Excellency

get married before he left. Alexander would have none of it because he did not want to ruin his relationship with Catherine and Phillip as Angelica had done. Elizabeth could do nothing but comply with his wishes. They finally got married when His Excellency, also known as George Washington, gave Alexander a couple of weeks to get married. Over the year or two Elizabeth was upset that she hadn’t bear a child yet. When she finally did, it was the most exciting for her and Alexander. They named…

“Excellency, does it not strike upon you that so many of these women have lived so long with such upright reputation, and-”(Proctor, pg.938) Proctor from the beginning knew that all of the girls were merely scared of Abigail Williams and scared of losing their…

In 1692, over 200 people were charged with witchcraft, with 19 dead by hanging and one crushed by heavy stones. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, these events are shown, with one of them being the main character John Proctor, who is seen sacrificing his life, but one may think the sacrifice was pointless. At the beginning of the book, Proctor is a respected farmer, then his wife, Elizabeth, is accused and arrested by the court, and then he is arrested and accused like his wife. Then, minutes…

The Puritans were a group of Christians who wanted to purify the Church of England. They settled in America where they made a new theoretical society. Because of the theocracy, the Puritans combined the church and the state. The authorities ran the community with no help from the people. The Puritans did not have a fair system for incrimination, and the authorities could make decisions that were not fair or just. In 1692, the Puritan community had a witchcraft epidemic. Many people were falsely…

“He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!” (Miller 145). The play The Crucible, written by Author Miller, is based on the historical events that took place during the Salem Witch Trials. Many of the characters in this play are empowered by the events that take place. One of these empowered characters is the former servant of the Proctors, Abigail Williams. Abigail admitting that she was a witch, Abigail’s accusations of other being witches, and Abigail’s affair with John Proctor…

“Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health” (World Health Organization, 2014). Furthermore, the World Health Organization website (WHO) defines mental health as: “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community” (World Health Organization, 2014). In the United States, the…

I listened to the audio speech broadcasted for members of the Taliban movement by Amir Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansur Sahib. It is said that the speech was broadcasted this morning, through general radio communication frequency, to all mujahedin fighting against America and its supporters in Afghanistan. I will talk about the importance of the speech later, but first I should say that the new leader 's speech was like the deceased Mullah Sahib speech informal, simple in concept, and genuine. The…

The Difference in the Puritans God and the Native Americans God Everyone wonders or questions who their God is, and their culture influences them as to who they believe their God is. This is very true with the Puritans and the Native Americans, Iroquois and Navajo. Both Puritans and Native Americans believe in very different Gods. The Puritans believe there is only one God, who they can learn of his ways from the Bible, and The Native Americans believe in spiritual beings, which exist in…

In The Crucible, Danforth was intolerant to what everyone was saying for the witch trials. Arthur Miller wrote, "...excellency, there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere..." (Crucible 130). Here, Hale is warning Danforth about putting so many people into jail. Even after many people…

American Exceptionalism, the idea that the United States and its citizens are superior to all other countries, is a driving force in American society today, which is both positive and negative. As foreshadowed in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the early poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, and the work of playwright Arthur Miller, the idea that America is better than other countries has developed and flourished to become a recurring theme in politics today. As Robert R. Tomes states in his essay American…