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McCarthy Hearings

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1769.html

In this article it discusses the grip that McCarthy had on the United States. After a while though he began to make more and more ridiculous accusations. Once, the hearings were televised, everyone saw how McCarthy acted during the hearings and disapproved. I think this is a great show of the American culture. Before people saw the indecency of the hearings they got caught up in the craze of the "witchhunt". After however, they realized that they got caught up in exactly what McCarthy was doing and was making crazy accusations towards others. It shows that we love to follow others until something makes us come to our senses and stop. Sometimes however we are too late and reputations are damaged as a result. McCarthy gained fame at first and then infamy due to these trials and the American people followed his actions unquestioningly for a long time.

The Crucible

The Crucible bothers me. It's not the writing. The writing is good. It's the characters. The characters bother me more and more as I continue reading. I'm bothered for one sole reason: They are hypocrites. The town is full of self-serving narcissists who claim they love God more than themselves. But it is only a claim. They say they follow God perfectly and that they are not sinners but they are. Proctor claims he is righteous and tells his wife to forget about the fact he slept with another woman. A 17 year old girl nonetheless. He does not see it as an issue at all and that he is still a righteous man. Parris is another hypocrite. He is the preacher in town but when witchcraft is suspected of his daughter he tries to keep it quiet instead of "purify" her. He is self serving and only wants to keep his job in town. Others claim they are righteous to the town but then send their daughters to conjure dead spirits. The truth is, all of these people would rather point their fingers at others instead of acknowledge their own faults

Squanto

So, i misread the assignments last week so this is a week late but the one due today was a week early. Talk about oblivious. I decided to research Squanto. He was originally trying to be sold into slavery by Thomas Hunt in Spain but he became free. He did his best to make it back to North America where he lived. During his time in Europe he learned to speak English. When he returned to North America he discovered that his tribe had been wiped by a epidemic caused by the Europeans a year previous. He decided to settle in Plymouth which is where his former village used to be. There, he taught the colonists how to fertilize crops to produce more crops and showed them good places to fish. This was during the first winter for the colonists and it was a very harsh winter at that. Without Squanto, most of the colonists at Plymouth would have died in the very first year.