15 Definitions

Definitions: Trey Burton 

1) Fused- a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.

2) Unmellowed- not soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.

3) Somber- gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted.

4) Ordinances- an authoritative rule or law.

5) lye- a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.

6) Snobbery- snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.

7) Parishioners- one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.

8) Reverend- pertaining to or characteristic of the clergy.

9) Homage-  respect or reverence paid or rendered.

10) magistrates- a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.

11) insoluble- incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.

12) manifestation- a public demonstration, as for political effect.

13) paradox- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

14) repression- the act of repressing; state of being repressed.

15) strikingly- attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.

Web-quest: 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.   

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. 

    In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" the author gives the women a suspicion that the wallpaper is a symbol for something, and she must figure it out. In the beginning of the story the women is sane and gentle. By the end she goes completely insane and in need of great help. John, her husband is a physician, which is a family doctor. With his bright mind he decides to put his wife into a room all by herself for a countless number of hours. How would you feel if you were put into a room all by yourself for days? I would go completely insane within the first hour, just thinking about it makes my stomach turn upside down.

     Symbolism is a term that is used for representing ideas or qualities. In this particular story the symbolism is shown through the yellow wallpaper. It is used to give the women hope to find an escape route or medicine to cure her illness. In my point of view I believe this was a plan that her husband John set up. He wanted her to become insane. It just doesn't make sense to me, why would you trap someone in a room for a long time and not expect someone to go crazy. but to get better.

    As we discussed in class,freedom is the theme or topic of this story. John restricts her freedom by locking his wife into a small room with no where to go. Freedom is also the reason of her insanity, without freedom she becomes insane and desperate just like any other person would. It's all a mind game to me. By putting her in a room with just a bed, I would think outside the box to and try to figure something out by using everything I could, such as "The Yellow Wallpaper".

   Like I said before as the story comes to an end, the people around her begin to realize that she is insane and helpless. From biting a corner of her bed off to trying to figure out who she is by piecing together a picture. I would say she is crazy.