Samuel Loomis

Robert Gross shows the significant role of Concord, Massachusetts, in the fight for independence through the perspective of the common person, in his book, The Minutemen and their World. Gross presents Concord as a town that played a great role in the revolution, while altering the community forever. Concord life is explained before, during, and after, “A shot heard ‘round the world.” Although Gross supports his ideas with numerous sources of evidence, he states that history is not simply an…

There is a major contrast between the way in which the settings of Translations and Stuff Happens are described in addition to the number of places that feature. For example, in Stuff Happens David Hare frequently changes the setting with generally brief descriptions of Hotel Pierre, Camp David and many other locations, cohering with the play’s chaotic style and numerous characters. The stage directions in Stuff Happens are shorter than in Translations and usually fixate on the characters and…

document in anticipation of a soul search. However, thanks to Samuel Pepys we have an un-edited, un-filtered first hand account of what it was like to be in the midst of some of the most momentous events in English history. Pepys bore witness to and recorded the second Anglo-Dutch war, the Great Fire of London, and what the Restoration or even the Great Plague was like experience. And while these events can be found in history books, Samuel Pepys’ diary brings something to the table that a…

In arthur miller's the crucible, a play about the salem witchcraft trials, the character of John proctor is portrayed as a God fearing and honest man. In the play, appears to be the protagonist in the story, and he is presented as a round character who encounters drastic conflict and change in his actions. Although, Proctor is portrayed as an evil man, there are explanations behind his ways. In a sense, Miller leaves it to the reader to question what drives john to commit adultery. Of…

In the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller and “The list a modern day witch hunt in Utah” by Wendy Feliz. The central idea of these two articles is that you should always be careful who you blame, because in both articles the vigilantes and abigail did not speak out to their plan and everything went very badly for both of them and it would have been easier to not cause any drama and to just accept the way things are. Examples of this would be that, In the list It talks about how a vigilante…

Anyone can change the world... anyone. I agree with Margaret Mead’s quote, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has,” but only to an extent. Throughout history and even today, there have been large groups of people, small groups of people, and just one person that have made profound effects on the world we know today. The Boston tea party was a revolt where taxpayers were outraged with the high taxes being…

The Salem witchcrafts, consisted as multiple demonic spirits tortured a pure, God fearing soul, in retaliation to uneasy affairs with the servants’ guardian family. While reading Escaping Salem, I gathered that in this earlier century, England was known to be very traditional, family-oriented, and deeply invested in their Puritan religion, women were also considered a substitution for men, in terms of labor. Along with collecting information from online resources, about how these witch trials…

At the time of the Seven Year War, who would thought that someday a revolution would be fought for the independence of a new nation by American colonies? With the colonies becoming protected from invasion by the British in return the American colonies would have paid for fewer taxes and still be able to expand their trade of domestic economic without the British government involvement. By this the British were concerned and there for establish the Navigation Act in order to have all trades be…

Tituba to achieve it. “PARRIS: Your name in the town- it is entirely white is it not? ABIGAIL, with an edge of resentment: Why, I am sure it is, sir. There be no blush about my name” (11). Should the whole thing have quotes around it? When Reverend Samuel Parris, Abigail’s uncle, asks Abigail about her reputation in the town, the stress about reputation becomes visible. Abigail has gone 7 months without work which concerns her uncle. Once he catches Abigail and her friends dancing in the woods,…

In the early 1690’s puritans in New England believed god was punishing them. In Salem, Massachusetts blamed many members of the town for doing witchcraft. Two of the accused women were Tituba and Rebecca Nurse. Tituba confessed to doing witchcraft because she did not want to die, while Rebecca Nurse denied because she did not want to ruin her reputation. During the Salem Witch Trails Tituba admitted to preforming witchcraft. According to Tituba “The other pulled mee & hauled me to pinch the…