Massachusetts

The idea of being a witch is not even possible nowadays, but that was not always the case. In the late seventeenth century, Salem, Massachusetts had to deal with the problem of witchcraft, which is exemplified in the fictional play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Many people were accused of working with the Devil and this caused some who did not confess to witchcraft to be hanged. Arthur Miller also wrote “Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible’, ” which explains his connection of the witch trials and the…

up for what you knew was right that you instead followed the crowd and participated in something that you knew was wrong? Mary Warren, from Arthur Miller’s famous play The Crucible, did this exact thing. The play is set in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, where the town is abuzz with rumors that certain individuals are bewitched and under the control of the Devil. Mary Warren, a servant girl who works for the Proctor family, knows that the girls making these accusations are lying, but when…

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a fictional story about the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of those who were accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. This is a tragic story that begins with an innocent event and ends with the deaths of innocent people. Three characters are responsible for instigating and exacerbating the trials in Miller’s play. Abigail Williams manipulates people within the community in order to get rid of the wife of the man with whom…

In the past during the Salem witch trials, you were isolated and tormented for being a “witch”. Now in today's society it's the exact same for the lgbt community. “Early polling data related to same-sex relationships demonstrated that most Americans were not supportive of LGBT relationships with seventy percent reporting in 1974 that they thought sexual relations between same-sex people was always wrong”(Sobel). Back then no one liked the idea of homosexuality, and people who were gay couldn't…

Abigail’s Unspoken Innocence In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, written in 1953 explains the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials. The play took place in Salem, Massachusetts; a small puritan town. One night a group of young girls decided to go dancing in the woods; one of which was the 17 year-old Abigail Williams. In the Puritan Religion, dancing is considered a sin, so when Abby’s uncle discovered them he was appalled. The next morning, Reverend Parris’ daughter, Betty, was afraid of…

Witches are viewed in modern eyes as a typical halloween costume with little significance. In reality, though, most witches in American history have not been anywhere close to that! Most were common folk falsely accused of witchcraft. The influence of historical witchcraft is found in literature, movies, and shaping decades of American history. The origin of the term ‘witch’ was “... adopted by the early Christian church as a way to label and condemn the practitioners of the ancient pagan…

John Winthrop (1588-1649): Winthrop was a Puritan who cruised from England to what is advanced New England. He served as legislative leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for a long time. Winthrop kept a nitty gritty diary of the happenings in New England. He additionally composed the sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity," which fundamentally said that the Puritans of New England should have been being a case of how to carry on with a Godly life. john in his writings mainl addressed the…

discovered land in America. Properties were formed, businesses were created, and people fought for their beliefs. The colonies were different and alike in many ways. The first set of colonies was the New England colonies. They consisted of Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. In 1669, leaders of the Connecticut colony wrote the fundamental orders. The orders set up laws for businesses and taxes, while under the preservation of Jesus. It was also important to…

Spotlight is about the investigative reporting unit of the Boston Globe, a somewhat autonomous journalistic arm of the newspaper. In 2001, Marty Baron, the newly hired editor-in-chief, asks the crew to drop the story they're currently working on and focus on allegations regarding a priest named John Geoghan (who's accused of molesting more than 80 boys). The team initially doubts whether the story will pick up traction with the local community, and are hesitant in pursuing it, feeling that Baron…

characterized by three phases being The New England phase, the middle colonies phase and The Southern phase which took place between 1775 and 1783. New England New England colonies consisted of 13 colonies which included Rhode Island colonies, Massachusetts, Providence Plantation and New Hampshire among others. France attempted on several occasions to colonize New England but failed. New England mainly carried out fishing and farming as the economic activities. In 1977, John Burgoyne, a…