Crucible shows multiple topics that each hold a theme throughout Act IV. For example‚ a main topic is guilt. The theme is personal guilt leads people to make extreme choices. At the end of the play‚ Proctor is hung because he chooses to hide what he knows about Abigail since he holds so much guilt inside himself for committing the sin of adultery. Proctor was a good man but chose to die so he lost the guilt of sinning. Pride is also a topic in The Crucible. Everyone holds a source of pride in themselves
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“The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga is a piece of literature that talks about India left and right. A book that can be half fiction half true. It talks about the fortunate and the unfortunate‚ the rich and the poor. The irony shown in this book about corruption‚ oppression of the poor‚ reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India help portray our understanding of this novel. The irony in “The White Tiger” shows the corruption in India. Balram Halwai is a student in a school with a teacher
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Reflective Essay Growing up as a minority often hindered my interactions and changed my perspective of the people around me. Because of the dominating white supremacy in my community‚ I was forced to believe that being white was "better" and people with a fairer skin tone were "prettier" than my darker complexion. My friend‚ especially‚ made me feel that my skin tone only put me at a disadvantage. Throughout grade school‚ I was always the one with the short end of the stick often because
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The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ contains alternating views of sin‚ morals‚ and guilt. Society classifies Hester Prynne a sinner for committing adultery while her husband was gone. Although the town does not punish her with death‚ for the slight possibility that her husband might be dead‚ their treatment of her is grave and cruel. As part of her punishment‚ the townspeople require Hester to stand on the public scaffold‚ where she is humiliated and embarrassed‚ wear a scarlet letter
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RUNNING HEAD: THE 1950’s AND 1960’s 1 The 1950’s and 1960’s Tracy Ladner Mississippi University for Women History 110 RUNNING HEAD: THE 1950’s AND 1960’s 2 The 1950’s and ‘60’s was a time of great growth and change for America. Some called it “The Golden Age” (Brinkley‚ 2012‚ p.779). For the most part there was prosperity and advances
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throughout his essay. Thoreau had some serious problems with the way the United States was run. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and bitterly opposed the Mexican-American War‚ which he viewed as an act of American aggression. In protest‚ Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes. He spent a night in jail for this offense in 1848. Henry David Thoreau uses examples of The Rhetorical Triangle‚ literary devices to prove his point that the government is controlling the people‚ in his essay titled “Civil
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The 1950’s-60’s70’s-80’s Miranda Moultrie Nixon Back Again The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election‚ held on Tuesday‚ November 5‚ 1968. Moon Shot On July 21‚ 1969‚ President Nixon spoke from the Oval Office to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin at the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon‚ Americans Neil Armstrong and Woodstock A village in New York state
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“In the Hands of the Whites…” On February 21‚ 1899‚ the U.S. gunboat Petrel docked near Fort San Pedro‚ signaling the American occupation in Cebu. The following day‚ the American flag was raised at the fort as the city’s republican forces led by Luis Flores‚ Julio Llorente and Leoncio Alburo‚ capitulated and surrendered the city “under protest”. “Is this a sign of a new beginning or just the end of the first misery?” was one of the many questions in the minds of the Filipinos of that time. The
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The book White Oleander is the story of a girl and her mother. Astrid Magnussen is the daughter of a beautiful‚ ethereal artist named Ingrid. Ingrid is irresponsible but strong‚ powerful‚ and commanding. “She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen…” Astrid says‚ “I know a lot of young girls think that when they’re small but she was the most beautiful woman most people had ever seen.” Ingrid has strength‚ a certain calloused cynicism about her shrouded in the illusion of realism. Astrid is young
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During the time period of the 1890s up until the 1930s Americans experienced change like never before. This new era was different from the traditional American lifestyle in every way‚ it was much more modern and much less conservative than previous generations. Within the adaptation of this era and its indulgences‚ Americans gained new senses of personal freedom and the sexual revolution rose into full effect. Some of the main driving forces behind this new modern era would of course be the changes
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