...killed for practicing witchcraft. However, these people were innocent and they were killed in painful and gruesome ways, such as crushing and drowning. Many people would make accusations against an innocent person out of malice, which would in return lead to the accused’s death. Two reverends who lived in New England during this time were John Hale and Cotton Mather. Both of these men have very strong, however very different opinions about the trials and wrote essays about them. In Hale’s essay, "A Modest Inquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft" , he uses rhetorical...
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...Summary of “Why Are Looks the Last Bastion of Discrimination?” Deborah L. Rhode has written several books based on race and gender. She wrote one essay titled “Why Are Looks the Last Bastion of Discrimination”. In this essay Rhode states that workers have been discriminated based on their attractiveness, also individuals seeking employment have also been declined a job or have been given a job based of their looks. In the essay Rhode argues that there should be a law established in the United States that is against looks discrimination. According to Rhode, the United States has made many laws in the past years to protect groups of people that are being discriminated based on sex, religion, race, or disability, yet there is no official law protecting employees that are being discriminated on their looks. Since there is no law that protects a person from this kind of discrimination, it is allowing corporations to discriminate an employment seeker, or a current employee based on his or her appearance. Rhode claims that companies discriminate people on their looks, because attractiveness is “job-related” and they want a person with an attractive appearance to represent their company. Deborah L. Rhode states that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and the fact that a boss has the power to say who is “attractive” or “unattractive” really gives employees a disadvantage in their job. This limits the person to show how good they can turn out to be in a certain job. Rhode insists...
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...Zack Del Medico Ms. Rogers English 11-E/F Essay 1 February 2017 "The Devil and Tom Walker" Why would a story about the devil include characters of a romanticism? Washington Irving wrote the novel The Devil and Tom Walker. Irving uses the following three characteristics of romanticism in his story, Individualism, belief in supernatural, and inspired by beauty of nature. Irving used Individualism in his story in many different ways. “ At length she determined to drive the bargain on her own account, and if she succeeded, to keep all the gain to herself ”(ll. 158-159, 483). This quote shows the use of individualism from Tom's wife who is determined to make a deal with the Devil by herself and not share anything with anyone else. “ Done!...
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...Crucible Essay Suspicion can destroy because it causes hysteria and there are consequences for that. Rod Sterling’s quote and The Crucible are very similar in the way that suspicion ruined many lives and reputations in each story. The Cold War was a war of words, a war of suspicion, of hatred and power. Arthur Miller and Rod Serling both connect to the war in the 1950s in an allegorical way. In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller expresses similar views about suspicion through the characterization of his characters. Abigail Williams represents the idea that words can destroy and cause suspicion. “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba! (42)” Abigail is denying calling the Devil with the girls in the woods and accusing Tituba of doing so. Abigail accusing Tituba makes the other girls start to...
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...The Devil in the White City Essay Erik Larson, the author of The Devil in the White City, uses juxtaposition by incorporating specific details about the fair's construction and Holmes's trial of murders to show the underlying evil taking place at such a revolutionary time in history. The author uses mysterious events to reveal his alternative message of the hidden darkness, even in the most joyous times in history. Such as, when Burnham was deciding to paint all the buildings white so that it correlates with the positive attitude of the Chicago World Fair. Meanwhile H. H. Holmes portrays the “dark” side of the city with his cloaked basement of various lingering smells of rancid chemicals that will cause hundreds to disappear without any suspicion....
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...This essay is over the novel The Scarlet Letter and this is an essay about three main controversial characters that were key to this story. The main points focused on in this essay were good and evil deed and actions they have done throughout the novel and how it affects the readers overall attitude at the end. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Hawthorne introduces Hester by saying, “She came forth into the sunshine” (72). The sunshine shows Hester has some light coming down on her instead of the town looking down on her and her sin of adultery that she has committed. One of my other details on this reference is, Hester being in the dark prison means she had no freedom, but outside with the light shining on her she had her freedom back. Another dark quote was, Hester said, “Thee must gather thine own sunshine, for I have none to give thee” (Hawthorne 95). This meaning that Hester’s sin shows she has no sunshine to give other because he sin has erased all good she had once had in her....
