Chapter 21: Scopes Monkey Trial The scopes monkey trial occurred because religious fundamentalists, who believed that God created life, believed that the theory of evolution was heretic. In early in 1925 state legislature of Tennessee passed a law forbidding public school teachers to teach the theory of evolution instead of teaching the story of Adam and Eve. John Scopes was a high school teacher in Dayton Tennessee who was a modernist, meaning that he believed in social sciences and evolution
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US History Since 1877 Critical Essay #1 Dr. Bachhofer Scopes Monkey Trial Religious controversy has been around from the birth of this country and beyond. This country was founded by people, at least in part, trying to get religious freedom from Europe. People, even today in modern society, want the right to believe whatever they want and not have someone else’s beliefs shoved down their throats or the throats of their children. This need for religious freedom and the age old controversy
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Zachary Sherman Word count 1283 Do not copy; not an example of an essay we will write. Ms. D Stevens ENG-1A-093 4 November 2013 Not History: Inherit the Wind and the Scopes Trial Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee based their play Inherit the Wind on the 1925 trial of substitute teacher John Scopes, who stood accused of a violating the Butler Act, which forbade public schools from teaching any theory of humanity's origins that contradicted the Holy Bible. However, Inherit the Wind
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one’s own, flourished during the 1920’s. Appearing all over news headlines, intolerance came in many ways: racism, nativism, and morality are just a few. John Scopes tested the boundaries of intolerance when he began to teach Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his students. After the Butler Act of 1925, teaching Evolution was outlawed. Scopes challenged this and took the case to court. Evolution was a highly controversial issue because of the discrepancy between religion and science. Religion, supported
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major disagreement between church and education was the John Scopes trial (aka the monkey trial.) In 1925, the Butler Act was passed to end the teaching of anything that goes against biblical teachings. That same year, John Scopes was challenged by peers to violate the anti-evolution law and teach Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his class. A Duke University Article, by Christopher Armstrong and Grant Wacker, entitled The Scopes Trial states that “Resistance grew especially acute when such
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The 1920s was a decade of tremendous tension between forces of tradition and modernity. This tension was represented in whole by the Scopes Trial. The Scopes Trial was a court case where the Attorney General of Tennessee charged a high school biology teacher named John Scopes for going against the law of not being able to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution in school. Darwin’s theory of evolution stated that complex forms of life, like human beings, developed from simpler forms of life. Darwin’s
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Inherit the Wind Essay Austyn Eggers In the play, Inherit the Wind a teacher named Bertram Cates violated the Butler Act. The Butler Act stated that teachers could not teach the theory of evolution in public schools.This act was in effect in 3 states in the south. The main state it started in was Tenessee. The theme of having a first amendment was shown in the play by Drummond fighting for Bertram Cates’ right to speak and say what he pleases. The prosecuting attorney in the play was named Mathew
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Inherit the Wind (1960) is a film that promotes intellectual freedom and criticizes attempts to quell the free exchange of ideas. While the content of the film was loosely based on the real Scopes trial that occurred dealing with the teaching of evolution in schools, the film contains themes criticizing the fear mongering and injustice that was occurring just previously to the time period in which the film was released; this phenomenon came to be known as McCarthyism. Similar to the Red Scare that
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The Scopes Monkey Trial’s outcome determined the beliefs and morality of generations of Americans to come. As a result, Americans would give legitimacy to Darwin’s theory, and the decision would spark a widespread acceptance of evolution. Because Christianity did not have a legitimate Bible expert to aid in the defense of the law, the successive generations have been indoctrinated with a lie, and the future has suffered. Creationist were ill prepared for the storm that the Evolutionist had cleverly
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CHAPTER 1 Programs that make a computer useful for everyday tasks are known as ___. Application Software ****** Which of the following is not an example of operating system software? Microsoft Word ****** What function(s) does an interpreter perform with the instructions in a high-level programming language? Translates and Execute ****** The term used for a set of rules that must be strictly followed when writing a program is: Syntax ****** ____ was the first high-level programming
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