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Task 1 - Arthur Miller
- Key events in his life.
- Other works (especially Death of a Salesman)
- His beliefs/political outlook including communist connections.
- Arraignment by the House Un-American Activities
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Task 2 - Witchcraft: Background
- What was witchcraft? Who practiced it?
- Describe the social response to withcraft in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- What social and religious factors are given to account for the harsh response to witchcraft?
- What can you find out about modern witchcraft or wicca.
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Task 3 - New England in the 1690's
- What type of people settled Massachusetts?
- How did they survive?
- What were their main fears and anxieties?
- What can you find out about their social structures/hierarchies?
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Task 4 - The Salem Witch Trials of the 1690's
- What events led to these trials?
- Who was involved - as prosecutors? As victims?
- What were the outcomes of the trials?
- How do historians interpret these events?
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Task 5 - McCarthyism and the crack-down on communists in the 1950's
- What was the Cold War?
- What was McCarthyism? Who was Joe McCarthy? What were his aims? methods? Who were his victims?
- What lead to his eventual downfall?
arthur miller was born in harlem, new york city
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In 1940 Arthur Miller married a catholic girl, Mary Slattery.
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ReplyDeletearthur miller married Marilyn Monroe in 1956
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communist and stalin all came from ussr
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arthur millers father, Isidore Miller, was an illiterate Jewish immigrant from Poland
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19 men and women died in salem - witchcraft
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witchcraft was the use of alleged super natrual powers it was believed that witchcraft was in most regions of the world
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ReplyDeletearthur miller went to the University of Michigan in 1934 and won awards for playwriting
arthur millar-arthur millar was married to marilyn monroe - by josh
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ReplyDeletewas a actor who was most known for All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge
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Salem Witchcraft Trials
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peoples Beliefs in witchcraft have historically existed in most regions of the world shakirah
ReplyDeleteMiller is best known for the play Death of a Salesman ryan
ReplyDeleteIn 1956 Miller was awarded honorary degree at the University of Michigan - arty miller-matt
ReplyDeleteArthur Miller-Death of a Salesman brought Miller international fame, and become one of the major achievements of modern American theatre
ReplyDeletearthur miller was more known for his play 'Death of a Salesman', and he was also married to the most famous and beautifulist women on the earth wich was marilyn monroe.
ReplyDeletearthur was born in harlem, new york city, also several of his work was filmed.
his also well known qoute, ' "This desire to move on, to metamorphose – or perhaps it is a talent for being contemporary – was given me as life's inevitable and righful condition,"
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Arthur Miller worked in automobile parts warehouse to earn money for college. Rina
ReplyDeletein 1608 a group of Puritan separatists, attempting to escape religious persecution - josh
ReplyDeleteA small girl fell ill in 1692. This led to the Salem Witch Trials.
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ReplyDeletethey where people who where killed by stoning, drowning and hanging they where people who where caught in the act of positive or negative sorcery
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girls got maninfested by the devel
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Arthur Miller
ReplyDeleteArthur Miller was an American playwright who showed deep insights in his plays. Arthur miller was one of the best playwrights after WW1 .
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mixed group of Puritan emigrants (the "Pilgrims") and adventurers frosm England sailed to America shakirah
ReplyDeletemiller was best-known American playwrights after WW II
ReplyDeletethe cold war was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union.
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Arthur Miller – He wrote plays and drama scenes, His drama has made many successes and won many prizes
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A small girl fell sick in 1692. Her “fitts” and outbursts of gibberish, baffled everyone. Other girls soon "caught" the same symptoms. Their doctor could ony suggest one thing cause. Witchcraft.-josh
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ReplyDeleteArthur Miller was born in Harlem in NYC, his father Isidore Miller was a polish immigrant and Augusta Barnett Arthurs mother was born in NYC.
ReplyDeleteJoe McCarthy was an American Politician. He was the Republican US senator from 1947-57.
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ReplyDeletewas a movement for reform in the Church of England that had a profound influence on the social, political, ethical, and theological ideas of England and America
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
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a group of puritans fled england for the netherlands.
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Witchcraft (also called witchery or spellcraft) is the use of alleged supernatural, magical faculties. This may take many forms, depending on cultural context.josh
ReplyDeleteMcCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence
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Roger Williams was a minister from Salem. Rina
ReplyDeleteAnother man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. shakirah
ReplyDeletein 1692 a girl was sick and people thought it was witchcraft.
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In 1608 a group of puritan separatists attempted to escape religious persecution, the fled to Englan instead of Netherlands.
ReplyDeleteWitchcraft is the use so called magical powers. Witches were stereotypically women.
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ReplyDeleteThe Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials.
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miller married marilyn monroe in 1056
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witchcraft-Witchcraft is the use of alleged supernatural, magical faculties. This may take many forms, depending on cultural context
ReplyDeleteMiller was politically active throughout his life
ReplyDeleteEngland In 1690 – People had very weird superstitions, If people were caught practising or summoning magical spirits they would be hanged or stoned to death
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macarthyism
ReplyDeleteMcCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."
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Arthur miller was a playwright his plays show how families are destroyed by false values.
ReplyDeleteIn 1608 a group of Puritan separatists, attempting to escape religious persecution, fled from England to the Netherlands. They stayed there until 1620, but, fearing that they were losing their cultural identity and met some pilgrims.
Other girls soon manifested the same symptoms. Their doctor could suggest but one cause. Witchcraft.
In 1692 in Massachusetts 19 people were found guilty of practising witchcraft and were hanged.
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mc carthy aims were to blame the communists and its supperters and create his own
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the film was a box office success, but arthur millers family had to move to brooklyn in 1929, arthur died in 2005 of heart failure, he was 89, years of age.
ReplyDeleteMiller graduated from high school in New York in 1933. He applied to Cornell University and the University of Michigan, but both schools refused him.
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during the early years of the cold war, the actions of the federal government helped to forge and legitimize the anti-communist consensusthat enabled most Americans to condone or participate in the serious violations of civil liberties that characterizethe mcCathy era.
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ReplyDeleteAmerican writers were trying to make their own cultral history, to find out they had to go to Plymouth in England Puritanism.
Salem Witch Trails – Salem was well known for Witchcraft and Wizardry, People who lived in Salem had big concerns for people being witches, all women!
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