Danforth’s Witch Hunt‚ Is it Justified? (An Essay on the Crucible) I write in response to your column regarding Judge Danforth’s actions during the witch trials in Salem. Surprisingly‚ you praised Judge Danforth for his "impartiality and tact" during this tragic set of trials. You could not be farther from the truth. Judge Danforth abused his judicial power‚ throughout the trials‚ to the fullest of his abilities. His abuses range from berating and coercing witness into saying what he wants
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Alex Swanger Thought Provokers 2. What caused Bacon’s Rebellion? Were the Baconites justified in revolting? In what ways did their rebellion foreshadow the American Revolutionary War? Bacon’s Rebellion was a result of many different factors. It started with the fact that land was becoming scarce in Virginia because much of it was owned by the rich tidewater planters. When an indentured servant was freed‚ he was usually given freedom dues by his master‚ which usually included a small plot
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Tony Jones: Good evening and welcome to Q&A. Tonight’s discussion topic is “Understanding nurtures belonging- a lack of understanding prevents it.” To answer your questions tonight‚ the author of the play ‘The Crucible’ Arthur Miller and contemporary feminist journalist Clementine Ford. Please welcome our panel. Now‚ to begin‚ I think our audience would appreciate if you’d explain your situations and a little bit about the text that both of you have published‚ regarding Belonging. Miller: Well
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Immigration has been the primary way that the United States has grown since its founding as a nation. We can detect several key periods in which immigration has helped to shape its character. In the nineteenth century there were at least two critical periods of immigration. The first took place in the 1840s and 1850s when famines in Ireland drove hundreds of thousands of people to seek refuge in the United States. The Irish population of cities such as Boston and New York expanded enormously during
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village of Salem‚ a group of girls fell “ill”. They began having hallucinations and seizures. Their behavior became erratic‚ wild‚ and unpredictable. It was this behavior that caused the extremely religious people of Salem to suspect the girls were bewitched. It’s ironic actually that the Puritans‚ who came to America to escape religious persecution‚ would practice such deliberate‚ cruel‚ and ignorant persecution
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“Behind the glamour of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’‚ there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and emptiness” How far does this illuminate your reading of ‘The Great Gatsby’? In Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Yates’s ‘Revolutionary Road’ it could be argued that there is more than just an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and emptiness. There is a lot of evidence in both novels that reflects the negative perception of women‚ the artificiality of certain characters and the pursuit
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proportions as Salem. In 1691 the mass hysteria began when several young girls dabbled in witchcraft and began acting strange. When villagers took notice the girls were seriously questioned and so they began naming people‚ mainly woman‚ who had supposedly bewitched them (Boyer‚ p66). Several other who had been accused were woman displayed unfeminine ’ behavior and those who stood to inherit more economic power than most men in the area (Boyer‚ p66). By 1692 the young girls had continued to make false accusations
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according to them is right or wrong. "Full of vexation come I with complaint against my child‚ my daughter Hermia. Stand forth‚ Demetrius. Mynoble lord‚ this man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth‚ Lysander. And my gracious duke‚ this man hath bewitched the bosom of my child. Thou‚ thou‚ Lysander‚ thou hast given her rhymes‚ and interchanged love tokens with my child. Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung with feigning voice verses of feigning love‚ and stol’n the impression of her fantasy with
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Gatsby Essay Rough Rough Draft What colors mean anything to you? Do certain things stand out from the ordinary to you in a way that brings back a specific memory or a certain trait of yourself or someone you know? In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald uses color as a symbol throughout the novel. Colors can be used as foreshadowing in stories‚ commonly used to depict feelings of a character. These colors are used to create several settings throughout the book‚ along with several moods and are most definitely
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In the year 1692‚ the infamous case of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ had everyone in panic. A group of girls had said that some old women had bewitched them. The theories of this case is that it reflected the social tensions that were going on at the time with people seen as outsiders. The majority of victims were old women that live by themselves‚ without the guidance of a man. Since that was not
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