The Crucible: An Analysis

The play The Crucible, was written by Arthur Miller in 1953. It is a story he wrote after his own experience being accused of communism. This affected a lot of well-known people in the United States during this time, and was considered a witch hunt similar to the Salem witch hunts. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible about a man, John Proctor, who has an affair with Abigail Williams. She catches feelings for him and tries to cast a spell on John Proctor’s wife to kill her; this gets out of hand when Abigail’s uncle catches her and some other girls dancing during the spell in the woods. Suddenly, the whole town is living in fear of who is practicing witchcraft, who could be a witch, and innocent people are killed if they don’t confess to being witches. Overall, mass fear and panic, and false accusations are seen over and over throughout the play.

In addition, the Muslim immigration law banned seven Muslim countries from entering the US because of the threats about terrorist attacks being received. Now, no Muslims can leave or enter the country because of this

"As a result of these differing opinions, many individuals fear they may be denied entry to the country in the future. This is especially true during times of war, as the goverment did prohibit Chinese laborers from entering the country in the 1800s and also allow Japanese-Americans to be put into internment camps during World War II. As many are now saying America is in a war against Islamic extremists, this could lead to certain groups, such as Muslims, from being banned legally," Munsey

Trump’s travel ban is a prime example of how the events that took place in the witch trials have relevance in today’s society. The travel bans are based on fear of the threat of terrorism. It is racist and wrong to ban everyone from a country just because there's a chance that some are terrorists, but because of fear of this, the ban is intact. People are reacting in similar ways that the people from the witchcraft trials are there overwhelmed with the situation. By Trump judging foreigns as if they all did something wrong is in relation to the witch trials because he isn't giving them any way to defend themselves, he just banned them. Like how McCarthy didn't give the people that he accused of being communists a fair trial in court, Trump didn't ban any of the countries that did 9/11 the worst terror attack in U.S

The United States is a country based on a certain set of values, and one of those values is the freedom of religion. On Friday, January 27, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an executive order that “banned nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for at least the next 90 days.” (CNN, 1) These seven Muslim-majority counties include Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Sudan. The executive order indefinitely suspends Syrian refugees, even the ones who were granted legal visas. It also suspends the relocation of all refugees for the next 120 days. This executive order bans millions

In my opinion, the actions our nation is taking upon limiting the amount of Muslims and Syrian refugees entering into the United States is, in fact, a modern witch hunt. The definition of a witch hunt, according to Google.com, is known as “a campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views”. Another definition is “an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence” according to Dictionary.com. Upon knowing these definitions of the term “witch hunt”, I do believe that the events happening with America’s recent travel ban, the issues involving allowing refugees and Muslims into the country, and many other controversial issues are acts of modern-day witch hunts. These events are directed against a group of people holding unpopular beliefs for wrong-led reasoning and, in my opinion, little to no reasonable evidence. The definition of a witch hunt actually surprised me and made me realize that many current issues facing our nation’s society could technically be recognized as modern day witch hunts.

The 2016 presidential campaign, was wrought with several controversial issues, none more so than the refugee crisis. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim rhetoric, appeared to go against the American ideals of protecting religious freedoms. This trend continued into his presidency, he enacted Executive Order 13769 “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”, banning immigrants and refugees from seven predominately Muslim countries. While, the President claims these measures were taken to prevent any future terrorist attacks on the United States, many question if the Order has more to do with instilling a ban on Islam. Yet, with the possibility of terrorists entering the United States, how can we

President Trump's executive order " Muslim Ban" blocking people of Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia from coming to the U.S. Trump’s ideology is to protect the American people from Muslim terrorist attacks to make America safe again. Trump and his team may not be aware that by combining Muslims and terrorists; they spreading the suspicion, fear and consequently rising Islamophobia and racism. The ban disrupting the personal and professional lives of millions of immigrants who have been settled their life in America with the hope of freedom and fortune. Unfortunately, mainstream media have been controlling the flow of information, brainwashing and manipulating people, spreading misrepresentations and fears about Muslim, and

After the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks 83,000 immigrants registered with the U.S. Government from a required program that targeted specified countries. Of those 83,000, twenty-eight would go on to be charged with a crime (“Immigration Law and Terrorism”). Yet in America, immigrants, children of immigrants, and those of Islamic faith are targeted as a threat to the United States of America. In return, immigrants and those of Islamic have become the victims of profiling, hate crimes, and in some cases their constitutional rights have been violated because of actions based on fear of their place of origin and or their religion. The key to antiterrorism is not singling out Muslims and immigrants as a threat based solely on their beliefs

