...If one were to interpret John Locke’s thoughts on the legitimacy of abortion, one would find that it leads to some ambiguity. The reason being is the presence of a contradiction amidst Locke’s teachings. John Locke believes in the body being the property of the person and since everyone has the right to life, liberty and property, no one should be allowed to decide what happens to someone’s body. This would support the claim that abortion is right and should be legal. However, Locke has also stated that humans are created by God and are sent to Earth to serve him. He also goes on to say that this means that the bodies of mankind are not a possession of their own, and rather a possession of God’s. This makes one question the right of self-ownership...
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...In the play “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller, he introduces a character named John Proctor who has many things in common with the character Arthur Dimmesdale in the novel, “The Scarlet Letter”. Both characters go through trying to find how to live with themselves after committing adultery. John Proctor was a very well respected man throughout the town of Salem. He was known as a strong Christian man. He was married to Elizabeth Proctor and together they had three sons. His wife had been sick for quite a while after giving birth to their last son. She became distant for a little while and John started to lust after another woman named Abigail. John had an affair with Abigail. He soon later deeply regretted the affair and stopped his relationship with Abigail. Abigail did not want to end her relationship with John. She claimed that she had fallen in love with him and how he loved her, “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!”(24) John Proctor loved his wife and his family and he knew that he had made a mistake. Elizabeth does find out about the affair and forgives John, but there is still a part inside her that is still upset with him. Throughout the play, the reader can see John Proctor struggling with the guilt that he feels from committing adultery. Through most of the play John is...
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...The Crucible Essay John Proctor was an important part of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”. Towards the end of the book/movie he was falsely accused of being a witch. He had many conflict on his mind and reasons to confess and not to confess. Personally, I think he made the right decision in that time. I most likely would of chose to live, but I understand why he made his decision. John Proctor had many internal conflicts. Before the accusations started, he cheated on his wife with Abigail. That led to the guilt that was on his mind, when his wife was accused and when he had to say his commandments to Reverend Hale. Because of the affair, all those people were arrested and died. I’m pretty sure he found that out towards the end. Having all those lives on your mind is a very big conflict in my opinion. His own wife was accused. He wasn’t even able to see his last child being born. Knowing your going to die is a conflict itself. Having these internal conflicts on his mind made the story what it is....
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...John Adams was an independent man. He was an American patriot who served as the second president of the United States. John taught Abraham Lincoln how to free slaves and give them freedom. He also was a lawyer, diplomat, statesman, political. You can say he was a leader of the movement for America independence from Great Britain. John Adams was always a very independent man, he enjoyed working on his own a lot. He really wanted independence. He was a short man, but he’s long on opinions and he always thinking for himself. That’s why everyone started to call him “Alas of Independence”. He developed a reputation for being independent, out spoken, and honest. So he moved to a public service just as the movement for independent America was developed. John Adams was the leader of the American Revolution. He served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801. Then he became critic of Great Britain authority. Before he was president he was the first vice president. He lost by Thomas Jefferson. He was also the first American ambassador to the court of St. James. He’s the author of the Massachusetts constitution....
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...The Crucible Essay In the play, ¨The Crucible¨ by Arthur Miller, John proctor drastically changes his personality from the beginning to the end of the play, from an angry farmer in the beginning to a person that wanted to make things right. I will tell you how John Proctor’s personality and mood transitions throughout the story. In act one, Abbigail used to live with the Proctors. John Proctor and Abigail was in the room together with sick Betty lying in the bed unconscious. This gave Abbigail an opportunity to talk to Proctor. Proctor questions Abbigail if Betty's illness. If Betty's illness involved the ¨ritual¨ Abigail and the other girls did in the woods. Abigail denies any involvement in witchcraft on Betty´s sickness. Abigail asked Proctor if he came to see her, but Proctor denies. This conversation between Proctor and Abigail obviously reveals that both had an affair before while Abigail was living with the Proctors. Abbigail now accuses him of still being in love with her. Abigail continues to force him to come back to her and of course this made John Proctor unhappy with Abbigail....
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...Helen Keller once said that, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Crucible can be defined as a severe test or trial, or a vessel that can withstand intense heat and is used for melting substances, the title symbolizes how the characters in the play oppose the public's opinion and withstand their hatred towards them. John Proctor and Giles Corey comprise the characteristics of a strong person who stand for what they believe in without backing down from a fight. Throughout the novel Proctor and Giles repeatedly deny practicing witchcraft in order to keep their name pure in the eyes of God. John Proctor is one of the essential characters in the play that endures many...
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...In this paper I will argue when is acceptable or not to kill an animal in John Locke’s point of view. In the Second Treatise of Government, John Locke explores and uses the “state of nature” that describes a natural condition of mankind, is a state of equality in which no one has power over another, and all are free to do as they please. For Locke the starting point of a state nature finds humans with the same sort of liberty, natural rights which God given. Locke starts talking about the three laws of nature, harm no one, preserve all, and destroy dangers. In the first law, talks about the idea we have of ourselves, how all mankind is equal to each other. God gave everything to mankind in common, such an arrangement could only benefit humankind individuals could use those resources to benefit themselves. God has given the land to the mankind to assure everyone a private property. Since animals could be useful to...
