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    Abigail realizes that Mary is trying to take her down, so Abigail begins to act like Mary’s evil spirit is possessing her in the courtroom (Act 2 scene II). This causes hysteria in the courtroom and makes everything go up in chaos, which also ends with John being accused and…

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    Hannah Mary Tabbs and George Wilson were accused guilty of the merciless murder of Wakefield Gaines, which surfaced a multitude of testimonies and confusion in their justice system leading to a significantly long trial. A freshly slaughtered torso of human remains found in Eddington lead to a shocking and brutal murder case. Kali Nicole Gross argues that Hannah Mary Tabbs manipulated ideas of race and gender throughout the case, Tabbs had the ability to do this successfully because she…

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    In a society that was intolerant, simplistic and religious, there was a woman who had violated one of the major beliefs in which the town’s members believed in. Hester Prynne committed the sin of adultery with the minister of the town and had a child while still being married to her long, lost husband. As a punishment of this sin, Hester has to stand in front of the whole town on a scaffold while holding her baby, Pearl, as described in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne…

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    “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a short story about a dystopian universe in which everyone is equal through various handicaps. Vonnegut purposely makes this society equal on levels of intelligence, strength, and beauty. Other equality concerns, such as race, are avoided whether intentional or accidental. Vonnegut, throughout his story uses an array of imagery, details, and a particular type of syntax/language. He uses this not only when portraying his characters through their thoughts,…

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    The Crucible The most evident theme in The Crucible is that selfishness interferes with morality. The witch trials in Salem show that people will do or say anything to get something for themselves. If they wanted something, they would say anything to get it. They forgot about their morals and values. A lot of the characters in The Crucible claimed to be very pious, even though they only cared what people thought of them. Everyone in Salem let the whole town go crazy. They were willing to…

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    Jejuri Poem Analysis

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    Jejuri poems are all about Arun Kolatkar visiting the temple town in the state of Maharashtra where 'every other stone is a god or his cousin'. The poems are delicately written yet sharply observed - a temple door, a yellow butterfly and Maruti himself find equal care given to them all in turn. Jejuri poems oscillate between faith and scepticism. In his plat and colloquial tone, Kolatkar ironically treats the parallel scenario reinforcing it with concrete imagery. Kolatkar's use of concrete…

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    Human Resiliency is being able to overcome challenges and having the ability to bounce back quickly. In The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, and in Night, by Elie Wiesel both characters have to face many difficulties. Family affects Joe and Elie’s ability to overcome those difficulties. In Night by Elie Wiesel, family impacts Elie’s life to prevail obstacles. Elie and his family are Jews. All the Jews were in ghettos and were going to be taken to concentration camps. Hitler was the…

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    Romanticism is a literary movement which is marked by several key components, many of which are observable in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. One element of Romanticism is the belief that imagination is able to lead to a a new and more perfect vision of the world and those who live in it. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein is the idealist who wants to create life from nothing; that is the ultimate ideal, marking victor as a Romantic. In another sense, Victor's actions demonstrate the Romantic…

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    In chapter 18 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor the main idea is how drowning is symbolic of baptism. In Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Milkman gets wet three times, an allusion to the form of Christian baptism in which the person is submerged three times in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. But it is not always baptism, it can mean something different like in Africa, drowning is associated with the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage is the mysterious, treacherous, and a…

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    In 1796, after phrAses because the first president of America, George Washington addressed the American humans for the final time. It was called the Farewell Address. This speech became written within the 1796, a term described via the Yankee Revolution and inception of america. All through this era George Washington turned into a cherished and respected public figure among people. He becomes a role version and the concept of as the father of the us. as a result of his reputation, Washington…

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