Samuel Barber

Thomas Kim #3 Ms. Lin English Honors 10A November 5, 2015 Reverend Hale and Justice If a distorted justice seeks to exist and to disappear in a society, then there must be those who support and oppose it. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Reverend Hale played a key role in both the affirmative and the dissenting sides of the trials by promoting the existing theocratic justice, doubting it later on, and opposing it in the end, which sends a signal to everyone that the theocratic justice is not…

In 1931 a group of homeless young black teenagers were riding a train going from town to town in search of work. While riding a train, that would stop in Scottsboro after the fight, the young men engaged in a fight with a group of young white men on a train. After said fight, while the police were investigating the fight, two young white women, that were riding the train illegally, claimed that the group of 9 black teenagers had raped them. This dynamic of two young white women accusing 9…

containing such serious backgrounds are not possible to amuse the audience and generate the feeling of happiness. Instead, they are for illustrating the tensions between tragedy and comedy as well as the awfulness of human existence. Just like what Samuel Beckett said, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the…

During 1841 Rhode Island was operating under a system of government that was created in 1663, under a colonial charter. This system of government had heavy restrictions on voting, and had no tolerance for amends to the constitution. Local Rhode Island citizens formed a group to protest for a new constitution to be ratified. However that next year governor Thomas Dorr was elected, and the old charter continued to be in effect. Once protestor their current system of government would continue to…

Title and Citation: McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316, 407 (1819) Facts: James McCulloch was a cashier in the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States who refused to pay the taxes that were to be collected by the state of Maryland. Maryland clearly imposed taxes on all banks that were not originally incorporated by the state. After trying to collect McCulloch’s taxes, the State of Maryland filed a lawsuit because McCulloch denied his portion of the taxes. Procedural…

1. Abigail- Abigail Williams is the most powerful character throughout The Crucible, who starts the blaming game throughout Salem, Massachusetts. Even though different rumors about her are spreading through the village, she convinces many people with her lies about the bonfire incident. For example, she persuades Reverend Hale and Parris that Tituba was involved in different form of witchcraft. People from the village believe what she says because she is a victim of witchcraft who was able to…

The Salem Witch Trials, in 1692, was a phase in American history when the Puritans settled in Massachusetts and extraordinary events began. The events that occurred stirred up hysteria within the people. The hysteria was also induced by propaganda of the North Church and the fear of the unfamiliar land and people, accusations, and God. The idea of witches existing and infesting themselves in Puritan daily life caught and spread through the Puritan communities quickly. As a popular influence, the…

On May 10th, 1773, Great Britain's parliament passed the Tea Act. The main objective of the Tea Act was to save the East India Company from bankruptcy, by lowering the tax on their tea. Also to give a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. Since all legal tea entered the colonies through England, it allowed the East India Company to pay lower taxes in Britain. The East India Company was doing well and the British wanted to give it more business, but the tea act lowered the price way…

It was June 10th of 1692 when Martha Cory stood in front of a crowd of people waiting to be hanged. Martha was not the first to be hanged though. After two little girls accused Bridget Bishop of being a witch. Paranoia swept throughout the small village, Salem. There had already been a trial the month before. Why were groups of people hanged for witchcraft in Salem in 1962. There were some poor teenage girls drunk with power and they started the Salem witch trials. The teenage girls…

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…