The remedy is very simple: Avoid the darkness and seek the light. ... Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... They believe that the forest was "the Devil's last preserve."33 Hence, when the Salem minister, Reverend Parris, discovers a group of girls from the town, including his daughter, Betty, and niece, Abigail, dancing and "conjuring up spirits"34 with ...

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In this paper I will examine the class structure of the Five Points beginning with geographic and architectural significances that assisted in the class structuring; then I will examine the archeological evidence which further sheds light on the lives of those who resided in what became known as America's first slum. ... While researching this subject I stumbled over a book published in 1999, A Short and Remarkable History of New York City written by Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan, which shed light on who the first settlers were. ... He and his colleagues eliminated any structures on th...

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Many believe that Madame Defarge is the epitome of evil; where as, America is the light of the new world. ... Instead, they use gorgeous white sand beaches of Florida and Hawaii, the magnificent Smokey Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, the great forest of Washington, or the amber waves of grain of Oklahoma and Kansas. ...

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