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    Mccarthy: A Short Story

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    same school‚ they’re just like us. I had finally gotten to school‚ i was a little late but Mrs. McCarthy didn’t care. She was a close friend of my Mother and Father’s. I was going to take a seat but I noticed that someone was sitting in my seat‚ so I sat somewhere else. Mrs. McCarthy started to teach the daily lesson when she was interrupted by Mayor Summer’s coming into the classroom. “Mrs. McCarthy‚ I don’t mean to be a bother but may I speak

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    Vision and Hearing

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    Date: Conducted by: Brenan‚ Jay and Satoro AIMS: * Demonstrate how vibration induces illusions of movement * To determine whether vibration has had any effect on ability to match joint angle between left and right arms * Observe the effect of fatigue on ability to sense force. INTRODUCTION Proprioception is defined as the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body. It is the ability to distinguish how ones body is situated‚ either in motion or stationary

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    in the 1950’s along with Joseph McCarthy. Arthur Miller was born in Harlem‚ New York on October 17‚ 1915. Arthur Miller and his family was very affluent. They had a great deal of money. The Miller family almost lose everything in the Wall Street crash in 1929. After the crash‚ Arthur Miller had

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    Arthur Miller. Miller‚ because he was wronged by the law‚ decided to write a similar story to the events of the McCarthy trials in order to make McCarthy’s ideals seem flawed. Miller believed that if he could write a story to prove the accusations incorrect he would be able to re-establish his respectable reputation. This story is known as “The Crucible”‚ a story about the Salem Witch Trials and how the townspeople were falsely accused of witchcraft‚ but couldn’t do anything to plead there innocence

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    Trials In The Crucible

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    Arthur Miller‚ various citizens of Salem‚ Massachusetts face the witch trials. Victims were tried and convicted based on only spectral evidence. John Proctor‚ Giles Corey‚ and Reverend Hale were a few among the many that went through these severe tests‚ hardships and trials. John Proctor’s wife; Elizabeth Proctor‚ was accused of witchery and sent to prison. John loves his wife and tries to save her and all of the other accused women. His crucible is the Salem Court because Proctor has to prove

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    Joseph Mccarthy Corruption

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    Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump are two demagogues who have inflicted fear upon Americans as a way to consolidate their own political power. A Junior Senator from Wisconsin in the late 1940s and early 1950s‚ Joseph McCarthy‚ intuitively understood that Americans tend to fear what they don’t understand. They fear those who don’t look familiar. They fear the unknown. During the Cold War he exploited American’s fear of Communism in order to create a cult-like following. Sadly‚ seventy years later‚

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    and war-happy. During the McCarthy era of 1950-1954‚ however‚ they were more so being cautious of the Communist threat than being paranoid. Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) knew "how to win power‚ headlines and a passionately loyal following by manipulation" (Hugh Brogan). It was said "The McCarthy witch hunts were not born of fantasy‚" (Alan Axelrod) that is‚ the American people had reason to believe that perhaps there was a half-truth in McCarthy’s accusations. McCarthy rose to national infamy

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    Hearing Loss

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    SAMPLE INFORMATIVE SPEECH TOPICS (Just Some Ideas) 1. Any Country 36. Sleep Walking 2. Baldness 37. Snoring 3. Child Discipline 38. Fingerprints 4. Dyslexia 39. Sharks 5. Epilepsy 40. Wedding Traditions 6. Comics 41. Fantasy Sports 7. Albert Einstein 42. Guide Dogs 8. Multiple Sclerosis 43. Fibromyalgia 9. Winter Depression 44. Puns 10. Food Poisoning 11. Haley’s Comet 12. Marijuana 13. Teddy Bears 14. Teenage Suicide

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    sight and hearing

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    With sight 14 0.       4 1.       2 2.       3 3.       2 4.       1 5.       2 Total: 18f No sight  12 0.       0 1.       6 2.       4 3.       1 4.       0 5.       0 6.       1 Total 23 Hypothesis We think that this isn’t true because we think that when you don’t have vision you can concentrate on the sound better. Also it’s hard to lip-read and not many people can do this‚ so this probably won’t help in understanding someone’s speech. Some research McGurk and

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    Witch Hunt Research

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    Witch Hunt Research   Sophia.Colon  10/21/14  4th    “It is one thing to believe in witches and quite another to believe in witch smellers‚K.G Chesterton” In the early 1600’s some people started believing the witch hunt trials‚ that the devil was really inside their souls controlling them maybe even for the simple reasons of suspicion as well. In two articles “Modern Day Witch Hunt” and “The Salem Witch Trials” we see how society is impacted by so called witch hunts. The Salem Witch Trials occurred

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