership of a secret‚ disloyal group.” Miller’s points are very accurate and perfectly depict life for those in 1692 and the 1950’s. The “Red Scare” and Salem are dreadfully alike because of their similar processes. Salem in 1692 was a
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How far do you agree with the view that in the 1920’s the KKK possessed neither sizable support nor significant influence? The 1920’s marked a period of great racial tension throughout American Society‚ with the period often regarded as a melting pot due to such strains and tensions. The immigration of new‚ non-protestant immigrants such as Catholics and Jews since the turn of the century had brought about large scale unease due to the sheer number of immigrants. Combined with Mexicans‚ Orientals
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of the ranting of some crazy people. In the 1600’s‚ we had the Salem witch trials‚ and as described in the book‚ "The Crucible"‚ a group of girls falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft‚ and regular‚ innocent people are hung. Then‚ in the 1950’s‚ a man named Joseph McCarthy sparked a craze of accusing people‚ mainly government officials‚ of being communist‚ thus scarring their careers. The McCarthy hearing are similar to the Salem witch hunt because the accuser exaggerates and fabricates evidence
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Elliot Anderson Cox IB Junior English 13 October 2014 Wind‚ Rain and Hale: The Man Who Took Salem by Storm Reverend John Hale‚ from Arthur Miller ’s The Crucible‚ is a Puritan minister from Beverly who is called to Salem to investigate the accusations of witchery. He plays a significant part within the play and you witness his transformation from [he is transformed from a; you is second person‚ which is informal] seemingly knowledgeable professor of the invisible world to a weeping pile of
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Shadowed judgment: Why the Salem witch trials were led by selfish men. Judge Danforth‚ Hawthorne and Parris all have one thing in common. They resist the evidence that Proctor and Giles gives them due to their own personal follies. Whether it is for pride‚ greed‚ or power‚ their names will grow in reputation for all of it. All three of these men have unethical reasons for ignoring all of the evidence against the Salem witch trials that they think will result in their own personal gain. Judge Danforth
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How does Miller use the ending of each act to make the audience feel the madness in Salem? Miller is able to portray the madness of Salem in a variety of ways‚ throughout the whole of the play however the ending of each act allows the audience to fully feel the hysteria. By incorporating changes of key themes and ideas as well as using links throughout the text and a variety of dramatic techniques towards the end of each act‚ Miller is able to leave the audience with a sense of this madness. The
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Title: Tituba‚ Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies Author: Elaine G. Breslaw Publication: New York and London‚ 1996 This book summarizes the life of a female Indian servant and her involvement in the 1692 witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts. To begin it gives background information of the Arawak Indian woman named Tituba‚ which reveals cultural influences. It tells how Tituba was captured and sold into slavery and shifted from one cultural world to another
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Salem Witch Trials The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692‚ after a group of young girls in Salem Village‚ Massachusetts‚ claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts‚ a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch‚ Bridget Bishop‚ was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill‚ while some 150 more men‚ women
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Attention Deficit Disorder Is It Myth or Reality? Attention Deficit Disorder is one of the more controversial topics for parents‚ educators and physicians in their efforts in identification and treatment of the disorder. Imagine your son or daughter being involved in this horrifying‚ grotesque‚ nightmarish hell. "On December 1‚ 1997‚ Michael Carneal‚ a fourteen-year old opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah‚ Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed‚ five
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