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Arthur Miller and McCarthy, 2005.
A review of Arthur Miller's criticism of Senator McCarthy through his play "The Crucible".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper introduces a theme relating to Arthur Miller and McCarthyism and then offers an annotated bibliography of six books on the subject. This paper notes how Miller criticized McCarthy indirectly with his play "The Crucible," which stands as an indictment not only of McCarthyism but of any such use of hysteria and falsehood to create and manipulate fear during a time of tension.
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"The McCarthy era took advantage of existing tensions in the country over changes after world War II and new fears of a Communist threat directed at America. America was seen as a target because of its influence, the fact that it had the atomic bomb, and because of imperialist designs by Russia. Senator Joseph McCarthy took advantage of the hysteria of the time, and it is not clear how much his actions were simply self-promotion and how much true belief. He showed reckless disregard for any damage he might cause by making unfounded accusations, and in this atmosphere a few managed to criticize him and his methods, often indirectly as playwright Arthur Miller did with his play 'The Crucible', which stands as an indictment not only of McCarthyism but of any such use of hysteria and falsehood to create and manipulate fear during a time of tension."
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Miller and McCarthy, 2007.
An analysis of the repercussions of Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible" and Joseph McCarthy's speech, regarding communism in the 1950s in the United States.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses the history of communism and the perceived communist threat in the United States in the early 1950s. The paper discusses the repercussions of Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," as well as Joseph McCarthy's speech in 1950, where he held up a list of names he claimed proved that Truman's administration, as well as the State Department, was peppered with Communists and "Communist sympathizers". The paper concludes with the messages that can be learned from Miller's play in the United States, today.
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"Miller's play carries an important message for today. The United States of today is under a threat at least as real as the Communist threat of the late forties and early fifties was. We have had the graphic evidence from the attacks of September 11, 2001. Those attacks were driven ideologically, so once again the American public is caught up in a war of words, with some views "patriotic" and some "un-American." Both the events of the McCarthy hearings and Miller's play might serve as cautionary tales to warn us to stick to our legal principles and require solid proof before accusing people of being some form of "enemy of the state." The residents of Salem in the 17th century had more excuse than we would have, either during the McCarthy hearings or now. In Salem they fought a foe, Satan, who was by definition hard to detect and hard to see. The fact that brought McCarthy down was that he avoided evidence and relied on innuendo. In Salem they could not get verifiable proof, but as a democratic country we must always be ready to demand it."
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Arthur Miller's "The Crucible", 2006.
This paper compares the witch hunts in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" to the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s.
2,460 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper explains that the parallels, in the plot of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and the "Red Scare" of the 1950s, bring to light the unconstitutional lawlessness committed by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC), a committee designed to identify and persecute Americans who were members of the Communist party. The author points out that, from the play, John Proctor's character and principles and how he persists in carrying them out directly pertain to Arthur Miller's role in the HUAC hearings. This paper states that Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" to keep the detrimental effects of mass hysteria in the conscious minds of Americans and people everywhere because the moment that these mistakes are forgotten they are doomed to be repeated. This paper includes a playwright chronology.
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"Understanding why Miller writes about the mass hysteria and paranoia of the Salem witch-hunts can partly come from reflecting on his life during the Red Scare. Although Miller himself was not a communist when he was subpoenaed in 1956 by HUAC, he refused to name names when the HUAC asked him about people who attended the same meetings as he once did. "I declined to make any such statement, which I found demeaning; what right had any organisation [sic] to demand anyone's pledge of loyalty?" The HUAC asked Miller very specific questions about the others who participated in what McCarthy and his followers perceived as disloyal to America."
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The Lesson of Joseph McCarthy, 2003.
This paper is an essay about honesty and Senator Joseph McCarthy, using examples from Arthur Miller?s ?The Crucible?.
1,170 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses that Senator Joseph McCarthy lied about people being communists to get himself reelected. The paper compares McCarthy to the Salem Witch Hunts and gives examples from Arthur Miller?s ?The Crucible?. The author?s core argument is that when striving for personal gain, one begins to realize the unfortunate fact that honest methods can be lot harder than fraudulent ones; and thus, people who will try and deceive others will always exist.
