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This was the night that I was so nervous that I could have vomited seventeen times. I was just a freshman, there hasn’t been any freshman to do the thing that I did in my school, ever. I was asked to sing the national anthem at the first home volleyball game, but I had no idea what this would lead up to. Sure, I had been asked to sing at other events, but I hardly ever went through with it and when I did there was never as many people as there was at this game. Being a freshman is hard enough at…

Within the books Purple HIbiscus and I, Tituba, there are two strong-minded female characters that stick out. Purple Hibiscus is narrated by a little girl, Kambili, who is faced with the consequences of the African colonization. Her father, Eugene, believes that it is his job to ensure his family's descend into heaven after they die which entail physical abuse for his wife and children when they commit a sin. The wife of Eugene, Beatrice, sees the good in her husband and makes the hard decision…

She begins to blame society for her misfortune and desires that are not acquirable by using the Devil as justification. The false accusations and chaos that ensues is much like the McCarthyism scandal of the 1950s. Senator Joe McCarthy, leader of the House Committee on Un-American Activities began as a result of communistic scares in the United States after WWII. The job of HUAC was to hunt and expose guilty people of having relations or feelings for communists. The “witch hunt” of the 1950s…

Beloved was her fifth novel and it explains both historical and gothic fiction, where fact and fable are combined. Morrison based the central event of the novel on a historical account of a slave woman named Margaret Garner. Like Morrison’s character, Sethe, Margaret Garner escaped slavery with her four children and later, when her slaveholder attempted to take them back to slavery, she killed one of her children. Morrison also sets the entire novel in a historical frame, referencing many actual…

Introduction This paper attempts to identify and explain human behaviour at the micro, mezzo and macro systems using a bio-psycho-social framework at each aforementioned level in respect of Baby Kim’s case. At the micro level in Kim’s immediate environment, her mother’s drug use impacted on the mezzo level with the intervention of the medical community in treating her and at the macro level by performing tests which were created from research studies and policies and legal obligations in…

The Salem Witch Trials The Salem witch trials took place between February of 1692 and May of 1693, by the end of the trials hundreds were accused of witchcraft, nineteen were executed and several more died while imprisoned awaiting either trial or execution. Some of the ‘symptoms’ associated with witchcraft could have included fever, contortions due to excessive pain, stress, asthma, guilt, boredom, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis. One scientist did research and found that the…

According to Blumberg, the Salem of witch trials it was a really bad part of the United State. There were people who didn’t understanding why they were getting accused. This happed during the 1692 and 1693 in Massachusetts this really happed during this time. The main parts that started atnd fueled the trials were politics, religion, family, feuds, economics, and the imaginations and fears of people (Sutter). The seeds of the hysteria are afflicted Salem village, Massachusetts was sown on…

The personal lives of many authors can be expressed in their work. Most famously known as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prime example of how authors can draw from past experiences to inspire their writing. The topics and characters seen in the historical and fictional writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reflect his familial background, his career in the medical field, and his struggle with religion. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born into a dysfunctional…

Ezra Kalmowitz 2nd Hour Study Guide 1. Important Characters: a. Most Important Characters: i. John Proctor 1. Proctor is the main character of the drama. He is the obvious protagonist of the story. 2. He is, for the most part, a proud, honest and respected man. He hates hypocrites, but knows that he, too, is a flawed, and even hypocritical, person. a. The commentary Miller writes in the drama describes Proctor as even-tempered and not easily led, and “in Proctor’s presence a fool felt his…

Reverend Parris was greedy toward wealth this is evident when parris preaches for weeks about gold candle sticks until he has them as well as the argument parris gets in over his pay including money for firewood or not Miller uses this argument to allow the audience to have a good understanding of who Parris truly is. Putnam used the witch trials as an excuse to get even with his neighbours and get their land. The characters lack of understanding Judge Danforth’s greed for power this is…