The Amityville Horror: Fact Or Fiction? When you hear horror stories do they intrigue you or do you become apathetic and bored? Many people are aware that horror stories have been around for centuries as means of entertainment, so how can you be sure if what you are hearing is the truth? The Amityville Horror is a story written by Jay Anson, based on the paranormal activities surrounding George and Kathy Lutz and their children after they moved into their home in Amityville, New York. The book was published on September 13, 1977 surrounding a rising epidemic in the interest of the paranormal.
Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the west Introduction Elphaba Thropp is born to a Unionist minister named Frex and his wife Melena in Munchkinland. The unusual thing about Elphaba is that she was born with green skin, unfortunately, the color of her skin cause her to be an outcast in Oz society. Additionally, her own family is revolted by her green appearance. During the early stages of her life, Elphaba is with her mother who is an alcoholic and the stepdad (Turtle Heart), the old Nanny, and her loving father. During this time, the Wizard arrives and takes over Oz.
He then takes a picture of Caroline Frankenstein that the boy has been holding and places it in the folds of the dress of a girl sleeping in a barn—Justine Moritz, who is later executed for William’s murder. Even though William was a little child, the monster still did not hesitate to murder him, and once again he destroyed the lives of two innocent people. This shows that when you are angry you act upon impulses and no good will ever come of
The disease that results from the virus, called brain-pox in the novel, has symptoms that mimic the common cold and the dangerous Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. The book is separated into descriptions, or sections of the virus, and the government's attempt to stop the imminent threat. The story begins one spring morning in New York City when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling really ill. She seems to be coming down with a cold. Hours later she is having violent seizures and has begun a terrible process of self-cannibalization. She is soon dead.
My father continued to make speeches in favour of UNIA and in 1929 the family house was attacked by members of the Black Legion, a militant group that had broken away from the Ku Klux Klan. "Shortly after my youngest sister was born came the nightmare night of 1929, my earliest vivid memory. I remember being suddenly snatched awake into a frightening confusion of pistol shots and shouting and smoke and flames. My father had shouted and shot at the two white men who had set the fire and were running away. Our home was burning down around us.
The Salem Witch Trials Brittany Johnson Marc Romanelli Monday April 8, 2013 The Salem Witch Trials (Rough Draft) Fear of Devil-worshipping and witchcraft swept through Salem, Massachusetts, like a plague. During the years of 1692 and 1693, more than 200 people—men, women, and even children—were accused of witchcraft (Blumberg). Words of friends, neighbors, and even complete strangers put many people's lives in danger. Nineteen people were hanged, one person pressed to death, and four known deaths occurred in prison. The accusations, the trials, the executions, and the events leading up to and after the deaths, kept Salem, Massachusetts on its toes in
All of these were events leading up to Parris’ arrival. (law) In early January of 1692 the first to be affected were Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter, Betty Parris, and Parris’ niece, Abigail Williams, who both showed symptoms of fits, distempers, odd postures, and blasphemous screaming. The local doctor, William Griggs, was called but Griggs could not find the cause of the affliction and he suspected malefic witchcraft was at play. Shortly after other Salem girls began to show similar symptoms and every physician concluded that they were under the influence of Satan. Late February came and the symptoms did not abate so prayer services, community fasts, and a rye witch cake made with the girls’ urine to be fed to a dog were measures taken to try and ease the affliction but none worked.
Their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time, like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the “School” where she and the others are experimented on by a crew of crazy scientists. Her family goes on a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel. This book is on the
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where God and hard work consumes the people. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Parris is lying next to the bed of his ten year old daughter Betty who is unmoving and unresponsive. Hysteria is running through Salem because of the rumor that Betty is bewitched and she and several other girls where dancing in the forest with Parris’s slave Tituba. Solely afraid of losing his job, Parris questions Abigail. Even though Abigail denies that she and the girls participate in witchcraft, Parris does not believe her because Abigail has been out of work since Elizabeth Proctor abruptly fired her.
Many of these characters go through life changing events that change them forever. Even the neighbors suddenly turn on each other and accuse people they’ve known for years of practicing witchcraft and devil-worship. The town of Salem falls into mass hysteria, “an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear.” Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible” is about the Salem witch trials in 1860. These were classic examples of mass hysteria, resulting in the hanging of a great many respectable men and woman of charges of “trafficking” with the devil. They were convicted by people at least as themselves, largely on the evidence of four young girls who had been caught dancing in the moonlight and laid their dissolute behavior to the influence of Satan.