John F. Kennedy once stated that, “We are the Nation of Immigrants”. Immigrants referring to; people who move to a foreign country in hopes of finding a better life for themselves. With this, anyone who has moved to America was at one point an immigrant. Some families have been in America for hundreds of years. Some have just been here for days. But nonetheless, we are all immigrants. In 1602 the first immigrants came to America. The protestants wanted religious freedom from the Church of England. They sailed to America with hopes of a better life. They built their houses, farmed the land, and tried to provide for their families. After being prosecuted in England, one would think that they would be more forgiving of different ideas.
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Meaning, everything must be pure, or stated in the Bible. The act of witch craft is was not aloud in the church, as seen in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In Salem Massachusetts, many men and women were hanged for the act of “witch craft” when in actuality they were just different. These hangings are known as the Salem Witch Trials. They were blamed for events that were not their doing. This happens to be a common occurrence within the human race. Throughout history innocent people have been scapegoated.The start of the term was even created from Biblical text. The Bible states that a man blamed a goat for the wrongdoings that he did, hence the term …show more content…
The immigrants have not been prosecuted in the same way, due to the fact that there has not been a mass killing of immigrants. But the government is trying to keep them out, and not let them try for a better life. Just like the church would not let the witches perform witch craft, because they were to afraid to loss of power. The definition of the word witch is; a woman thought to have evil magic powers. The fact is that people believe that others are evil because they are different, when in all actuality we are all the same. Every family in America has either come over by choice or force. But that does not make one better than the other. That just makes us all
Meaning, everything must be pure, or stated in the Bible. The act of witch craft is was not aloud in the church, as seen in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In Salem Massachusetts, many men and women were hanged for the act of “witch craft” when in actuality they were just different. These hangings are known as the Salem Witch Trials. They were blamed for events that were not their doing. This happens to be a common occurrence within the human race. Throughout history innocent people have been scapegoated.The start of the term was even created from Biblical text. The Bible states that a man blamed a goat for the wrongdoings that he did, hence the term …show more content…
The immigrants have not been prosecuted in the same way, due to the fact that there has not been a mass killing of immigrants. But the government is trying to keep them out, and not let them try for a better life. Just like the church would not let the witches perform witch craft, because they were to afraid to loss of power. The definition of the word witch is; a woman thought to have evil magic powers. The fact is that people believe that others are evil because they are different, when in all actuality we are all the same. Every family in America has either come over by choice or force. But that does not make one better than the other. That just makes us all