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    the actual power. And they both realized the fake evidence that Senator McCarthy was giving out and related that fact into their form of art. One of the similarities between Herblock and Miller is they both show one person in charge but with supposed power and another character with actual person with the actual power. Herblock shows this in a political cartoon called “Have a care, Sir”. This cartoon shows Senator Joe McCarthy holding a butchers knife confronting a scared President Eisenhower. The

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    McCarthyism did have a mass impact on the lives of many people, but more specifically one literary by the name of Arthur Miller. McCarthyism affected him as a human being which in turn was reflected in his writings. McCarthyism was named after Joseph McCarthy, and it meant "ruinous accusation without any basis in evidence." (Henry Popkin 139). Miller had been a victim of McCarthyism and this is what made him think of writing The Crucible. The Second Red Scare was known as "McCarthyism". The time that

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    Joseph McCarthy, West Virginia Communism in the early 1950’s in the United States was something that everyone feared. People did not know how to handle the topic of communism. Everyone was a suspect. So when Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had a list of people that the United States government knew to be communists but were not being thrown in jail or even questioned about their ties to the communist party people freaked out. Everyone was turning their trust towards Senator McCarthy, and going

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    served as a model for future security approaches. Description of Multics: From Inception to Last Instance Multics is the shortened name of the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service. Multics grew out of the idea, proposed by MIT’s John McCarthy and some other computer scientists in the 1950s, that computers ought to have time-sharing capabilities (Garfinkel, 1999). At the time, computers were used by one person at a time, which was economically and scientifically inefficient (Bourne, 1978)

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    demonstrated in each of Chigurh’s interactions with the other characters. Throughout the novel it is not known if fate is necessarily either good or bad but it does not really matter because in the end the inevitable is going to happen. In this novel, McCarthy suggests that regardless of what path we choose, life will always end in death. Chigurh embodies this philosophy and throughout the novel he consistently serves as a reminder

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    In the 1950’s, every social issue elicited a zealous response from both opposers and advocates alike. Each and every person ripped their hearts out and slapped it on their shirts and America became a front for freedom fighting. People fought for gay and lesbian rights, civil rights, women’s rights, reformation of standard narrative values, and sexual exploration. People wanted to be delivered and they battled for a new avenue of expression and liberty. Though they yearned for this, there was one

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    Section A: In reference to the research question “To what extent did the Red Scare create a pseudo “reign of terror” in the United States, ” authors Wendy Wall and Alexander Stafford provide adequate information about the affects of the red scare on society. Wall goes into a detailed description the Federal Loyalty-Security Program and the House Un-American Activities Committees. Both of these programs set up by the government were a form of oppression to the American citizens, inquiring personal

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    the man and his son and the survivors that they come to encounter. Throughout the book, McCarthy writes about a “fire” that a man and his son are carrying, while they struggle with the notion that they are the “good guys” who are avoiding the “bad guys” in the world, all the while McCarthy leaves out somewhat important details like what caused the end of the world and what his two characters names are. McCarthy consistently writes about “fire” throughout the book, be it both literally and metaphorically

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    In each novel of his personal literary journey, Cormac McCarthy examines death and God in different ways. Edwin T. Arnold, who wrote his essay “Blood and Grace: The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy” before The Road, examines how “McCarthy’s protagonists are most often those who, in their travels, are bereft of the voice of God and yet yearn to hear him speak” (14). In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the father explicitly describes his son as god; however, by juxtaposing the father and the son and examining

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    History Now

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    Quiz, 40 points Friday, 2/10/2012 Begin Unit: Loyalty and Betrayal, Section B, Context Context: Introduction Section Warm-Up: A Context Riddle Reading 2: from "Communists in the State Department," by Sen. Joseph McCarthy Exploring the Context of Senator McCarthy’s Speech McCarthy Era Self-Check Context Clues More Root Words Loyalty and Betrayal Context Quiz, 40 points Friday, 2/17/2012 Begin Unit:

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