Warren Bennis

Day 6- McKinley Assassination Analytical summary President William McKinley was scheduled to appear at the Pan-American Expositions in Buffalo. On September 6th, he needed to visit the Temple of Music but Leon Czolgosz shot McKinley in the stomach twice when McKinley shook Leon’s hand. McKinley died several days later and Theodore Roosevelt became president shortly after. Thesis ( Why this event? ) “Teddy Roosevelt’s accidental presidency, made possible by an assassin’s bullet, profoundly…

The Importance of the Crucible Have you ever lied to someone? Some of the people in the town of Salem had to lie to save themselves from being hanged. In The Crucible the most important lesson to be learned is not to let fear make your choices. In The Crucible people used fear to decided who is apart of witchcraft, who gets hanged from being involved in witchcraft, and some in the town let the fear of their reputation get in the way of their decisions. In the town after people were accused of…

Throughout history, minority groups such as women and blacks have often been treated as “monstrous” outcasts. In The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, women are depicted as witches. In Coleman’s In the Beginning there was White Zombie, we see that first-hand accounts of Haitian culture written by a white man created the image of the zombie. When studying these accounts, we notice that when depicting minorities as monsters, the oppressor seems to…

In The Crucible, Mary Warren was the first to tell the truth about the witchcraft accusations. However, when the people in the village put her on the spot she immediately panicked and turned her back on John Proctor, accusing him of witchcraft, “point at Proctor ‘You’re the Devil’s…

Ethical Situation Bernie Madoff is a prime example of an ethical situation involving a salesperson with a real world company. This man founded a Wall Street firm, in his name, and was the chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. His employees surrounding his business included family members such as a brother, niece, daughter and sons. The firm was a well-known marketing business and he was an individual who was trusted among his peer. At the start of his…

The purpose of the essay is to evaluate the leadership style of Mark Zuckerberg. In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was termed as a person of the ‘year by TIME’. Mark Zuckerberg’s current net worth is $28.5 billion as per the records of Forbes, which makes him as one of the youngest billionaires in the world (Forbes.com. 2017). On the other hand, Zuckerberg et al. (2016) asserted that Mark Zuckerberg has also received various criticisms for cyber crime and profile hacking issues of its users. The essay…

The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play about the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. The story represents the idea of witchcraft in the city, and how it impacts, as well as defies their supposive puritan ideology. In the text, Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor, is aware of the camouflaged relationship her husband has with Abigail Williams, niece of the town minister Reverend Parris. Abigail Williams is a clever character who is convinced that that John Proctor is her destined…

Abby vs. Parris Arthur Miller wrote a play, the time setting of this place was during the 1950’s. The title of the play was called The Crucible. When he was writing the play he was thinking of the puritan era, and the story took place in a town called salem and, and the story is about witch trials and witch hunts. All of the characters that are used in this play, were real people. Arthur went to massachusetts to review characters for the play. So there for the characters are based on real…

with what she’s doing. Here Abigail is saying that she is seeing things that Mary Warren is bring upon her. When Abigail says “she 's about to come down” she is referring to a yellow bird she believes is Mary Warren who is going to hurt her. Another example of hysteria shown is used by Proctor and Parris. “ Danforth: turning to Abigail: A poppet were discovered in Mr. Proctor’s house, stabbed by a needle. Mary Warren claims that you sat beside her in the court when she made it, and that you…

The Power of Integrity If you were given a choice: your integrity or your life, which would you chose? In the play, The Crucible, the author, Arthur Miller, reveals that most people chose their life over their integrity. The Crucible illustrates that this decision leads greater chaos and distrust through the hysteria that occurred in Salem in 1692. In this time people start to lie and accuse their neighbor of witchcraft to save themselves from the punishment, while their neighbors either hang…