Pi
In Geometry new students may think that Pi is just a random number that people
came up with but Pi was never invented by any human being, it was discovered. Pi is the
ratio of a circumference and its diameter that means you take the circumference and
divide by the diameter. It can be used by circles big or small no matter what the size is
you can use pi. One of the formula’s used for pi is Pi(D) = C. Pi is a constant it has never
changed over all of the thousands of years humans have used it and it will never change
In Geometry new students may think that Pi is just a random number that people
came up with but Pi was never invented by any human being, it was discovered. Pi is the
ratio of a circumference and its diameter that means you take the circumference and
divide by the diameter. It can be used by circles big or small no matter what the size is
you can use pi. One of the formula’s used for pi is Pi(D) = C. Pi is a constant it has never
changed over all of the thousands of years humans have used it and it will never change
Cameron Taylor Williams
World cultures
2012
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
According to “THE WITCH
HUNTS” main website many Europeans in the 15th
to 18th Century developed a fear and concern for
witchcraft. As a result of this the
American and European government and their societies created “hunts”
for these so
called “witches”. These
governments and societies would accuse, torture, and
execute thousands of people. The severity and viciousness was different
in different
places, along with who was targeted. These killings weren’t just wrong
or bad they
were completely unethical although I’m sure someone in that time would
have
argued that it was completely ethical because they were thinking to
defend
themselves.
There was a belief that started in this time, a belief that carried on
into the
Middle Ages. This belief was that “women were sinful and had the power
from the
devil”. Nearly everyone
accused of witch craft was rural, poor, single women. The
Salem Witch Trials were meant to keep women in their place. “Women were
seen as
devil, and unclean people who could summon the devil for sexual
intercourse.”
There is an example of what these people believed at Smithsonian.com
these
witch trials started up in Massachusetts in 1692 and ended in 1693.
More than 200
people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were executed.
Eventually, they
admitted the trials were a mistake and the government gave the families
compensation. Though, I am sure this could not make up for their
loss.
At age 9 In 1692 reverend Paris’
daughter Elizabeth and Abigail Williams at
age started having “fits”. They screamed, threw fits, made strange
sounds, moved
their bodies in strange positions. The local doctor blamed the
supernatural. At age
11 Ann Putnam had similar episodes. Under pressure from magistrates
these girls
blamed three women, Tituba the Paris Caribbean Slave, Sarah Good a
homeless
beggar and Sarah Osborne an elderly poor woman.
All three women were brought to the magistrates and interrogated for days
starting on March 1, 1692. Osborne and Good said they were innocent,
but Tituba
said “The devil came to me and bid me to serve him.” She described
descriptive
images of black dogs, red cats, yellow birds and a “black” man who
wanted her to
sign his book. She said she signed the book and said there were other
witches
looking to destroy the Puritan, all three women were put in jail.
Eventually the
thought that anyone
could be a witch entered the magistrates minds, and even
Sarah Good’s four-year-old daughter was questioned and her unassured
answers
were an obvious confession. After the trials and executions many
involved publicly
announced error and guilt.
World cultures
2012
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
According to “THE WITCH
HUNTS” main website many Europeans in the 15th
to 18th Century developed a fear and concern for
witchcraft. As a result of this the
American and European government and their societies created “hunts”
for these so
called “witches”. These
governments and societies would accuse, torture, and
execute thousands of people. The severity and viciousness was different
in different
places, along with who was targeted. These killings weren’t just wrong
or bad they
were completely unethical although I’m sure someone in that time would
have
argued that it was completely ethical because they were thinking to
defend
themselves.
There was a belief that started in this time, a belief that carried on
into the
Middle Ages. This belief was that “women were sinful and had the power
from the
devil”. Nearly everyone
accused of witch craft was rural, poor, single women. The
Salem Witch Trials were meant to keep women in their place. “Women were
seen as
devil, and unclean people who could summon the devil for sexual
intercourse.”
There is an example of what these people believed at Smithsonian.com
these
witch trials started up in Massachusetts in 1692 and ended in 1693.
More than 200
people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were executed.
Eventually, they
admitted the trials were a mistake and the government gave the families
compensation. Though, I am sure this could not make up for their
loss.
At age 9 In 1692 reverend Paris’
daughter Elizabeth and Abigail Williams at
age started having “fits”. They screamed, threw fits, made strange
sounds, moved
their bodies in strange positions. The local doctor blamed the
supernatural. At age
11 Ann Putnam had similar episodes. Under pressure from magistrates
these girls
blamed three women, Tituba the Paris Caribbean Slave, Sarah Good a
homeless
beggar and Sarah Osborne an elderly poor woman.
All three women were brought to the magistrates and interrogated for days
starting on March 1, 1692. Osborne and Good said they were innocent,
but Tituba
said “The devil came to me and bid me to serve him.” She described
descriptive
images of black dogs, red cats, yellow birds and a “black” man who
wanted her to
sign his book. She said she signed the book and said there were other
witches
looking to destroy the Puritan, all three women were put in jail.
Eventually the
thought that anyone
could be a witch entered the magistrates minds, and even
Sarah Good’s four-year-old daughter was questioned and her unassured
answers
were an obvious confession. After the trials and executions many
involved publicly
announced error and guilt.
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