John Proctor‚ A True Man of God? The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the Salem Witch Trials. The people behind the Trials‚ the Puritans‚ were used as the characters in this work‚ and one of them‚ as well as their partly fabricated background‚ struck me in particular. John Proctor was an average Puritan man‚ decent amount of land‚ livestock‚ and Christian. John Proctors‚ entry into the story starts with his wife‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ being accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams‚
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1. Comment how your personal teaching and learning philosophy and beliefs influence the way you see teaching and learning. I have always considered that the place where learning and teaching occur has to be a safe environment for the students and teachers in order to achieve the established goals. I believe teachers have to be aware of students’ needs‚ interests‚ conditions‚ and age. For instance‚ as Brown (2007) explains‚ different age groups require different dynamics and activities to learn the
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Evidence Reference 8 Unit M3 2.1 Unit M2c 1.3 Unit M3 Manage health and social care practice to ensure positive outcomes for individuals. Task D Explain the psychological basis for well-being; include the theories that support your findings. The literal meaning of Psychology from its Greek Etymology is “study of the soul”. A more contemporary definition from Chambers Dictionary is “science of the mind” or “the study of mind and behavior”. A fuller description is offered by the NHS “Psychology is a science
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What is your view of “Professional Nursing”? Nursing is a profession that has its depth and breadth in meeting different health care needs of the population (American Nurses Association (ANA)‚ 2010). What is it that makes a professional nurse? Is it caring for the patient with compassion and devotion? Based on the interviews conducted among the three categories of staff‚ it was echoed that professional nursing takes a lot more than just attending to the needs of patients. From a professional
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1) What motivates you? a. The main thing that motivates me is being able to provide for my family. Knowing that I have a job that can pay my bill and put food on the table. b. Another thing that motivates me is being able to change lives for the better. Letting people that would never go to school for the cost reason have the ability to go. Knowing that they are changing their lives and also their children’s lives. 2) What does NOT motivate me? c. Having to worry about losing
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makes you do things you can’t take back. Many people‚ such as Abigail‚ become so love blind‚ they don’t realize that their actions could cause problems to the people surrounding them. One lie leads to another‚ Abigail and all the girls she was with created lies to save themselves‚ but in reality‚ they threatened the lives of others. They should have followed the laws of adultery and modesty. Intolerance is doing the wrong thing and what Abigail did was injustice and inhumane. Religion is strict in this
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A SHRED OF GOODNESS. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” This speech is said by John Proctor near to the end of Act IV a moment before he tears up his confession; it is the moment where he finds the shred of goodness in himself. To understand how he finds it‚ we first need to understand the
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Kate-Lynn Gomerich M. Haddou English 12C Individual Character Project November 22‚ 2014 John Proctors Role in “The Crucible” To be puritan is to be pure of any physical or mental pleasure; when pressure built the citizens of Salem massed into a frenzy of noose casting. Only to realize the heavy weight of truth as a course rope began to constrict around their necks. In “The Crucible” a story taking place in Salem‚ Massachusetts: the restricting ways of puritan life began to take their toll on the
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How far do you agree that John Proctor is a tragic hero? John Proctor‚ the main character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible can be classified as a tragic hero. The term tragic hero was made by Aristotle who was a Greek philosopher that lived between 384BC and 322BC. He said that the main characteristics that a character must have to be a tragic hero is having a noble status‚ a flaw that will lead to their downfall when they make a mistake‚ the audience must be able to feel empathy towards the character
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John Williams has composed over one-hundred film scores of which he has received forty-five Academy Award nominations. He has become a household name through his memorable music motifs. These themes capture the essence of the film and as one fan summarized: "John Williams has composed some of the best known themes and scores ever. You can’t deny that the Star Wars scores‚ for all the movies‚ especially the Imperial March‚ are incredible. He invented the famous Jaws theme‚ which is a standard
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