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    The role of women have transformed over the past century. Up until recently, women had no power or say in anything they did. Women have been held to different standards up until recent times. The role of women in the past was to stay at home and take care of her children and to cook for her family. Arthur Miller examines the role of women throughout the play The Crucible. In the beginning of the play the women begin with no power because it’s in the period of time where women aren’t as important

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    assassinated. It was concluded by The Warren Commission that the man who assassinated President Kennedy was 24 year old, Lee Harvey Oswald. Less than 48 hours after Kennedy was shot, while Oswald was being transferred to the county jail, he was assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald was killed before he could undergo any psychological or psychiatric analysis, so it is impossible to know for certain what his mental state was at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. The Warren Commission states that they were

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    Walking in a single file line down an endless path you step on the backs of the people’s shoes. You feel the hot breath of the people behind you on your back giving you goosebumps. Finally, you see the path divulge into two. To the right the ground is illuminated by paper lanterns and has beautiful music playing from speakers, but everyone walking down that path has not always been a good person. The path to the left is dark and has an odor that makes your stomach curl up into a ball. Your trustworthy

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    a dark plot. Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan is the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War. Then, one day, I looked up the footnotes in those books, most of them leading me to the multivolume hearings of the Warren Commission. I was shocked. The authors had taken witnesses’ statements out of context, distorted them beyond recognition, and in some cases cherry-picked passages that seemed to back their theories while ignoring testimony that didn’t. It was my first

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    which that ends up being his downfall by Abigail accusing his wife of witchcraft because she wants to have Proctor for herself. John then goes into the court to say how the girls and Abigail been lying about everyone they accused by bringing Mary Warren, was part of Abigail's clique, to show they have been lying. The girls pretend that Mary Warren is a witch by acting like she is hurting them

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    an affair with John Proctor. Abigail, her friends, and Tituba are dancing in the forest outside of Salem conjuring spells of witchcraft. Mr.Parris starts to become worried about the Salem witch trials, and begins to question John Proctor and Mary Warren. Abigail has an affair with John Proctor. Abigail loses

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    plot, in which she uses the poppet Mary Warren- a servant for the Proctors- made to create the illusion Elizabeth used witchcraft and stuck a needle in the doll, which in turn stabbed Abigail. John, however, states that “… [M]y wife never kept no poppets. Mary Warren confesses it was her poppet” (Miller 96). Within the same conversation, John then confesses to the affair and the reason Abigail was fired. However, to give credit to his statements, the court deems that Elizabeth’s account must be taken

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    The unjust execution of 19 innocent people. This was the result of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. The play The Crucible depicts this incident as it closely happened in real life. One character in this play, Judge Danforth, was the judge of the trials who believed that these accusations of witchcraft were true, and order the executions of those 19 innocent people. Throughout his presence in the play, he convinces the people of Salem

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    The Crucible How can someone be so right yet still be wrong? Well as you can see its possible to be both about one thing. Everything is not always black and white, and right and wrong. There are some cases where both can be present in one situation. For example, someone who steals medicine for their sick mother. Is this wrong or right? Some can argue it one way but in their end, there will never be a right or wrong. “What if the medicine he stole was saved for someone else who was dying?”;

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    monthly report when my assistant, James Warren, ran in. He looked excited about something, and he interrupted me before I could ask him what he was so excited about. “There’s been a robbery at Riordan Palace!” he shouted. Riordan Palace had what had seemed to many as an impenetrable security. Apparently, they were wrong, as somebody had broken in. Worse yet, they had stolen Mrs. Riordan’s prized necklace. “We’d better hurry down to the scene, Warren.” I quickly replied. “We can’t afford to

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