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    Peter's Heroism

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    Peter made his first act of heroism by deciding to travel through Narnia (Lewis 58). Not knowing what to expect, he took his chances in order to try to save the creatures of Narnia. The amount of courage Peter grew by taking on the wolf and the white witch also added to his character development (Lewis 135, 184). At the end of the novel, based on Peter's development of being transformed into a hero, he is given many titles such as, Sir Peter Wolf’s Bane, King Peter the Magnificent, and High…

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    com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian home and sent to Christian boarding schools, C.S. Lewis wrote, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe about controversial views such as religious faith and skepticism, which were two topics few others wrote about during the time, and lead to controversy.…

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    Macbeth Soliloquy Analysis

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    The Meaning Inside the Head (A Discussion on the themes of Macbeth's Soliloquy of Act, Scene 5.) The final act of Macbeth is an intense act that involves many different big events. First Lady Macbeth has gone completely crazy, and ends up killing herself from her mental illness. Macbeth finds this out, and also was informed about Malcolm and Macduff, with thousands of English military men were coming to end his life and take the throne back. In act 5, scene 5, Macbeth is starting to…

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    Animals In Narnia

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    characteristics, the tone of their speech is not hostile, nor does it influence the manner in which the Pevensie children view other animals within the world. This notion is furthered by the fact that Aslan scolds the Beaver for his harsh tone against the white witch (142), and the manner in which Aslan himself speaks towards all animals in the land- showing the children the value of respect- and thus discouraging hostility towards any of the creatures in…

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    Steve and Tony both look for similar closures, however they essentially have diverse means. Steve's shield and Tony's weaponized suit serve as unmistakable images that speak to their varying belief systems. Steve speaks to the shield (clad with red, white, and blue) that ensures America and it's natives, while Tony speaks to the sword prepared to strike and assault the individuals who debilitate peace. The contention of the shield versus the sword has been continuing for quite a while, and as…

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    of all of those suspected of witchcraft onto the branches of a sal tree; the name on the branch that withers is condemned as a witch. Rice is also used by wrapping the grain in a cloth labeled with each of the names and placed inside a nest of white ants. The witch is identified by whichever bag the ants eat. An even deadlier method of identifying witches is forcing women to drink potions made of poisonous herbs to prove that they were not witches (McCoy 2014). Physical features such as old age,…

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    The Salem witch trials was a group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts who were accused of messing with witch craft and had been claimed to be possessed by the devil in the years of 1692-1693. Twenty people had during those years, within those twenty only nineteen were hanged and one by the name of Giles Corey was pressed to death by stones. In the 1600s the Puritan religion was very strict especially in the Salem Valley. Puritans feared the devil, they feared witch craft because one who…

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    citizens oblivious to the fact of what could actually be going on with these people. Similarly, in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, a black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman. After, a trial it becomes evident he was unlawfully convicted of the crime but not to the all white jury who convicted him because of the color of his skin…

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    hysteria of witchcraft led to the assumptions that witches were present among the innocent because of direct admission of some and visions of witches by others which is illustrated in the hearing of the first accused witches. In the event of the Salem Witch Trials, dozens of innocent people were put to their death for truly grotesque reasons. One morning in January of 1692, two girls by the names of Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began experiencing anomalous fits, eventually leading to the…

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    death. What caused The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692? The accuser, the defender, and the accused witch were the people involved, 20 people were accused of being witches therefore they were killed. This happened in the year 1692 it happened in Salem Massachusetts. At the end of the month they killed the people who were accused. The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 happened for three main reasons: Childish Mischief, Pressure, but mainly for For Power. The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692…

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