Us vs. Them

             Conflict. Conflict is something that happens every day, to everybody, everywhere. Conflict can happen is small cases, such as a disagreement between friends, or in bigger cases that result in wars. Conflict also happens for many different reasons. Some people use conflict as entertainment, others use conflict to cause detriment to people. We can see both of the reasons in the Crucible. Abigail and her friends are hurting many people, and families, by using their cherubic innocence to call witch on people whom they don’t like in the town. At first the girls are doing this mainly to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor, bus as the story goes on and more people get involved the girls have to call witch on lots of people, even their own friend. Furthermore, it seems that by the end of book the girls are just calling witch for fun, to see how far they can go without being caught. This just shows that conflict was around late in our past, is still here in present day, and will probably never go away in our future.

What is an American?

Kamal Bilal

Per. 3

10/21/2010

What is an American?

            What is an American? In book terms an American is a citizen of the United States. But In my eyes an American is someone who has freedom and civil rights. An American is a person who is able to decide how he/she wants to live his/her life. I think that this is the true definition of America because that is what everyone who doesn’t live in America wants. The only difference between Americans and people who live in other countries is that we have freedom, we can make something out of nothing, and we have the ability to do whatever we want (with slight limitations). A true definition of an American is someone who expresses themselves the way they want, because they can.

            America is place of opportunity and the moment I knew I was an American…was today. October, 21^st of 2010, the day where I actually took a step back and realize that I am in one of the greatest countries in the world. A country with no rules on what you have to be, a country full of possibility. And on October 21^st of 2010, I realized that I am proud to be an American

            

Puritans. October 29, 2010

The practices and rituals of Puritanism aren’t openly practiced in America, but a few of the roots and ideas can be seen in America. Puritans believed that if you were not the same as everyone else you were a witch. If you read too many books you were a devil’s advocate. If you didn’t come to church every single Sunday or didn’t agree with a minister or parson you were seen as somebody who didn’t like god and there for a witch. In America if you’re different you don’t get seen as a witch, but you are restricted from some civil rights that most have. For example, gays are not to marry, but heterosexuals are able to.

            Puritans also believed that everybody who was born was born in sin, so pretty much you were found guilty and had to prove that you were innocent, by going to church every Sunday, and follow the laws of the bible. Even though this isn’t what we do today in America I believe that this made us realize to become more rational.