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    with the devil these people were as well. Abigail is not the only person who made such accusations. Some of the accused dishonestly admitted to being acquainted with the devil. After doing so they would repent of their sins and accuse others of witchcraft. It was a vicious cycle of accusations. During the McCarthy hearings people were falsely accused of being communist. The wrongly accused were tried and their good names were ruined. In both…

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    For every deed that is done in the body one must understand that their is a price to pay. Puritans lived by strict standards; believing that they had been chosen by God to follow His divine law and that they had the right to punish those that went against it. This idea is evident in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Witchcraft in Salem by USHistory.org. The concept that sin has consequences is seen in The Scarlet Letter by the labeling, public humiliation and imprisonment of the…

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    Forensic Psychology Essay

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    GUJARAT NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY FORENSIC SCIENCE FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY SUBMITTED TO:- SUBMITTED BY:- MS. HEENA GOSWAMI (ASST. PROFESSOR OF LAW) MEETU KUMARI (12A073) -: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT :- The Project work on a topic with such small distinctions is a tedious task and hence doing a project on such a theme requires guidance by the subject teachers. The enlightening experience provided to me by my teachers, who proved to be the…

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    innocent citizens in the South. In 1864, General William Tecumseh led Sherman’s March into the South to capture Atlanta, Georgia. The Union forces destroyed farms, property, and railroads, and citizens could be killed if they protested. The Union had no right to destroy the property of innocent citizens, even if they were siding with the Confederacy. Many people in the South took no part in the war, and should not have been punished for something that was not their fault in any way. Sherman’s…

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    robbed several banks in Ohio. While the mask is realistic looking, the fact that he used this mask as a way to evade the police and cause another man to be arrested in his place is a horrible reality. I was unable to find a picture of the wrongly accused man to compare to the mask, but the fact that a mask caused an innocent man to be arrested is baffling. Regardless of how closely mask’s appearance resembled the man’s, that should not have led to the man’s arrest. Just because you look similar…

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    The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil 's magic—and 20 were executed. A lot of reasons arose to why the Salem Witch trials occurred. For example, was it religion or perhaps something else? Arthur Miller wrote the tragedy, the Crucible because he wanted to portray what was going on in his time, which was the Red Scare. Everyone in the US was paranoid about communism and people were going…

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    Abigail’s actions also lead to all means of communication between those accused and the society to be blocked. Language reached the point of being no help to anyone; those accused no longer had the chance to express their opinion fully, because the Puritans strongest fear exists in the defiance of God, and the accuser thought to always be holly. So Abigail’s accusations suggest…

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    The Crucible Reflection

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    encouraging them to not make the same mistakes of the past. The McCarthy era was more of an ideological war, meaning an idea that scared people to death, rather than a real war. The major issue that happened in Salem is that people were falsely accused of being witches when there was no real evidence of witchcraft. I believe that Arthur Miller did a sound job of getting his readers to recognize the events that happened in the past. Miller made it quite obvious as to how ridiculous people…

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    The social climate caused by a lack of government, political tensions, and puritan lifestyle all lead up to the tension and hysteria of the witch trials. The black slave, Tituba, whose role in Salem was to care for the family of Rev. Parris, was accused of a witch because of her knowledge of foreign magic tricks and social status. She then falsely confesses to being a witch and confesses to knowing of other witches in the village, among them, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Overall, the main cause…

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    the society’s image of him to be the judge of morality to viewing his own beliefs to be the judge of right and wrong. Proctor begins the play knowing he is sinful and a fraud, but he keeps this from the town and accepts the image portrayed of him. Proctor’s wife is then accused of witchcraft, forcing him to sacrifice his persona and reveal himself to the world. However, when Proctor himself is accused of working with the devil, it forces him to acknowledge his morals and make the choice of life…

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