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    Lauren Macfarlane Cesar Chavez Project Cesar Chavez 1st slide: (Title): Cesar Chavez 2nd slide: Picture of Cesar Chavez 3nd slide: Cesar Chavez’s Early Life 4th slide: Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31‚ 1927 in San Luis‚ Arizona. His family had lived there ever since his grandfather immigrated from Mexico. 5th slide: Chavez’s parents Librado and Juana Chavez owned a ranch which was lost when Cesar was 10 years old during the Great Depression. The family was forced to leave and

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    Abigail lies throughout the entire play. She has Tituba cast a spell to kill Elizabeth but in order to avoid detection of this she lies saying she saw all these people with the devil; "I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!" She also states before these lies "I want to open myself!" The word ’open’ means ’entirely honest; Ironically‚ nothing thatshe says is actually truthful. She lies in court by pretending she see’s things that aren’t actually there in hope to get others

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    To Kill A Mocking Bird Courage is a characteristic that all great heroes need. However‚ real courage takes more than showing off or overcoming of a fear; there are several meanings of the word. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the idea of courage can be seen in many forms‚ which are demonstrated through different characters. The book is set in the early 1930s‚ a time of racial segregation and the Great Depression in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. The main characters‚ Scout

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    Moore fires up plans for a ’Fahrenheit’ follow-up November 12‚ 2004|From Associated Press Michael Moore plans a follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11‚" his hit documentary that assails President Bush over the handling of the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on terrorism. Moore told Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd that he and Harvey Weinstein‚ the Miramax boss who produced the film‚ hope to have "Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2 " ready in two to three years. "Fifty-one percent of the American people

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    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a very wise piece that perfectly explains the story of two time periods. Although Miller literally wrote about the Salem witch trials‚ his purpose was to describe the McCarthy trials which teaches many ideas about human life both generally and regarding politics. The two time periods were more than two and a half centuries apart‚ yet they had many factors that overlapped. Miller explains the McCarthy trials through The Crucible by teaching people’s fears‚ faults‚ and

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    Why the “Crucible”?

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    Sara North April 21‚ 2013 Why the “Crucible”? Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1951 in direct response to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communism scare. Miller wanted the American people to convey the pain caused by false accusations and relate it to the Salem witch hunts. Sen. McCarthy accused a huge number of high profile Americans of being communists. In doing so‚ he ruined those people’s careers. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible‚ innocent people were convicted and put on trial for witchcraft

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    The Most Dangerous Game The most obvious theme of "The Most Dangerous Game" is that which arises from the relationship of the hunter and the hunted. At the very beginning of story‚ Rainsford and Zaroff are presented as equals. Both characters are well-accomplished big-game hunters. As the story unfolds‚ however‚ their roles change. Rainsford is thrust into the position of the hunted. However‚ he tries to undermine the game by setting traps for the hunter. Rainsford’s form of hunting is passive

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    In the book 1984‚ written by George Orwell‚ there is a group portrayed that is similar to what society would call a cult. A cult is defined as a religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false‚ with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian‚ charismatic leader. Totalism is described as the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government. The books main themes include language as mind control and psychological

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    An outlook on gender roles in today ‘s advanced society is drastic contrast to the views portrayed in the crucible written by Arthur Miller depicts women as weak . None of the females in crucible posses extreme power but the truthful pre-hearted and family oriented women seemed to be even less powerful than the others . Therefore‚ Miller has also shown women sufferance In crucible through interpretive evidence on how tituba was being accused for all witchcraft and how she demolished

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    Discuss the Various Types of Fear present in the crucible In Arthur Miller’s‚ ‘The Crucible‚’ Miller has displayed a society based around fear. Miller has used the symbolic representation of Salem throughout the notorious ‘witchcraft trial’ period to highlight the notion of fear that led to extreme hysteria. Such hysteria engulfed the whole community into a group of individuals whose actions were motivated by fear of condemnation. This representation has allowed miller to express his views on

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