Rebecca

“Practice tonight after school; don’t be late,” spat Rebecca. Lily listened to our conversation the entire time, I could tell she didn’t like it. “Veronica, you promised to help me decorate my room after school, did you forget?” She murmured. “I’m sorry, but I’ve always wanted to do this, I’ll help you some…

Abigail Williams, Rebecca Nurse, and Betty Parris defy this norm and obtain power through various sources, which…

Author: Rebecca Schuman is a professor at the Ohio State University. She got her PhD degree at the University of California Irvine in 2010. Audience: The readers of this article would be active because the website is a politically active website because the founder of the website is political activist. Purpose/Goal: Schuman is trying to let the readers recognize the universal exceptionalism. Medium: The article was published on a website called Huffpost. Huffpost is a abbreviation of Huffington…

According to the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Skillet discusses Henrietta’s background and mentions a place by the name of Turner Station which in the day was a steel Mill and shipyard this is also the same place that African American men would go if they could no longer find homes or jobs. In order to grasp a better understanding of Turner station we will look at the origin, what it was like back in the 50’s and what it is like today. Although Turner Station…

Proctor says “‘But who tells us Rebecca Nurse murdered seven babies by sending out her spirit on them?’” during the trial (221). This quote shows that Proctor is trying to defend Rebecca Nurse because she is his friend. Proctor helps Francis Nurse save his wife and for the sake of the people in Salem. Many people look up to Rebecca Nurse and will be troublesome if death is lay upon her. Proctor takes Francis Nurse and the people in…

In Act IV of The Crucible, John Proctor is faced with a fatal dilemma, to sign away his honesty and pride and in exchange keep his life or to die with a shred of goodness to his name. Proctor makes the decision to hang rather than falsely confess to witchcraft; this decision was one of honor rather than pride. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. Proctors’ hamartia would have been his affair with Abigail, a young and…

the Crucible, Arthur Miller creates a balance between the personalities of the women to show that he is not a feminist but also to show he doesn’t condemn women for all of their sins. Miller created these three main women named Abigail Williams, Rebecca Nurse, and Elizabeth Proctor. They show how differently women could be portrayed in The Crucible. The first main woman in The Crucible was Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams was not a very good person. She is a manipulative liar and will do…

Children and Antipsychotics An Antipsychotic is a medication that tranquilizes individuals who have aggressive outbursts. This medication blocks neurotransmitters, causing the brain to not receive chemical messages. Antipsychotics being prescribed to children is a controversial issue because the drug(s) can affect the growth of the child physically and mentally but also has the ability to recline aggressive behavior. Children should not take antipsychotic drugs because the effects can cause…

wanted to get back at these people for inconveniencing them. Ann Putnam lost her seven babies, and believed it was an act of witchcraft committed by Rebecca Nurse. Rebecca midwifed Putnam’s babies so it was a reasonable explanation for why she would be a suitable candidate to be blamed. She also saw this as an easy opportunity to get revenge on Rebecca. These vengeful characters were indifferent of the thought that they were the reason for all of these…

by our own side, whatever it may be. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible focuses mainly on witchcraft and the devil, and the important roles it plays in a deteriorating Puritan society. In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, a widespread hysteria breaks out and results in hangings of innocent people driven to insanity by desperation to hold to their radical religious beliefs. When so many were accused of witchcraft, the root of the problem was the devil and lack of God. Characters such as Abigail…