Essay on the Crucible: how fear and ignorance lead to chaos
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
<Tab/>"Shh! What was that?!"
<Tab/>"I didn't hear anything...wait...what is that!?" You're camping out with your friends in your backyard, one muggy summer night. You were confident and excited as your evening began. Suddenly, when your friend begins to hear noises, you think you hear them too. It's dark outside your tent, and you cannot see anything around
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and Muslims rose by 1,700%. <Tab/>Some say ignorance is bliss, but history and Miller's account of the Salem witch trials seems to attest just the opposite. In The Crucible, ignorance leads to discord and scapegoating. Though they also say that history repeats itself, one can only hope that mankind will learn to rise above the tendency to fear what one does not understand, and instead, seek to understand what mankind fears.
and Muslims rose by 1,700%. <Tab/>Some say ignorance is bliss, but history and Miller's account of the Salem witch trials seems to attest just the opposite. In The Crucible, ignorance leads to discord and scapegoating. Though they also say that history repeats itself, one can only hope that mankind will learn to rise above the tendency to fear what one does not understand, and instead, seek to understand what mankind fears.