...Innocent people die everyday. Some may have died because of violent actions, but some are killed because of a much more frightening reason: A corrupt court system. Courts are put in place to protect us, and when their justice has rotted from the inside, it leads to chaotic and brutal societies. One of these societies, Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, is described in the play, “The Crucible.” Written in the McCarthy era, this play highlights the injustices during the Red Scare in America. As history continues to unfold, more links can be drawn between the message of “The Crucible” and today’s discrimination. The allegorical qualities of Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible,” relate strongly to McCarthyism, but still have relevant connections to...
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...giving or obtaining advantage through means which are illegitimate, immoral, and/or inconsistent with ones duty or the rights of others. In fact, it is one of the main issues in the world today, alongside poverty, world hunger, and global warming. Despite this, corruption has given many opportunities to people across the globe. Although corruption is highly looked down upon, it is certain that corruption benefits individuals. The idea of corruption benefiting individuals is clearly seen in Arthur Millers, The Crucible. In the play, the Putnam's are known for their manipulative personalities and corrupted behavior. For example, Mrs. Putnam states “And so I thought to send her to your Tituba...Tituba knows how to speak to the...
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...Crucibles of leadership. We often wonder of what makes a leader. Why is it that certain people are successful, while others (who may have just as much vision and smarts) stumble, again and again? Unfortunately, there is no simple answer. Recent research shows that one of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is an individual’s ability to find meaning in negative events and to learn from even the most trying circumstances. In other words, the skills required to conquer adversity and be stronger are the same ones that make for extraordinary leaders. In interviewing more than 40 top leaders in business and the public sector over the past three years were able to point to intense, often traumatic, always unplanned experiences that had transformed them and had become the sources of their distinctive leadership abilities. Examples, like Harman with a story about difficulties he faced, met the challenge, and became better leader, points to some characteristics that seem common to all leaders - characteristics that were formed in the crucible. A crucible is, by definition, a transformative experience through which an individual comes to a new or an altered sense of identity. And through it, people gain a clearer vision of who they are, the role they play, and their place in the world. Accrued experience greatly helps to gain a clearer sense of personal strengths and capabilities, preparing for other difficult situations. Fortunately, not all crucible experiences...
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...People did not wait to find the actual truth of what was going on. They never stopped a bit to do research or tried to get the truth to come out instead the whole town went nonsense and jumped into conclusions believing what thought was right. After the truth actually came out so many incessant people were killed It was to late. While explaining that I learned a lot about how people often jump to conclusions before knowing the entire truth. , I’ll talk about the article I found yesterday and how that helped me understand more about the topic. In the News article I have found it had so many things that were the same from the crucible the News article was about two police officers who wanted to believe what others had told them false conclusions about a certain person. So they took action right away to get rid of the bad. They ended up killing a innocent family a little boy of six years old he was autistic and a man who had no weapons he was just having a normal day with his son. The police said they never seen a little boy and thought it was the car that had been reported. They come to find out that the car did not have any weapons at all. This relates to the story because many people from salem believed in themselves and they jumped into conclusion when people confessed things that were not...
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...Chronology" and appendices printed in The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller, eds. Robert A. Martin and Steven R. Centola.] 1915 Arthur Aster Miller was born on October 17th in New York City; family lives at 45 West 110th Street. 1920-28 Attends Public School #24 in Harlem. 1923 Sees first play--a melodrama at the Schubert Theater. 1928 Bar-mitzvah at the Avenue M temple. Father's business struggling and family move to Brooklyn. Attends James Madison HIgh School. 1930 Reassigned to the newly built Abraham Lincoln High School. Plays on football team. 1931 Delivery boy for local bakery before school, and works for father's business over summer vacation. 1933 Graduates from Abraham Lincoln High School. Registers for night school at City College, but quits after two weeks. 1933-34 Clerked in an auto-parts warehouse, where he was the only Jew employed and had his first real, personal experiences of American anti-semitism. 1934 Enters University of Michigan in the Fall to study journalism. Reporter and night editor on student paper, The Michigan Daily. 1936 Writes No Villain in six days and receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Transfers to an English major. 1937 Takes playwrighting class with Professor Kenneth T. Rowe. Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too Arise, receives a major award from the Bureau of New Plays and is produced in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Honors at Dawn receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Drives Ralph Neaphus East to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during...