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"Senator Joseph McCarthy, like many politicians, was willing to lie and deceive in order to receive re-election. However, he went too far: he accused many high-ranking government officials of condoning Communism in order, as many believe, to give him an issue for his re-election campaign in 1952. (Jesse Friedman) ?McCarthy drove many individuals from their jobs?and destroyed the reputations of an uncounted number of people?. Reminiscent of the fear of witches during seventeenth century, the spread of communism was a blinding trepidation in America during the 1950s. McCarthy saw this weakness, and he attacked it relentlessly. Throughout his campaign, though, he was unable to produce a shred of evidence against anyone he had defamed."
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Character Survival in the Landscapes of Cormac McCarthy, 2008.
A review of the book "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy.
1,977 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines whether post-apocalyptic landscape in Cormac McCarthy's book, "The Road", departs thematically from his prior works and what message, if any, we should find in the ashes. The paper explains that McCarthy's novels have consistently relied upon the pastoral American South where the isolation of man provides a sense of humanity, morality and community. The paper notes that in "The Road", McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a man and his son struggle to survive against the barbarism of others. The paper then looks at how the use of a different landscape raises the question of whether or not "The Road" is also different thematically from his other novels, even-though McCarthy still places an emphasis on man's constant struggle for survival and his need for community in "The Road". The paper also points out that some sources cite that McCarthy's choice of landscape comments on the dangerous capabilities of humanity to destroy itself using technology and a legitimate concern for the environment. To conclude, this paper shows that McCarthy's post-apocalyptic landscape does not signify a departure from his consistent themes, instead it further emphasizes and validates his commentary on human nature and society in his prior works.
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"Of course, it should come as no surprise to those familiar with McCarthy's earlier works that The Road takes place, like the others, against such a backdrop of a harsh and unforgiving terrain surrounded by terrifying isolation, and that that landscape, like McCarthy's novels before it, serves once more to cage his main characters in a "world defined by barbarism and violence," where their struggle for survival will test the hope that "civilized values and actions can endure, despite humanity's capacity for savagery." (Smith 26). In his earlier works, however, such as The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark (1966), Child of God (1973) and Blood Meridian (1979), the landscape in which McCarthy's characters struggled to survive was a natural one. The Orchard Keeper, for example, was set in a small, isolated community located somewhere in Tennessee between the two World Wars."
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Joseph McCarthy, 2002.
Critical review of "Joseph McCarthy - Reexamining the Life and Legend of America's Most Hated Senator" by Arthur Herman.
1,443 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This is an overall positive review of Herman's book on Joseph McCarthy. The paper sides with Herman's view that McCarthy was accurate in his perception of a communist threat to America and that his anti-communist investigations were right on target. Also agreed upon is the suggestion that the real problem with Joseph McCarthy was with the man himself and his tactics, not with his fears of the threat posed by Communism. The paper also points out some of the shortcomings of the book and, in particular, mentions the way Herman brushes off the ruin McCarthy brought to so many innocent lives.
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"Arthur Herman's book, Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator provides us with a different view of the man who is remembered as an unscrupulous, self-serving, and hypocritical man who recklessly destroyed people's reputations and lives through his unfounded anticommunist witch hunting. Arthur Herman's re-examination of the McCarthy legacy shows that, in retrospect, his disgrace came at a certain price to historical truth. His concept of modern politics and what drove him to his unethical practices remains both unexplored and unexplained."
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, 2008.
An analysis of the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy in which the author presents to the reader, the raw basic facts of a nuclear aftermath.
1,518 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The paper is a a critical essay about a Pulitzer prize-winning novel. In discussing "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy the paper focuses not on what the author may have intended to present, but rather on what the internal elements of the text reveal. The paper states that by writing this novel author McCarthy, is not protesting the nuclear stockpiles in Russia and the U.S. but he is allowing readers to share a story that is compelling, engaging, disturbing and yet brilliantly executed.
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"Indeed, this is clearly a book that touches on the unspeakable horrors that likely will follow a nuclear cataclysm, including humans turning into savages and criminals, and survivors rummaging through the rubble for the tools and food needed to keep going. And it is a story about the male mentality, the male quest for the will and the power to go on in a world where power has destroyed what was there before. "No sign of life...a corpse in a doorway dried to leather" (12). Saying the book is grim is an understatement. In terms of the humanity, this book is dark, darker, and black like a total eclipse. In the first twenty-five pages the word "gray" appears nineteen times. McCarthy is presenting to the reader the raw basic facts of a nuclear aftermath, and one need not try to read any more into than that, as far as the actual narrative. Life after a nuclear blast - in the best case scenario, experienced by the characters, is be bleak and not fun - and in the worse case scenario, at the end, life will be snuffed out."
