The Hunt for Red October

Arthur Miller was a brilliant play author. A few of his initial works won prizes, and amid his senior year, the Federal Theater Project in Detroit performed one of his works. One of the plays was The Crucible. It was composed in 1953. It is a sensationalized and mostly fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that occurred in the Province of Massachusetts. The unbelievable ailment impelled fears of witchcraft, it comprised of young ladies including a slave, and numerous different…

Western Europe, which was seen as an anti-communists move by the Americans and initiated the Cold War. With prosperity and opulence, countries could reject communism and stay away from the second red hunt. Back in the United States, Harry S. Truman was serving his presidency in 1945 and took action on the Red Scare hysteria growing in the U.S. Truman 's biggest foreign policy and goal was based on George Kennan 's “Containment Doctrine”. The “Containment Doctrine” said the U.S.S.R. were…

Jerry Li Mrs. Kimpton English IV, Period 5/6 27 October 2015 Drop the Harpoon and Save the World When talking about whaling in the ocean, people generally attribute it to adventurous, or even heroic, images of brave sailors chasing those gigantic marine creatures in the stormy seas with harpoons in their hands. Whaling plays an important role in the long history of human beings. It persists until today in many cultures as a tradition. However, years of hunting have pushed the whales on the…

She was the first girl who ever showed much interest in 18-year-old Charlie. She was taken with his “bad boy” persona and the two soon became inseparable (Badlands Killer). ROBERT CULVERT - NOVEMBER 1957 A young man, bowlegged with red hair, stumbles into the gas station. He grabs a toy off the shelf and tosses it on the counter. Robert Colvert, the attendant at the Crest Service Station, picks it up, looks at it, scans it. The young man opens his billfold and blushes as he realizes…

been two Red Scares that occurred, one in the 1920s and the other in 1950s. Both Red Scares in America arose out of fear of communism and foreign policy that could have impacted America greatly, especially since both Red Scares occurred after World War One and World War Two. After World War Two the United States developed a policy of containment to try and stop the spread of Communism. After the Second World War the United States entered the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The first Red Scare…

Arthur Miller was born in New York City on October 17, 1915. Miller began his work as a play writer in the early stages of his life. Miller won multiples prizes for his outstanding work. He produced his first success, All My Sons, in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, Miller wrote Death of a Salesman, which won the Pulitzer Prize and transformed Miller into a national sensation. While he studied as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, he began research on the witch trials which led to…

the beginning of 1889. In the Whitechapel murders casebook, the last report was written on October 18, 1896 by Detective Chief Inspector Henry Moore, regarding the reception of another “Ripper” letter claiming Jack was returning. Based on his investigation of the correspondence, Moore did not believe the letter to have any connection to the previous letters or merit regarding the Ripper case. The police’s hunt for the Ripper was…

Wicca is a tradition that takes place in Europe before Christianity and can be linked back to worshiped of Hunter God, and a Fertility Goddess of the Paleolithic people. The religion can be traced back to 30,000 years and predate Christianly by 28,000 years. A sculpture was found of a Goddess or Great mother, and her consort stating that this religion was a matriarchal and free of male domination. The goddess is one of the earliest deity from the Stone Ages in Europe. Wicca is a spiritual belief…

This theory derives from their report that the murderer committed the crime to remove Elizabeth Stride’s uterus. In the same issue, the Evening News also mentions a letter and a postcard that were sent to the Central News Agency on September 27 and October 1, both pieces claiming to be written by “Jack the Ripper” (the first mention of that phrase in the press), and the press writes them off as practical jokes. Hundreds more letters were sent to both the press and the police, the newspapers…

Sushil G C Prof. April Braden HIST 1301-71003 21 October 2017 BLACKBEARD BIOGRAPHY Pirate refers to the person who attacks and robs the ship at the sea violently. We all are familiar with the word pirate as we have been told stories about them directing the golden age when they were the legends of the sea since from our childhood. One of the notorious pirates was “Blackbeard” who was perhaps one of the major figure associated with the “Golden Age of Piracy” that was roughly between 1716 to 1726…