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era, a play titled The Crucible was written. This play demonstrated the events of the Salem Witch Trials, to prove how easy it is to fall victim to mass conformity. Many parts of the play symbolized the events going on in the Red Scare period. While Arthur Miller clearly wrote the play The Crucible to demonstrate his belief that an individual should never give up the power to think for him or herself, he also intended it to be an allegory for the Red Scare of the 1950’s called McCarthyism. In…

Chivalry is the methods of training and standards of behavior for knights in the middle ages. Before you could become a knight, you had to have great combat skills and who adhered to the code of chivalry. It was almost possible for any man to become a knight. Although trying to prepare them to become a knight was quite expensive. During the knight's childhood, around the age of 7. He was expected to have great manners and to know the expectations that are required in order to be a knight. Such…

The court operates under the faulty logic or faulty assumptions. Towards the middle of Act Ⅲ, Francis desperately attempting to save the people that signed to declare their good opinion of Rebecca, Elizabeth Proctor, and Martha Corey- who are been accused of being witches- ,from being arrested is interrupted mid- sentence by Mr. Danforth to say “ ...a person[s]...with the court or… against…”(43). Mr. Danforth is letting Francis know that every person has a choice. They can agree with what the…

Death of A Salesman Character Analysis: Biff Loman Biff Loman is a character who seems to compare more to his father, Willy rather than contrast. Meaning there are many parallels between the two characters. Death of A Salesman, is a play by Arthur Miller, that consists of two acts and a requiem. The acts are separates into conversations from the past and present. The play encompasses an evening and the succeeding day. Willy Loman is a 63 year-old travelling salesman and Act 1 opens in Willy…

Many philosophers and other devout pessimist have made claims that the Buddhist lifestyle is ultimately pessimistic. It’s easy to take the teachings of the buddha and apply them to a pessimistic lifestyle but the basis of pessimism is denial and that’s the opposite of what the buddha was attempting to teach. The basis of Buddhism is the four noble truths which are the existence of suffering, that suffering has a cause, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that the Eightfold path is the…

A Knight in the middle ages was considered a very high honor. Being a knight was no easy task it took life long devotion and hard work. There were five steps to becoming a knight. On top of that not only did you have to have skill but you also had to have the resources to buy armor and weapons to protect yourself. There are five steps to becoming a knight. Step 1 The right connections , Step 2 Upbringing, Step 3 The Page, Step 4 The Squire, Step 5 The Knight. Any man could train to become a…

The Newberry award winning novel The Giver is placed in a very messed up future where love, feelings, colors, and much more have been removed. Jonas a 12 year old boy is given the job Receiver to pursue in his community. In this job your are meant to hold all the memory's of the past, which puts a lot of stress and pressure on you. The Receiver is chosen every couple years, in order to keep the community in sameness. While working Jonas learns and experiences many things, which ends up giving…

‘Medieval Romanticism’ by studying the text Sir Gawain and The Green Knight written by an anonymous author generally called The Pearl Poet or The Gawain Poet. The poem talks about the adventures of Sir Gawain, a trusted high-ranking noble of King Arthur, who is challenged to fight by a powerful combatant known as the Green Knight. These compositions are both doctrinal and episodic in nature and as mentioned earlier are written as powerful third person narratives, bearing resemblance to the…

characterization throughout Arthurian literature has been a negative one, but we have not fully looked through the scope of her own eyes. It is deemed that Guinevere was the cause of the fall of Camelot and the Round Table. Her disobedience, and betrayal of Arthur is what makes the story, but this does not mean that we should put the sole blame on both her and Lancelot. As we grow older, we learn that the heart wants what they heart…

Richard Dickey Scruggs is a famed Mississippi tort lawyer, who was born on May 17, 1946, grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi. He was raised by his mother, because his father left the family when Scruggs was five years old. His mother worked as a legal secretary at the Ingalls shipyard. Dickie is known for tobacco and asbestos case and amassed more than 1 billion in judgments against various companies. According Joseph B. Treaster, Scruggs became one of the richest America lawyers, by forcing…