It is no secret that the thoughts and viewpoints expressed by government officials, especially the President, plant seeds in the minds of the public which eventually proliferate to influence popular opinion. Before President Trump was in office, he discussed implementing a “ban on Muslims” (Kaleem 1). Unfortunately, these statements contained and encouraged negative stereotypes associated with people of the middle east and Islam, a commonly practiced religion among Arabic people. Mere weeks after his inauguration, Trump stayed true to his word and followed through with his plan, signing the order entitled “Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States” (Press Secretary 1). Banning citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from traveling to the United States, the order will be in effect for 90 days (Press Secretary 1). Because this ban seemed to portray the message that all people of those countries were dangerous terrorists, the Trump administration received extreme criticism from the public and many immigration rights groups because of their decision. Many organizations continue to voice their outrage, such as the ACLA Immigrants’ Rights Project. "The Trump administration has conceded that its original ban was indefensible.” Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement to the LA Times. “Unfortunately, it has replaced it with a scaled-back version that shares the same fatal flaws. The only way to actually fix the ban is not to have a ban” (Kaleem 1). This information suggests that many people believe that this order is perpetrating racism and encouraging the stereotyping of people of middle eastern descent. This is not the only order passed by Trump insinuating all Arabic people are dangerous terrorists. On January

President Donald Trump’s reason for the travel ban was to prevent any terrorist from entering the country, and the majority of the places listed that are not allowed to come to America are Muslim countries. From GALE: Opposing Viewpoints in Context there is an article called ‘Denied Entry’ that gives the stories of those who have been affected by the travel ban enacted by President Trump. One person that was affected by the executive order was 33-year-old American citizen, Hamid Kargaran, who was waiting for his wife, a visa holder, to come back from visiting her family in Iran. When he found out that she would not be coming back, he was agitated with wondering if his wife would ever come back. A reaction of disappointment came to him when he

Although various social issues have surfaced since President Trump took office, I would like to specifically address his executive order concerning the travel ban, which, in spite of the efforts of Trump’s allies to sugarcoat it, is a Muslim ban. Exactly one week into his presidency, on January 27, 2017, Trump issued an executive order barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—from being admitted into the United States. Despite all the praise from nationalists and the right-wing media, most of whom are clearly Trump's endorsers, the travel ban spurred an uproar and opposition in many communities—both big and small—across the country. Demonstrations occurred in the streets, as well as several notable airports, where, for many people, it is the first institution in America that they encounter. In New York City, for instance, the stance on welcoming foreigners remained unshaken, and many were disapproving of Trump’s vicious order. Immediately following the travel ban, a multitude of protesters

Due to recent and past terrorist events Muslims have all been harassed and stereotyped because of a small group of Islamic extremist. The Muslim community all over the world has suffered greatly from this. Including in the United States of America, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump put in an executive order a “Muslim ban” because of a large amount of Syrian refugees emigrating from their homeland trying to escape the very same people the people of the United States fear. But they are not being accepted into the country because they could potentially be part of a terrorist organization, this could all be portrayed as a modern day witch hunt.

Be it resolved that the United States fully repeals the travel ban due to the discriminatory effects it has on some people. The travel ban is a terrible executive order that was put into place by President Trump on january 27th of 2017. The travel ban was put into place to protect the United States by not allowing any citizen from seven muslim countries to enter. These seven countries are; Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. These countries were targeted due to supposed risks of these countries harboring extremists groups such as Isis or Al-qaeda. According to the article “Trump's executive order: Who does travel ban affect?,” by BBC News, “ The travel ban suspensions the US refugee program for 120 days, places and indefinite ban on Syrian refugees and suspends all visas of incoming immigrants of the seven banned countries” (BBC News). The seven countries are heavily muslim, however most of the people in these countries are no threat to the United States in any way. Why is the United States completely discriminating the islamic religion when we are founded on the basis of religious freedom. Not everyone who is muslim is a terrorists so why are we punishing a lot of good people for the actions of very few. Most of the terrorist attacks that have happened since 9/11 have been carried out by a U.S citizen, so are we going to start deporting all muslim U.S citizens? The islamic religion is not the problem it's the radicalistic idea that some people

What would happen if a certain family terrorized a home? If a home was under attack, even though not every family member is attacking, the family would not be allowed into the home due to the home not wanting to be hurt from the inside. That is what it is like for America when a certain culture terrorizes the nation. The travel ban is keeping a culture out, not because of the race, but because this culture is risking the safety of a nation. The travel ban of certain Muslim nations strengthens our national security, targets terrorism, and is constitutional within the United States of America.