Trial

flashy religion. The trials were not fair because of the use of spectral evidence, the defendant's prosecution, and the the use of false evidence. The trials were not fair because of the defendant's prosecution. Everyone who was a defendant in that court before spectral evidence was banned was condemned to death. The defendants were always presumed guilty “During both the preliminary examinations and the ensuing trials, the accused witches were presumed guilty.” (“Salem witch trials legal…

During the Salem Witch Trials and the two-thousand twelve panic there were many motivations to these beliefs. In the Salem Witch Trials, Salem's town believed that there witches among them since a child fell in a sickness and her uncle assumed it was witchcraft based on what he had seen the previous night. The child's sickness motivated her uncle to explore what had happened which lead to mass hysteria in the town of Salem. In two-thousand twelve a similar hysteria…

same mistakes are not repeated. However, this is not the case for American history; in America, citizens have experienced similar negative events. For instance, the Salem Witch Trials occurred in the 1690s, and McCarthyism arose in the 1950s. These time periods both involve people inaccurately accusing others, being put on trial, and often having innocent citizens punished or put to death. Arthur Miller saw how unfair and unreasonable the government was being, when he was one of the many…

Did the Salem Witch Trials cause as much hysteria as Hitler did during the Holocaust? Did Hitler abuse his power? As Hitler's power rose during the 1930's, his abuse of that power caused mass hysteria just as the women that were caught casting spells in the woods did during the spring of 1692. The Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust was alike in a few ways, the mass hysteria that was caused during the two events and the murdering of many to even millions of innocent people.…

How the Salem Witch Trials Went Down Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York in 1915, his father owned a coat manufacture company and his mother was an educator who read a lot of novels. As he grew up he almost lost everything because of the Wall Street Crash in 1929 which caused him to move from Manhattan to Flatbush, Brooklyn. After high school he had a couple of jobs before he was able to save up enough money to go to the University of Michigan. It was then he went on to be a well-known…

stabbed on the evening of June 12, 1994, their bodies discovered early the next morning… O.J. Simpson, her ex-husband, was acquitted Oct. 3, 1995, of their deaths in a trial that riveted the nation and divided many along racial lines” (latimes.com editors). The trial faced many challenges during the time, it was even considered the “Trial of the Century” because it caused so much controversy. O.J. Simpson was an American Football player who ruined his career after the suspicions that he murdered…

In Salem, Massachusetts there is a house that was owned during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. During this time, there was two young girls that would go around accusing people of being witches. Those who were accused would be put into jail. If they confess they would be set free but an outcast for the rest of their life. If they didn’t they would be killed. It was a very harsh time in day for the United States of America. The home was built upon another house in which the house was owned by a…

Circular Reasoning Before the miracle of modern medicine, the child mortality rate was unfortunately high. Mrs. Ann Putnam, the mother of Ruth and wife of Thomas Putnam, lost seven children before they even reached a day old. When Rebecca Nurse, a well-respected elder in Salem, learns that Mrs. Putnam sent her own child to the slave who is accused of causing the comatose states of Ruth Putnam and Betty Parris, she is appalled. Mrs. Putnam spits back, “Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca!…

During the questioning in the trial, Mr. Gilmer treats Tom a lot differently than Atticus treats Mayella and Bob Ewell. Atticus is very respectful to whomever he questions; he calls Mayella by “ma’am” or “Miss Mayella.” He didn’t bully them into giving him an answer. Mr. Gilmer, on the other hand, does. Dill had noticed and had been upset about how Mr. Gilbert sneered at Tom Robinson as if he were vermin and treated him as if he were less than himself. He didn’t ask questions for real…

The Salem Witch Trials occurred in Massachusetts during the year of 1692. The Witch trials began due to Puritan people accusing people in society a witch. Although the Salem Witch Trials are a part of our nation’s history; people also study about the witch trials in American literature through the eyes of Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister (Cain 225). Nathaniel Hawthorne is another very popular author studied in American Literature that also reflects on the Salem witch trials, but in a…