Fear Essay
Kyra Frazier
Mrs. Dodd
English M.1
Research
The KKK http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/creationism/bad%20religion/5_klan.htm Many terrorists are fervent in their religious faith and classify their opponents as being irreligious or as promoting changes which are contrary to divine will. Although there was still a persecution of blacks, especially in the south, much of the popularity of the Klan was due to the perception that conservative AngloSaxon Protestantism needed to defend itself against Catholics, Jews, immigrants, woman suffrage, resistance to prohibition, and evolution. Blacks lived in fear of physical punishment, just as in the days of the first Klan.
Catholics were targeted with cross burnings, economic boycotts, and assaults. One group convinced themselves that they were actually going to lynch the Pope.
Little community of North Manchester experienced a rare episode of mass hysteria An overzealous Klan lecturer had been telling them that the Pope would be arriving any day. “He may even be on the northbound train tomorrow! He may!…Watch the trains!” The next day, nearly fifteen hundred North Manchester residents boarded the northbound Monon in an attempt to ambush the Pope. The only passenger on board was a quiet little man who saw the mob was in a lynching mood. In desperation, he explained that he was only a corset salesman. They
didn’t believe him. He got out a valise crammed with his wares, and after a while, they let him and the train go, figuring that not even the Pope would carry that many corsets.
9/11
http://masshysteria.wikispaces.com/Post+911
America's taking small steps in recovering from our post hysteria following 9/11. Ever since 9/11
America has been in terror mode thinking that the same thing will happen again eventually to us.
The post 9/11 scare represents the same situation as it did in Salem after the Witch Trials because everyone was scared more people were going to be charged
with
Mrs. Dodd
English M.1
Research
The KKK http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/creationism/bad%20religion/5_klan.htm Many terrorists are fervent in their religious faith and classify their opponents as being irreligious or as promoting changes which are contrary to divine will. Although there was still a persecution of blacks, especially in the south, much of the popularity of the Klan was due to the perception that conservative AngloSaxon Protestantism needed to defend itself against Catholics, Jews, immigrants, woman suffrage, resistance to prohibition, and evolution. Blacks lived in fear of physical punishment, just as in the days of the first Klan.
Catholics were targeted with cross burnings, economic boycotts, and assaults. One group convinced themselves that they were actually going to lynch the Pope.
Little community of North Manchester experienced a rare episode of mass hysteria An overzealous Klan lecturer had been telling them that the Pope would be arriving any day. “He may even be on the northbound train tomorrow! He may!…Watch the trains!” The next day, nearly fifteen hundred North Manchester residents boarded the northbound Monon in an attempt to ambush the Pope. The only passenger on board was a quiet little man who saw the mob was in a lynching mood. In desperation, he explained that he was only a corset salesman. They
didn’t believe him. He got out a valise crammed with his wares, and after a while, they let him and the train go, figuring that not even the Pope would carry that many corsets.
9/11
http://masshysteria.wikispaces.com/Post+911
America's taking small steps in recovering from our post hysteria following 9/11. Ever since 9/11
America has been in terror mode thinking that the same thing will happen again eventually to us.
The post 9/11 scare represents the same situation as it did in Salem after the Witch Trials because everyone was scared more people were going to be charged
with