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- 331: Pride In The Crucible
- ... Miller’s “The Crucible” the pride of the people of Salem leads to a massacre of innocent lives. Pride is delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship. One of the main characters, John Proctor, has pride in his beliefs of purifying the Church of England. His wife, Elizabeth, has pride in her ability to use the trials as an ultimate revenge against Abigail Williams. John Hale is the “expert” on witches his pride springs from his extensive knowledge, but later in the play he recants and loses all his respect. Hale is the chemical that cause the conflict to come into full swing between Elizabeth and John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor is first founds singing to her children in her kitchen in the opening of act two. This is in contrasts with frenzy at the end of act one. Elizabeth is trying ...
- 332: The Crucible: The Characters in The Crucible
- ... and other. That is why this book had a few "twists and turns" to the story. In my profiles, I will display many different caracteurs and theirs' different mentality. First I will start with Mr. John Proctor, a.k.a. "shoulder checker". John Proctor had always things on his mind. People were always on his mind. John Proctor was always looking out for his mistakes or errors, not because he was picky, but his ennemis and competion were. John Proctor was always think out the final result of a situation, like ...
- 333: The Life of John Calvin
- The Life of John Calvin John Calvin was born into a middle class family in the early 1500's to Gerard Calvin and Jeanne Le Franc. His father was a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Church. His father's relations to the church initiated John's religious career. Calvin studied both theology and law and many different institutions in both America and Europe. By 1533, he had converted to Protestantism. In 1536, Calvin published a book describing his basic ...
- 334: The Christian Gospels
- The Christian Gospels The Christian Bible has been a mainstay in society for the past two thousand years. At the heart of this ancient work, one finds the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These Gospels serve as a religious foundation for Christianity as well as a historical record of the time. Faithful followers believe that authors who were possessed by the Holy Spirit, which explains their similarity in ... to believe in his teachings and not be worried about clashing with Roman rules, that would bring hope and allow this new religion to flourish. The last of the four Gospels is the Gospel of John. John s Gospel is the last one to be written around the beginning of the second century A. D. Of the four Gospels found in the Bible, John s is the most antagonistic. John's ...
- 335: The Crucible: The Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams
- ... the play she gets worse and worse each time something major happens. After her affair and failure with voodoo, she was overcome by love and jealousy, and she was willing to do anything to get John back to her own self. Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to sin heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many people in the town ... I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down.” She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, ...
- 336: Richard Milhous Nixon
- ... after first running for office, he was one election away from the presidency. Many were confident of Nixon's ability to win the election easily, being a prominent, national figure running against the young, inexperienced John F. Kennedy, who was little known nationally and had a reputation as a playboy inside Washington circles. Kennedy, however, took advantage of modern campaigning techniques, which employed the television more than personal contact, and he was given a big push by the first-ever televised presidential debates. The healthy, attractive, charming Kennedy ...
- 337: Affirmative Action - History
- ... Webster's New World College Dictionary as " a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups." The phrase "affirmative action" was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive Order 10925, initiating the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246. This order required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. Thus affirmative action was born. However, when Kennedy and Johnson established affirmative action, they did not intend for it to have the perverted and distorted effect that it currently has today. Such perversions and distortions include the hiring of unqualified workers, the ...
- 338: The Pelican Brief: A Review
- The Pelican Brief: A Review I. Biographical Insights John Grisham was born on February 8 1995 in the town of Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was an emigrant construction worker so the family moved a lot. In 1967 they came to Southhaven, a little town outside Memphis. John got an undergraduate degree in accounting at the Mississippi State University and after that he went to Lawschool at OLE Miss and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1981. After his graduation he returned to Southhaven to work as a lawyer. He got himself a small office where he practiced criminal law. John was also politically engaged and in 1983 he won the election the Mississippi House of Representatives. He now started to work on his first book, "A Time to Kill" which he later finished in ...
- 339: J.P. Morgan
- By: Gali Porat John Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT&T ... into the foreign trade business. Junius was invited to join the firm of George Peabody & Co. in 1854. In 1864 Junius took over the Peabody Company and changed the name to J.S. Morgan & Co. John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was nicknamed "Pip" by his childhood friends. The family prospered in Hartford until Junius moved the family to Boston where Pip began Boston English High. He did well in the prestigious high school and then in his second high school in Vevey, Switzerland. The family moved to London and John transferred to the University of Gottingen in Germany. John continued to excel in his studies and majored in mathematics. He began to become interested in business affairs as he started and investing club amongst ...
- 340: Misconceive’o By John Leo
- Misconceive’o by John Leo John Leo is a columnist and contributing editor that has been writing for U.S. News & World Report since 1988. Prior to that he worked for Time magazine and The New York Times covering topics such as social sciences and popular culture. The thesis of John Leo’s latest U.S. News & World Report article, “Fu Manchu on Naboo,” does not leave the reader any room to guess what his discussion is going to be about. He drives the point ...
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