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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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    before‚ during and after a criminal trial. The Fifth Amendment states a defendant has the right to remain silent and cannot be forced to testify against himself. The Fifth Amendment also covers against double-jeopardy. The accused cannot be charged for the same crime‚ twice. In the Sixth Amendment‚ the accused has the right to a public trial made up anyone wishing to attend. Also in the Sixth Amendment the accused has a right to jury trial and a speedy trial. Although there are no set time limits

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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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    witch trials brought about hostility within a community causing unwarranted chaos and corruption in the small town of Salem Mass. Furthermore‚ these events lead to witch trials becoming a problem in Salem. The Salem witch trials had started with a domino effect of trials such as‚ “The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692‚ after a group of young girls in Salem Village‚

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    Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered as the best research design for decisions about the effect of different interventions but randomization does not apply to many clinical issues related to real world setting. The current scenario of clinical research indicates some major challenges associated with traditional clinical trials and patient care. The foremost challenges being most researchers consider RCTs as the mainstay of clinical research‚ which instead are slow and expensive. They

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    Witch Trials and McCarthyism Throughout history‚ society as a whole has experienced many different tragedies. All around the world negative events have taken place that affect large groups of citizens. Mass hysteria is one of many examples. Mass hysteria can be defined as a large group of people whose behavior exhibits overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess (Merriam Webster 613). Mass hysteria caused and contributed to many life changing events‚ including the Salem Witch Trials and

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    How could two epidemics that happened hundreds of years apart be similar? The Salem Witch Trials and AIDS hysteria compares in many ways‚ especially fear. Both events were exaggerated to the extreme by everyone‚ started in a small group of minorities‚ and had severe consequences during the crisis. The Salem Witch Trials and AIDS hysteria was exaggerated by everyone that knew or was involved with the cases. One elementary school in New York found out one kid was diagnosed with AIDS so that fall

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    resolution being the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials played the greatest role in resolving the Holocaust through their effective dispensing of justice‚ successful attempt at neutralizing as much remaining animosity between the victims and the perpetrators as possible‚ and instilling remorse in the alleged criminals‚ as opposed to the liberation of survivors‚ or monetary reparations made by guilty organizations‚ which just halted the imminent conflict. The Nuremberg Trials were held

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    While the Salem witch trials occurred in the late 1600’s‚ a similar unfortunate situation occurred in the 1950’s with an event called McCarthyism. The Red Scare and the Salem witch trials shared many common characteristics. The similarities include continuous accusations‚ leading politicians‚ and the reaction to Satan and communism. The Salem witch trials and the Red Scare both involved ongoing accusations that led to numerous innocent people being accused. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚

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    how no one stood up and questioned whether the children should or should not be trusted. So many deaths may have originally been caused by children’s...imagination. Document A is a chart of those who were killed on the trials. This shows how the community permitted the witchcraft trials go out of hand. Many lives could have been saved‚ if only the community had been more wary of the children. It was nothing but the ignorance of the community that led to the hanged deaths. Furthermore in Document C‚

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