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    IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF SOURCES This investigation will focus on the question “To what extent did gender roles have an effect on the Salem witch trials?” and will analyze to what extent gender roles affected the Salem witch trials. The first key source is “Salem Witchcraft Trials: The Perception of Women in History‚ Literature and Culture” by Ana Kocić‚ which is useful to this investigation because Kocić’s main focus is on female roles and she does great research to back up her statements

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    The Puritans‚ conductors of the Salem witch trials‚ in which many people were killed‚ were right in their actions. The Puritans were settlers in early American history that settled near Salem‚ Massachusetts. They were looking for religious freedom in America‚ because they weren’t Catholic. They had a very strict interpretation of the Bible and lived according to that. They were also responsible for the Salem witch trials‚ an event in which many people were killed for supposedly being witches. However

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    The European witch craze started in the 14th century and lasted until the 17th century. Over this period of time there have been between 200‚000 and 500‚000 witches executed. 85% of those were women. The Change of the inquisition’s objectives determined the character and timing of these executions‚ also a big part of that played differentiation process within medieval society. Women began to occupy higher positions within European society. A part of it was the higher proportion of female leaders

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    saving innocent people from death from evil rivals. Yet‚ villains play very dark roles‚ each has great talent that can play in mind. However‚ the villain that stands out to be one of the numerous of them all‚ from disguise‚ murder‚ and concealed witchcraft‚ is The Grand High Witch. The Grand High Witch did best to hide her hideous appearance by disguising her actual and shocking identity. "Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women.” The Grand High Witch disguised well

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    We are what we buy Ryan (Shizhe Ruan) 9067614 We live in a modern world where full of mass consumption‚ after industrial revolutions‚ the new technology allowed productive forces to be improved significantly

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    Niagara Christian Community of Schools ESLDO Mrs. Jackie Opinion Essay on The Lion‚ the Witch and the Wardrobe Michelle Tsang 30th May‚ 2013 Title: Differences between Aslan and the White Witch The story begins with four young children playing hide and seek in an old professor Digory Kirke’s mysterious house that they discover a secret wardrobe which will take them to magical places. When they step through the wardrobe‚ they are escaped from the Word War II into an astonished place known

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    investigated 41 people in Hollywood who could be potential left wing members‚ they narrowed down their search to 19 people. In those 19 people 10 of them refused to say anything and pleaded to the fifth amendment. When accused and were blacklisted‚ they often had to accuse other people that were affiliated with the left party to get out of being accused. Likewise‚ in Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible people of the Salem witch trials were no different from what happened in Hollywood. In the Salem witch trials

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    Have you ever read the book ‚ “The Lion‚ The Witch ‚ and The Wardrobe ?” Lucy‚ Peter‚Susan‚ Edmund were compassionate in the story . They were all willing to help other people instead of themselves . Edmund started to get it at the end of the story because in the beginning of the story ‚ he was selfish and cruel to his siblings . The theme of this story is to “treat people the way you want to be treated .” First ‚ a lot of people can be very compassionate to help others . Alsan

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    spring time of 1692‚ The salem witch trials. Over 200 would betrialed or accused and around twenty total were hung on the infamousgallows hill. After the European’s paranoia of witchcraft happened thecolonial americas would begin doubting their own people to the point ofexecuting the particularly wrongly accused. Things began after the small town’s first ordained minister took order.His name was Samuel Parris and he was known to be greedy and unlikedby many people. Some people even considered him evil

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    ABSTRACT: When the witch trials started‚ it seemed the only way to prove you were not a witch was to be a witch. People were faced with impractical‚ and certainly deadly tasks in order to prove they were not a witch. Tasks they would only survive if they in fact had witchlike powers. In this paper I will argue as to why these trials were irrational. I will draw on reasons and rational from individuals such as Beccaria‚ Wollstonecraft‚ Locke‚ and Voltaire. The history of the witch trials is a grime

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