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    Black Death‚ directed by Christopher Smith in 2010‚ it a movie‚ which’s main idea is to show how the Black Death was in the Middle Ages. The movie is about a young monk‚ Osmund‚ who says to the woman he loved‚ Averill‚ to go to the forest because he wanted to protect her from the bubonic plague that had arrived at their city. After this‚ a village leader called Ulrich came with his army‚ which’s members were Wolfstan‚ Hob‚ and Dalyway‚ to tell the monks that they’re going to investigate about

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    Tempel Anneke was accused of witchcraft in 1663‚ not because of what she did for her community but because she was an elderly female in a man’s world that was set on freeing society of witches. The Christian church which was run by men viewed witchcraft loosely as a way to lump together all practices that could not be explained through the church. It was also demonized by the Church who had no good response to give its people. The Church believed it wasn’t coming from God‚ so it must be evil.

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    Before embarking upon my research project‚ I sat down to ponder what sort of topics interest me‚ as far as having the potential to provide an avenue for research. For some reason‚ which I can not explain‚ my thoughts roamed to a trip I took in 2012 to London‚ England. In England‚ I visited a place called the London Dungeons. It is really nothing more than a tourist trap‚ to be honest. However‚ the dungeons did offer an exhibit on methods used in England to obtain confessions from accused witches

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    University of Phoenix Material University Resources Scavenger Hunt Log on to the new University of Phoenix eCampus web page located at: https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/portal/portal/public/login.aspx. Explore the resources available on the site and use them to answer the following questions. ACADEMIC HELP 1. What are the six “Other Math Labs” available for study in the Center for Mathematics Excellence? (Hint: Click on the “Running Start Link.”) Self Assessment‚ ALEKS Math Refresher‚ Pre Algebra

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    In The Specter of Salem‚ Gretchen A. Adams studies the ways nineteenth-century Americans deployed the history of the Salem witchcraft trials to influence debates over national identity‚ the sectional crisis‚ and new religious movements. Adams situates her work within a wide range of historical and sociological literature‚ including studies of collective memory‚ nationalism‚ and language. Her research is based on the legal records and histories written immediately after the trials‚ as well as nineteenth-century

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    evidence‚ which are testimonies of dreams and visions. They were executed in public hangings between the years of 1692 and 1693. “The court later deemed the trials unlawful” because the type of evidence lead to the death of innocent people (“Salem Witch Trials‚” 2001‚ para. 1-6). Public hangings are a form of punishment that became the most frequent form of capital punishment by the 10th century (Reggio‚ n.d.‚ para. 4). The same way the Puritan

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    Salem was one of the most popular places where witches were executed‚ because people where afraid of devil which shows the Miller’s story The Crucible. This horrible fear shaped the society of Salem and as it happened a lot of women were killed. As Dorothy Thompson said: "The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness". The book which I read is the story about how the society was manipulated by the fear of the unknown or different. Therefore‚ in my opinion people

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    by the Puritans were just as important and weighted as the demands of the law. Similarly‚ Crucible is set during a time that the sin of witchcraft was not only punishable on religious grounds‚ but lawful as well. During this time period‚ the Salem witch trials were roaring. In an excerpt from Douglas Linder’s The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: A Commentary‚ it is said‚ “From June

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    Rowlandson did a great job expressing her religion‚ but so did Cotton Mather. In “The Wonders of the Invisible World”‚ Mather’s runs into problems in his colony with things such as witchcraft. Mathers wanted to protect his Puritan beliefs and did not want evil teachings to corrupt others religious views. Mathers believed in the persecution of this witches to keep the Puritans and their believes safe. Mathers had a strong religious background and was a preacher. As a preacher his job was to protect

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