John Williams

William McKinley was a successful president; he did great things up until his assassination. He was most known for leading the United States of America through war with Spain even though it was controversial. His foreign policies were difficult and I feel like most of his choices were. McKinley was open to question with most historians but, I believe he opened the mind of the public and forced them to think a different way. William McKinley was born January 19, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. He married…

Elton John coming out as bisexual almost ruined his career, enraging a large amount of his fans. Bisexual was pretty much saying as if he was homosexual. Any sort of same gender sexual tendencies at the time was largely frowned upon. Elton John did not come out as completely homosexual until 1988 when he divorced his wife Blauel. Elton John coming out as bisexual, and then homosexual was huge for the LGBT community. He was…

He wanted to show how someone makes another person confess for them. To save their life instead of their own. When Abigail kissed John and went looking for him it was used to show the audience how obsessed Abigail is over John and how he tries to get over her. When Abigail went to visit John, it was used to give a clearer look of how Abigail's mistakes destroy the man she tried to save from the beginning. The beginning scene of the play when the girls are in…

William Penn and "The Holy Experiment" was his vision to allow Quakers to express their religious beliefs openly without persecution and harassment. Penn also freely and willingly expressed his thoughts of government and how combining both church and state could help change the Pennsylvania way of law and order. He wanted the treatment of Indians to be with civility and respect; However, there were those who did not agree with this "Holy Experiment", and action was taken towards the destruction…

Wordsworth writes, “Which is bliss of solitude; and my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils,” (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth). Wordsworth creates a tone of sadness but shifts it to a more joyful atmosphere, but as he does he uses author’s diction to draw the reader in, because of this he starts the stanza off with loneliness to a blissful ending from the memory…

was having a relationship with John Proctor, the past guy she was a servant for, she thought nothing was wrong. Later on in the book she was able to use it against him. When she was accusing a lot of people of witchcraft, John Proctor didn’t appreciate it but because he knew he would get in trouble if he admitted anything, Abigail had power over him. Yes, Abigail might get in trouble but so would he. And possibly his wife. Mary Warren, the current servant for John Proctor was trying to also…

witch trials. The Salem witch trials were accusations of witchcraft that led to multiple hangings and took place between 1692 and 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts. The Crucible is a drama released in 1996 and stars Daniel Day-Lewis and John Proctor, Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams, and Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor. This film is based off of a play written by Arthur Miller and although some lines are left out in the movie, the lines kept in are almost identical to the play. The Crucible does a…

John Marshall’s life began on September 24, 1755 near the city of Germantown in Virginia. As Marshall was growing up he spent one year of education at Archibald Campbell’s Academy. He then became home schooled by his father Thomas Marshall. As the months past by, John Marshall found himself reading Commentaries on the Laws of England by Blackstone. Reading this book influenced him to become one of the greatest lawyers of all time. He studied law in 1780 by attending lectures at College of…

Proctor’s Closing Argument I, John Proctor, present myself to you as an innocent man. Yes, I have committed adultery, but that should not subject me to death. I have felt the guilt of my affair for many months since, yet never confessed for fear of losing my good name. I now stand before you, town of Salem, to right the wrongs that have been made and to put a stop to the witchcraft allegations made by none other than Abigail Williams and Mary Warren. My wife Elizabeth has done nothing but…

severe set of accepted rules that disliked any worry from standards of conduct. The play starts in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose little girl, Betty, lays sick. Parris lives with his little girl and his seventeen-year old niece, Abigail Williams, a vagrant who saw her folks' homicide by the Indians. Parris has sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, trusting his little girl's ailment originates from powerful clarifications. Betty turned out to be sick when her dad found her moving in the…