Salem

People say history is learned to make sure the same mistakes are not repeated. However, this is not the case for American history; in America, citizens have experienced similar negative events. For instance, the Salem Witch Trials occurred in the 1690s, and McCarthyism arose in the 1950s. These time periods both involve people inaccurately accusing others, being put on trial, and often having innocent citizens punished or put to death. Arthur Miller saw how unfair and unreasonable the government…

In 1692 a great tragedy swept through the small Massachusetts village of Salem. Several girls became ill with what was assumed to be witchery. These girls went on to accuse scores of people of witchcraft, holding in their young hearts the guilt of having condemned at least nineteen people to death and forever tainting the reputations of many others. In the vast amount of the accused were children, often times only implicated in the charges of witchcraft because their mothers were accused as well…

Salem Witch Trials Vs McCarthy Hearings The Salem Witch Trials and McCarthy Hearings were both tragic events that happened in the world we live in today. Many people were accused and prosecuted because of what the government thought of them, Overhead the beliefs of one group of people led to two national events and situations that changed the way our government thinks on their feet today. These two events actually have many similarities and differences pertaining into their details and…

How the Salem Witch Trials Went Down Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York in 1915, his father owned a coat manufacture company and his mother was an educator who read a lot of novels. As he grew up he almost lost everything because of the Wall Street Crash in 1929 which caused him to move from Manhattan to Flatbush, Brooklyn. After high school he had a couple of jobs before he was able to save up enough money to go to the University of Michigan. It was then he went on to be a well-known…

In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, occurring in 1692 in the little town of Salem, Massachusetts where outbreaks of the witchcraft trials had taken over many of the townspeople’s everyday lives (Miller, 1124). When accused of witchcraft, they were brought to trial at the court where there was a group a girls, including Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, and Ruth Putnam. These girls had accused many of witchcraft sending them to be hanged or to jail unless they confessed. In the courtroom,…

Before the miracle of modern medicine, the child mortality rate was unfortunately high. Mrs. Ann Putnam, the mother of Ruth and wife of Thomas Putnam, lost seven children before they even reached a day old. When Rebecca Nurse, a well-respected elder in Salem, learns that Mrs. Putnam sent her own child to the slave who is accused of causing the comatose states of Ruth Putnam and Betty Parris, she is appalled. Mrs. Putnam spits back, “Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca! I’ll not have you…

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum’s book Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft is separated into 10 chapters: Prologue: What Happened in 1692; 1692: Some new Perspectives; In Quest of Community, 1639-1687; Afflicted Village, 1688-1697; Salem Town and Salem Village: The Dynamics of Factional Conflict; Two Families: The Porters and the Putnams; Joseph and His Brothers: A Story of the Putnam Family; Samuel Parris: A Pilgrim in Bethlehem; Witchcraft and Social Identity; and Epilogue: To…

The Sisters of Salem Society of Paranormal Research, better known as the Sisters, or S.O.S., is an all-female team that knows when to have a good time and when to get serious on an investigation. Their infectious good humor and zeal for the paranormal field is well known in, what is a very small community of preternatural investigators. The Sisters have visited St. Albans on a number of occasions. In addition to private and public investigations, members of the team have volunteered for the…

her name, and the cat’s name was Salem; The others had names too, but this one’s not about them! Because the story you are about to be told, Took place on one autumn night when skies were clear and air cold. Morgan had wanted to take her broom out to fly, But Salem looked at all of them before up at the sky. “All of us, up there, on this cold fall night? That’s surely an idea just meant for pure fright!” Morgan did frown and ask him but why, And little dear Salem was quick to reply. "Well a…

Dorming In Salem A guide on college living and dorming on an all girls floor College can be a scary experience and for many it may be the first time you are moving away from home, but there is nothing to worry about. College is a safe place to learn about yourself and develop relationships that can last a lifetime. So, even if college is not what you expected don’t worry everything will be alright. Expectations v. Reality We all dream and have expectations of how college is going to be like,…