Quote

“On March 9, 1954, McCarthy’s reputaion was dealt a serious blow when a revealing report aired on See It Now, a popular TV series. The show’s host was Edward R.  Murrow, the most respected newscaster on televison. The half-hour program showed footage of McCarthy at his worst-yelling at a witness and making claims that Murrow showed to be false.”

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“In the 24 hours following the airing of the program, the CBS televison network received more than 12,000 phone calls. For every one caller who disagreed with the report 15 were in favor of it.”

Paraphrase

• McCarthy was called out by a famous reporter
• The reporter was Edward R. Murrow 
• His reputaion was seriously damaged 
• He was lieing according to Murrow
• CBS was bombarded with callers to talk about the program
• The majority of the people were in favor of it

My ideas

I am surprised that McCarthy never accused the reporter of being a communist in order to defend whatever honor he had left. Murrow had power over the people because whatever he said they thought it was true. In this instance McCarthy is Abigail and the reporter is Rebecca Nurse. Rebbeca was a well respected woman because she showed the true Puritan way. Rebecca told everyone that Abigail was making the accusations up and some belived her. Then Ms. Putnum blamed Rebbeca for killing her children. The superstious town started to doubt Rebbeca after Ms. Putnum blackened her name.

“I think she’ll wake in time. pray clam yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma and I have seen them all thoughtthier silly seasons ans when it come on them theu will run the devil bowlegged kepping up with thier mischeif. I think she’ll wake when she tiers of it. a child’s spirit is like a child you can neven catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.” 

Rebbeca is sitting next to Bety who is inert on the bed. She is saying that children will be children, they will have “thier silly seasons.” She is also not accusing the girls but actually defending them. Rebbeca can be compared to the reporter in that both endorce logic and reconise sillyness when they see it.

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Drives our Country to Paranoia and Hysteria

Two powerful speeches from McCarthy

The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, is a historical portrayal of McCarthy  

The newly powerful senator McCarthy is swaying the country to be even more anti-Communist. He has convicted over 200 people of “anti-American activities and he is leading a witch hunt on Hollywood and the rest of America. The Senator ruins many people’s lives by putting their name on a list of possible sympathizers, also known as blacklisting. Even if the accusations are proven to be false, the person’s reputation remains tainted. McCarthy’s convictions are so damaging that some people are thrown in jail, others get their passports taken away, and many are unable to work. He accused 326 people, and one of them is Arthur Miller, the author of the newly released play, The Crucible. McCarthy is ruining the lives of people who are just speaking their minds. What drives McCarthy to lead this witch hunt? Is it for power, fame or does he really believe in what he is doing? Though McCarthy claims that he is trying to help the country, he is actually going against the it’s core beliefs. The First Amendment of the Constitution protects freedom of speech but if you talk about being a Communist, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) will come after you. Two of McCarthy’s recent speeches about the groups of people that he convicted and the war on Communism illustrate his thoughts about this critical issue.

The first speech from is about the convictions in United States State Department. The wisconsin senator uses his power to intimidate anyone who opposes him. He has accuses them of being a Communist sympathiser, one of the worst crimes an American can commit. McCarthy says, “‘And ladies and gentlemen, while I cannot take time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as active members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205–a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”  Senator McCarthy is trying to get attention in a deceitful way. He is relying on hearsay to make his accusations. McCarthy has accused people in the State Department, but that is only the first step on the road to his plan of defeating Communism.

In his second speech, McCarthy is telling everyone to support anti-Communism. He is preaching to all of America that Communists want to start a war, take over America, and make it a Communist country. “‘Ladies and gentlemen, can there be anyone here tonight who is so blind as to say that the war is not on? Can there be anyone who fails to realize that the Communist world has said, ‘The time is now’—that this is the time for the showdown between the democratic Christian world and the Communist atheistic world? Unless we face this fact, we shall pay the price that must be paid by those who wait too long.'” Senator McCarthy is putting the fear of Communism in peoples’ minds. He is making people believe that being a Communist is the worst thing in the world. He believes that if other people become Communist they will “spread” the “Communist disease” throughout the world. The war on communism has so many similarities to Arthur Miller’s version of the Salem Witch Trials.

