Massachusetts Bay Colony

Project Overview Our project aims at identifying an organization, understanding its current business processes and help it with innovative, reasonable and effective solutions. We further concentrated on identifying the activities where information systems can be applied and can lead to innovation. To understand practical issues deeper, we searched for an organization which could benefit from innovative IT solutions. We chose an organization which we can visit, connect and communicate with easily…

Introduction: The importance of this study is to learn about birds and their relation to their habitat. There are many bird species that are abundant in the the woodlands of Westfield. Where different species of bird are located, depends on the environment. An environment can have a completely different habitat than another environment. Because of this, we suspect birds to favor one habitat over the other. From our hypothesis, we believe birds are going to be more numerous by the Westfield…

Chris McCandless was a young man who had a penchant for adventure and living unconventionally. Unlike most Americans, McCandless did not deem wealth, government, and other worldly concepts as vital components in life. Instead, McCandless lived an eccentric lifestyle; McCandless’ outlook on life relates to the views of modern transcendentalism. Transcendentalists are philosophers who believe in order to live a successful life one must live by challenging experience and not conforming to society.…

Mass hysteria seems to be a timeless term that people have frequented themselves with generation after generation. This paranoia has been resuscitated time and time again; whether it was the belief that everyone was a witch or that they were a Communist. Mass hysteria develops from a belief or heavy devotion, however small, then gains momentum expeditiously through people who also may have this extremist mentality as the originator. Many historical events have been the victim of some form of…

The crucible by Arthur Miller was based on a real true story and was inspired on the case of Salem Witch Trials that happened in real life. In Massachusetts 1692 a group of young girls who claimed to be possessed by the devil accused innocent people of witchcraft. The people that play the antagonist in the book are Abigail, Danforth, and Reverend Parris. These three people are the reason why a lot of innocent people were hanged and killed without any good proof. This religion is very strict and…

In the story The Crucible, Abigail Williams niece of Reverend Parris, has a plan to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor. Throughout the story Abigail’s plan did work. When Abigail gets help from her uncle’s slave, Tituba, they get caught doing “black magic”. Abigail tried to cast a spell in the woods to make sure Elizabeth would be gone. “Black magic” is not welcomed in Salem. Over all Abigail’s plan did work, but not with the spell. The reason Abigail wants to get rid of Elizabeth was her husband,…

“The American Scholar” which was originally named “An oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837” was delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson as a speech to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa society. Later that year, the speech was published under it’s primary title and then republished in 1838. After a couple of years, in 1841, he embodies this essay in his book of essays under it’s new title “The American Scholar”, aiming to extend his audience. Emerson Introduces…

November 2014 The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. It takes place during the Salem witch trials. Salem is an isolated town in the Boston area that is set up perfectly for witchcraft accusations. The Crucible is a very accurate name for this play. A crucible is a severe test or a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change in a development. Many of the characters in The Crucible went through a test of their strength and personal…

Witches were unquestionably the most hated and feared people during the Elizabethan era. Not many people today truly know who they were and what they did. Elizabethan witches were essentially old, poor women, were penalized for their actions, and put uneasiness into everyone near them(Alchin 1). They were treated brutally for crimes they had not committed. They never had a chance to explain themselves, and never will. The witches of the Elizabethan age were particularly elderly and…

What is thought in a play? According to the definition on CriticaLink, “Thought comprises both the rational processes through which characters come to decisions, as represented in the drama, as well as the values put forward in the form of maxims and proverbs”. (Aristotle)The thought behind the crucible is at the time Arthur Miller is writing this it is the red scare of 1953. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible as a way to teach people about the upcoming hardships they were going to face as a…