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much money to spend on drugs, the elderly, and the children. Supporters of this method believe this is the best way to provide as many people as possible with healthcare. Finally the third system is the Mandate System which was passed in 2006 in Massachusetts. In this system all residents are required to get medical insurance if you could not afford it the government would assist some. The theory is by getting everyone to participate there is more funds for universal health…

In the early 17th century, the Puritans began populating the northern colonies of New England. Quakers quickly populated the middle colonies after the English seized the Northern colonies. Southern colonies didn’t practice religion with the same enthusiasm as the northern colonies. Southern colonist left their faith in the hands of their plantations. Not all New England colonists were Puritans, but the Puritan religion was a major influence in the seventeenth-century New England way of life.…

“A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop” Did a foundation in the Puritan faith have a bearing on how many European immigrants handled their day to day affairs and dealt with the many struggles they would face in life and death? This is a question answered by J. William T. Youngs in his article “A Puritan Death”, as we are given a glimpse into the lives of John and Thomasine Winthrop. Through account entries kept in a journal by John Winthrop himself, Youngs walks us through a vivid…

Good vs Evil in “Young Goodman Brown” The era of the Salem Witch Trials has always been a moment of history that has fascinated many. Today, there are multiple stories and related to the phenomenon. One of the most famous authors that write about this era is none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne. In his story Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne uses setting, symbolism, theme, and mood to describe a man’s struggle in fighting evil’s urges to make him stray away from his faith. Especially, in a time…

Brenda Shoshanna once said “ What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle”. In the year 1692, a series of trials and accusations began happening in Salem Village, Massachusetts. These court trials were nothing like the normal ones, these were for the beliefs of villagers being witches. It started with a group of young girls who said they were possessed by the devil, these girls then started to accuse some of the villagers for apparently being witches. A book…

Crucible by Arthur Miller appears to simply be a play about the Salem Witch Trials, but it is actually a powerful allegory pertaining to the McCarthyism era. The Crucible is a fictionalized version of the Salem Witch Trials which took place in Massachusetts in 1692 when the town of Salem accused and hanged its citizens for witchcraft. Many parallels between witches and communists appear throughout Miller’s play; when linked, they form a political commentary on Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare,…

The word ‘environment’ descends to us from French. The word was created around the year 1600 and meant “The conditions in which a person or thing lives” aka the ‘stuff’ around us1. This is a deeply anthropocentric understanding of nature, yet at the same time it denotes a deep intimacy with nature. Most people during the medieval period were peasants; as a peasant nature was of paramount importance, its presence all-encompassing. In class, we discussed the notion that in traditional agricultural…

the W.R. Berkley Group. The company offers different kinds of insurance programs for small and midsize businesses along the New England and the New York State with different other small local offices situated at places like Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. The main objective of Acadia Insurance Company is to provide the best services they can to their customers so as to establish a very strong bond between them and the clients. The products of Acadia…

girls going into convulsive fits fill the minds of many Americans. Frances Hill takes on the daunting task of sorting through the various information and creating a single book that elaborates more on the tragic events that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts during the 1690’s, as well as including a detailed index, chapter notes, a total death toll, chronology, and a list of key persons and their ties to the Salem Witch Trials. Hill expertly conveys the true cause of the Salem Witch Trials as…

Salem lacking a governor gave them no authority figure, leading to chaos. Since Massachusetts was still under the rule of Great Britain, they had to send over any government officials over to America from Britain. While the colony was waiting for their new governor to arrive, the witch trials took place and “By the time the new governor, William Phips, arrived in Massachusetts, the jails were already filed with alleged witches” (Life in Salem 1692, par. 2). This proves that the fact that Salem…