Much like the effects of McCarthyism in the U.S., hysteria and paranoia spread throughout a town called Salem in the play, the Crucible set in 1692. The Crucible is a historical allegory for our modern issues, for instance being accused of communism. Senator Joseph McCarthy is like Deputy Governor Danforth from the Crucible. They are similar because both have convicted many of being a witch or a communist. They both had the power to blame others in order to gain even more power for themselves. Senator Joseph McCarthy and Deputy Governor Danforth marginalized other people to centralize themselves. Danforth said,”Them what will not confess will hang. Twelve are already executed; the names of these seven are given out and the village expects to see them die this morning. Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast God’s law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering. If retaliation is what you fear, Know this- I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes” (pg 129). This quote shows that Danforth thinks that he is “speaking God’s law” and he knows that he himself is the most powerful person in New England. He is saying that God wants to rid Salem of the demons and he does not care how many people may die and get hurt to achieve that goal. Danforth is the real demon in the town. McCarthy may not be a demon but he employs some of the same techniques.

Yesterday there was a report from Edward R. Murrow saying that McCarthy was wrong and his accusations were false. Edward R. Murrow is a very well respected reporter who gave a smashing blow to the senators reputation. McCarthy is similar to  Ms. Putnam and the reporter can be compared to Rebecca Nurse. Rebecca was a well respected woman because she showed the true Puritan way. Rebecca told everyone that Abigail was making the accusations up and some believed her. Then Ms. Putnam blamed Rebecca for killing her children. The superstitious town started to doubt Rebbeca after Ms. Putnam blackened her name. Rebecca explained, “I think she’ll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma and I have seen them all though their silly seasons and when it come on them they will run the devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she’ll wake when she tires of it. A child’s spirit is like a child you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back” (pg 27). Rebecca is sitting next to Betty who is inert on the bed. She is saying that children will be children, they will have “their silly seasons.” She is also not accusing the girls but actually defending them. Rebbeca can be compared to the reporter in that both endorse logic and recognize silliness and falseness when they see it. Both of these are examples of the deep connection between The Crucible and modern day.

This is the news paper

https://sites.google.com/a/lrei.org/jane-louie-elisabeth-cameron-g/

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           Crucible Geometric Design

By Lucian Figliulo

Abigail Williams

“ABIGAIL: I saw Goody Sibber with the Devil”

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“BETTY: I saw Alice Borrow with the Devil”

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“ABIGAIL:  I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil”

BETTY: I was Goody Biber with the Devil”

Abigail Williams is hysterical. In this scene Abigail and Betty are calling out names to use as evidence for their argument. They start out by accusing people in the margins to make themselves seem more believable. When they are the most respected people in the town, they challenge the people of high authority. Abigail blames others to make her life easier. She is making the whole town hysterical, superstitious and paranoid. She is accusing other people of being a witch in order to draw attention away from her “heathen” behavior. I believe that Abigail is the real witch for ruining someone’s family for generations or sending them to hang. In the end of the play Abigail leaves Salem from her fear of being caught and fear of not having power. The shape that I chose to geometrically represent Abigail is a black angel’s wing with curved lines that represents a girl who is looked at as an angel but is really the opposite. The curved lines illustrate how she is careless. Abigail is a person who hides her faults and flaws but John Proctor does the opposite.

John Proctor

Proctor to Mary Warren

“Proctor:  My wife will never die for me.”

Proctor represents redemption. He had an affair with Abigail Williams and he is trying to redeem himself from such a low point in his life. He was an adulterer and he gave into temptation. In the end he redeems himself by saving his “name”, one of the most important things of that time, so he gives his life and hangs for being a witch. In these and many other scenes John Proctor tries to prove himself to Elizabeth and God. John Proctor brings in Mary Warren to save his wife from being hanged. He screams at Mary to tell the court and Deputy Governor Danforth that the Williams girl is faking, lying and that the devil has not cursed this town. Mary tries to stop because she knew that Abigail would come at her with a pointy reckoning. In order to save herself Mary Warren accuses Proctor. That’s why he hung. I chose to represent John Proctor as a white demon’s horn. Its a demon’s horn because he is perceived to be a sinful person. The horn is white because his intentions are true and he is trying to redeem himself.

Mary Warren

Mary to Proctor about abigail

“ MARY: She’ll kill me for sayin’ that!”

Mary Warren represents sucumbing to the people in power. She is the housemaid for John and Elizabeth Proctor. In this scene John Proctor is trying to get Mary Warren to testify that Abigail is lying. She is scared to do it because earlier in the play Abigail told the girls, “Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” Abigail was going to kill people if they called her a liar. After Mary Warren testified, Abigail and the girls were saying that Mary Warren was sending an evil bird after them. Then as everyone in the play does, she scapegoated and accused John Proctor of being a witch. I chose a three dimensional shape to represent Mary Warren. It is torn on the ends and ripped up. Half of it is black and half is white to show that she has the potential to be either good or bad. will she take the side of Proctor or Abigail? Will she be truthful or a liar?

