Assignment 1 When I was nine I was in my Harry Potter phase; the whole nine yards: going to class in a Harry Potter robe, drawing a scar onto my forehead, and even playing Quiddich with my friends during recess. What I lacked was an authentic wizard ward. I couldn’t be Harry Potter without my own wand. Since I didn’t have the money to go out and buy a $50 wand, I did what any other nine year old would do, I stole one chopstick from my mother’s authentic Japanese chopstick set. She had received
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Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘All power is inherent in the people’. Over the centuries people have had their own version on how witches looked or what kind of powers they possessed, or even if they existed. So many were burned at the stake for attempting witchcraft or for having medicinal herbs that could not be scientifically explained. The witches of New Orleans were quite unique. There was the voodoo queen Marie Laveau, Madame Masochist and the French Quarter coven. Madame Masochist also
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Although happening in completely different historical periods, the many terrible things that happened during the second Red Scare are in common with the the terrible events that occurred during the Salem Witch Trials. Both events occurred by creating fear based upon what the people were scared of. The Salem Witch trials began from either boredom or rivalries between the people that lived in Salem. People were not free; they lived by harsh rules that were based upon the Bible. When some
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Through the respect of minister Cotton Mather had warned of the dubious value of speculations, “It would be better than ten suspected witches mayescape that one innocent person be condemned.”The Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, when a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil. It was found that there was fungus ergot (found in rye, wheat and other cereals) which toxicologist say can cause symptoms such as delusions, vomiting and
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1. Let’s start with context, to make sure we’re on the same page. ALWAYS take note of when a source was created, who created it, and what the circumstances were. In this case, when were these two sources written? These two sources were written in the late 1600’s. The Character of a Coffee-House was written in 1673 A.D. Coffee-House Vindicated was written in 1675 A.D. Do you know who wrote them? We do not know who wrote them from reading the source. It appears that they are anonymous. Also, be
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Around February 1692 in colonial Massachusetts the Salem witch trials took place. There was a large number of trials held by religious extremists that believed there were witches around their town. Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams were the first to start showing signs of bewitchment they would throw random fits and start screaming uncontrollably. Samuel Parris started to worry and took his daughter and niece to the local doctor and there William Griggs diagnosed them to be bewitchment. The two
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I think that the United states has definitely evolved much further than to go on actual witch hunts in this day in age but similar things still occur. Society definitely engages in witch hunts in this day in age. There are so many ways that people are targeted that maybe even you can’t see the correlation. We have turned to other distractions to distract from certain economic issues. We have always blamed our problems on something that takes people's minds off of the real problems. The overweight
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Philip English and the Salem Witch Trials Philip English came to Salem in 1670. He married Mary Hollingsworth and had two daughters. Between the times he arrived and when the accusations of witchcraft began in 1692 he had become fairly wealthy and was an active member of the town. It can be said that the Salem witch trials were a result of differences between town members in regards to wealth, religious beliefs, politics, and plain jealousy. Two prominent families, the Putnam’s and the Porters
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A town of foolish men and women put their trust and faith into possibly two of the evilest children on the planet. Sa-lem’s history is not pretty and the trials are the main reason for it. It is well known that it was not witches that caused the trials, but anything is possible. Those who were accused did not have a happy ending. Luckily the trials had an end. The Salem Witch Trials began in the 1692. Many of the girls from the Salem village began to act strange, the symp-toms were peculiar. The
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In this book Mary Beth Norton began to examine Salem witchcraft based upon the role of feminism, the culture of New England, and the way in which war worked with the concept of witchcraft to create a vulnerable society. She uses a historical approach to examine the interactions of Salem and draw her own conclusions on what had occurred. This is evident based on her close examination of society based upon New England’s interactions with Native Americans, including the makeup of Essex County compared
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