Webquest: Salem Witch Trials

1. At first I was a little startled to read about this location. So much darkness and lies that the community of Salem  had. everyone seemed to know what was going on, but didn't want to speak. I, in that case, felt scared of the act of witchcraft. The thought of being involved in the acts and duties of Satan just isn't a normal thing to do. A few weeks before the incident I felt angry and would let that anger out on the merchants. I was low in my mind, so I tried to turn to God, but the thought of God lightly faded away. this is where I made the biggest mistake of my life. I ended up stabbing someone by letting Satan control me.

2. The difference in The Crucible is that the two main characters are Mr. Proctor and Mrs. Proctor. In the witch trials it involves 25 people.

3. Caporael's theory is why the the Salem trials took place. The theory makes a really good argument and makes sense. Before the Salem trials the had incidents going on. people where poisoning each other. this led to horrible hangings and unexplained death. It did something to there minds.

4. The similarities of the McCarthyism and the Salem witch trials are that the public had a  pressured a lot of the people and a unjust accusation. In millers decription the people on the spotlight where pressured hard by the public. during the McCarthyism trial, people would blame others, to take of pressure they had off of themselves. 

5 In the "red scare" people didn't know what was the reason of those unexplained incidents. they would put the blame on people to make it  believable and to actually record them to close a particular file. 

6. during each of the events, their was a great hysteria that rose from problems in the society. In the '' human rights '' article and in the Salem witch trials along with the  holocaust, many people died from being afraid of ''something''; however, in the red scare and the internment of the Japanese camps, people were not killed and stood up for there rights for the citizens. 

 7  George Santayana quote defined if we cannot learn from the mistakes in the Salem witch trial then eventually there will be more cases but in different occasions and forms. learning from history gives us the knowledge to understand the mistakes that happened in the passed. We can look back to study and figure out ways to prevent similar occasions. I thinks its a pretty successful because it gives the readers accurate  knowledge about the bad incidents in the 1600s 
   

8 I think the holocaust is a perfect example because Hitler needed someone to blame about the Germans financial crisis. In this case the Jews were the one to blame.

9. I find it interesting that the cases in the 1600s where and could be corrupted and people really could not do anything about it.   

Sinners in the hands of an angry god

1) Edward is trying to persuade the audience to act in a more holy manner and less sinful actions.

2) Edwards purpose of natural men is the the typical man back in that time period, that believe in God yet still sins.

3)In the first paragraph Edwards use of "abate" is to define his purpose of saying everybody is born a sinner.

4) This use of repetition is to make a point a stronger way. This repetition is very effective in his oral speech, because he uses a lot of exaggerated imagery.

5) They use appositives to create vivid imagery.

6) The purpose is to create a more emotional impact on the audience, to try to persuade the audiences answer.

7) He uses not willingly in every sentence to exaggerate his point. he uses the semicolons to emphasize each point of the statements.

8) Gods wrath is always ready for a person who sins. In this text the use of imagery is used to help understatement the power of god.

9) In the text Edwards says that God is holding us over a fiery pit and if we sin he will drop us in it. Edwards tells his audience we need to be better followers of God.

10) Edwards uses ethos to pathos. He uses more emotion in his sermons to his audience rather than logos. His visions of god are very different from today and may seem illogical to use but may be logical to them.

11). The tone stays the same throughout the speech. We the people aren't worthy of being on earth and we are basically gods toys to play with. He keeps the tone of us on the verge of death. He claims that we are hanging over a fiery pit and one wrong move will send us to hell this idea of a horrible death also remains throughout the sermon.

12)When Edwards says he wants to be "heard" instead of "read", he means he wants the people that are reading his stories to fully understand them and are able comprehend it.

13. His text is persuasive by giving dark scary details and visions of horror if they don't live by gods ways. This makes the audience fear their life on a constant basis and engulf themselves into the sermon.

14) The people who fainted were so surprised at what he had to say about their faith and what would happen to you if you sinned. 

The Navajo Origin Legend and the Iroquois Constitution

The Navajo Origin Legend

 

1. I would use the words sacred and unique to describe my impression on this short story. I've never heard of this tribe, but what they are doing seems very interesting to me. Creating the first Navajo man and women out of simple objects is very hard to believe, but that's how faith is.
2. a) The grizzly bear forces the daughter to marry the son. b) I think he is proud of what he made, a beautiful earth and wants to keep his powers to him self.
3. a)  He separated them. b) This causes Indians to move all around the world.
4. a) first they washed themselves and called for the gods, then they see how the gods show up and place the feathers and corn on buckskin. Last the mirage people show up then the wind changes the objects to people. b) It seems like order plays a huge part on there lifestyle.
5. a)  The wind transforms the objects into people. b) The wind has that spark to be able to change the objects into people like gods miracles.
6. The Navajo legend puts animals to play and important role in bringing life on earth. 

 

 

  The Iroquois Constitution

 

1. yes, I rather have peace then anything else in this world.
2. a) They plant the tree of great peace. b) It symbolizes great strength.
3. a) They should be thankful for one another. b) They take care of the earth and respect each other.
4. a) The tree, the eagle, and the council fire. b) I think it shows how knowledgeable they are towards creating a well structured union.
5. A lord must show compassion towards his people, the people are the ones who listen and obey the lord. He represents there lifestyle.  
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Symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper.

In the yellow wallpaper, several symbols are used to show the oppression of women by men and the struggle against that male dominated society. While many symbols could be seen from the text to support this, there are three predominant symbols throughout the story that lend credence to the woman's suffrage theme. The yellow wall-paper itself is symbolic of the law that men attempted to place on women during the 1800s. The color yellow is often referred  with sickness or weakness, and the writer's mysterious  is a symbol of man's opinion  of women. The two windows from which the writer often peers out of, observing the world but apart from it, is representative of the possibilities of women if seen as equals by the opposite gender.
The yellow wall-paper, of which the writer declares, "I never saw a worse paper in my life," is a symbol of the hate  that men attempted to enforce upon women . Gilman writes, "The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and angry enough, but the pattern is torturing"  this is a symbolic metaphor for restrictions placed on women. The author is saying subliminally that the denial of equality for women by men is a "nasty" act, and that when men do seem to reward women some measure of that equality, it is often "unreliable." The use of the words "infuriating" and "torturing" are also descriptions of the feelings of women in 19th century society. Here Gilman gives her personal opinion, saying that if women are given the same rights as men that women society would do it better.