key people involved in the “the other witch hunt?” what roles do each play in the incident? Specific examples/evidence from book the whole 1) Katherine Branch a) Servant of Daniel and Abigail Wescot b) Has fits may or may not be real c) accuses Disborough and Clawson i) claims Disborough was her guide to compo there and back ii) accused Clawson of pinching her and later red spots appeared on Kate which later turned into black and blue bruises d) begins trial and other colonist’s confession to start
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A witch craze swept the small Puritan community of Salem Village‚ Massachusetts in 1692. It began when a group of girls gathered in the evenings in the home of Reverend Parris to listen to stories told by one of his slaves‚ Tituba. They also played fortune-telling games‚ which were strictly forbidden by the Puritans. One night‚ while trying to see the faces of their future husbands in an egg white dropped in a glass of water‚ one girl believed she saw the shape of a coffin. Soon after‚ the girls
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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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A priest and the chorus of Thebans arrive at the palace to call upon their King‚ Oedipus‚ to aid them with the plague. Oedipus had sent his brother-in-law Creon to ask help of the oracle at Delphi‚ and he returns at that moment. Creon says the plague is the result of religious pollution‚ caused because the murderer of their former King‚ Laius‚ had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for the plague that he has caused. Oedipus summons the blind prophet Tiresias for
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THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DRUG SCARES. 1. Craig Reinarman’s article describes how moral entrepreneurs (in America in this instance) take advantage of the law and the middle class group through labeling groups of people who do not conform to their social expectations as deviants. His article briefly describes the key role players of drug scares‚ the motivation that lies behind drug usage and the social context that enhances their development and growth. Background Alcohol and prohibition
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Salem Possessed redefined the standard for the possibilities social history offers to understand the events and people of early America. Through a painstaking look at local records such as legal records‚ the Salem Village record book‚ the minister’s book‚ and tax records Boyer and Nissenbaum discovered a long-standing pattern of contentious behavior of which the witchcraft accusations in 1692 was just one episode. Their analysis provides an invaluable insight into the social history of New England
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in the Vietnam War in 1972. Through close examination of the ALP split as a result of the Communist Party Dissolution Bill (CPDB) and the Petrov affair‚ and Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War it can be seen just how divisive the communist scare was‚ as well as creating cohesion. The CPDB was introduced in 1951and was the cause of immense political division‚ laying the foundations for the ALP split. In 1951 the bill (stating that anyone who was communist or associated with communist bodies
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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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Share the spirit‚ share the refreshment You’ve got what it takes – Salem Spirit. This is the claim that the RJ Reynolds Cigarette Company makes‚ and it certainly sounds enticing. After all‚ a group of young professionals certainly seems to experience the good life after having consumed this product. As the advertising industry is only loosely regulated by the Federal Trade Commission‚ it is not surprising that this part of the message is very bloated‚ while the truthful information about this
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Textual Analysis: The Blair Witch Project Horror movies always have one thing in common; the victim(s) and the monster. The monster typically is a human who uses some kind of weapon to demise their victim‚ and the victim usually finds a weapon to use against the monster‚ usually killing them. In the movie‚ The Blair Witch Project‚ that is not the case. The Blair witch is never seen in the movie‚ but uses nature to haunt her victims. The victim’s on the other hand only have a 16 mm camera‚ and
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