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    “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question that children get asked quite frequently. Most of the time, a child aims big and chooses an extravagant career, like an astronaut, a police officer, or a doctor. Obviously, it is impossible for a child to obtain one of those jobs at such a young age. However, acting in Hollywood is a possible career for a child. If a child is talented enough to be a star, then why not let them pursue their passion? While the life of being an actor in Hollywood

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    Life is fragile, everything that knows life will eventually meet death; it is impossible to mention one without the other. Humans have grasped the concept of life and death more so than any other species, yet we still consider it one of the great unknowns. All man knows in regards to life, he learns from his experiences with death. Man can look to many classic and religious texts searching for the meaning of life, but the only way one can truly learn it is through experience. To many, finding happiness

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    Hale - indicating Giles - and Martha Corey, there cannot be a woman closer yet to God than Martha” (Miller 71). At the time in the play when this line is said Martha Corey was being kept in jail. She was put there because she was seen reading book and those books were believed to be witchcraft books. Francis tells Danforth that this is a mistake that his wife was a believer and held up the church, and that this isn’t possible. With a honest women like Martha Corey and Elizabeth the people in the community

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    Corey speaks out that he never saw his wife practicing witchcraft, but only reading books. Corey points out that his wife is not a witch and that Walcott has falsely accused Martha Corey of witchcraft. Because Cheever arrested Martha Corey for reading books, it is clear that her right of reading books is in threat and that she has faced injustice. Everyone in the town had the right to read books, and to arrest only Martha Corey for reading books is showing a threat

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    at the witch trials. Convinced that witches are real and that what he is doing is right. Danforth is an honest man and only wants to do what is right. 4. Giles Corey Corey is a farmer but files many lawsuits, and tends to be senile Giles Corey's wife is accused of witchcraft and Corey himself is sentenced to death. Giles Corey

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    A Summer To Remember      The movie Stand By Me is based upon a novel by Steven King. It doesn’t have the same eerie feel as some of his other books and is generally a more serious movie. It takes place in the small town of Castle Rock, Oregon. It is the middle of the summer in approximately the early 1960’s. The kids are bored and that is the setup for their adventure to go find a dead body in the woods.      The main role of Gordie LaChance

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    in the McCarthy Trails went through the same tests as people in the Salem Witch Trials.In the play “The Crucible”, the characters Mary Warren, John Proctor and Giles Corey all face a test of honesty, in which they either passed or failed.Mary Warren is unsuccessful in telling the truth, John Proctor cheated on his wife, and Giles Corey gets him and his wife sentenced to death. Mary Warren is the first to fail the test. She lets Abigail easily use her in this play which makes Mary look like a pawn

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    I chose to critique a movie called Rear Window, a realist film by Alfred Hitchcock produced in 1954. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly and, Wendell Corey. The genre is thriller and the sub genre suspense infused with mystery. Therefore, Rear Window one of Alfred Hitchcock’s highly inspired audience participation films. When a person watches it, he feels, tantalized, shocked, and exhilarated. Further in this essay, I will summarize the plots, discuss the styles used, and deconstruct parts of the

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    Giles Corey is killed during the Witch Trials; however not in the way that most were. “He were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they’d hand him surely, and auction out his property. So he sand mute, and died Christian under the law. And so his sons will have his farm...They press him, John... Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. “More weight,” he says. And died.” (Miller 125) Giles

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    you think your nerves can handle all the surprises coming ahead. It is a mystery thriller film, directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie is written by John Michael Hayes and the stars in the film are James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. The release date was September 1, 1954. Music by Franz Waxman and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The setting is in an urban apartment complex where there

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