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- Salem Witchcraft Trials (United Nations Environmental Program)
Includes information used to try individuals as witches from the trials themselves and The Crucible. 10-09
- 09-18-03 Blix: U.S. and Britain on a "Witch Hunt" (CBS News)
"The U.N.'s former chief weapons inspector has attacked the 'spin and hype' he says the United States and Britain used when warning about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."
"In the run-up to the Iraq war, Washington argued that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed an imminent threat and that Saddam's government had close links to al Qaeda -- the terrorist network run by Osama bin Laden."
"Comparing the two countries [U.S. and Britain] to medieval witch-hunters, Blix said the British and U.S. governments convinced themselves Iraq posed a threat based on evidence that was later discredited -- including forged documents about alleged attempts to buy uranium for nuclear weapons." 9-03
- Salem Witchcraft Trials - The Crucible by Arthur Miller (United Nations Environmental Program)
Discusses the play and movie called "The Crucible" that provides a fictional version of the trials. 10-09
- Salem Witchcraft Trials - The Crucible by Arthur Miller (EdSitement)
Provides a lesson plan, resources, and activities related to the play and movie, The Crucible. 9-04
- Salem Witchcraft Trials - The Crucible by Arthur Miller (AreSearchGuide.com)
Provides extensive resources for students and teachers related to teaching about the play and movie by Arthur Miller. 9-04
- Salem Witchcraft Trials - The Crucible by Arthur Miller (School.Discovery.com)
Provides a lesson plan, resources, and activities related to the play and movie, The Crucible. For more resources, search the Awesome Library with the keyword "Crucible." 9-04
- Salem Witchcraft Trials - The Crucible by Arthur Miller (SCORE)
Provides a lesson plan, resources, and activities related to the play and movie, The Crucible. "
"This unit, designed to supplement the teaching of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, consists of three activities that address the following three questions, respectively:"
"What are the relationships between the characters of The Crucible?"
"What contributed to the events leading up to the real witch trials of 1692?"
"How do the political events of the 1950s contribute to our understanding of The Crucible?"
For more resources, search the Awesome Library with the keyword "Crucible." 9-04
- Salem Witch Trials (Thinkquest.org)
Provides carefully selected sources of information on the Salem witch trials. 7-05
- -01-08-09 Woman Suspected of Witchcraft Burned Alive (CNN News)
"A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday."
"Emory University anthropology professor Bruce Knauft, who lived in a village in the western province of Papua New Guinea in the early 1980s, traced family histories for 42 years and found that one in three adult deaths were homicides -- 'the bulk of these being collective killings of suspected sorcerers,' he wrote in his book, 'From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology.' " 01-09
- Witch Hunt (JanaLerner.com)
"Executive Producer Sean Penn proudly presents 'Witch Hunt,' a documentary that brings light to an injustice that took over 20 years to correct. It's the story of John Stoll and dozens of other men and women who found themselves caught in a spiral of fear, ignorance and hysteria. These working class moms and dads were rounded up with little or no evidence, charged and convicted of child molestation."
"Through new interviews, archival footage, and narration by Mr. Penn, the filmmakers construct a film that illustrates a universal point; when power is allowed to exist without oversight from the press, the community or law enforcement, the rights of everyday citizens can be lost for decades." 04-09
- Halloween Crafts (BenJerry.com)
Provides a skeleton, witch, and haunted house for decoration. 10-02
- Rowling, J. K. (CNN News)
" 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' the sixth of J.K. Rowling's phenomenal, record-breaking series, is also her darkest, most grown-up work -- haunted by death, complicated by love and heartbreaking to critics. 'Break out the tissues,' warns Associated Press reviewer Deepti Hajela."
"Since Rowling first introduced Harry and his fellow students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to the world in 1997, the books have become a global phenomenon, selling 270 million copies in 62 languages and inspiring a series of movies." 7-05
- McCarthy, Joseph (Wikipedia.org)
"During his ten years in the Senate, McCarthy and his staff became notorious for aggressive investigations of people in the U.S. government and others suspected of being Soviet agents on grounds of their political beliefs as Communists or Communist sympathizers."
"As a result, the term McCarthyism was coined to specifically describe the intense anti-Communist movement that existed in America from 1950 to about 1956, a time which became popularly known as the Red Scare. During this period, people who were suspected of varying degrees of Communist loyalties became the subject of aggressive inquiries, which became known as 'witch hunts' to his opponents. People from the media, government, and the military were accused by McCarthy of being suspected Soviet spies or Communist sympathizers. Although McCarthy's activities did not result in any convictions or criminal prosecutions for espionage, intercepted Soviet communications from the now-declassified VENONA Project indicate that some of the individuals he pursued may have had hidden Communist associations. The term 'McCarthyism' has since become synonymous with any government activity which opponents claim is meant to suppress unfavorable political or social views, often by limiting or suspending civil rights for the alleged purpose of maintaining national security."
"The Senate voted 67 to 22 on December 2, 1954, to condemn McCarthy for 'conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute,' the first time a Senator was censured for actions in a past session of Congress." 12-05 Visitors sometimes misspell as MacCarthy, Mc Carthy, or Mac Carthy.
- Theocratic Dominionism (PublicEye.org)
"Reconstructionism is a theology that arose out of conservative Presbyterianism (Reformed and Orthodox), which proposes that contemporary application of the laws of Old Testament Israel, or 'Biblical Law,' is the basis for reconstructing society toward the Kingdom of God on earth."
"Reconstructionist theologian David Chilton succinctly describes this view: 'The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God's law.' "
"Reconstructionists also believe that 'the Christians' are the 'new chosen people of God,' commanded to do what 'Adam in Eden and Israel in Canaan failed to do. . .create the society that God requires.' Further, Jews, once the 'chosen people,' failed to live up to God's covenant and therefore are no longer God's chosen. Christians, of the correct sort, now are."
"Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical 'warfare' is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, 'sodomy or homosexuality,' incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, 'unchastity before marriage.' " 12-05
- -05-27-07 Wiccans (ReligiousTolerance.org)
" Depending upon how you look at Wicca, it is either one of the newest or one of the oldest religions in the world:"
"Wicca is a recently created, Neopagan religion. The various branches of Wicca can be traced back to Gardnerian Witchcraft which was founded in the UK during the late 1940s."
"Wicca is based on the symbols, seasonal days of celebration, beliefs and deities of ancient Celtic society." 05-07
- -10-17-09 Children Are Victims of Churches in Africa (MSNBC News)
"The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire."
"Nigeria is one of the heartlands of abuse, but hardly the only one: the United NationsChildren's Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa." 10-09
- Editorial: Injustice in Kern County (TruthinJustice.org)
"Today, the Bakersfield molestation trials -- and the dozens of similar molestation cases that rippled across America in the 1980s -- are widely acknowledged to have been a witch hunt, a sort of mass hallucination born of fear and misconception. Since 1991, all but five of the twenty-nine convictions secured by [District Attorney Ed] Jagels have been overturned. Yet Jagels continues to stand by all of the wrongful prosecutions, without exception. He has fought the release of every parent, insisting, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that justice was done." 04-09
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