In the article Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George by Sherene Razack discusses the case of Pamela George. Pamela George was an Aboriginal Women, and a Prostitute. She lived in an area in Regina, Saskatchewan where crime and violence were common and unpunished. She was murdered by two white men who were doing what was supposed to be done to “Indian hookers”. The two white men that killed Pamela George were not convicted by the justice system because of their social status.…
The Inconvenient Indian –Essay II Imagine you are one of the sailors on Christopher Columbus’s voyage to cross the Atlantic Ocean in route to the East Indies. At 27 years of age you’ve lived your whole life in the small town of Andalucia as a sailor. Like most others in the region you grew up worshiping a Christian God and praising the monarchy that governs you. Two months have passed since you have left port and at last you reach shore.…
A Reputation Threads through Salem A relatively calm town was deserted in response to madness and mayhem. Who was accountable for this? Abigail Williams. Abigail was a teen girl in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts.…
The discrimination against older, widowed women in control of property is seen in the demographics of those accused as 66 of the 144 accused were women over 40, 12 of which were executed, the highest ratio of accused to executed amongst the age groups, and 22 of the 132 women accused were widows (Karlsen 66, 72). The rights women acquired made men feel insecure about their positions in society resulting in a hyper-masculine attitude reflected in the demographics of the accused. The increase of women’s sovereignty in the mid-17th century and the hyper-masculine attitude that rose in response to it fostered the perfect atmosphere for the Salem Witch Trials to occur. The changing gender roles also contradicted Puritan culture, which put the society…
One of the most famous cases of witchcraft took place within the British colonies in 1692. They were located in Salem, Massachusetts and were appropriately named: The Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a unique part of American history, that brought fear, dishonesty, and death over a small, religion-based community for over a year. When examined deeply, several instances of underlying conflict reveal the reasons for why such an event happened. The end result of these trials took the lives of over twenty, and over one hundred and fifty victims were accused (Latner 138).…
Plainly, a great deal was difficult about understanding the activities in “The ‘Killing’ of Neni Bai”, and that is the way it should be. As someone who has not been socialized as a Hindu, or anything close to one, and as someone living in the overtly capitalistic America, with a life nothing like the ones shown through the eyes and words of Paul Winther, I should understand little about the point of view of the people described in “The ‘Killing’ of Neni Bai”. This includes the activities of: drinking tea with buffalo milk and sugar, cutting off Pancham Ram’s abnormal beard, the class system (different than that of the United States), and obviously, the killing of Neni Bai. Everyone is a product of their socialization, and since culture…
Empress Gustave-Fernandez Ms. Flaherty Sec:Red The Crucible Numerous people of all age ranges have been enticed with the events of the infamous Salem Witch Trials for centuries hoping to find answers. From February 1692 to May 1693, a series of prosecuting the accused with witchcraft took spotlight, and left many families mourning. The accused criminals may not have at all done anything wrong, but their lives were determined in the hands of a few unworthy officials. A heartbreaking 20 people were hanged, 14 of which were women having no say to begin with. Imagine being given an unjust trial due to the misogynistic way of entitled men who believe that their version is the only one of validity.…
A common term used to describe a situation in which various people all suffer from similar hysterical symptoms - either from a phantom illness or an inexplicable event, is mass hysteria. In Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Crucible’ the town of Salem, Massachusetts, is thrown into mass hysteria when the the word witchcraft spreads about the town. Those who have cried witchcraft have gathered at the home of Reverend Samuel Parris to see the girl, Betty Parris, who has been affected by the ‘Devil’s dark deed’. Up in the room of Betty Parris, Reverend Parris learns that his orphaned niece, Abigail Williams and company were dancing in the woods alongside Tituba, the Parris’ slave, who was accused of conjuring up the souls Mrs. Ann Putnam’s deceased children,…
From the 1500’s to the mid 1700’s, witch hunting had begun getting popular. The efforts of the earlier European nations focused not so much on executing previously known witches, but identifying witches in hiding. No one was safe from these deadly accusations. 70 percent of those accused were women mainly, women, widowed or dispensers of herbal remedies.…
In a way, the role of gender played a part in the action of committing crimes. His other point, rationalizing torture, talks about how torturers always try to rationalize their face-to-face violence; they always look for some kind of justification. Many, if not all, of the “stickup kids” tried to rationalize their…
In the Unlikely Event of a Water landing Tragedies such as murder and rape are thought to be horrendous crimes; acts so violent and malicious that the perpetrators must spend their lives in prison to pay their dues, but these crimes occur so often they rarely make headlines anymore. Every once in a while a big “story” will hit the news and the masses will cry out in outrage but even then the outrage dies down and the victims are forgotten. Many times there are witnesses to these crimes that do not act. In the third chapter, “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing”, of Lauren Slater’s book Opening Skinner’s Box she references such a murder, that of Catherine Genovese. Miss Genovese’s death received the typical four lines in the newspaper and was quickly forgotten.…
Crucible Essay Submissive. Inferior. Disregarded. 1692 Salem women suffered under such fates, along with the mass hysteria of the notorious Salem witch trials.…
Salem Witch Trials Salem Witch Trials Between the months of June to September of 1692 the infamous witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts resulted in the deaths of twenty men and women as a result of witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations and dozens were jailed for months during the process of the trials. There are a variety of explanations for the hysteria that overtook the population of Salem. A combination of religious, political, and societal aspects contributed to the crisis.…
Arthur Miller 's The Crucible is a play loosely based on the American society 's hysteria around communism in the 1950s. The play takes place in 1692, where a group of girls accuse others within the town of Salem Massachusetts of witch craft to keep themselves out of trouble after being caught in the woods casting magic with Tituba, a slave, by Reverend Parris. The ring leader of this group is Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old girl who is the ward of Reverend Parris. The girls slowly but surely gain power in the court. Under Abigail 's influence, they use their newfound power to cause the death of over twenty Salem villagers.…
In the Text Michale Frazier wrote “He hit her But…” he goes into talking about Victim blaming and domestic violence. In this situation In the text he explains how people categorize woman as “Others” when it comes to domestic violence people are so quick to point the finger to the female and how she must have proved him to hit her. He also made a statement about how some females were clothing that allows them to get rapped, but before that Cisneros also made another point in her text that is in some way similar to the blog when she said “She isn 't aware of being watched. Not aware of her body, causing men to look at her yet. Then Frazier made a point when he said “If someone were raped, would you turn to them and tell them that they should have worn a certain outfit, or state that they shouldn 't have walked in a certain location to avoid the rape?”…