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Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare, 2005.
Discusses how Senator McCarthy caused panic in the United States with his extreme anti-Communist views in the 1950s.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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During the 1950s, after WWII, America was in a period of fear, from communism and conformity. This paper examines how Joseph McCarthy, a Republican Senator from Wisconsin, pushed America's fears to an extreme as a ploy to get re-elected. McCarthy's plan was to make America hate communism as much as he did. The paper explains how Congress immediately started to hunt down the people who were on this supposed list. This period of intense anti-communism, was also known as the (second) Red Scare or McCarthyism, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956.
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"Joseph McCarthy was a dirty politician who would do whatever it took to get him a place in office. By holding a piece of paper, and saying that the enemy who everyone feared was so close, McCarthy diminished all thoughts that America was truly safe. The actual piece of paper was blank; McCarthy had no writing on the paper at all. He knew that by telling the people of the United States of America that the enemy was so close, he could finally see a war erected against Communism. Everyone knew about it, but no one ever talked about it. "The first knowledge many American's had of Communism came from Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech" (Matusow, 45). Churchill basically said in his speech that the Soviet Union was pushing forward a global Communist takeover. Churchill also said that he believed, "We should not let such a force loose on the planet" (Matusow, 46). That was the first time many American eyes were opened to Communism, and McCarthy made sure it was not the last. "The entire chaos that Senator McCarthy caused had become collectively known as The Red Scare" (Feuerlicht, 34). McCarthy used this entire Red Scare idea to boost his hopes for re-election. But an elected official is supposed to be a representative of the people. All McCarthy did was abuse his power and pull the wool over the people's eyes. McCarthy did not work for the benefit of the people. He only worked for the benefit of himself."
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Opposing Viewpoints: Eugene McCarthy and Richard Nixon., 2002.
A discussion of the opposing views of McCarthy and Nixon over Vietnam.
1,525 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 7 sources, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses how two prominent political figures, President Richard Nixon and Senator Eugene McCarthy, held radically different viewpoints on the Vietnamese conflict. While the former sought to prevent the spread of what he believed was a force that threatened the very nature of democracy, the latter held strong convictions that the humanitarian cost of the war was simply too great to justify any gains.
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The McCarthy Era, 2007.
This paper discusses Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt and its impact on American popular culture.
2,808 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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The paper shows how McCarthyism was intimately inter-connected with financial motives, career aspirations and politics. The paper demonstrates the effects McCarthyism had on media, films, plays and books, as seen by the enormous popularity of films such as "War of the Worlds." The paper looks at how some aspects of popular culture actively resisted McCarthyism, with Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" as an example of this.
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"McCarthyism was essentially a fervent anti-Communist movement, headed up by Senator Joseph McCarthy (who was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957). In the first half of the decade of the 1950s, a wave of accusations were levelled against politicians, government employees and other people. The accusations alleged Communist sympathies, or Communist party membership, and many resulted in public hearings by the government-appointed House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), run by McCarthy. Those who were accused often lost their jobs, or had their lives and/or reputations ruined in other ways, due to the widespread fear of Communism at this time. It is unclear whether McCarthy did this out of a genuine fear of Communism, or whether it was a cynical career-boosting ploy, although most historians incline to the latter view. (Edelstein)"
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McCarthy and the Cold War, 2005.
Discusses the events leading up to the Cold War and the impact the Cold War had on the society and politics of the United States.
2,863 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 85.95
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This paper looks at how the Cold War with the Soviet Union fed fears of Communism and feelings of paranoia and, ultimately, allowed Joseph McCarthy to wield tremendous political and social power in the United States. The paper describes the history of McCarthy's anti-communist campaign, his obsession with the communists-in-government issue, the conditions at the time that allowed him to feed on the American fear of Communism, why he was so popular, and how he was finally defeated.
