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The American Revolution The American Revolution was forced upon the Americans by the cruel treatment from the British. On May 10 of 1775 the Second Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia, one month after the fighting broke out. There, delegates from each of the 13 colonies would decide on independence. A Declaration of Independence was required…

Battle Of Little Big Horn Five springs ago I, with many Sioux Indians, took down and packed up our tipis and moved from Cheyenne river to the Rosebud river, where we camped a few days; then took down and packed up our lodges and moved to the Little Bighorn river and pitched our lodges with…

In many ways, people and circumstances could be blamed for the death of John Proctor.Arthur Miller’s The Crucible tells a tale of the innocent deaths of the 17 convicted witches in the famous Salem witch trials in 1692.Though people have tried to pin one person to the blame and cause of these deaths (including John…

Salem Witch Trial This is about witchcraft and is started like this: In the winter of 1691-92, several people in Salem Village, most of them young women, but eventually including a few men and boys, began behaving in a strange & unusual manner”, with an affect which was interpreted as illness. The town’s minister, Samuel…

Additionally he puts John Proctor in the middle of these two dominating characters to add to the drama and tension of the play. Miller always keeps questions going throughout the dramatic piece about John, Abigail and Elizabeth which include: which woman will John choose and go with? Will he stay faithful to his wife and…

Crucible In Detail A crucible, as defined by the Merriam-Webester Concise Electronic Dictionary, is”the state or fact of being tested (as by suffering)”, which attests to what Elizabeth Proctor is going through exactly. Elizabeth has quite a crucible to struggle through. The infidelity of her husband is a major element in her being. Her struggle…

Andrew Carnegie was a hero because of what he did during the gillded age but to be honest, Wang Yi Ren is the true, ultimate hero. She is the nation’s visual and Princess of China and her company Yuehua, a subdivision of the Korean company Starship. Wang Yi Ren is working her butt off on…

Gettysburg This most famous and most important Civil War Battle occurred over three hot summer days, July 1 to July 3, 1863, around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It began as a skirmish but by the time it ended, it involved 160,00 Americans. Before the battle, major cities in the North such as…

The Crucible and the scandal surrounding President Clinton can be compared in profusion. The old saying of history repeating itself is certainly proved true in this state of affairs (no pun intended), proving the timelessness of The Crucible. Key players utilized by Miller can be interpreted into many notorious faces portrayed by the media encircling…

Affirmative action works. There are thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action. When these policies received executive branch and judicial support,…