McCarthy Hearings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAur_I077NA

This video is interesting to me because seeing McCarthy talk about this is more realistic than just reading it. I never really realized that YouTube has videos that are historically helpful. The McCarthy hearings were the first hearings televised in US history. Media plays a huge role in society and in my opinion, these hearings being shown on TV showed the whole nation what was going on. They didn't have to be involved in the issue to watch it. Without it showing, I believe it wouldn't have been as huge of a deal as it was because the public wouldn't have had such a wide knowledge of the issues.

The Crucible Act 1

After reading the first act I found it interesting that upon speculation of witch craft the first person the people blamed was Tituba. In every story where a crime or an investigation takes place it always seems like there's someone like Tituba to take the blame. Probably because she's very different than the rest and to them, it's only common sense that she would've done something wrong. The other part I found most interesting was when the psalm was being sung and Betty woke up and then chaos breaks out and the girls just started shouting accusations of other women in the town that they believed to be a witch.