Orwell’s Animal Farm is commonly read as a critique of Stalinism. However, does Orwell critique Stalinism or totalitarianism in general? And, what is more significant, does he tell a cautionary tale of how quickly and easily a power structure might…
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Salem Witch Trials in Beaumont’s Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices, 1705
John Beaumont, a physician and geologist with an interest in the occult and witchcraft, published An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices in 1705. Explore his account of the events in Salem through…
Old man see day; heart said come night
We ordered all the words in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by their frequency of occurrence (the content word vector). The first eight words are: 0.207 old0.174 man0.171 see0.168 day0.165 heart0.164 said0.160 come0.157 night Find the text…