Good Witch of the North

Thomas Jefferson wrote in January first of 1802 a message to the Danbury Baptist association stating, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State” (Jefferson 1802). The “wall of separation between church and state” has been implied in the 1st amendment, though that…

your destiny being here. Mirana said. Tell me about yourself Dorothy. Mirana said. I came from Kansas. A few years ago, there was a tornado that picked up my house. My house land on the world calls Oz. I accident killed a witch and make her sister angry. The good witch of the North Glinda, give me the ruby slippers. Glinda told me the only way to go home is to go to the wizard and he would help me go…

people can and cannot do. It is also a part of the stories that humanity tells, such as The Crucible, in which playwright Arthur Miller provides a thrilling dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials, while also paralleling the United States’s Red Scare of the 1950s. Long before the Witch Trials, the Puritans had come to North America to seek religious freedom and ironically became much like their oppressors, creating a strict society in which religion dictated their lives,…

that God predestines, or elects the good to salvation, the fate of sinners, regarding salvation and damnation, but the Puritans, however, accepted Calvin's belief in double predestination” (“Puritanism and…

control over others living on their land. White plantation owners in the south not only profited from cotton, but also from slaves. African were taken from Africa to force to work in their fields. Americans even kidnapped free African Americans from the north to sell them in the south. Plantation owners heavily profited from the blood, sweat, tears and sometimes death of Africans. The natural difference in skin color seemed to be give a natural right for white Americans to own darker skin…

Deep down, in the Twilight Zone of the North Atlantic Ocean, lives a shark. A shark with the potential to save lives. The Dogfish Shark. In 1993 it was discovered by Dr. Michael Zasloff, P.h.D, that inside the dogfish sharks uncharacteristically large liver, is the answer to the question scientists have been asking for centuries; Why do sharks have such effective immune systems. The answer to that question is squalamine, the could be cure. Squalamine is a chemical compound found in dogfish…

prominent role in one of New England’s most frightening religious episodes that took place in Salem, Massachusetts. A group of adolescent girls claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women. Thus creating a “witch hunt,” leading to lynching becoming legal. What followed was a witch-hunt that led to the
executions of 20 people (19 of which were hanged, 1 pressed to death)
and two…

Honey tells Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood that she would "love to have Matilda," and she would also "look after her with loving care, Mr. Wormwood, and I would pay for everything," (Dahl novel). With that being said, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood decided it would be a good thing just to have to look over one child not two. Therefore, Matilda and Miss. Honey lived happily being with each other, two people who cared for each other…

soldiers from the Ottoman Empire which they ended up going back to the Safavid Empire and so they fought for and since they were apart of the ottoman empire they know the up to date tactics so itll help the Safavids in battle. these empires both had good armies but the ottomans had a better leader that knew what he was doing which gave the ottomans an upper hand in battles but the Safavid had a upper hand at…

There is good within all of us but there is also evil within all of us. Conflicts can stir this pot of good and evil causing tragedies if they are unresolved. In the story The Crucible by Arthur Miller we learn about many conflicts that go without being resolved. Some of the major examples are affairs that have not been resolved, land disputes, and trust issues. All of these previously stated things go without being resolved and result in tragic consequences. John Proctor has an affair with…