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    confront Joseph McCarthy and the people of America on the communist and fascists truths of McCarthyism through a speech‚ “The Declaration of Consciences”. Specifically‚ Smith uses logos to denounce McCarthyism beliefs in front of Senator McCarthy himself. The audience connects to Smith notably through her use of pathos creating a strong connection to her as a person‚ speaker and an American. To demonstrate her logic‚ Margaret Smith denounces the McCarthyism beliefs in front Senator McCarthy himself

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    malice. However‚ no arraignments had ever affected as much people as the McCarthyism period in the 1940s and 1950s. Senator Joseph McCarthy was the leader of the Communist findings that became extreme until it was given the word ‘McCarthyism’. Results from his denunciation brought back another Red Scare or known as the Second Red Scare to the United States. “Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s charges of communist subversion in the U.S. Sate Department cause a national uproar.” It was one of those tough

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    race against stockpiling weapons‚ weapons of mass destruction and complete annihilation of cities and towns from the dominant threat of communism. The American government was now focused on ways of containing and keeping communism from spreading. In Joseph McCarthy’s address on Communism‚ we see the importance of how this becomes a significant

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    Justin A. Garcia Ms M. McKenzie English IV AP‚ Period 8 May 15‚ 2014 Anotated Bibliography Knox‚ Paul D. "Okay Means Okay": Ideology and Survival in Cormac Mccarthy ’s‚ The Road.  4th ser. vol 70 Issue 2 (2012): 96-99. EBSCOhost. Web. 15 May 2014. . A literary critique is presented of the post-apocalyptic novel "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy‚ focusing on the ideologies of the two main characters and how they came to adopt them. The author suggests that the characters see a binary world of good characters

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    Americans came to believe that Communist supporters had infiltrated the American borders and were beginning to take over. Among those believers was the Senator of Wisconsin‚ Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy gave a speech on communism in front of the Republican women’s group on February 7‚ 1950‚ in Wheeling‚ West Virginia. In this speech‚ McCarthy addressed that he had a government document listing over two hundred communists who were currently serving in the U.S. Government and military. This serious accusation

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     there was the nationwide fear called the Red Scare. The ‘Red Scare’ is a period of time where there was strong anti­communism in the United States. Senator Joseph McCarthy became the public face of that movement. His intentions fueled fear of Communist subversion to the nation. The “Red Scare” caused America to be in fear of communism‚ motivating Senator Joseph McCarthy to take advantage of his power. Harry S. Truman was the president during McCarthyism. On March 21‚ 1947 Truman signed United States Executive Order 9835

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    bystanders of McCarthyism that allowed innocent people’s lives to be ruined because they were too afraid to put their own reputations at stake by objecting the false accusations of Communism in America. After witnessing the success of Senator Joseph McCarthy in his claims of having a list of some 205 communists in the State Department‚ several members of congress began to adopt his oppressive and abusive tactics for political purposes. In‚ “You Mean I’m Supposed to Stand on That?”‚ Herblock of the

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    ¨...this religion of immoralism will more deeply wound and damage mankind than any conceivable economic or political system¨ (McCarthy 1). Both Fahrenheit 451 and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy´s speech ¨Enemies from Within¨ take place between 1950-1951. The 1950´s was a time of the Cold War when people feared communists‚ which inspired Fahrenheit 451 to be set in 2053 to predict what the future would look like. Bradbury created a visual for what society could turn out to be like if Communism took over

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    housekeeper‚ a chain of accusations begin. To avoid death‚ Tituba accused others in the town causing each of the accused to place blame on others. The Crucible is a metaphor for the accusations made in the 1950’s during the Red Scare era. Senator Joseph McCarthy led the series of allegations with a list of people he felt were related somehow to communism. The list that was compiled grew as more people accused others for personal revenge. The continuous accusing went on until the original list of over

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    McCarthyism and the crack-down on the communists in the 1950’s During the Cold War‚ many people were victimized by the accusations put forth by Joseph McCarthy. The Cold War was a political‚ military‚ and diplomatic struggle that defined the second half of the twentieth century. Beginning almost immediately after the end of World War II‚ the Cold War did not come to an end until the downfall of the Soviet Union in 1991. While the United States and the Soviet Union were the primary nations involved

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