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Colonial New England and the Reasons Behind Witchcraft Accusations

lead astray by the crippling fear that accompanied thoughts of independent women. Perhaps it was because the accusations original...

Power in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In five pages the three power wielding groups of the desire for emancipation for women, the false witchcraft accusations by girls,...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

Women in Authority in Colonial America

A relatively unknown facet of America in colonial times was the issue of power to women. This paper examines ‘‘deputy ...

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon

In five pages this report discusses the winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award for 1950 and the reasons behind its enduring...

Analysis of the Increases in Fundamentalist and Conservative Religious Groups

first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. While initially utilized to aid our understanding of Polynesian and African ...

The Civil War: The Burning of Atlanta

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

Analysis of Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...

American Colonial Regional Comparison of Two Areas

the North and South but there are many differences as well. A student writing on this subject may want to compare and contrast ...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

Colonization of America

This 3 page paper gives an overview of how geography, demographic, and the climates of the three colonial regions effects the deve...

Colonial Art of John Singleton Copley

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

Chesapeak and New England Colonial Family Life

In ten pages the family life that existed in the colonial Chesapeake and New England settlements are contrasted and compared in th...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

GAP: Where Paul Pressler Went Wrong and Advice for the New CEO

cost cutting, but it should not be indiscriminate. The cost cutting may be argued as taking the cuts too far and impacting on the ...

Women Targeted in Puritan Witchcraft Accusations

was execution day for eight people in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping ...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

National Politics and Colonial New England Merchants

Declaration of Independence? The Declarations most famous statement is this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all m...

World War II the US and Japan

This paper explores the reasons the US entered World War II as well as the reasons behind the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. T...

American Settlement and Its Reasons

early seventeenth century, when English explorations farther north and south proved disappointing, Englands imperialists focused o...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

Witchcraft and its Themes

and slowly the esoteric mystery of the evil eye is vanishing. Historians such as Jeffrey Burton Russell (Witchcraft in the Mid...

Sexual Promiscuity and Witchcraft

In six pages this paper examines witchcraft in America in an overview of the misconceptions regarding a relationship between witch...

Workforce and New World Slavery

In five pages this research essay discusses slave labor and the economic reasons behind slavery in the new world. There is the in...

Homelessness in NYC

("Modern," 2002). Modern mass homelessness had become dramatically worse in subsequent years, especially during the early-1980s r...

NetFlix Case Study

less to produce, the company will have an advantage afforded by superior profits. To compete in the long term Porter has argued th...

The Case of BRL Hardy

there appears to be a good fit, with the partners bringing their own areas of expertise and resources so that the post merger firm...

New England and English Puritans

who were practicing at the time, found that they could no less follow the "popish trapping" brought about by the King and the Chur...

England's Industrial Revolution and Child Labor

This paper addresses various aspects of England's Industrial Revolution. The author examines new technologies, factory conditions...