Warren Tay

He’s an investor and a CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He leads over 300,000 employees with a freedom and incentivizes them like owners. I admire him not only he’s a successful businessman, billionaire but he’s also a philanthropist. To me Warren Buffet is a strategic leader because I was watching one of his interviews on T.V once he has said that his favorite holding period for an investment is forever. Due to his saying, this is why he has been staying with Berkshire Hathaway for a long…

characters in Miller’s The Crucible, including John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Mary Warren, are willing to take several different although equally drastic measures to protect their own name. In Act I of The Crucible it quickly…

after the Cuban Missile Crisis he ordered the hit on Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald’s linking to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was another piece of evidence. Oswald had 2 visited the Soviet Union with his Russian born wife Marina. The Warren Commission and the House Committee on Assassinations found slight evidence to maintain a Soviet-backed procedure, but 1 previous KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) agent came out years later to say that the Russians played a role in the…

Amelia Matczak Professor Banas Rosemary’s Baby DUE 10.5.2017 The Devil’s Feminist Agenda If you were to ask a horror film junkie, an atheist and a clinical psychologist what the true meaning of Rosemary’s Baby is, you are destined to get three very different answers. Largely, these different interpretations vary based on their belief in the reality or imagination of Satan during the film. Furthermore, if Rosemary’s child is truly the son of Satan, an allegory for human existence, or a…

Massachusetts, McCarthyism, and Mass Hysteria Humankind has expressed throughout time how easy and destructive it can be to accuse others without proper evidence or a truly reliable investigation. First occurring in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, innocent individuals were unjustly persecuted as a result of their seemingly abnormal actions or personal affiliations. Behavior such as this was rekindled, witnessed during McCarthyism in the early 1950’s and the treatment of homosexuals during the…

Written in the 1940's, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible explores the hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process that characterized the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Arguably, the themes explored in this play resonate With many modern and historical events. Arthur Miller himself saw strong connections between the events Salem Witch Trials and events surrounding the Red Scare in the 1950s. When juxtaposed with the events of the Crucible, themes of hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process…

Although many historical fictions rely heavily on true events, the author will usually change some parts of the story to serve a different purpose. Arthur Miller deftly obscures certain facts in his drama, The Crucible, in order to shape the reader’s opinion. Miller fabricates Abigail William’s sinful motives and portrays John Proctor as an honest, hardworking farmer, in order to efficaciously influence the audience’s opinion to be in favor the innocent victims, and against the malevolent…

As mentioned priorly regarding the movie ‘The Rainmaker’ we take on the part o a defense lawyer who has to defend Matt Damon, a lawyer who just graduated from law school on his case about self-defense against Claire Dane’s husband who tried attacking him because of jealousy. Secondly, we defend Claire Dane, who’s a battered wife who was not able to get out her abusive relationship from being scared of being killed. As a defense lawyer, from the facts, drowned out from Matt Damon self-responses…

The Assassin Becomes the Assassinated On November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is assassinated at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald fires three shots from a 6.5 mm Carcano Model 91/38 carbine at the President; the first shot penetrates through the President’s throat, then the second shot pierces through the head. President Kennedy is announced dead 30 minutes after the shooting. Oswald is found 20…

Josh Mauzy Dewhirst Mod 5A 9/29/15 Group Hysteria Irony, the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result, is a reoccurring literary technique that Arthur Miller uses in The Crucible. The most eminent example of irony exhibited in this play is observed through the Puritan society that dominated in the late 1600s in Salem, Massachusetts. The word "Puritan" implies a virtuous connotation, however ironically, the reality of life at that time…