Name:Zach Humanities
7th Grade Comparative Essay
Outline for Crucible/McCarthy Comparative Essay
Theme: Marginalization
Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)
Grabber Statement (G): Imagine this: you ran away from a cruel environment. You now longer want your family to live in your country. You arrived illegally America, and you have to live in the margin of society. Your family lives in constant fear of being deported. People like this are marginalized in our society.
Introduction of Theme (I): Today, the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare, in all of these events people have had to live in the margins of society.
Thesis Statement (T): People in minorities are marginalized and have been marginalized throughout all of history because the greed of the majority overpowers the suffering of the minority.
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Paragraph #2: Crucible Thematic Connection
Topic Sentence (T): Characters in the Crucible marginalize other people for their own gain.
Explanatory Sentence (E): This is shown best in this in The Crucible when the girls try to scapegoat the poor for their own sins.
Evidence (E): “As she is speaking, Betty is rising from the bed, a fever in her eyes, and picks up the chant.
BETTY, staring too: I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!
PARRIS: She speaks! He rushes to embrace Betty. She speaks!
HALE: Glory to God! It is broken, they are free!
BETTY, calling out hysterically and with great relief: I saw Martha Bellows with the Devil!
ABIGAIL: I saw Goody Sibber with the Devil! It is rising to a great glee.
PUTNAM: The marshal, I’ll call the marshal!
Parris is shouting a prayer of thanksgiving.
BETTY: I saw Alice Barrow with the Devil,”(The Crucible, Act One)
Analysis (A): In this exchange between the girls they black list and marginalize the people of low class in the Crucible community. That means they either have a well known sin or they are very poor. This makes it easy for the girls to target them because the low class are easy to target. This people are marginalized and persecuted because of their social standing
Concluding/ Transition (C): False accusations was how people were able to survive in the crucible.
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Paragraph #3: McCarthy/Red Scare Thematic Connection
Topic Sentence (T): The Red Scare marginalized all suspected communist. They were scapegoated and thought to be the enemy.
Explanatory Sentence (E): Certain members of the government took advantage of this fear and gave themselves a higher ranking in the process.
Analysis (A): Joseph McCarthy a U.S Senator, made random and false accusations in a search for attention and power. Much like McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the General Intelligence Division at the Justice Department, generalized and falsely accused Russian immigrants. Both Hoover and McCarthy, persecuted and marginalize communist to make capitalism seem more practical. The U.S government hated communism. The thought that everyone could have an equal amount of power and money was unheard of to the American Government. The Government panicked. Joseph McCarthy used this hysteria to gain control and become a leader in this cruel environment.
Concluding/ Transition (C): In hysteria America likes to generalize on group and eliminate them even if there was no crime executed.
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Paragraph #4: Modern Day Witch Hunt Thematic Connection
Topic Sentence (T): Donald Trump’s actions has marginalized illegal immigrants.
Explanatory Sentence (E): This article in The Guardian shows the abused power in the Trump administration.
Evidence (E): ¨Donald Trump has laid the groundwork for potentially deporting millions of undocumented immigrants by issuing new guidance that drastically broadens the ways in which federal immigration laws should be enforced. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unveiled two memos on Tuesday detailing wide-ranging directives focused on both interior enforcement and cracking down on security along the US-Mexico border. The memorandums would enable federal authorities to more aggressively detain undocumented immigrants, expand the pool of immigrants prioritized for removal from the country, and restrict asylum claims by migrants. The memos set out that any immigrant living in the US illegally who has been charged or convicted of any crime – and even those suspected of a crime – will now be an enforcement priority. That could include people arrested for shoplifting or minor traffic offense¨(The Guardian).
Analysis (A): Donald Trump’s new executive order is marginalizing illegal immigrants. In the Obama Administration, illegal immigrants were overlooked. Obama did not deem it necessary to hunt them down. President Trump uses the fear of the modern day American to scapegoat immigrants. Many Trump supporters assign the blame of their unemployment on illegal immigrants. When really, if an illegal immigrant has a job they usually are working on a farm or don’t work at all.
Concluding/ Transition (C): The hysteria that has been created by the Trump Administration has marginalized illegal immigrants.
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Paragraph #5: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)
Reflection on Thesis (R): In the United State minorities have been falsely accused of criminal acts, pushed aside into the margins of society and made out to be villains. Minorities have been scapegoated therefore marginalized and disempowered.
Overview of Main Points (O): In the late 1600’s to the late 1900’s, minorities have had to live in constant fear of the oppressors.
Concluding Idea (C): History has repeated itself for generations and will continue to repeat. From the illegal immigrants to the We need to get minorities out of the margins of society and unite the United States.
It was a lot easier using the outline in TEEAC form. It did not feel like I was writing an essay, it felt like I was just plugging in writing prompts. With the Giver essay it was a lot more stressful, this essay basicle wrote itself. The TEEAC form is the most helpful paragraph writing tool I’ve ever used.