The terror that raged through Salem Village in 1692 caused the citizens to accuse and execute each other because of suspected witchcraft. The Salem witch trials‚ a series of court cases regarding the 131 people accused of witchcraft‚ led to twenty-five peoples’ deaths and the arrests of many more (Foulds 258). The trouble first started when two girls acted so strangely that people had no doubts that it was the result of witchcraft. Soon‚ they considered no one safe because anyone might be a witch
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MCCARTHYISM ( Maddie ‚ Nicholas McCarthy accused innocent citizens of being communist. He ensured political success by corrupting the government.He would make false accusations during hearings to make things better for himself. ‚ Ashley ‚ Mary Beth ) 1. Who was McCarthy? Discuss his position in the senate as well as his perspective and role in the hearings. Senator Joseph McCarthy was the man who accused fellow government employees of being Communists. He would find evide
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Galileo Galilei on Trial Galileo was born on Feb 15‚ 1564 in Pisa (Machamer). He was born when there was no such thing as ‘science’‚ yet by the time he died science was well on its way to becoming a discipline and its concepts and method a whole philosophical systems (Machamer). Galileo started to study for the priesthood‚ but left and enrolled for a medical degree (Machamer). He never completed this degree but instead studied mathematics notably with Ostilio Ricci‚ the mathematician of the Tuscan
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quote shows both the dilemma in the Salem Witch Trials‚ which Arthur Miller set his story in‚ and the era of McCarthyism which he kind of writes about; John was going to confess to being a witch but couldn’t because he didn’t want to ruin his name for his family. He was an innocent man but died because he didn’t confess. This is very similar to what was happening during the 50’s when McCarthyism first started. Arthur Miller’s use of the Salem Witch Trials in the Crucible demonstrates
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Victoria Price and the Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro case‚ a cause in modern American race relations‚ began when a brawl between whites and blacks took place while riding a freight train through northern Alabama in 1931 (Boyer). When Jackson County Officials stopped the train‚ two white women appeared from the freight train and accused nine black teens of raping them. One of those women was Victoria Price. Victoria Price was born on January 20‚ 1911. She grew up in the poor parts of Huntsville
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The Scopes Trial was the Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools. A statute was passed (Mar.‚ 1925) in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories contrary to accepted interpretation of the biblical account of human creation. John T. Scopes‚ a biology teacher‚ was tried (July‚ 1925) for teaching Darwinism in a Dayton‚ Tenn.‚ public school. Clarence Darrow was one of Scopes’s attorneys. Darrow argued that academic freedom was being violated
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The Trials of Oz the audience to draw ideas of biest and corruption of the legal system‚ as the judges are ignorant of the outside world youth‚ only take note of higher sources of knowledge‚ let cops do obscenity things just cuase they are cops‚ have very one sided views‚ would put someone in jail for a little small thing Though this view is only put across by roberston ‚ only his side of the story ‚ this is his oppion and view on the legal system and by putting across as untrustworthy
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After the hysteria and the Trials ended‚ food became more scarce‚ taxes went up and life was all-around significantly harder than before. As time passed‚ the people of Salem Village began to feel guilt and regret for what had happened during the Trials. The residents believed that they were being punished by God. This idea was reinforced due to the recent influx of near-by Indian attacks
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What was the Nuremberg Trials about? The Holocaust was a trouble time for many people and when it was over of many it wasn ’t over for others. The Nazis did horrible things and people wanted justice‚ that ’s when the Nuremberg Trials started. The Nuremberg Trials concise of three main things‚ the crimes that were committed‚ what happened to the people that were convicted of the crimes‚ and who were people that here convicted with a crime. There were many crimes committed during the Holocaust; so
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County of Maycomb believes that white people are superior in everyway. Lee uses the trial to emphasize the severity of the Maycomb viewpoint. She uses it to show the readers instead of just telling them. It is also a way to discreetly show the readers how severe the Maycomb fever is without needing to have Scout‚ the narrator‚ comprehend the problem. By carefully choosing what happens and who is involved in the trial Lees proves her point explicitly. The author uses characters to help show how
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