The Crucible Twitterature

These are the 25 tweets of The Crucible in my group which was Amy Huske, Kacper Malinowski, Yen Lee.

ACT I

1 Parrisnotharris: please help fund me at gofundme.com @salem
2 Abi: Betty's too sick @parrisnotharris
3 PutPut: It's some devil's work @parrisnotharris #witches #salem
4 Rebecca: Bless her soul @abi @parrisnotharris
5 Parrisnotharris: @abi what were you going to do in the forest?
6 Abi: It was @tuba 's fault! She did this! #negro #vodoo
7 Tuba: I ain't do nothing @parrisnotharris ! I'm Sorry! She asked me to do it! It was @goodygood and @osborn !
8 Betty: @salem it was @Ali @Hawk @Bib @Booth. They're witches! #blasphemy

ACT II

9 Mrproctor: #praying for a fair summer
10 Lizzy: @mrproctor Mary is in Salem today
11 Mrproctor: omg I told you not to let her go @lizzy!!
12 Lizzy: Here she comes, she's returning!
13 M.warren: 39 women arrested today!
14 M.warren: @goodyosborn will hang!
15 Mrproctor: @hale these children's sicknesses have nothing to do with witchcraft, @abi told me so.
16 Giles: they just took my wife bc she reads books!
17 Cheever: there's a warrant for the arrest of @lizzy, @abi gave her up!

ACT IIII

18 M.warren: it's all lies, all of it. I am not a witch i was just pretending, we were all pretending @abi
19 Mrproctor: Thank goodness we have been blessed with a baby, @lizzy cannot be hung until the baby is delivered
20 Abi:  I have no idea what you're talking about @m.warren I have seen witchcraft with my own eyes and so did everyone else
21 Mrproctor: you lie @abi you just my wife Elizabeth. I will have none of this you dirty w**re
22 Deputy_dan: what in God's name is going on here? @m.warren you need to release you're devilish hold over these girls.
23 Parrisnotharris: God damn you @abi @Mrey_ you've stolen my money and run off after all i've done for you!
24Lizzy: poor @Giles he died an honorable death, sad to see him squashed.
25 Mrproctor:I will confess but I will not allow you to ruin my name @deputy_dan
26 Mrproctor: Just remember, I was an honest man @salem

Week19 of School

It's the last week before finals and most of my classes are just reviewing.  I'm getting nervous, but I really shouldn't  be. I'm not really in the position where I have to do really well on a final to get the grade I want. I just have to make sure not to royally screw up any final and I should be fine. I will have a very uneventful weekend this week. It will just be a bunch of review for finals. At least next week we will have a long weekend.

I commented on Yen Lee's blog.

Week 18 of School

I had a great week this week. For me it was pretty short, we didn't have school on Monday and on Friday I had a field trip. The field trip was for my art class and we went to the field museum where we had to sketch some animals that we saw. I sketched a tiger and a cockatoo. Later on Sunday I had a volleyball tournament. My team got 1st place in the tournament and I was pretty happy. We went undefeated for 5 games and I was very tired when I got home. Hopefully the next week will be just as good.

I commented on Arthur's blog

Week 17 of School

I had an almost good week this week. Up until Thursday everything was going smoothly. I had done well on my math quiz,did pretty Ok on my Apush test, and didn't have to stay up too late doing homework. I was pretty happy. Then on Thursday I sprained my ankle at volleyball practice. The one day we were scrimmaging I had to go and injure myself. At least I'll have the long weekend to rest up.

The Red Scare

In the early 1950s the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. began to really intensify. People became paranoid of the idea of having soviet communists in their society and overthrowing their democratic government. Communists were despised And looked down upon in society. These communists were called “Reds” because of their allegiance to the red soviet flag and thus came the name “The Red Scare”. The Red Scare led to mass hysteria within the U.S. and even in the U.S. government.

At the center of the Red Scare was Joseph McCarthy, senator of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. McCarthy took advantage of the U.S.’s fear and became a powerful figure in American politics through accusations and presenting himself as the only hope against communism in the United States.  It all started in February 1950 when McCarthy gave a speech at the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in West Virginia where he claimed and singled out 205 state department employees to be communists. None substantial proof was found that any of the employees had affiliations with the communist party. Later on McCarthy conducted interviews with many more federal government employees, many of whom lost their jobs, and turned his accusations on the military. The military interviews were broadcasted on national TV, which proved to be his downfall. People saw how he berated and intimidated interviewees and the public opinion toward him became sour.

Once the hearings had concluded McCarthy had lost all of his allies and his witch hunt was brought to an end. McCarthy was condemned by the senate and said his actions were inexcusable, reprehensible, vulgar, insulting, and unbecoming of a senator. McCarthy kept his job but lost all his power with it. In 1957 he died at the age of 48 from alcoholism. From McCarthy we now have the word McCarthyism, which means the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

Week 16 of School

This was the first week back from break and man was it tough. My sleeping schedule is all off and I'm tired at school. During the break I'd got bed at around 1:00 AM and wake up at 12:00 PM and now this whole school schedule is throwing me off. I had volleyball practice at Jones this week which was kind of cool. Not much else really happened. It is the first week back so teachers seem to not be trying to hard to swamp us. I still have two papers write this weekend though, which really sucks.

I left a comment on Billy Goode's blog.

Week 15 of School

This week was so hard to get through. All I could think about was getting to winter break. My goal was just basically survive for one more week. On Friday we didn't do much since it was the last day before Christmas. We were visited by Santa during English and had to do a word search with all our names in it. In other classes we didn't do anything festive, but we also didn't do anything which was nice because I wouldn't be able to focus on anything on Friday. Well I'm off, Happy Holidays!

I commented on Yen Lee's blog