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- 761: The Crucible: Characters
- ... The court convicts the victims on the most absurd testimony, and the reader has to wonder how the judges and the townspeople could let such a charade continue. The leading character of the play is John Proctor, a man who often serves as the only voice of reason in the play. He had an affair with Abigail Williams, who later charges his wife with witchcraft. Proctor is seemingly the only person ... was the Salem Witch Trails. The motive of Abigail Williams is equally easy to decipher. Abigail is the ringleader of the group of girls who testify in court against those accused of witchcraft. She and John Proctor had an affair previously, when she worked as a servant in his home, and she obviously does not want it to be over. She says to him, "I know how you clutched my back ... She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her!" (Miller 21) Abigail is obviously furious with Elizabeth because she feels Elizabeth has cut off her relationship with John and soiled her reputation in the village. Abigail uses the witchcraft mess to get back at Elizabeth. Of course, Elizabeth Proctor is charged with witchcraft. In 1692, the real historical Abigail Williams was about ...
- 762: Insanity
- ... Also, in interviews on MTV, Eminem appears as if he is an “everyday Joe,” cracking jokes and making intelligent comments. In reality, Eminem is not insane, only when he gets a pen in his hand. John Lennon, the “lead-singer” of one the greatest bands ever, the Beatles, began to act in such a way that can only be described as insane. Early in his career, John appeared to be as normal as you or me. After years and years of making hit records, John Lennon started to get weirder and weirder. A lot of people believe his new found love, Yoko Ono, had a major role in his sudden change. As the band reached the peak of their ...
- 763: The Power of Language
- ... beliefs and values that these people have never before heard articulated, the leaders gain the confidence of the people. Political leaders are the primary examples of the people we put our trust in. In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected to the office of President after four nationally televised debates against vice-president Richard Nixon. It was generally conceded that these debates helped Kennedy more than Nixon. In April of 1961, after Russia successfully launched the first man into outer space, John Kennedy asked for a greatly increased budget for space research. Kennedy said, powerfully, “I believe that this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on ... of the greatest speeches ever delivered before it. Daniel Webster, senator from Massachusetts, made the speech in answer to Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina. The issue was the nullification controversy. Hayne, a confederate of John C. Calhoun, has said that the federal government was a mere confederation of states and that the states could refuse to obey any laws passed by Congress. Webster refuted Hayne's notion with the ...
- 764: History Of Computer
- ... intervention (Chposky, 103).The outbreak of World ! War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high-speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC, for "Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator". It ... the particular programs for which it had been designed. ENIAC is generally accepted as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955 (Dolotta, 50). Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any ...
- 765: Computer History
- ... a device that was a precursor to the computer. The 1930’s saw the first of the electronic computers. In 1935, a scientist named Konrad Zuse developed the Z-1 computer. Soon thereafter, in 1936, John Vincent Atanasoff and John Berry developed the Atanasoff-Berry computer. Later developments made by Bell Telephone Lab led to the creation of the Complex Number Calculator in 1939. Though many of these advancements were helpful, they lacked what was ... down quite substantially. In 1945, however, a computer system was built that could store the instructions that were needed in order to function. It was built based upon the work of a Hungarian-American named John von Neumann (a mathematician just as Howard Hathaway Aiken was). Now Since the computer could store its instructions in memory, the entire process took much less time. Time restrictions that were the result of ...
- 766: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... Douglas won the Senate race, but the debates launched Lincoln on his own path to presidency. In 1861, on March 4 Lincoln was inaugurated as President. Lincoln s first official act was the appointment of John G. Nicolay as his private secretary. One month after he had taken office he got word that the 6th Massachusetts Infantry was on its way to defend Washington, which had been attacked by a Baltimore ... was neatly combed. Lincoln usually has a solitary egg but instead he and his family had a enjoyable breakfast. What Lincoln did not know is that his assassination was being planned on this joyous day. John Wilkes Booth s hatred of Lincoln and the North grew so intense he couldn t handle it any more, he had to do something about it. He believed the country was for the white man ... The first idea he had was to kidnap the President but he needed help. The first to join him in the kidnapping were his old friends, Sam Arnold and Michael O Laughlin. He then added John Surratt to his team, whose mother was keeping a Washington boardinghouse. Then David Herold and George Atzerodt joined Booth in his quest to kidnap Lincoln. The most brutal to join Booth was Lewis Powell. ...
- 767: Motifs In A Prayer For Owen Me
- Owen Meany Motif A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving has many different motifs. One dominant motif is armlessness. Armlessness was a reoccurring motif throughout the story and came up in many occasions. It seems to symbolize helplessness or being under your own control. There are a variety of things throughout the novel that gives off that feeling. The armadillo was very dear to John. He had gotten it from Dan Needham the only gift he kept from one of his mother s beaus. It had great sentimental value to him and to young Owen who had also become attached ... he is the armadillo and he wasn t in control of himself, but was the instrument of God. His hands were not his own. Though the armadillo never recovered from the declawing, it had mended John and Owen s friendship and helped ease some of the pain of that situation. The statue of Mary Magdalene sat in front of a concrete arch. She was like a goalie protecting her goal, ...
- 768: Abigail Adams: Her Contributions
- Abigail Adams: Her Contributions Though quiet, sickly, and shy, Abigail Adams, the wife of second president John Adams, helped plant the seeds that eventually led to the concept of women¹s rights and women¹s equality with men. For a country which had been founded on the idea of independence for all ... children. For Abigail to have taken such a strong interest in her education was a brave stance for her time. Education was often viewed as a corrupting influence on a woman. She requested her husband John, who was a delegate to Congress and later a U.S. president, to draft into law a commitment to supporting education for women. John was in full agreement with Abigail¹s views on this subject. Abigail made her strongest appeal for women¹s rights in 1776, when John was in Philadelphia serving in Congress. As members drafted laws ...
- 769: Ann Hutchinson
- ... arrests, he finally chose to stop his public uprisings. When Ann turned twenty-one, she married a man named William Hutchinson. Ann and William were the parents of twelve children. Ann had always admired Minister John Cotton since he reminded her of her father. Like her father, he complained about the minister's clergy and the cleanliness of the Church and always talked about the religious opportunities in America. When New ... views. Ann was told not to speak publicly about her views. She only expressed them in her own home where she sometimes invited women to share her ideas. The governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony was John Winthrop. John did not like Ann Hutchinson because of her religious views and her conferences with women. He made a law that didn't allow female conferences. Anne Hutchinson was arrested for violating the law and ...
- 770: Christianity And Judaism
- ... Jesus probably attended the local synagogue and "gained there at least an oral familiarity with the Hebrew Scriptures and the demands of Pharisaic Judaism." As He grew older, He was influenced by the teachings of John, a preacher from a nearby town. John explained that in order to pass from Earth to the Kingdom of God, one had to be baptized. Because of his teachings, John was executed by the State. Jesus soon began his own path in preaching. He took much of John's preaching to heart, but Jesus set out to show that the Kingdom of God was ...
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