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...The theme of oppression is constant throughout both The Handmaid’s Tale and The Crucible. Both show how religion can be twisted into a form of control in society and they show the huge detrimental and devastating effects this control can have. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible shows the horror and appalling nature of the Salem witch trials of 1692, but beneath this surface it shows the parallels to aspects in Miller’s own life at this period, with the idea of McCarthyism going out of control in America. McCarthyism was a result of the second red scare in America in the late 1940´s/1950’s. It was a fear driven movement that swept across the United States where the threat of a Communist world revolution seemed like a very real threat. In response to this branches of the government set up organisations such as HUAC (The House Un-American Activities Committee) to help fight Communism from infiltrating the state. Unfortunately in the end it simply led to a ´witch hunt´ in which people were brought to trial and accused of being communist, Miller amongst them. HUAC and McCarthyism were simply examples of how when those in power feel threatened they will do anything to maintain their position which is what Miller set out to show in The Crucible. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood took a different approach, with a dystopian text which shows a world in which women are heavily oppressed and religion is used as a tool to brainwash and control the population. Atwood has made a point of showing how...
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...The Crucible, Red Scare, and Palmer Raids are all connected under fear and lies. Throughout the events that occur, multiple lies are created which cause mass amounts of fear and chaos. This chaos weakens the place, causing its inhabitants to lose sight of the truth. As time passes, the severity increases leading to greater consequences. A mass of fear can all be created by one person. The Palmer Raids were a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists. The raids took place under the command of A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921, in November 1919 and January 1920. The Palmer Raids and these massive arrests occurred on the main basis...
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...Nancy Barry Case Analysis Jason Mandel Ramapo College of New Jersey 21st Century Leadership October 15, 2015 Briefly introduce the case (discuss Barry’s important life decision) The Nancy Barry chapter in “The Leadership Moment” is the story of a Harvard-educated woman who quickly gained success as a high-powered lending executive at the World Bank, and then went on to transform the business world as President of Women’s World Banking (WWB) (Useem, 1998). As readers, we are exposed to Nancy’s important life decision early on in the chapter when the WWB approaches her to lead their organization (Useem, 1998). At that time, Nancy was a highly compensated executive as Chief of the World Bank’s Industrial Development Division, with a large administrative support staff, and had been working there from 1975-1990. Clearly, giving up a powerful position with the globe’s most prominent bank after 15 years of service could not have been an easy decision. However, Nancy fully supported the WWB and the Grameen Bank of Bangeldesh for quite some time, so even with her contemporaries calling her “crazy” for leaving the World Bank, Nancy proved she was authentic by taking the position as President of WWB and following her heart instead of her wallet. Discuss Nancy Barry’s leadership style using LMX theory The LMX theory, or leader-member exchange theory, spotlights positive, dyadic relationships between supervisors and subordinates, often producing an increase in organizational efficacy...
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...Tragedy and The Human Conditions Essay: Abusive Power “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ” In a statement by Abraham Lincoln it is identified that the greatness of man is tested by how he utilizes his power. As demonstrated in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and The Time Magazine article Adolf Hitler, one can see how the abuse of power creates chaos in society. By analyzing the actions of the characters Macbeth, Abigail Williams, and the character Adolf Hitler, it is evident how the misuse of power will lead to the loss of structure in society. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” A statement by Lord Acton which illustrates that those who gain power ultimately become corrupted by it - thus leading one to abuse their power. This statement is well demonstrated in the actions of the character Macbeth, from William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, in his rise to power from Thane of Glamis to the King of Scotland. Within the first scene of the play, Macbeth is given the gift of knowledge of the future, by the three witches, which he ultimately uses to gain more power. “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis ... All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!” (I.iii. 48-50). When given this prophecy from the three witches, Macbeth utilizes this information, once he becomes Thane of Cawdor, to plan the death of King Duncan. The power of knowledge is...
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...Nitya Iyer Mrs. Downey English 120 15 April 2014 The word evil can have several different meanings, such as morally bad or wrong, the act of causing others to reevaluate their beliefs and assuming a completely new persona, or abusing an immense amount of power. One can only vaguely grasp the term evil given the definition of it. It takes one’s own experiences to thoroughly understand evil. Evil is when one purposefully outcasts a mass of people as a result of a common attribute. It is proceeding to do something immoral while recognizing its potential risks. Through the voice of Elaine Aron, Zimbardo claims that such qualities are embodied among ordinary people put under various pressures to create an evil situation. These traits repeatedly appear among characters in both American literature and history in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and the events related to McCarthyism. Authority gives one the right the apparent right to demand obedience and expect the norm from “their people”. They are expected to use beneficial judgment and lead society forward and on the right path, but given power, leaders’ minds are tainted. People of authority are often given “responsible sounding roles such as “guardian,” “teacher,” [or] “defenders of the law” (Aron 4). This results in the manipulation of peoples’ minds as they tend to trust those with a name of great significance and respect. The society in “The Lottery”...
