McCarthyism

individuals and people of color still remains. McKenzie speaks nearly five decades after Malcolm X’s interview, in which there are a number of differences from 1960’s till now. Such differences are; Jim Crow Laws that are not seen anymore as well as McCarthyism. Schools are not as segregated as they used to be in the 1900’s and education is open to anyone. Public Facilities are now also Co-ed and even our current U.S. President is one of…

Arthur Miller was a brilliant play author. A few of his initial works won prizes, and amid his senior year, the Federal Theater Project in Detroit performed one of his works. One of the plays was The Crucible. It was composed in 1953. It is a sensationalized and mostly fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that occurred in the Province of Massachusetts. The unbelievable ailment impelled fears of witchcraft, it comprised of young ladies including a slave, and numerous different…

' 'Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I 'm going to Vietnam 's aid! ' ' Lyndon B. Johnson, a United States’ president from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969, delivered this powerful quote presumably to garner support from the American people to execute his plan to export more American troops to aid Southern Vietnam. Although initially reluctant to station troops in Vietnam, Johnson changed his mind after the attack of the Southern Vietnamese…

“When Miller was summoned before Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, he, contrary to Kazan, did not name any names. His experience led him to write his play about the Salem witch trials, … He considers that the play is still of alarming relevance, speaking directly about religious fanaticism… What happened in Salem in 1692 should be seen in the context of the puritan dream of recovering a lost paradise, even if in an austere and vain way. The devil appears precisely in…

Breaking of Charity Many times in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible there were instances where characters would break charity with one another. Although this play is mainly about McCarthyism in the 1950’s and how that is seen during the Puritan times. However, Arthur Miller also shows the idea of how individuals of Salem simply broke charities among each other. Through his characters, Arthur Miller shows how breaking charity can destroy the village of Salem. Before the start of The Crucible…

The Cold War began in 1945 after WW II, between the United States and the Soviet Union. Each country had their own ideologies about how to rebuild Europe after the war. President Truman and the Russians leader Joseph Stalin were in disagreement on how to divide postwar Europe. The Soviets controlled Poland and most of the Balkans while the American and British forces had liberated Western Europe from Scandinavia to Italy. The Russians were concerned about past invasions and were intent on…

What is a witch hunt? you might ask. Well, a witch hunt originally was a legit hunt for witches. Infact they still happen today but overtime the phrase “witch hunt” changed and goes way beyond an actual hunt for witches. During the McCarthyism time (1950-1958) witch hunts became extremely popular because of somethings mentioned in the bible. A modern day witch hunt now is just like it was then just not as silly. The Wee Care Nursery child abuse case was a trial that changed everyone's views…

In 1953 Ray Bradbury published the book Fahrenheit 451, this went on to become the book he is best known for. Part of the reason that we find this book to be so well known is because of the wind range of issues it covers. Had it not been for the events in Ray Bradbury’s life Fahrenheit 451 would not have had the same measure of depth that it ended up having. First off, Fahrenheit 451 is a corroboration on the part of previous works of Ray Bradbury. To start the biggest two influences would be…

The term ‘McCarthyism’ was coined during this time because of senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy rose to prominence because he accused many of those in the government of being communist. This created a huge fear within the government and lead to a witch hunt much like…

The American professor Robert H. Goddard had worked on developing solid-fuel rockets since 1914, and demonstrated a light battlefield rocket to the US Army Signal Corps only five days before the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. He also started developing liquid-fueled rockets in 1921; yet he had not been taken seriously by the public.[19] Von Braun and his team were sent to the United States Army's White Sands Proving Ground, located in New Mexico, in 1945.[20] They set about…