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    The character I hate the most are the elders, those people rule like those kids in the witch hunt times bringing this to really bad time. People act like they are scared out of their wits as the elders branded the main characters witches as they plan to harm them in many ways that make them look evil, but actually they are good that really tick me off about them is that they want to rule the community making them be formed in the bad life that means sadness for the children fight ringing them…

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    Atish Patel History 130 Spring 2016 Dr. Robert Miller The Salem Witch Hunt This all started in colonial history, unreasonable actions mostly that were superstition and used to explain events that were viewed as paranormal. This dates back to the Essex County in Massachusetts in 1962. This book is a brief history with documents from the past. This book is written in genuine manner and very easy to read. The panic first started in Salem village, a small farming community north of Boston. By…

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    events was not the emotions felt, but the environment in which they happened. The events that happened in Salem in 1692 and 1693 were a unique amalgamation of conditions and activities. By European standards, the witch hunt in Salem was not large, nor was it particularly lethal. The witch hunts…

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    In the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller and “The list a modern day witch hunt in Utah” by Wendy Feliz. The central idea of these two articles is that you should always be careful who you blame, because in both articles the vigilantes and abigail did not speak out to their plan and everything went very badly for both of them and it would have been easier to not cause any drama and to just accept the way things are. Examples of this would be that, In the list It talks about how a vigilante…

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    A witch hunt occurs when a person or group is hunted due to accusations targeting them. Personally when hearing about this topic I was highly interested in not only what counted as a witch hunt, but what events in history could be considered as witch hunts. During world war 2 a horrific event was taking place in Europe known as the Holocaust. Families were being stripped of their rights as human beings and harassed simply for being Jewish, gay, having disabilities, etc. These people were not…

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    a man named Arthur Miller. He used the Salem Witch Trials and related that to his own story, The Modern Witch Trials, in which a man named Elia Kazan accused Miller and seven others of being apart of a communist party. The main characters within the story are: Reverend Parris, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Hale. Each with their own story, they all play an enormous role in this story of the Salem witch hunt. There were some girls playing in the woods…

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    Yekaterina Gornyachek Political Science 3160 Professor J. Wypijewski Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt By Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedecker Satan’s Silence by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedecker is a book centered on the cultural and criminal abuse of children (those surrounding satanic ritual abuse). Many accusations/allegations were surrounding satanic cults and children abuse in the 1980’s. Sometimes statements made by…

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    “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy”(F. Scott Fitzgerald).“The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller, is a play that was written to depict the events that occurred during the Salem witch-hunts in the 1600’s. In the play, the two main characters, John Proctor and Abigail Williams, had an affair, but John reconciled with his sins and went back to living with his wife. The only problem is that Abigail still wants to be with John. So she believes in order to do this she must first kill Elizabeth…

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    Erikka Burke Sjovold History 310 September 24, 2014 Salem Witch Hunt The accusations of witchcraft occurring in New England started in the late-16th century. The Puritans were fairly new to their settlements. They fled from Europe to America to ensure that the Christian Church was maintained. In England they received a threat from King James I to leave the land or pay the consequences. Many of the Puritans went to Holland and a good handful was led by William Bradford to America. The Puritans…

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    people. My main comparisons will be about the dangers of dating apps, social media serial rapists, and men finding underage girls. I will be using details from “The Crucible” , “The Demons of Salem, With Us Still” to prove that child predators are like witch hunters. The first comparison is how the dangers of dating apps are like witches hunting, but the predators on the dating apps are men. The article being compared is, “Dating App Dangers”, it is about a man having women meet him somewhere…

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