John Frame

accused of witchcraft. Abigail ran to the outskirts of a town she tends to the sick and her gardens. She has changed her name to Ruth Meadow and is haunted by the events of her past. When she is tending her garden one afternoon a sailor by the name of John Brown approaches her and says that he is sick and that he heard she is the best around. Ruth stumbles to help him but, then gives in and begins care for Mr. Brown. He begins to tell her stories of the sea and to which she wants to bring young…

Finally, Judge Danforth is a deputy governor who oversees the trials and fails to adhere to principles of due process for the accused. Abigail Williams incites the witch trials by making accusations in order to manipulate people because she wants John Proctor all to herself. First, she pins the…

John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men in 1937. Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse,” influenced the title of the book. Of Mice and Men is remembered as one of Steinbeck’s most important and influential novels. It won a Nobel Prize in literature in 1962 but is still one of the most frequently challenged books in U.S. schools due to vulgar language and violet scenes.“Of course Of Mice and Men contains unpleasant attitude; there is brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation. But the book does not…

are the weak, meek, and unclean. In Luke both women and children are highlighted. There are more stories of women in Luke then in the other three gospels combined. One of the many places you will find this theme is in the beginning of Luke, as he frames Jesus’s birth story through Mary’s eyes. Women are honored as disciples following and caring for Jesus, repenting at his feet, and listening to him teach, like Mary & Martha. The forgiveness of sins and salvation tells us that everyone is…

Rawls’ theory of justice: unachievable or ideal to pursue? Justice as fairness is a type of distributive justice, arrived at via designing perfect procedural justice, irrespective of the specific outcome. Using comparison as methodology, John Rawls sets out to dismiss other possible types of political and economic arrangements as unethical. His proposed thought experiment encourages the reader to disrespect all natural and societal endowments and see oneself as an output of an undeserved…

During the nineteenth century, Romanticism, a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement, grew to a point in which many people were influenced by the characteristics of this era. Characteristics that can be defined with intense feeling and emotional expression. It held shared values of both reasoning, self-intuition, and human emotion, which provided an alternative to the views held by the Enlightenment movement: Order, clarity, and rational restraint. Being just as important to logic,…

claims Goody Proctor made a voodoo doll of her and stabbed a needle through her stomach. As the reader knows, Abigail is trying to kill Goody Proctor; therefore, it is assumed that Abigail herself made Mary Warren stick the needle in the doll to help frame Goody Proctor. This would be a form of lying which defies the one of the commandments, showing how a Puritan would overstep their superficial rules to satisfy their desires.…

Spencer Escue Coach Quinn European History November 24, 2015 The Ideas of John Locke A philosopher is someone who is engaged or learned in philosophy. So who were some of the greatest philosophers? John Locke was an English philosopher and physician during the seventeenth century. Locke was known as one of the greatest philosophers during this time which is known as the enlightenment. Locke’s many different ideas of the world have been well prescribed into The Two Treatises of Government. In…

There are no cowboys or savage Indians tormenting or being tormented, there is simply a task at hand having to do with their tradition. Rather than a film with hero John Wayne protecting the Wild West from the ambushing Indians, the audience sees Indians minding to themselves and fulfilling their own customs. The film emphasizes family over the little violence and prejudices taking place. This also takes place in the…

God’s Instrument After years of typing away on his antique typewriter for hours on end, the Oscar winning storyteller John Irving triumphantly finished his seventh novel A Prayer For Owen Meany in 1989. The emotional tugging that the novel forces upon its audience made it one of the most read novels of the 20th century (McCarthy 2). This humorous yet heart wrenching tale tells of an unlikely friendship between two boys just before the Vietnam era. As a time full of war, death, and lost hope;…