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...Argumentative Essay Beautiful Is Good In today’s Western society, the bias of “beauty is goodness” is predominantly found throughout the hiring sector. This term encompasses the belief that being physically attractive improves one’s chances of obtaining a job or being accepted into an organization or institution. This in itself is an example of the halo effect, a term used by social scientist to describe the act of making a positive presumption about an individual based on only one positive trait. This essay will focus on the distribution of the halo effect based on beauty. This is evident not only based on my personal experiences and literature I have read upon the subject, but also on popular culture. I will examine examples of said experience, an essay by Comila Shahani-Denning and an analysis of the popular film “The Devil Wears Prada” to support the concept of “beauty is goodness”. Comila Shahani-Denning’s essay, titled “Physical Attractiveness Bias in Hiring: Beautiful Is Good”, argues that, based on research conducted by various institutions, being beautiful generally improves one’s chances of getting a job in most situations. Citing studies conducted by Elroy & DeCarol, Watsking and Jonhston and Heilman & Stopeck, she concludes that there is enough empirical evidence that physical attractiveness impacts employment making decisions. However, she acknowledges that this does not hold true for all jobs. Utilizing the term “Beauty is Beastly”, coined by Heilman...
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...Compare and contrast Cohen’s study of disorderly behaviour with that of Hall et al. This essay will explore the construction of disorder in society and the role of the media in shaping public opinions about social disorder. It will examine the theories of Stanley Cohen and Hall et al. and will identify the different approaches and key research issues concerning disorderly behaviour. The essay will show how the media constructs and defines antisocial behaviour through the portrayal of folk devils which creates moral panic. The concept of folk devils and moral panic was explored by Stanley Cohen (1973) in his case study of mods and rockers of the 1960’s. The Mods and Rockers were two opposing British youth gangs that engaged in fighting and vandalism at seaside towns in the 1960’s.Cohen’s research focused on how this the media’s portrayal of events provoked a mood of public fear and outrage throughout society, labelling the two groups as folk devils. Folk devils have been depicted as mindless, evil and deviant beings with their behaviour completely different to that of normal people. These deviants have been blamed for all the wrongs in society and have been punished brutally. This characterisation has been central to Cohen’s theory with the role of the media inciting moral panics with the dramatization and construction of Folk devils. (Kelly and Toynbee, 2009, p370) Stanley Cohen, Suggests the UK media’s representation of the antisocial behaviour of the British youths played...
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...Philip Jones Philosophy 101 Due Date: 2/17 Assignment: Opinion Paper, Critical Thinking Essay 1 Does the senses account for all our knowledge? I do not think that senses account for all my knowledge because first of all, all I am is who I am. I am my own individual in this universe all I have is my own little space and who is to say it is mine. An extremely large portion of what I know is what I accept others have told me the truth. For example: the sky is blue, the Earth is round, and the Sun is the center of the Solar System. I don’t know if these statements are true. I just trust the sources from which they came. “Empiricism is the belief that all knowledge about the world comes from or is based on the senses.”(p.328) With this statement I would like to explore the senses seems that there are only five or at least that is how many I trust there to be because that is what I have been told. First I will start with sight and what it does for me and how I use it. If I just open my eyes and look to see what is there. I will only see what is there, not until someone tells what I am looking at will I know what really is there. I’ve learned through experience how to interpret what I see. Do I really know what I am looking at? In reality I still know I don’t know what I am looking at because every second of every moment anything can and will change. Second I want to discuss smell since my nose is so close to my eyes. The sense of smell I don’t think is that...
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...Marlee Vlahos Liberty University DATE \@ "MMMM d, y" February 2, 2015 Young Goodman Brown & The Lottery A review of both stories In this essay I will take the time to review two stories both of the fiction nature. I will discuss the conflicts of both stories as well as the plot structure. I will talk about the characters and give my point of view. Both stories are very thought provoking which should make this very interesting to compare and contrast. In the story of “Young Goodman Brown” we can understand the setting from what the limited omniscient narrator is describing to us. The reader gets a visual of a spooky setting of dark woods in the nearby town of Salem. The first thing a reader would think of when they hear the word/place “Salem” is witches. So automatically becomes a Halloween type of feel. It is then discussed that the story takes place during the time of the witch trials. It is not spoken as to what season this takes place, but with the visual you get the reader can assume its fall. The forest, the time of the story and the location of Salem helps to make this story very believable. In “The Lottery,” we getting a different visual. As the reader the image you create of the setting describes is a small village in a small town in a very rural areal. The feeling you get from the setting described is a feeling of everything revolving around the good harvest of their crops. The author paints a setting of a town of people doing a lottery that you...
