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Name: Humanities

7th Grade Comparative Essay

Outline for Crucible/McCarthy Comparative Essay

Theme: power

Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)

Grabber Statement (G): Imagine living in a place where a person had enough power to control your life, kick you out of your home, and/or eliminate all that important to you in your life. That is an example of misuse of power.

Introduction of Theme (I): Power represented a lot about who you were as a person in these three different eras. In the crucible, the court held a lot of power. Because they held a lot of power they were in control of everything. In the Mccarthy era it showed Mccarthy mis using his power by making false statements and scapegoating others. In modern day there have been examples of marginalizing others.
Thesis Statement (T): Power has been misused within these three different eras in American history because sometimes power has been used in order to scapegoat others and cause hysteria around them.
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Paragraph #2: Crucible Thematic Connection

Topic Sentence (T): Power within the crucible is a very important theme in the book. It is important because power is brought up in the book to whether someone is right or wrong and it was also used to marginalize others.
Explanatory Sentence (E): Power within the crucible was represented a lot on who you were as a person. It showed how you carry yourself and how treated your religion. Power also represented knowledge. It showed that you knew a lot.

Evidence (E): In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend Hale, one of the characters in the book shows how much power he has. “delighted: Mr. Hale! Oh! it’s good to see you again! Taking some books: My, they’re heavy! HALE, setting down his books: They must be; they are weighted with authority.” ( The Crucible, 58)

Analysis (A): This quote shows how much Hale misuses his power into being egocentric. He shows how powerful he is through his books since in the 1690’s, books or knowledge were maybe represented as extensive and had loads of potential. So in other words knowledge in general represented power.
Concluding/ Transition (C): power within the crucible relates a lot to a certain era in history. It was called the Mccarthy era.

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Paragraph #3: McCarthy/Red Scare Thematic Connection

Topic Sentence (T): Power has been misused within the Mccarthy era and the red scare. Power was misused by using false accusations to scapegoat others.
Explanatory Sentence (E): power was a very representative thing within the mccarthy era. It showed where and what your status was. Mccarthy had a lot of power. He was a senator in the U.S. and

Evidence (E): Mccarthy misused his power in order to state his own opinions and false accusations. “Mccarthy claimed that traitors within the U.S. government were aiding The spread of communism” ( Fitzgerald, McCarthyism, 11)
Analysis (A): This quote shows how much Mccarthy misused power. Mccarthy was an important senator in the U.S. who used the amount of power he had to start spreading false accusations. Mccarthy used his power in order to spread lies and say that there were traitors who were spreading communism. Mccarthy also used his power to start scapegoating and spreading fear. He started the “anti communism”.
Concluding/ Transition (C): The Mccarthy era is maybe being repeated a little because of its relation to modern day.
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Paragraph #4: Modern Day Witch Hunt Thematic Connection

Topic Sentence (T): power today has been misused by many. It has been used to scapegoat others.
Explanatory Sentence (E): In modern day, politics have been a pretty big topic considering power. With the new presidency of Donald Trump there has been a lot of controversy and protests about him misusing his power.

Evidence (E): In an article from the huffington post, it talks about how trump is using “White power”. “President Donald Trump reportedly wants to temporarily stop most refugees from entering the country and halt immigration from ‘terror-prone areas’. In other words, he wants to ban Muslims.”
Analysis (A): This quote shows how Trump is misusing his power in order to ban refugees and immigrants from coming into America. This relates to a lot to the mccarthy era and the crucible because in the Mccarthy era Mccarthy mis used his power by spreading false accusations and scapegoating others. In the crucible many powerful people were egocentric and cared a lot about their status within their society.
Concluding/ Transition (C): power today has been relating to these two other eras. Power has also been used for the same reason as well. It has been used in order for things to go their ways and to cause chaos around them.
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Paragraph #5: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)

Reflection on Thesis (R): Power has been misused to cause oppression and hysteria amongst others.

Overview of Main Points (O): This has been shown in these three different era’s. In the crucible it’s been shown that power was something to be proud of but they were egocentric about it. In the mccarthy era Joseph Mccarthy used his power in order to spread false accusations about communists which caused hysteria and the red scare. Now today has been showing signs of these two eras. It has been showing loads of problems between immigrants and
Concluding Idea (C): Power within these three different eras have been mis used and put in the wrong hands. In the future will power be put in finally the right hands? Will power instead of causing oppression, be used to help others?