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...On the other hand, not only did John Napier contribute thru religious reform but also academically. Napier was a mathematician who invented many new principles and concepts in math. What Napier is best known for is his invention of logarithms. He’s also know for the invention of mnemonic which is the formula used to solve spherical triangles. Also a website of Napier states, “ "Napier's bones" used for mechanically multiplying dividing and taking square roots and cube roots. ..also found exponential expressions for trigonometric functions, and introduced the decimal notation for fractions” (Napier). These inventions were significant because they shortened calculations, specifically multiplication as it was used for astronomy. As you can see...
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...On July 4, 1826, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Constitution of The United States of America, former-president and signer of The Declaration of Independence, John Adams, died in his house in Baintree (Quincy), Massachusetts. He was ninety years old. Adams was born on October 30, 1735 in the same town of his death, Baintree. He became enrolled in Harvard University when he was fifteen, and after graduating in 1755, became a teacher, instead of a minister, which his parents favored. After a brief period of teaching, Adams started to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1761. At first he attended to minor issues, such as property disputes, but worked his way to more important ones, like theft. Adams soon became a well-known New England lawyer. As he gathered prestige in his law career, Adams also gathered a wife. In 1764, he and Abigail Smith married. Smith was well educated, coming from an upper-middle class home. She and Adams would eventually have a number of children together, including president John Quincy Adams. Despite Adams...
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...1. An influential person that influenced the constitution would be John Locke. In chapter one it states that Locke believed that at one time humans had little to no competition for resources but as the population grew and resources diminished it became harder for resources to go around for everyone this would usually cause disputes and conflicts between the people. The need for a neutral arbiter was needed to settle disputes peacefully the arbiter is known as the Government. During his Second Treatise of Government he identifies the basis of a legitimate government. Locke believed that the job of the government was to protect the natural rights of people which included life, liberty, and property and if the government did not follow through on protecting these rights the citizens could over throw that government. The authors of the Declaration of Independence rely heavily on Locke’s ideas which helped them write the...
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...“Change may happen naturally or be caused by people” (#1). Long John Silver’s change was influenced by other people and nature. Greed, power/leadership, and violence changed Long John Silver’s attitude. Greed for treasure and fame caused Long John Silver to change his priorities. He was friendly and welcoming in the beginning but then he only cared for treasure and went crazy. “And I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure...” (Stevenson 183 Chapter 32). “The cache had been found and rifled; the seven hundred thousand pounds were gone!” (Stevenson 184). He was very greedy only for himself and he took all of the crew’s findings. Leadership and power over the crew also made him be able to take advantage of them good/bad....
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...John Smith was good person he did many risks to protect Jamestown. Even though Smith was a fraud, he still secured the colonists. If it wasn't for Pocahontas who saved John the colonist would have died because they didn't have a leader. They were really troubled that john was captured because they knew they needed him. He was a major priority to Jamestown. He managed the colonists well until the Native Americans captured him and took him hostage. The colonists were so terrified because the didn't know what was coming there way and didn't have a person in charge. According to john smith, he got himself and his company admired by the savages which made them admire him over their own "Quiyouckosucks".If John Smith wasn't liked by...
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...The Crucible In The Crucible many characters touch on their reputation and how it affects their lives but I feel strongly that John Proctor has the most on the line. John may just be a farmer but, he understands that how both God and his neighbors perceive his reputation can greatly affect not only his life but also his families. This is greatly represented in the act three when he has blackens his own name to try to save the people convicted. He pleads with the judge to recognize that a man wouldn’t throw away his reputation to save someone for nothing. “Oh, Francis, I wish you had some evil in you that you might know me! To Danforth: A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that” he begs them to understand that he is truthful...
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...In the story The Crucible John Proctor had changed during the whole play. His view points from Act 1 had differed from Act 4. John proctor had changed the most from beginning to end of the play, mostly because of the Witchcraft accusations, his affair with Abigail, and Morally. What with all the obstacles he dealt through acts 1 through 4 it causes him to change his views on things. In act 1 John Proctor had still felt some emotion for Abigail when they had met again. He had always said that he wouldn’t speak to her again but always ended up coming back. In the story it states “Looking at abigail now, the faintest suggestion of a knowing smile on his face: What is this mischief?” (Miller, 1245). When he had met her she had called him strong, and he had given her a little smirk that shows he still had feelings for her. Later on towards the play in Act 3 he started to resist his feelings for Abigail, and it grew into hatred since she was a threat towards Elizabeth. “How do you call heaven? Whore! Whore! “ (Miller, 1245) John says during court to prove that she is nothing to him....
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...Unconditional John Proctor, the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, risks everything due to loving two different women. As the play starts readers find out that John is having an affair with the town tart, Abigail Williams. He does not believe in the idea of witchcraft. Proctor is very selfish about the affair with Abigail and states to judge Danforth “A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.” Many things motivate John to change throughout The Crucible such as Abigail charging his wife with witchcraft and Elizabeth becoming pregnant. John ends up risking everything to save his family. John Proctor’s change was motivated by the love for his wife and family. At first, John was not going to admit to having an...
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