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...Vickie Shipley Professor Marek ENC 1102, SEC 87 27 October, 2013 Drama Essay: "Hamlet's Ghost- To Believe or Not to Believe” Of all the plays written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is the most intriguing. As the plot develops, themes such as indecision, deceit and revenge become apparent. As is expected, questions about the characters' motives arise as these themes are portrayed. Questions regarding Hamlet's love for Ophelia or his sanity arise. However, these questions develop throughout the story. The most important question arises at the beginning of the story in Act 1, and affects Hamlet’s every thought and action thereafter. Is the King's ghost a good spirit, merely seeking justice or an evil spirit sent to corrupt Hamlet? Perhaps the ghost is genuinely that of the dead king, but the fact that the ghost uses Hamlet to exact revenge and demands he commit the mortal sin of murder, clearly shows it to be an evil, malicious demon from hell. During the era in which Hamlet was written, there was a common belief of demonic intrusion, and corruption by the devil. Even today, it is not too difficult to find people who will agree that specters are evil demons, sent up from the bowels of hell to corrupt and destroy the living. In fact, a recent CBS poll reveals that almost half of all Americans believe in evil spirits, and that the dead can return in certain places and situations (Alfano). Because of this belief, the appearance of the spirit, along with the assumption of its...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, Young Goodman Brown and Washington Irving’s, The Devil and Tom Walker are two examples of works containing this same premise. Within both stories good and evil wage war via each of the protagonist’s encounter with the devil, the roles of the wives in the stories, and is also illustrated in the cast of supporting characters. Note: This is my thesis sentence! What this reveals is my body paragraphs will pertain to these statements! My first body paragraph would have to examples of Tom Walker’s and Goodman Brown’s struggle with good and evil. I might even have specific quotes from each of the stories that supported my argument. I would also include several sentences to compare and contrast the two protagonists’ good and evil qualities. My second body paragraph would speak to the roles of the wives in the stories and how good versus evil was exemplified through these characters. I would include compare and contrast the two wives here. I would reveal (through the text) specific examples of each wife’s good and/or evil qualities. My third body paragraph would have examples (comparisons and contrasts) of good and evil shown through the various “supporting” characters within the stories. Here I would include information on people like Goody Cloyse, Deacon Gookin and Martha Carrier from the story of Young Goodman Brown. From The Devil and Tom Walker I would write about the perception of good and evil as it pertains to characters like Deacon...
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...1692? In the year of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, the devil took the souls of weak-willed people, which were wizards and witches. This event was called the Salem Witch Trials, which consisted of numerous people allegedly practicing witchcraft. To prevent the witchcraft they hunted and tried the accused. The punishment for practicing witchcraft was death. Every historian had a different thought on what caused the event. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum suggested that the most reliable form of evidence was supernatural strengths, weaknesses or unusual physical characteristics. The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was caused by Puritans belief of the devil, Bridget Bishop spreading the practice of witchcraft to others, and Cotton Mather’s story of the sermon and manuscript. One cause of the witch trial...
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...Props Analysis and Procedural Essay The following items were used during the making of this Sweded Video production: • A Chainsaw (not turned on because it could possible injure someone) • A piece of liver • Red bell pepper • Red paint • A meat tenderizer(to represent an axe) • Black North Face jackets (all the devils needed to wear black) • Black boots • Ipod(to record the production) • Private property sign • An orange tube that makes a howling or wind like sound(forgot the name) Most of these items I already had, but some of them like the bell pepper, paint, and liver I did not have so I bought it from a store. Some of the other members in the group needed to help me with the ipod, private property sign, and a chainsaw. All of these items have a meaning to this video because they all play an important role in symbolizing or portraying the story The Devils and Tom Walker. The ipod is the most important item because its filming the entire production of the Sweded Video. Without the Ipod, there wouldn’t be a film to watch. The chainsaw is with Tom Walker as he goes through the woods and begins to cut down the trees. While walking he stumbles upon a sign that is planted deep in the ground of the woods. He picks the sign up and throws it away as if the words “private property” meant absolutely nothing to him. The private property sign is present in this film because it adds more of a curiousness toward the viewer since Tom did not care what that sign said....
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...out of the house with her friends. She always talked about the positive effects of her looks, but never realized the negative attention that could draw from how she dressed and acted outside of her house. Arnold Friend was drawn to Connie from the first time he saw her. One day Arnold visited Connie's house harassing her to come take a ride with him and he would not take no for an answer. That was the negative attention that Connie did not want. It is concluded at the end of the story that Connie gave in and went with Arnold knowing her fate would probably be death. Joyce Carol Oates never actually let her audience know who or what Arnold Friend represented, but it is argued that he may or may not be the devil. Throughout the story, Oates used many different ways to show that Arnold could be the incarnation of evil including lust, symbolism, and various religious references. At 15, most young girls in the 1960s were not as adventurous with boys as Connie. It was looked down upon by just about any adult for girls to be alone with any boy at her age. Connie was never really interested in the individual boys she had met, but more of the feeling she got from being in that atmosphere. “But all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face but an idea, a feeling..”(Oates 13-15) Connie said that she really liked how Arnold Friend looked, and that she was attracted to him. Arnold, just like the devil, used lust as a temptation device to lure his victim...
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