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"One aspect of history is that a country?s so-called ?friend? one day, can be an enemy the next and visa versa. The United States and Soviet Union during World War II joined ranks against the real threat of Nazi Germany. However, it did not take long after the end of the war for Russia and the United States to once again bully each other. Even before the final surrender of Germany in 1945, the two super powers rapidly found themselves in a new military and diplomatic rivalry. Meanwhile, in the United States, the economy was taking time to build and unemployment was growing. Thoughts of the Depression loomed in people?s minds. The friction with the Russians, which would receive the name of Cold War, did not help. Yet it did create a scapegoat for fears and feelings of paranoia. As the tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. mounted, the Communist threat reached American shores. Surely, Russia was infiltrating the government. The Rosenberg?s trial in 1951 put all the props on the stage for the director Joseph McCarthy."
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"When Elephants Weep" ( Jeffrey Masson & Susan Mccarthy ), 1999.
Reviews the work on evidence of animals' emotions: playfulness, mourning and depression, among others.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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The book "When Elephants Weep" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan M. McCarthy examines the concept that animals have emotions. They examine in depth the different types of emotions known to man and describe experiments and field observations that show that animals also express the same types of emotions.
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"The book "When Elephants Weep" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan M. McCarthy examines the concept that animals have emotions. They examine in depth the different types of emotions known to man and describe experiments and field observations that show that animals also express the same types of emotions. This area of study is somewhat controversial, and the authors point out that, while no one can deny such things as the boundless joy shown by a dog when it knows it is about to be taken for a walk, and the gentle purring of a cat when it is being stroked, many people, particularly scientists, are loathe to call these emotions.
The authors propose that the attitude of scientists may have developed with the advent of laboratory studies on animals in the 1960s. Scientists needed to believe that animals were different ..."
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"All The Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy, 2002.
A comparison of the written version of this work to the film version.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 24.95
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A disscusion on how meaning is enacted or re-created when a text is performed or adapted for a performance. A written comparison of a print text with the text's adaptation into film.
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"Cormac McCarthy?s novel ?All the Pretty Horses? examines in fine detail the maturing of a sixteen-year-old boy, John Grady Cole, as he travels through the scorched landscape of Mexico. Grady?s quest to uphold the romantic ideals of ?the Wild West? is beautifully illustrated through McCarthy?s attention to detail in his writing. When comparing the delicacy McCarthy has taken to articulate his ideas, with Bill Bob Thornton?s film representation of the same title, one can only feel utmost disappointed."
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"Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale", 2003.
Looks at the portrayal of gender in the "Canterbury Tales General Prologue", Miller's Portrait, and the "Miller's Tale" by Chaucer.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses how the Miller's lack of virtue, as seen in his portrait and unsavory scatological tale, forms an aggregate text that works to disgust the reader.
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Michael Pertschuk states on the topic of gender roles and beauty that, ?the stereotypical male has been depicted as fixated on female bodies while being largely oblivious of his own" (54). This is true of the Miller?s character portrait in the Canterbury Tales. The Miller is described to be a despicable, burly man, who is involved in activities deeply rooted in masculinity. In his tale, the characters that emerge unscathed or victor of the mating competition fit what we could assume to be within his gender role paradigm.
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The Character of Daisy Miller, 2007.
An analysis of the expectations of women, as seen in Henry James' "Daisy Miller".
2,149 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper discusses the character of Daisy Miller as found in "Daisy Miller", written by Henry James. The paper describes the times in which the book was set and the expectations of women in those times. The paper then discusses how Daisy Miller does not conform to the typical role of women of that era. It also shows how some of the other characters react to her.
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"It is evident that the character of Daisy was constantly misunderstood by the society of Europe in the late 1800s. The character was considered a disgrace to her gender and socially inferior because of elements in her character that could not be tolerated by the social elite. While it could be contended that Daisy Miller was attempting to rebel against the European upper class, or that she was irresponsible to her social position, Daisy Miller was simply being true to her American beliefs about gender. Women's Suffrage and the progress of women outside of the home framed Daisy's viewpoints on her existence. Once in Europe these notions began to shape her relationship with others, both of European and American backgrounds. As the Europeans were insisting that Daisy understand the European customs in relation to propriety, the same people were negligent in comprehending Daisy's American heritage. However, the misconceptions that occurred throughout the story demonstrated how assumptions only serve to create a wider gap of communication between all people. James shows his readers that the practice of guilt by means of assumption occurs in reality, as well as in fiction."
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