Samuel Pepys

“Smart, strong, caring, reliable, resilient, selfless, charismatic, and inspiring.” Those traits are the 8 traits of a hero. These traits are all found in amazing people now just think of someone with the opposite traits. Which character from the crucible has the opposite of these eight traits? Abigail is someone who does have some of these traits. Abigail Williams is a villain in The Crucible. Abigail Williams’s actions in the story portray her as being a villain. We see the real Abigail in her

The Salem Witch Trials were begun during the spring of 1692. It all started when one night, a group of girls were accused of dancing in the woods in Salem, Massachusetts. They claimed to be processed by the devil. After everyone found out, there was a ton of hysteria roaming the air of the small village. But, there were also other things that played a role in the deaths of those people. Pride, greed, and vengeance all had to do with the start of the trials. There were many dark forces that played

How did the British attempt to handle colonial avoidance of duties? While reading chapter I found myself comparing America to a teenage girl and Britain to a mother who is struggling to keep her child undercontrol. I think I felt this way because America really hated being told what to do by their mother country. The catalyst that eventually led to the eroding relationship between the two entities really was the French and Indian War because Britain was left with a giant debt while America was left

Colonist lives were more important than british’s personal vendetta. Colonist were merely trying to fight against unfair laws and acts, because they were taxed with no representatives.The colonist demurred with the Boston Tea Party, which lead to the passing of the declaratory act on the colonist, closing all boston port and stopping trades for the sole purpose of punishing the sons of liberty and the colonist. Did the british think the colonist lives were any less purposeful? When James Otis says

In Pennsylvania people used whiskey a lot; whether to use up extra corn or as money. The federal government passed a law where all whiskey would be taxed in 1791. The farmer refused to pay it. They compared it to the Stamp Act and said that is was like that all over again. After a few years they started calling it the Whiskey Rebellion. By 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion started to threaten the strength of the United States government. George Washington had to lead the United States military to stop the

Tibet a country in pursuit of peace and faith. American a country in the pursuit of freedom and happiness. Both of these countries were pushed to the brink by outlying nations, using them for their own personal benefits and not accounting for the people who occupy there spaces. America was a country ruled over by the tyranny of the British Empire, enforcing laws that had no place on American soil such as passing a famous law in in 1773 giving the British East India Company tax-free status in the

10.) The setting was extremely important for this story to take place. The setting is Panem a post-apocalyptic world that used to be America. If it weren’t for this setting where you were forced to offer up one boy and one girl to The Hunger Games. There also wouldn’t be everybody facing hunger and there wouldn’t be so much poverty. In the game arena the setting plays a very important role by forcing the tributes to make game changing decisions in the harsh environment. The setting reveals important

“Histrionic personality disorder” (HPD) is a common psychological disorder found in women, it is a psychological condition in which serious problems arise with regard to the characteristics and functions of an individual's personality structure”(Miller, Frank). (parentheses mine). In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, various characters show symptoms of HPD if they were to be evaluated by modern day doctors they would most likely be diagnosed with this psychological disorder. Abigail Williams lies about

Paine’s ideas about the origins of government was that America should form its own government and become independent from that of England because of their different thoughts and notions. England’s government was more corrupt because of the king as Paine mentions, a king ruins the peace of a country as a whole and disrupts mankind. Paine also declares how before the rise of kings, there was no war, but with a king’s ego, causes chaos and confusion among one another. Paine believed that in America

Federal Structure of Government Many, if not all, concepts in politics are initially presented as cut and dry, but people quickly discover just like politics these concepts are not as clear as they seem. For instance, federalism is a concept that has changed and allowed doubt not just throughout American history but since the conception of the United States. The founders of the U.S. constitution needed a strong basis that could prevent a new nation from collapsing from the many adversaries that