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that might be interpreted as non-Puritan, pronounced by Mather allowed the villagers of Salem to elucidate any kind of behavior that potentially resemble that of a witch or any forms of witchery. In the Middle of the summer in 1688, one of the oldest children, saw cause to examine the laundry lady, because she felt that there was linen missing in the household. “Of what use this linnen might bee to serve the Witchcraft intended, the Theef's Tempter knows! The lady in her opinion was the daughter…

Raul silverio Mrs. Rahn English 11 November 28 The crucible During the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts, several of the population in the village were executed and sentenced to death, claiming they did witchcraft. After strange events that occurred in Salem raised concerns. In the book the crucible by Arthur Miller, he had wrote a book about the tragic that happened Salem, with some main characters that had made a major impact in the history of this tragedy that happened in Salem. The…

Also comedy have a several types Farce, Romantic Comedy, Satirical Comedy, Sentimental comedy, Black comedy, Comedy of humours and Comedy of manners. The Farce is a form of low comedy, whose intention is to provoke simple mirth in the form of roars of laughter (and not smiles); it uses exaggerated physical action, character and absurd situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of…

The American Revolution was a combination of wanting new ideas and creating a new society and in the process escape from Britain. The Revolution couldn’t have taken place without religious background. In A History of the American People by Paul Johnson, he states that “ the American Revolution, in its origins, was a religious event” “That the fact was to shape the American Revolution from start to finish and determine he nature of the independent state it brought into being” One of few reasons…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words were the start of the Declaration of Independence written in 1776. The document was created as a final attempt to get freedom from England. Colonists had left England in search of freedom in America but instead found they were still controlled by the King. In hope of gaining…

By most historians the Salem Witch Trails were a product of mass hysteria; it all fueled by hearsay and distorted stories – even out of mere dislike of a neighbor. The Puritans, who had left England for religious freedom, noticed more and more individualism of the people of Salem and felt a loss of control of them. They used this hysteria, to try and bring them back to the church, but people even became weary of church members and suspected them of witchcraft. The extremely religious community,…

The ways of immigration in the 1600’s and 1700’s were extremely different than the way that immigrants come to America now. This week these three readings had a few similarities for example all of them came to America but, more difference between them. Within these three readings about the immigrants there was two immigrants that had it harder than the other one. The main similarity between these three articles is that all the immigrants came to America. Also, they all came from somewhere…

The final evidence that caused the Salem Witch Trial to occur was due to the health problems among the residents. The lives of the Puritans were difficult. They were required to practice religion, and the majority of them had to work on farms. The soils in New England was rocky, which made it hard to grow anything, plus the harsh winter made it more difficult. However, one thing that Colonial Massachusetts were able to grow was Rye. Rye is a type of wheat that many people used to bake bread.…

In 1692, the town of Salem in the Massachusetts saw the rise of paranoia to power and the degradation of social order the likes of which has never been seen in American History. An entire community of people swept up in a sudden outbreak of elaborate scheming, finger-pointing, and witchcraft that ended in tragedy. Was it down the fault of Puritanism, economic conspiracy within Salem, or a group of young girls too afraid of getting caught in a lie to reveal the truth? As anything in history, the…

Dear my King George , King George it is urgent that you read this letter carefully. We the colonist cannot allow you to rule over us. We never cared for the decisions you made. Like the Proclamation of 1763, we were living on the Appalachian Mountains, but you wanted to give it to some natives to save your own skin. That’s why you shouldn’t have fought in the French & Indian war that also caused us to lose the land of the Appalachian Mountains. Another idiotic thing you did was pass the…