Do you remember when The Blair Witch Project came out and all of the positive reviews began flooding in? Well it seems director Adam Wingard does as well‚ because he made the same movie over again‚ expect unlike the original his movie‚ Blair Witch‚ isn’t good. Blair Witch is a direct sequel of The Blair Witch Project and takes place 20 years after the original. It follows Heather Donahue’s little brother‚ James Donahue‚ as he and a group of friends begin making a documentary about their search
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The witch hunts of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era expose a tendency to incriminate women. On average‚ ninety percent of the “witches” were female and the remaining men were often their relatives.1 This period can be referred to as a time of misogyny or an age when there was a strong suspicion of women.2 Villagers and aristocrats tended to view witches differently. Witches at the village level were thought to harm others through their maternal powers of nurture. Aristocrats denied that witches had
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"Minimum Wage" The episode of 30 Days about trying to live on minimum wage opened the eyes of it’s viewers. It placed star Morgan Spurlock and fiancee Alex in the lives of the "working poor" of the United States for one month. Spurlock’s fiancee walked to work daily rather than spend the money on riding the bus. Both Morgan and Alex were in need of healthcare during this time period just to find over-crowded free clinics‚ afraid to go to a real hospital because of the cost. Alex’s 30th birthday
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Nancy Anne Morgan Hart was a patriot and a participant during the Revolutionary War. She was well known for her skills as a hunter‚ shooter‚ herbalist‚ and her efforts against the Cherokee‚ British soldiers‚ and British sympathizers. Nancy was born in North Carolina around 1735. She was connected through family ties to the Revolutionary War general Daniel Morgan and to the legendary frontiersman and explorer Daniel Boone. She married Benjamin Hart in 1760. Hart came from a very distinguished family
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“Consider It Joy” In the book “Witch of Blackbird Pond”‚ in this essay referred to as WBP‚ the protagonist Katherine Tyler‚ affectionately referred to as Kit‚ is an orphaned fifteen year old girl who grew up on the tropical island of Barbados where her grandfather had supported her till her current age when he died and left the family debt and affairs in her young and incapable hands. Kit however being a smart child sold their plantation and slaves‚ and everything but her own clothes to pay
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In Exodus 22:18‚ it proclaims‚ “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!” In 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ the Puritans believed every word that the Bible said‚ causing the death of twenty people because they were accused of witchcraft. What caused the panic and alarm that lead to the death of twenty people in Salem? There were three causes: conflict between young girls and older women‚ lying teenagers‚ economic and political power divided between two sides of town. One possible cause could be the conflict
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responsibility. I personally find this interesting as it is a fine example of how people universally do not typically take responsibility for their misfortunes; instead they blame it on another. Why is this? Well‚ think to yourself‚ have you ever been stuck in traffic cursing at everyone else’s poor driving? The answer is probably yes because most people do not turn inwards towards themselves to see a potential problem. This is because we are sensory beings designed to sense and experience the world outside
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Morgan Porterfield Freeman‚ Jr. (born June 1‚ 1937) is an American actor‚ film director‚ and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart‚ Driving Miss Daisy‚ The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits‚ including Unforgiven
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corporation has skeletons in their closet‚ more so than others. With many major corporate officials constantly standing against trial‚ it seems that high profile industries cannot be trusted by the public. This also applies to our very own trusted banks. JP Morgan Chase a trusted financial institution has included itself on the list of corporate crimes. These crimes include but are not limited to rigging bids for personal investments‚ home insurance fraud‚ and overcharging the military veterans. As a result
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The name of the book that I read was "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" By‚ Elizabeth George Speare. The book took place in the year of 1687. Some of the book takes place on a boat called the "Dolphin‚" and then the rest of the book in Wethersfield‚ in the state of Connecticut. The main characters in the book are Katherine Tyler (her nickname was Kit)‚ Nat Eaton‚ Uncle Matthew‚ Aunt Rachel‚ Hannah Tupper‚ Kit’s cousins Mercy‚ and Judith‚ Prudence‚ Hannah Tupper‚ John Holbrook‚ Goodwife Cruff and Goodman
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