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...Historically, witch-hunts are known as an unfair judgement against innocent people derived from fear. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller talks about the Salem witch trials, writing an allegory that references the communists who were being persecuted during the red scare. In fact, witch-hunts can still be compared to events that occur in modern day’s American society. With this in mind it is important to point out racial profiling, which has been increasing lately. It is known as the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether an individual is considered likely to commit an illegal act, leading to the unfair targeting of its victims. Arthur Miller profits from Salem’s history to address a higher concept, the McCarthyism,...
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...In this article it talks about a type or related disease to the one in the tales of the Salem witch trials displayed in the “Crucible”. This disorder affects mainly adolescent girls although there has been shown symptoms in a couple boys it is attracted to the fragile youth of young women. Spreading contagiously to surrounding girls. These symptoms are said to be contracted from mental insecurities leaking out through physical disfunction. As the adolescent years for girls is scarey for that is the time they need protection and a feeling of belief in themselves as well as from someone else for they are thrown in different directions and when they are thrown down they need someone to be there to encourage them to take control. Showing that the...
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...behave appropriately. If Tesco follow the codes of practice correctly then they won’t have any problems arising with the ASA and the OFT. If the ASA or the OFT get involved for inappropriate conduct of the codes of practice Tesco could receive heavy fines, this could disrupt Tesco’s profit margin as these fines would be an added expense. The operational issues are yet another issue which contributes to Tesco’s overall success, as these are what relate to how Tesco operates their procedures and policies within the organization. If all 3 of these areas fail to function according to legislation and government bodies Tesco cannot, and will not be successful. One main example of Tesco not morally and legally operating would be a newspaper article which was published earlier in the year stating that Tesco had sold the information; they had collected on their Club Card customers, onto third parties. This not only goes against the data protection act but also shows Tesco behaving unmorally towards their customers. Obviously the whistle-blowing procedure was used and has been...
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...Business vs. Ethics: The India Tradeoff?: Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2897) Business vs. Ethics: The India Tradeoff? Published : January 03, 2012 in Knowledge@Wharton As Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, observed, "If you choose not to participate in [corruption], you leave behind a fair amount of business." Much has been written about the benefits of doing business in India -- low input costs, easy access to labor and a massive consumer base. Less has been said about the ability of companies in India to thrive by bending rules, greasing palms and broadening ethical boundaries. At a time when the issue of corruption threatens the stability of the Indian government and scandals unearthed in sectors from sports to telecommunications total tens of billions of dollars, it is becoming increasingly critical for multinational managers to ask whether business success in India comes at an ethical cost. This is a single/personal use copy of Knowledge@Wharton. For multiple copies, custom reprints, e-prints, posters or plaques, please contact PARS International: reprints@parsintl.com P. (212) 221-9595 x407. Following the 1991 fiscal reforms, India's growth story is entering its third decade in dramatic fashion. Annual growth bordering on double digits, a middle class set to grow eightfold in the coming two decades and 800 million mobile subscribers are but a few highlights of the narrative that has reshaped the global business...
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...“Are Leaders and Managers Different?” The question on the difference between leaders and managers has been consistently asked by many scholars in management studies. This question has brought about critical debate with different positions held. The four common positions in this debate include the argument that managers are completely different from leaders; that some managers or leaders can be both; that all leaders are managers; and lastly that all managers are leaders. This essay contributes to this debate by advancing the argument that despite the critical and seemingly similar roles that leaders and managers play in organizations, the two are different. In this essay, the position that leaders and managers are different draws from the work of various scholars that includes Zaleznik who argues that the difference between managers and leaders lies in the attitudes towards goals; conception of work; relations with others; and sense of self (Zaleznik 1992). With regard to attitudes towards goals, leaders take a personal, proactive outlook and shape an organisation’s vision while manager are passive and merely implement a vision. Clemmers Jim further argues that a leader doesn’t just react and respond, but rather takes the initiative and generates action (www.clemmer-group.com). This shows that leaders unlike managers look at a bigger picture not only the present but also the future. The intuitive and empathetic way leaders relate to others distinguishes them from managers...
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