Elizabeth

“ELIZABETH: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you, I never thought you but a good man, John only somewhat bewildered.”

Elizabeth is honest and accepting. This quote shows how she is accepting because she forgives her husband, John Proctor, for the horrible things that he has done. She is honest up until the end where she says that her husband did not have an affair after John admitted to it. In that scene we see the morals of Elizabeth being broken to save someone she cares about. The theme of honesty plays a big role in the story because everyone defies it and sometimes it can actually be safer to be dishonest. In the play after people are accused of witchcraft they have an option to be honest, not confess and hang or to live and have a “spoiled” name. This system discourages people from being honest because religious beliefs have clouded everyone’s judgments. I chose to represent Elisabeth as a ripped up heart. It was ripped up by Abigail and then was pasted together again by John Proctor. The two antennas represent how she is alien to the idea of lying and to accusing people of being a witch.

I chose to represent each character this way because they all connect in different ways. In my animation John Proctor’s horn is pointing trying to turn away from abigail wing going into him. In between the two is Elizabeth with her antennas spinning. Then below all of them is Mary Warren who is going up and down to show her indecision. In the part where Proctor is slowly moving it shows his long struggle to win back Elizabeth’s trust. The way these four characters intertwine and make decisions impact each other in an intricate and delicate manner.

Sucre es la capital Bolivia. Sucre está situada en las montañas al sur. Alonso de Mendoza, un explorador de España, fundó la ciudad en 1538. La gente indígena, los Quechua y Aymara, estuvo cuando los europeos llegaron. La plaza mayor en mi ciudad se llama el Prado. La catedral se llama catedral Metropolitana.

Hay muchos lugares de interés en Sucre. Dos de los monumentos importantes son para el 23 de mayo,1929 y  la Casa Libertad. La iglesia de San Feliu de Nories es neoclásica. Hay un museo de bellas artes de la catedral. Hay un palacio presidencial que está en Sucre. También hay otras atracciones para visitar en Sucre. Se puede visitar el parque madidi y nadar en rio. También debe visitar las montañas.

Hay varias fiestas en Bolivia. Se llama alasitas y se celebra en la Paz. Durante la carnaval. Comer algodón (azucarado). La comida típica es humanista, salteñas, empanadas, sedwitero. Comida es prat indigena.  Para llegar a Sucre, se puede viajar en la Aerolínea Boliviana. Cuesta $7718. En la ciudad se viaja en los autobuses. El dinero es el boliviano y es .14=1$. Hablan español.  Hay 10.67 millones de habitantes. La mayoría de la población es indígena. Los productos son la plata, el estaño, la coca. La diferencia entre las capitales es la policial fiestas. La democracia querían ir a capital la ciudad de la Paz de Sucre. La democracia es la mayoría ahora.

This is my brochure of the capitals of Bolivia. It was are big project of the year in spanish class.

Dolls and doll making #1

Source:

Robinson, David. “Babies, Balls, and Bull Roarers.” Babies, Balls, and Bull Roarers. Colonial Wiliamburg, n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2014. <http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Christmas04/toys.cfm#top>.

URL:

http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Christmas04/toys.cfm#top

Quote:

“When mother set her girl to husking the corn, the child saved some husks and made her own doll. It’s easy: tie four husks together near the big ends, double the long leaves back, tie off the neck, and there’s your head. Slide a twisted husk up the skirt to the neck, and there are your arms. If it’s a girl doll, add husks for a skirt, tie off the waist, and you’re done. Divide the skirt and tie it off into two legs, and it’s a boy. Give it a name, paint it a face with charcoal or poke-berry juice, sew it a wardrobe of remnants, and when it wears out, make a new one and use the old to kindle a hearth fire.”

 

“Indian children had been making corn-husk dolls for centuries…”

 

 

 

Paraphrase:

• This quote is shows how to make a Corn Husk Doll.
• This is what young girls played with.
• The kids would make toys out of what ever they could find
• When the doll was worn out they could easily make a new one and use the old one for kindling
• Boy and girl dolls were made differently
• Though the Indians were making corn husk dolls centuries before the English by the Colonial Period both of them were making them and playing with them.

My Ideas:

I wonder why it matters if the doll is a girl or a boy. It’s interesting that girls only wore skirts and that’s reflected in day to day life.  Some families were so poor that they had to use all of their resources. Though most people didn’t know how to read and write the children knew how to entertain themselves. This wasn’t the first time that the English stole Native American’s ideas and didn’t give them credit.