Barbados

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through the Atlantic Ocean in search for Gold, and other valuable resources. On his journey to Asia Columbus and his sailors discovered an island which would be later called Cuba and furthered his destination to other islands in the Caribbean from Barbados to the Dominican Republic . Christopher Columbus is the reason why the Caribbean is known as the West Indies because when he arrived he thought he was in India. Although all writers agree Christopher Columbus impacted American history, many of…

Imagine one day everything was lost. Jobs, reputation, friends, life as it is, gone. The unbelievably true Salem Witchcraft Trials is an allegory to the Red Scare in many ways. An allegory is a story that helps to better understand an event with a deeper meaning. The Salem Witchcraft trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Word started going around that witches were making people do some odd things. People started getting accused of a crime they didn’t commit. They could admit to…

From the 1770s onwards the West Indies were becoming less important because Cuba and Brazil could produce cheaper sugar. Many of the plantations in the West Indies were closed down and the demand for slaves fell. For example, in 1771 Barbados imported 2728 slaves but one year later they imported none. If this was the case the decision to abolish slavery would have been easier as it was no longer needed and was slowly dying out. Furthermore plantation owners had to pay a substantial amount of…

The witch trials of Salem is an infamous period of hysteria and paranoia, in which people chose fear over rationality. While many of the accusations were absurd, many are still victims of hysterical accusations, which occurs even today. The play, The Crucible, takes place in Salem, during the 1600 's, as the town is engulfed in the hysteria of witch hunts, which forces the audience to acknowledge the tendencies humans display, in similar situations. Arthur Miller uses his play, The Crucible, to…

The Salem witch trials in the late 17th century exposed the flawed structure of the Puritan society in which women, especially young women, held very little power; however, a conniving and mischievous young woman, despite the misogynistic system of the village, rose to the top of society through manipulation and harlotry. Abigail Williams realizes that under normal circumstances, she holds no influence in Salem, but giving in to the irresistible desire for power, she seeks to change this by…

Men, women, two dogs, and even a four year old girl were accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Some people were convicted and hung, while one person was even sentenced to death by stone. Many people were sent to jail to await their trials, so many that the jails soon became crowded. The lives of many people in the town of Salem were affected by the trials when about 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, nineteen people were hung and one person was…

The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1953 as a counterattack for being forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, at the height of the Red Scare era. The Crucible, is about the Salem witch trials and how people accused each other of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, without having proper evidence. In many of the cases people were accusing others solely because they disliked them. Much similar to The Red Scare, an era of mass hysteria in which people…

This causes her to act hastily and lie about witchcraft present in Salem in attempt to damage Elizabeth’s name. In Act I, Abigail is accused of practicing witchcraft in the woods, and in order to save her own, she blames Tituba, their servant from Barbados, and destroys her reputation. For instance, Abigail declares, “Don't lie! (To Hale:) She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions!” while innocent Tituba pleads for her life. Precedent to that is Abigail’s initial…

of psychological anarchy, where emotions and fear take hold and any rationality is swiftly subdued. When the town of Salem showed signs of this symptom, it was thrown into chaos. The root of this problem started with the questioning of Tituba; the Barbados woman and other girls were suspected of…