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- 461: The Crucible: Abigail’s Revenge
- ... a word edgewise. Her cousin Betty is in bed unable to wake. The girls are talking about what they are going to say if they are questioned about their dancing in the woods. Mary Warren, John Proctors servant girl, comes in ranting about the town talking about witchcraft, and wants to confess what they have done. Abigail will have none of it. Betty wakes up and she says, “You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!” Abigail: (smashes her across the face). “Shut it! Now shut it!” Betty: (collapsing on the bed). “Mama, Mama!” (she dissolves into sobs.) Abigail: “Now ... speaks of it. The town of Salem now well believed to be under the influence of witchcraft, has many people in the jail to hang, unless they confess that they have compacted with the devil. John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth is also one of the people that has been charged of witchcraft. John brings Mary to court to confess that the girls were pretending about witchcraft, that they saw no ...
- 462: The Klan Unmasked
- ... South, during and after the Reconstruction period, the Klan played a major part in formulating and forcefully employing many of the Jim Crow laws, that delayed black man’s true freedom for a century. Stetson Kennedy is a native of Jacksonville, Florida where the Klan was very active. Kennedy saw first hand the working of the Klan when a maid in his house was taken for a ride by the Klan and badly tortured. Kennedy developed a hatred for the Ku Klux Klan and wanted to do all he could to limit the influence of and put a stop to its hate mongering. He wrote a book “Palmetto Country” ...
- 463: The United States Government
- ... age from 21 to 18. The Presidents of the United States President Election Years in Political Party Home State Year Office George Washington 1788 1789-1793 None Virginia George Washington 1792 1793-1797 None Virginia John Adams 1796 1797-1801 Federalist Massachusetts Thomas Jefferson 1800 1801-1805 Republican Virginia Thomas Jefferson 1804 1805-1809 Republican Virginia James Madison 1808 1809-1813 Republican Virginia James Madison 1812 1813-1817 Republican Virginia James Monroe 1816 1817-1821 Republican Virginia James Monroe 1820 1821-1825 Republican Virginia John Quincy Adams 1824 1825-1829 Republican Massachusetts Andrew Jackson 1828 1829-1833 Democrat Tennessee Andrew Jackson 1832 1833-1837 Democrat Tennessee Martin Van Buren 1836 1837-1841 Democrat New York William H. Harrison 1840 1841 Whig Ohio John Tyler 1841-1845 Whig Virginia James K. Polk 1844 1845-1849 Democrat Tennessee Zachary Taylor 1848 1849-1850 Whig Louisiana Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Whig New York Franklin Pierce 1852 1853-1857 Democrat New ...
- 464: John Lennon: Biography
- John Lennon: Biography I, John Winston Lennon, was born in Liverpool, England in 1940. I was the founding member of a group called the Beatles, which was the most popular music group in the history of rock and roll (World ... it released (Rolling Stone 229). Three months later, Yoko and I flew to Los Angeles for four months of primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov (Rolling Stone 229). Because of this experience the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was made (Rolling Stone 229). In 1971 I moved to the United States to continue my campaign for peace (World Book 197). That year, the US Government made continual attempts ...
- 465: Benedict Arnold
- ... could have driven Benedict Arnold to turn his back on the country that he fought for so dearly. Boylan also points out that the man who Arnold did most of his negotiations with, Major General John André, was strikingly similar to Arnold, and that the two men were brought together under one woman, Miss Peggy Shippen. Throughout this book, Boylan suggests that the reader should view Arnold without the general stereotype ... French into signing a Treaty with the United States that helped turn the tides on the British. Major General Horatio Gates was the commander of the Army of the North. His English counterpart was General John Burgoyne. The open-field battle style considerable favored the British troops of Burgoyne. The American s had their backs against the wall; they were almost out of options, until their savior literally rode in on ... in May of 1779, with the encouragement of his wife, Peggy, Arnold began negotiations to join the British army. Peggy was very pro-British, prior to her marriage to Arnold she had a relationship with John André. John André and Sir Henry Clinton approved Arnold s request to join the British. John and Benedict continually communicated for over a year and a half using cipher and using pseudonyms. Arnold was ...
- 466: A Fatal Mistake The Vietnam Wa
- Robert S. McNamara, appointed by John F. Kennedy to the position of U.S. Secretary of Defense in 1961, said about the Vietnam War, It is important to recognize it s a South Vietnamese war. It will be won or lost depending upon ... humiliation at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the U.S. continued their involvement in Vietnam (Encarta Vietnam War ). The Vietnam situation became another indirect way to confront communism, which was a perfect excuse to implement Kennedy s very aggressive policy of Flexible Response in the early 1960 s, when the U.S. was eager to get into battle (Chant 9). After the French conceded defeat and were forced to withdraw ...
- 467: The Cold War
- ... Both have conducted a variety of operations from large scale military intervention and subversion to covert spying and surveillance missions. They have known success and failure. The Bay of Pigs debacle was soon followed by Kennedy's ft handling of the Cuban missile crisis. The decisions he made were helped immeasurably by intelligence gathered from reconnaissance photos of the high altitude plane U-2. In understanding these agencies today I will ... trips were to be cancelled. With these failures, the US felt that it had no choice but to continue with the organization of partisans and help them usurp the dictatorship of Cuba. By the time John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, the development of the invasion was already in full force. Eisenhower had earmarked $13 million and a force of 1300 men had been assembled.7 Cuban pilots were being ...
- 468: The Crucible: Elizabeth's Strength
- ... includes staying true to both her husband and her God. Another is the persecution by Abigail Warren, a former employee and assistant. Elizabeth also has to suffer through the decision to reveal the unfaithfulness of John or to remain strong in her love of him. All of this is too much for Elizabeth and the burden is very heavy. Elizabeth’s husband, John, is a religious man. He believes in God, but not the minister who preaches His word. John’s actions, though, are not so religious and devoid of sin. Abby, a young seductress, was able to gain his attention while Elizabeth was bedridden. A fiery and passionate affair scared his relationship with ...
- 469: Analysis of Children's Fairy Tales
- ... even a quarter of the light and darkness imagery used. I recorded the most important of the imagery used. Treasure Island This was an exciting adventure about Jim Hawkings, a young boy who accompanied Long John Silver (a pirate with a wooden leg ) to find a buried treasure on a desert island. The only problem was that Long John Silver and his pirates that became the crew of Jim Hawkin's boat turned on them so that they may get the buried treasure. Most of the pirates ended up dead. All but Long John Silver who remained captive. Due to the bond that built up between Jim and Captain Silver Jim set the Captain free. Long John promised that if Jim set the captain free. Long John promised ...
- 470: The Cold War
- ... to Cuba. The U.S threatened a “quarantine” and the Soviet Union withdrew the missles. The Cold War involved many important people but the main people involved were Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev. Joseph Stalin led his country through World War II, and was mostly responsible for splitting up Germany into its territories. Stalin was also responsible for creating the environment of the ... organize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to establish an Independent West Germany. Nikita Khruschev provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He was on the leading board when the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957. John F. Kennedy was responsible for the Bay of Pigs, and helped his country regain its dignity though the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy was also responsible for at least a few assassination attempts on Fidel ...
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