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    In Arthur Miller’s tragic play the Crucible the author describes the life of puritans in Massachusetts in the 1700s revolving entirely around god‚ and all who said otherwise would be banished or hanged. The Salem Witch trials arose between this time and lead to an overall uncontrollable and unreasonable set of deaths in Salem. One could argue that the reason for these deaths lied in the hands of the people but in reality the fate of the victims in the Crucible lied with Abigail‚ a young girl in the

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    MarketOptimizer.org adds report “Vascular Dementias Global Clinical Trials Review‚ H2‚ 2014” to its store. Vascular dementia or "multi-infarct dementia" is dementia caused by problems in the supply of blood to the brain‚ typically by a series of minor strokes. Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in older adults. Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is thought to be irreversible and it is caused by a number of small strokes or sometimes a large stroke

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    morals‚ and values for the sake of freedom or that lack thereof‚ in looking at the nations differentiating reactions to Prohibition and the Scopes Trial? The morals and values that circulated America were based on Christianity. Prohibition was a time when America needed to determine their answer to the question of alcohol and stance in society. The Scopes Trial showed that America stood firmly behind its Christian beliefs and would permit anything that contradicted Christian teachings to be in schools

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    Act Three Questions Directions On a separate sheet of paper‚ please answer each part of each question asked below. Please use complete sentences and please answer the question as asked. 1. As the act opens‚ who is being interrogated and on what charge Martha Corey is being interrogated by Judge Hathorne on the charge of telling fortunes (witchery). 2. What is interesting about the dialogue at the beginning of this act What was Miller trying to suggest about the tone of the legal proceedings to

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    there would be a trial. When the outbreak broke out everyone was so scared and just started to accuse people in the village if they did one wrong move. There were more people getting charged and going to jail then there was of people getting sent to the gallow’s. When it all broke out it scared people‚ the aftermath was sad for families who were in it and the possible causes of why it started all line up. Spring of 1692 in Salem village‚ Massachusetts was where the Salem witch trials took place ("Salem

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    English 1302.040 Research Paper: Hysteria and Fear during the Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials was a mass hysteria of executions and accusations. The fear was caused by the hysteria of women being bewitched and bewitching others. This is such a controversial event‚ and it’s hardly applicable to prove if the events leading to the Witch Trials were accurate. So I ask‚ “What were the causes of the Salem Witch Trials‚ and the events leading up to the causes?” Although the question is simply

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    The Salem witch trials began when the 9-year-old daughter of reverend Samuel Parris and his niece were diagnosed as being under Satan’s influence. The Salem witch trials were an inhumane and unfair series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people‚ also four other accused and an infant child died in prison. People believed witches were associated with the

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    that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic‚ yet these trials and executions actually still took place‚ how can you explain why they occurred? <br> <br>The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover‚ as they did in The Crucible‚ but as series of seemingly unlinked‚ complex events‚ which a paranoid and scared group of people incorrectly linked. And while there were countless other witchcraft trials‚ Salem ’s trials remain the best-known. In Salem‚ fears of witchcraft

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    time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic‚ yet these trials and executions actually still took place‚ how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover‚ as they did in The Crucible‚ but as series of seemingly unlinked‚ complex events‚ which a paranoid and scared group of people incorrectly linked. And while there were countless other witchcraft trials‚ Salem trials remain the best-known. In Salem‚ fears of witchcraft perpetuated

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    what caused the Salem Witch Trials. But‚ after looking over evidence these are the reasons the Salem Witch Trials hysteria of 1692‚ were caused by the Puritans beliefs‚ the attention seeking girls‚ and the Ergot. The first cause of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria was the Puritans beliefs in God. The Puritans beliefs were strong and it them through their whole life. The evidence proves that they take every word in the Bible serious which caused the Salem Witch Trials hysteria because the Bible says

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