Salem Witch Trials Webquest: Part 1

1. I feel that you have to get more proof from the accused that just listen to some girls that have already lied before. There could have been another person doing all these things, but if they think you're a witch, they kind of set you up in order to put you in jail and be hung. Not everyone is a witch, but if you do the slightest thing to make them think you are, they'll trial you and automatically think you're a witch. I don't think it's right that they just put people in jail that they THINK is a witch. All they need is more proof.

2.  I think that the Crucible was a little exaggerated to make is sound more interesting. There was more girls afflicted in the Crucible, and the more girls there were, the more proof it gave. But in the real one, there were only a few girls.

3. I think the rye may have been the cause of some, but not all. Maybe there really were witches doing things to some of those girls. But when those girls ate the rye, they thought it was a witch and played it off as if they were being tortured by a witch.

4. They both have to deal with controlling people.

5. The Red Scare has more to do with communists and controlling people. The Salem Witch Trials deals with witch encounters and putting innocent people in jail because they're scared.

6. The Salem Witch Trials wasn't focused on racism like the others. It just focused on getting innocent people put in jail because since they didn't know who was a witch, they thought everyone was.

7. He is saying that if you don't have the knowledge learned from history, you'll never understand why is happened and you will probably go through the same thing and never know the background or the cause.

8. No

9. I learned that people go trialed as a witch as if they were one because everyone, at that time, was scared that everyone was a witch because one person had an encounter with it and now a bunch of girls were saying that they were having the same torturous encounter with a witch as well.

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

1. - Edwards' speech was to persuade sinners to turn themselves over to the hands of God and if they didn't they would burn in Hell for eternity. Even if you sin once, God will not forgive you and no longer love you.

-He convinced people to always do right in the eyes of God or they would be miserable and never be forgiven by God. 

2. - When he says "natural men", he means people that sin, but still believe and fear God. He says it in paragraph 12.

- His audience is mostly people who have no sinned and who have the fear of God in them, but there may also be some "natural men" in his audience. They still go to church, but have sinned and are now convinced that they are going to Hell.

3. - "Abate" means "to calm down". I say that because they are in the same sentence. When is says "to appease or abate...", they obviously mean the same thing when "or" is between them.

4. - To show that he knows about what he is talking about and that he can keep going on and on about it. And also what its affect is on you. 

5. - To bring more persuasive depth

- "...or in the least lighten in this hand; there shall be no moderation of mercy, nor will God then at all stay his rough wind; he will have no regard to your welfare..."

6. - To make people think he can just keep adding on by putting "and" in front of it.

7. -Because they all relate to the one before it.

- To show no mercy or willingness

8. -By demonstrating God's willingness to determine if you go to Heaven or Hell.

- It really captures a detailed picture in your head by the descriptiveness. 

- To bring more depth

9. -Yes
- He was trying to make what he is saying as descriptive as possible to make it more persuading.

10. -I think he focuses more on pathos (the emotions of the audience) because of how he tries to get them to listen and believe everything he says so they can live they way God wants them to.

11. -Persuasive and serious.
-I think the tone stays the same all throughout the sermon

12. -If you hear how the person is saying it, rather than reading it, it just seems different and more persuasive if you listen to it other than read it.

13. -By making it descriptive and very "life-like" to make people believe it even more.
-Yes

14. -Whenever he would say that if you sinned just once, that God would not forgive you and you would automatically go to Hell. Probably a lot of people in the congregation have sinned, but still want to go to Heaven.