Samuel J. Tilden

Today I bring you the sad news that yesterday Salem hung their very own Bridget Bishop for witchcraft. Several Girls in the town have accused her of witchcraft. Abby Williams was one of them, she said “That no good witch put a spell on my cousin and now she can’t move. She’ll pay for that in hell.” Abby Williams is the respected niece of Reverend Parris and is often bewitched in court. When Sarah Osborne was on trial Abby became very ill “I was throwing up with all the other girls, all 13 of…

Boston Massacre During this period of time, a big event happen in history that caused many emotions and tensions between the British soldiers and the civilians. The Boston Massacre played a very important role as The Revolutionary War in American History. The civilians feared for their lives but also for there colonies. The civilians were tired of all the rules and taxes they had to follow but also feeling that they were getting stepped on. They would start protesting and wanted to be free…

After the French and Indian War, The King as well as Parliament decided the colonies should pay for part of the costs for keeping British soldiers in North America. “It is in part to pay for the cost of administering this new continental empire that the British begin enacting a series of Financial Revenue Acts in 1764” (Wall, Taxing the Colonies). These acts included The Sugar Act of 1764, The Stamp Act of 1765, The Quartering Act of 1765, The Declaratory Act 1766 as well as many others. Since…

The root causes for the American Revolution was when Great Britain started to place Acts such as the Sugar Act of 1764, The Revenue Act of 1764, and the Stamp Act of 1765 to enforce higher taxes and/or fines to make the colonists help pay for the own debt due to the Seven Years’ War. The Sugar Act of 1764 was to lower taxes on molasses imported in North America from the French West Indies. On the other hand it was established to end widespread of smuggling by the colonial merchant but due to…

The British had created numerous laws that angered many colonists. Some of these popular acts were The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, The Tea Act, and The Intolerable Acts. The colonists then protested against these acts in many ways. Some ways were violent, others were peaceful, and other protests hurt the British economically. The economic protest was the most effective protest. The economic protests attacked what the British loved the most: money. Money was a very important item to the…

Mary Magdalene is well known to many people. She is mentioned a few times in the New Testament. She has a questionable persona before she was first introduced. She is mentioned in the canonical gospels. She is an eye witness to multiple documentations about Jesus’ life in the ministry, death, and resurrection. Mary was was in a town called Magdala. Stated in the article about her childhood and early life here is not documentation in the Bible about “her birth, parentage or family status”. There…

Comparing and Contrasting American Horror Story Season 2 and Stranger Things AHS Season 2 is about an insane asylum with many hidden secrets. In that season, many nuns try to cover up what they are doing to their patients. Stranger Things is about a group of friends that try to find their other friend, Will, but they find out that he is trapped in another world. They try to save him before it is too late. Although American Horror Story (AHS) and Stranger Things (ST)have different settings and…

majorities votes. Therefore, a big number of political analysts predicted a persistent increasing dramatic change in the US political system, which would affect the US political system in the long run in the future, due to the fact that the size of the democratic victory and the last of the Republican’s unpopularity extended during the late Bush era. Two years later as predicted, the America’s most vibrant political force seldom seen occurred , calling it self the Tea Party Movement. The Tea…

In December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the British East India Company were dump into the Boston Harbor by American patriots who disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. The American patriots were objecting tax on tea, that is, taxation without representation and the perceived East India Company’s monopoly. The Townshend Acts passed in 1767 by Parliament imposed duties on various imported products but they raised a big storm of non-compliance and colonial protest. The Boston…

There are many plays that are produced and read all over the world. Some are performed in front of a different crowd every time it is produced. But not all plays are produced in a huge crowds. Some plays are produced in just a small classroom by a bunch of students. A play that can be done is The Crucible. This play has many charters and many events that take place. One of the charters in the play is Reverend Parris. He is one of the main characters in this play. His biggest motivation is…