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In 1953, Arthur Miller composed a highly-charged work for the theater that struck its audiences as frighteningly relevant to the times. That play was called The Crucible, and its fictional examination of the Salem Witch trials has become a classic of American Theater. Miller’s play was well named, for the Salem Witch trials still function as a crucible today, one in which historians can discover many different truths about American history. The complexities of that time and place have created a moment in history that can be examined over and over for fresh insights about the nature of our culture, our politics, our attitude towards women, etc. This paper’s examination of the Salem Witch Trials will focus on the following questions, ones which have been a source of debate for historians over the last several decades. The first question is Why Salem Village? What was unique about Salem Village that caused such an outbreak of accusation? And why also did those accusations lead to so many executions, on a scale nearly unheard-of in the colonies?

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As Christians we are called to treat all individuals with understanding and compassion, extending to them the same unmerited favor that God has extended to those who follow Him. But how do we extend a sense of understanding to those whose personalities and experiences are quite different from our own? The answer lies in developing a sense of empathy for those around us.The field of psychology provides many definitions for empathy. In an article discussing empathy as presented through children's literature, psychologist Feshback defines it “[sharing] an emotional response with another as well as the ability to discriminate the other's perspective and role” (qtd. in Cress 594). The same article cites another definition provided by Einsberg and Strayer: “an emotional response that stems from another's emotional state or condition and is congruent with the other's emotional state or situation” (qtd. in Cress 594).

Reality programs have been part of television since the beginning and have grown steadily among viewers over the years to make itself one of the most viewed types of shows on the air today. With the huge success of reality shows like American Idol, Survivor, The Real World, The Bachelor and others, it is of no surprise that reality television remains one of the most popular types of program genres to this day.

Differing racial cultural attitudes towards education affect college graduation rates. In this paper we will be discussing the racial attitudes of four distinct racial groups: Asian, African-American, Hispanic and Caucasian. At the very outset of the paper I want to begin with my personal observations and how they stemmed this question. In my observations of being a black male, and a fairly observant one at that, I noticed that there are few (at least around UNC and CSU where I get to see the most) minority students. While it could be the demographics of the area, I am not going to blame it on that. It has been my observation around the cultural centers that there aren’t many successful minority students. Let me modify that statement, there aren’t very many successful minority students with one major exception, Asian-American students. I wanted to know why and thus began my research. Why don’t minorities graduate from college in 2008?

Recently, global warming has gained massive attention due to the documentary . An inconvenient truth presented by former Vice-President of the United States Al Gore. The National Academy of Sciences reported that “gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise". However, there is another pressing issue in corollary with global warming that must be attended to by world leaders – increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide resulting to ocean acidification. Sponberg expressed his disturbing concern for the issue.

The book is a logical presentation of the historical development of the Republican’s success in campaigning for wedge issues. Wedge issues have been instrumental in the campaign of Republican’s since wedge issues like gay marriage, illegal immigrants, abortion are very appealing to the emotions of the general public. It is enough to pander spicy details of any of the wedge issues to the masses to gain popularity. At the beginning of the book, the heavy struggle between Goldman and Lyndon was immediately presented. The author analyzed the reasons how Goldman achieved popularity in the South that became instrumental later on in creating a good solid block for the Democrats. The author was incisive in remarking that Lyndon capitalized immensely on the JFK assassination which was indirectly instrumental in catapulting him to power.

America's right turn: from Nixon to Clinton.
1. The slow demise of the New Deal Coalition.
2. Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the shift in politics.
3. The Southern strategy.
4. Reagan and his alliances with Christian groups.
5. Christian Coalition.
How conservatives used the new and alternative media to gain power.
1. Background.
2. Purpose of the book.
3. Period focused on in the book.
4. The Direct Mail Campaign.

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For the most part, fantastic or otherwise impossible methods of storytelling are ignored in the world of modern and classical literature. In order to accurately appreciate the quandary of the modern “Fantasy” author, one must be aware of the commonplace practice of division and delineation that occurs in the world of literature. Writing is often deemed truly literary only if the literal symbols used to describe more abstract concepts are easily relatable to the time in which they are written; that is to say that mythological concepts are only acceptable if they are expressed as allegorical allusions to real-world phenomena, specifically ones that are relevant to the time in which the work is written. Orwell’s Animal Farm is forgiven for talking farm animals and seemingly mystical wisdom only because they are intentionally representative of totemic archetypes in man, and the folly of their governmental system, due to the fact that the reader is made unaware of these allusions by an engaging surface tale (Rodden, p. xviii). Authors such as JRR Tolkien, in contrast, have claimed their intentional evasion of such allegory, and even insisted that such allegory hurts the nature of this genre of writing.

Substance abuse has been a significant problem for adolescents in recent years, prompting many community programs for awareness, prevention, and treatment. In a recent survey of nearly 50,000 U.S. students, nearly 50% of high school seniors and 20% of eighth graders reported having used marijuana within the past year (Feldman, 2008). Outside of the criminal activity involved with underage tobacco and alcohol use and illicit and prescription drug use, parents have to worry about the possibility of addiction, with its accompanying academic, physical, social, and emotional consequences. Even worse, the poorer judgment skills of adolescents puts them at higher risk for overdose when abusing substances, which could cause serious health damage and even death. Current research and practice focuses on prevention, including risk factors, consequences of abuse, and effective treatment. The majority of this research, however, finds significant differences in ethnic groups, revealing the need for differentiation between Caucasian, Hispanic, and African-American adolescents in these areas. Hispanic adolescents, for example, use drugs at much higher rates than Caucasians and African Americans, especially when it comes to alcohol, crack, heroin, and Rohypnol.

The Internet has been hailed as one of the greatest technological advancements of human history. It brings people together, and gives people unprecedented access to information from every part of the world. In the past decade the Internet, and its number of uses and applications, have grown very rapidly. This is putting a large strain on the infrastructure behind the internet. The current infrastructure that supports the Internet will not be adequate to meet the future demands primarily due to the lack of end user bandwidth but also due to the lack of a sweeping drive to improve or redo the underlying infrastructure. In the seventies and eighties, there were many networks being created for academic purposes, such as the ARPANET which spawned what was known as the NSFNET, under the direction of the National Science Foundation, and many other special purpose networks large and small

According to the National Coalition on Healthcare, nearly 47 million Americans go without health insurance (NCHC 2008). That means that sixteen percent of the American population cannot afford to get treated when they are sick, injured, or possibly dying. Within that number, seventy percent are employed. Therefore, the statistics show that middle class American’s are either not being paid enough to cover the expense of healthcare, or that the healthcare system has changed from a service industry into a manufacturing industry where supply and demand override quality of life. This issue has spread into the public mainstream via pop culture avenues, such as Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko, which promotes socialized medical care by comparing foreign policies with America.

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