● It was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that started World War 1. On June 28th‚ 1914 in the Austro-Hungary. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the imperial throne. Princip was a member of a Serbian terrorist organization‚ Black Hand. He was trying to spread Serbian nationalism. Instead‚ his reckless act started World War 1. About a month of diplomatic challenges and responses‚ the Central Powers (Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Ottoman Turkey) and the Allied Powers
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Historicism around the Crucible Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible during a time of great fear as the cold war had been kicked off several years earlier. It was a time of panic and the people of the country were willing to extend that fear towards anything that seemed wrong even without any evidence so long as a person of great authority backed it. The McCarthyism period resembled the Salem Witch Trials and allowed Miller to mirror his writing in a way that showed the people their errors.
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Post-World War 1 Tensions After World War 1‚ there were many problems and unresolved issues that caused a lot of tension. The economy was at risk because many nations owed each other a lot of money. England owed the U.S. money that they borrowed for the war‚ so they decided to use the reparation money Germany owed them to pay America back. However‚ Germany didn’t have any money due to the excessive reparations‚ so they borrowed money from the U.S. This circular system eventually collapsed and the
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interviewed and forced to give up names of others‚ or they where imprisoned‚ and their names were black listed. There are several parallels between the McCarthy Era‚ and the time of the Salem which trials. One similarity one will see is what I call the scare factor. Another parallel between the two groups is the "everybody is doing it" mentality. One also sees a parallel in the lives that were ruined in both eras because of the accusations and punishments. Both those accused in The Crucible and those
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Period 7 Lee AP English 11 1/18/11 Drag Me Down To Hell It is obvious that the role of preachers is to convert the unconverted and teach his congregation the ways of righteousness; however some preachers use tactics of using fear as a means to scare their congregation into conversion. One such Preacher who used fear to his advantage was Jonathan Edwards. Edward’s most famous sermon which he delivered on a trip to the congregation at Enfield‚ Connecticut was a perfect example of the use of the
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around the world. Because of this America went through a period called the Red Scare‚ where Americans feared the spread of Communism to America. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Venzetti were two Italian immigrants who were tried and put to death for a double murder and robbery in South Braintree Massachusetts. Because of the Red Scare and many other factors these men were wrongly accused and put to death. ! Because of the Red Scare people were paranoid that
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They’re harvesting energy to keep from becoming extinct by going back to when humans were most prominent. Monsters must have relied on anti-human instincts to believe that just touching a human would corrupt their world like it did in the past. So they scare humans to gather their energy until they realize that laughter (green energy) is more efficient because it is positive in nature. Introduction The main characters in this movie are James P. Sully and Mike Wazowski as the workers at the Monster Inc
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American Exceptionalism refers to the belief that the United States differs from the other developed nations‚ because of its national credo‚ historical evolution‚ or distinctive political and religious institutions. The concept was first used in respect of the United States by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831 in his work Democracy in America. There are three generic varieties of American exceptionalism. 1. Super naturalist explanations which emphasize the causal potency of God in selecting America
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the Crucible is a fictional play that centers around the Salem Witch Trials. The novel can also be classified as an example of an allegory. The allegorical meaning of the Crucible is that it can be a representation of the Red Scare‚ the HUAC‚ and McCarthyism. The Red Scare was the promotion of fear of the potential rise of communism after World War II. Communism was the abolition of the power of people over people‚ where the government holds all assets. Many people in America feared that they
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"Reactionary 20s" due to several major social‚ economic‚ and political challenges of the period. Two significant challenges during this time were the Red Scare and the economic boom and subsequent bust of the Roaring Twenties. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. The Red Scare: One major social and political challenge of the period was the Red Scare‚ which refers to the widespread fear of communism and radical ideologies. The Russian Revolution in 1917 and the rise of socialist movements in Europe
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