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    Negligence is defined by a tort related to defective products in which the defendant has breached a duty of due care and caused harm to the plaintiff. In Amy’s case, her cosmologist, Monique Smith used a product made by the defendant, Blondey Blonde Co. to highlight Amy’s hair, which causing Amy injured on scalp. Therefore, I believe that the negligence is existed and because of several elements of negligence. In duty, which states that the obligation people owe each other not to cause any…

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    Amelia Matczak Professor Banas Rosemary’s Baby DUE 10.5.2017 The Devil’s Feminist Agenda If you were to ask a horror film junkie, an atheist and a clinical psychologist what the true meaning of Rosemary’s Baby is, you are destined to get three very different answers. Largely, these different interpretations vary based on their belief in the reality or imagination of Satan during the film. Furthermore, if Rosemary’s child is truly the son of Satan, an allegory for human existence, or a…

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    Massachusetts, McCarthyism, and Mass Hysteria Humankind has expressed throughout time how easy and destructive it can be to accuse others without proper evidence or a truly reliable investigation. First occurring in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, innocent individuals were unjustly persecuted as a result of their seemingly abnormal actions or personal affiliations. Behavior such as this was rekindled, witnessed during McCarthyism in the early 1950’s and the treatment of homosexuals during the…

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    Written in the 1940's, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible explores the hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process that characterized the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Arguably, the themes explored in this play resonate With many modern and historical events. Arthur Miller himself saw strong connections between the events Salem Witch Trials and events surrounding the Red Scare in the 1950s. When juxtaposed with the events of the Crucible, themes of hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process…

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    Although many historical fictions rely heavily on true events, the author will usually change some parts of the story to serve a different purpose. Arthur Miller deftly obscures certain facts in his drama, The Crucible, in order to shape the reader’s opinion. Miller fabricates Abigail William’s sinful motives and portrays John Proctor as an honest, hardworking farmer, in order to efficaciously influence the audience’s opinion to be in favor the innocent victims, and against the malevolent…

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    As mentioned priorly regarding the movie ‘The Rainmaker’ we take on the part o a defense lawyer who has to defend Matt Damon, a lawyer who just graduated from law school on his case about self-defense against Claire Dane’s husband who tried attacking him because of jealousy. Secondly, we defend Claire Dane, who’s a battered wife who was not able to get out her abusive relationship from being scared of being killed. As a defense lawyer, from the facts, drowned out from Matt Damon self-responses…

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    Josh Mauzy Dewhirst Mod 5A 9/29/15 Group Hysteria Irony, the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result, is a reoccurring literary technique that Arthur Miller uses in The Crucible. The most eminent example of irony exhibited in this play is observed through the Puritan society that dominated in the late 1600s in Salem, Massachusetts. The word "Puritan" implies a virtuous connotation, however ironically, the reality of life at that time…

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    In Miller’s play, The Crucible, there are a numerous amount of antagonistic perspectives that force the reader to contemplate about whom the intended hero of the story is. However, throughout much of the play, one of the most dynamic characters, John Proctor, heavily displays the true demeanor of a hero. Despite his fatal flaw, Proctor obtains noble characteristics and righteous qualities that cannot be dismissed, which are evident in his final decision regarding the hangings. John’s decision…

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    The Crucible Hysteria

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    The themes of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible remain evident in today’s society. In it, the people of Salem, Massachusetts begin to turn on each other when mass hysteria around the idea of witchcraft results in the hanging of dozens of innocent citizens. Similar to The Crucible, with today’s technology, there is a huge amount of mass hysteria around the idea that the internet is threatening and alarming. In the crucible, Salem, Massachusetts undergoes the witch trials. Once one person was named…

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    There has been a lot of people who cheat on their wives or husbands and it ends up with a terrible result. In Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible, John Proctor and Abigail Williams have an affair and this creates a lot of problems and ends up in a tragic result in the play. In this story, John Proctor decides to break up his affair with Abigail Williams, and she leads the other girls in the practicing of witchcraft to demand the death of Elizabeth. When people find out about the witchcraft, the…

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