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    As World War II progressively came to an end‚ the Allies‚ who were the proclaimed victors of this massive war‚ were concerned with one particular thing: What was to happen to the senior Nazi officials who were largely responsible for the various war crimes that were committed throughout the war? The British‚ led by Winston Churchill‚ were in favor of executing these officers without granting them a full or fair trial‚ which was also called summary justice. On the contrary‚ the United States proposed

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    DBQ-The Witch Craze Identify and analyze at least three major reasons for the persecution of individuals as witches in Europe from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. From the Middle Ages until the 1700s‚ a fevered witch craze was spread throughout Europe. These witches were isolated‚ persecuted and when found‚ tortured and consequently killed. With most of the population concentrated in southeastern Europe‚ over 100‚000 witches were tried. It was believed that these individuals

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    SUPERVISOR: Mr. JOEL ZOWA “The plight of an unrepresented accused person in a criminal trial in Zimbabwe” Introduction Central to the whole aspect of the entire system of criminal justice‚ in any civilized nation‚ is the quest to strike a balance between the scales of justice. Criminal offenders‚ on one hand‚ must be punished in order to prevent socially intolerable activities and concurrently minimum fair trial rights of every accused person must be upheld irrespective of their status. Every

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    WITCH HUNTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY Witch Hunts were one of the harshest hunts in history. Although these hunts were very harsh‚ they were very common. They were a search for people who accused of being a witch. In most cases‚ it was fairly easy to get out of accusations‚ as long as you could blame someone else. “Throughout history there were several cases of these so-called‚ witch hunts.” THE HARTFORD WITCH TRIALS One of the very first witch hunts that happened in America‚ took place in Hartford‚ Connecticut

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    Arrogance The Trial by Franz Kafka chronicles the arrest of a worldly‚ young bank official‚ Joseph K. for an unknown crime and traces his struggles and encounters with the invisible Law and untouchable Court. Although the novel is critically acclaimed for satirizing the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy of Kafka’s time it also seems to be criticizing the arrogance of the common people. Joseph K.’s eventual downfall is not just due to the in comprehensible judicial system but can be attributed to his

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    The 16th and 17th centuries experienced a great shift of ideals with the Reformation that contributed to the rise of witch-hunts. Although the Reformation is notorious for the disagreement between the Protestants and the Catholics‚ what both groups agreed on was that witches were to be punished for their evil deeds. The two major religious figures during this time were John Calvin and Martin Luther. These two men believed in non-clerical celibacy‚ and less stress on chastity before marriage. Now

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    The Scottsboro Trials‚ which was a series of trials that involved nine Negro boys that were accused of raping two white women. The trial was actually a false allegation‚ of which the two white women were at fault. Furthermore‚ in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the character Tom Robinson had a case that was very similar. Tom was accused of raping a white woman‚ but he was falsely accused as well. Both cases have many things alike.

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    Vengeance is a powerful thing in Salem. With young women accusing anyone as witches and putting them on trial hoping they will be hung made certain people believe these women were seeking revenge. There were multiple accounts of young women having conflicts with good citizens and later bringing them trial. For example Mary Warren versus Sarah Good. Sarah good was known as a dirty beggar. Her and her husband would go door to door and ask people for charity. One day Sarah knocked on the door of Mary

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    Hansen explored further ideas about the girls’ fits having to do with mental breakdowns and fear.11 Descriptive sermons were being given frequently about and against witchcraft around the time of the Salem Witch Trials. It is obvious to say that the girls could have felt terrified about this and the witchcraft that they would have seen throughout the village. In Witchcraft at Salem‚ Chadwick Hansen says‚ “The cause of these hysterical symptoms‚ of course‚ was not witchcraft itself but the victim’s

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    Witch craze in Europe during: the period of the Protestant Reformation‚ Catholic Counter-Reformation‚ the Scientific Revolution‚ and the consolidation of national governments from about 1480-1700 For more than two hundred years‚ individuals were persecuted as witches throughout the continent of Europe‚ even though the witch hunt was concentrated on Southwestern Germany‚ Switzerland‚ England‚ Scotland‚ Poland‚ and parts of France. In a collective frenzy. witches were sought‚ identified‚ arrested

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