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    How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather does not necessarily relate to my personal life but‚ it does relate to American society today. Samantha Mather is a teenage girl‚ who is a direct descendant of Cotton Mather‚ the original accuser from the Salem Witch trials. Her stepmom and her move to Salem after her dad falls ill because is was cheaper to live in Salem rather than New York. Odd events‚ that impact all of the direct descendants of the Witch trials‚ begin to happen right after the Mathers arrive

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    World of Darkness The novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy is set in a post-apocalyptic world lacking resources‚ food‚ and rules. It tells the journey of a man and his son to find lasting safety and of the adversity they face along the way. The boy in The Road understands the terror of living in a post-apocalyptic world‚ and at a young age he realizes that he must grow up in order to protect himself as well as his father. Throughout the novel‚ McCarthy gives the reader examples of how the boy exhibits

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    The trial of Socrates This essay is an interpretation of the accusations against Socrates during his trial. Socrates was a Greek philosopher born in 470 BCE. He believed that philosophical system was the value of human knowledge. He would rather die than live and not to be allowed to teach and practice Philosophy and convincing people that the things that are worth it to be valued in life were wisdom‚ truth and the improvement of the soul as an opposed to money‚ honour and reputation. 1 In 399

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    McMartin Trials Two trials on opposite ends of the timeline of like that have much in common. Children are victims of child molestation and bewitchment of the Devil. Both cases children are manipulated by a greater evil causing mass Hysteria‚ Power of Accusers‚ and Power of Prosecution. Hysteria controlled the trials of McMartin and Salem by fear of the unknown. In the McMartin trial the town had never before been faced with molestation. It was a new fear to the city. Again in Salem‚ the town

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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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    John McCarthy and Mark Wolfson from the University of Minnesota collected data emphasizing on three distinct features that facilitated the mobilization of resources. These three features are strategy‚ agency‚ and organizational structure. Agency is related to the mobilization of volunteer labor and membership. Here McCarthy and Wolfson use this term to describe it as “the sheer amount of effort activists invest in collective action rather than its caliber” (McCarthy and Wolfson p. 1071). Through

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    KIA Niro commercial uses the comedian and actress‚ Melissa McCarthy. McCarthy was featured in the commercial as a way of pursuing the audience to purchase the new ECO Hybrid car. McCarthy drove the car to different destinations in different weather conditions. By using her humor and being loved/popular actress‚ KIA immediately benefits attention from the audience. Using fame can help a company receive business; in the KIA commercial‚ McCarthy is used as testimonial propaganda simply because she is humors

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    ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CRIMINAL TRIAL PROCESS AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING JUSTICE. The criminal trial process is a vital part of the criminal justice system in NSW as it plays a fundamental role in achieving justice‚ by determining the innocence or guilt of an offender. Yet‚ despite the criminal trial process still having many complex issues that remove it of achieving its full means of justice‚ the process has stood the test of time and lasted for more than two centuries. It aims at lawfully

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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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