The Salem Witch Trials
.... Bay Colony, a strong belief in the Devil, factions among Salem Village fanatics and rivalry with nearby Salem Town, a recent small pox epidemic, and the threat of attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion (S.W.M. Ed.1).
The dramatic story unfolds through the influences of a slave girl from the West Indies. The slave to Reverend Samuel Parris and his family, Tituba, liked to tell Voodoo stories of her native islands to the young girls of Salem (Carpenter 25). The aging Tituba was not an enthusiastic worker, but she liked taking care of the children, and she spent much of her time in the pa .....
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The Challenger Explosion
.... Exterior Tank, on cycles of 3 puffs of smoke per second. The last puff of smoke was seen at 2.7 seconds. The black smoke was an indication that the aft field joint was not sealing correctly.
In flight, flashes were seen on Challenger. Three bright flashes shot across the Challenger's wings, 45 seconds after lift off. Each of the three flashes lasted only 1/13 of a second. These flashes had been seen on other shuttle missions and were not considered problems. These bright flashes were completely unrelated to the flame that was seen later in flight. At 58.8 seconds into flight on enhanced film a flame was seen coming from the rig .....
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Evolution Of Ford Motor Company
.... ingenious job-ladder system.
This innovative system allowed increased wages for the upper crust portion of the working core. These elite workers had incentives to work their way from the $2.34 minimum to over $4.00 a day. This was a wage increase of 13%! This system was developed to increase labor turnover and create a more stable and committed workforce.
This wage increase was copiously overshadowed by the increase to $5.00 a day just three months later. This pay raise was coupled with a reduction in work hours. Henry Ford replaced the two existing nine-hour shifts with a new nonstop rotation of eight-hour shifts aroun .....
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Salem Witch Trials
.... vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous thatno one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of suspicion.
Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and when some statement of the accused would move the court and audience in favor of the prisoner. "I saw Goody Osborn with the devil" (Miller 1060). The accuser would declare that they saw the devil standing beside the victim whispering the words in his or her ear. The absurd statement wo .....
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What Is Meant By The Era Of Good Feelings
.... John Quincy Adams (a Federalist) as secretary of state. To represent the South he appointed John C. Calhoun as secretary of war. In an attempt to create a government of unification, a major problem is encountered, the issue of slavery. In 1819 the number of slave and free states was equal. Then, Missouri applied to the Union as a slave state. Northern politicians protested Missouri’s admission, because they did not want to break the sectional balance. Southern politicians believed that they needed an advantage in the Senate, because they were outnumbered in the House of Representatives. More importantly though, southerners .....
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African Americans In The Civil War
.... from entering the army under a 1792 law, the Black Man becoming a soldier was not officially noticed until late 1862. 1
“There was strong anti-black prejudice among most people in the free states, and in the loyal slave states the idea of arming the Black Man was anthema”. 2This statement talks about the usually held fear White people had about putting Blacks on the fighting line of the armies in the Civil War. Whites felt that the Civil War was a war started over White man’s issue and what possible reason would the black man have for wanting to fight in this war. But what they thought was wrong. The Black Man saw the Civi .....
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The Effects Of The French And Indian War
.... than elected. These laws passed by England made the colonists furious because it took away their rights to choose what kind of tea they liked or pick who they thought fit to be in the legislature. This led to a rising level of political tension between the colonists and the mother country. These tensions finally led the colonist to the first continental congress. While the Continental congress was meeting in April 1775 war broke out.
Due to these taxation's and other ongoing events the colonist started to believe that parliament was corrupt. They believed that the parliament was engaged in a conspiracy to take away their .....
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The Salem Witch Trials: First Person Point Of View
.... I wish that I could go back to that day and have put and end to the horrible things that were going to come. Abigail was so persistent and intimidating, and no one wanted to go against her. We were all too afraid that if we had said something, then she would have killed us. I feel that Abigail is the one responsible for all of the chaos that occurs in Salem ten years ago.
If I had just built up the courage to have said something, I know that there would have been other girls that would have backed me up. I guess I was just scared. All of us really had an equal role during the horrible time except for Abigail. She p .....
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The History Of General Motors Corp.
.... particular one for himself but promised to put his neighbor on a list and build him one next. His popularity grew and along with it so did his wealth. He became wealthy enough that in 1908 he began his own company and named it the General Motors. Instead of just making horse drawn carriages he started with a simple motor similar to that of Ford's creation along with a couple of separate options to go along with it. The main option was the original electric headlamps. The General Motors Corporation was formally chartered in the city of Hudson, New Jersey in the year 1908. In the years to follow General Motors came out .....
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The Debut Of Television In America
.... part, was now spent in front of the TV. Dinner time, which used to be an important part of the day when many families came together, was now being spent apart, in front of the television. I suppose it could be concluded that from this, TV dinners came about; a quick and easy way to make a half way decent meal so that special program wouldn’t have to be missed.
Today, television has created a lot of commotion. From the amount of time people spend watching it, to the programs aired on it. TV is a great source for news, current events and other information. It is also very resourceful and educational. And above all it is en .....
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Native American Genocide
.... went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day.
That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom the college and the Massachusetts town are named, had sent disease-bearing blankets as "peace offerings" to a hostile Indian .....
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Between The Wars: 1919-1941
.... actively participated in three treaties to begin to ease the tension already forming in the Pacific. In 1932, when the League of Nations proposed an economic boycott against Japan for reparation of the occupancy of Manchuria, President Hoover refused to participate, in fear of involvement in an Asian war. Just eight years later, during the Roosevelt administration, the United States placed an embargo on exports of scrap metal, oil, and aviation fuel to Japan because of its intolerance for Japanese military presence in European colonies in Asia. Japan’s dependency on these materials from the United States would be crippling .....
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