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            Reflection on nature- fall.      

Fall is really a time of transition. You are between the heat and sun of summer and the cold and snow and winter. You can have a fall day that is freezing or an Indian summer of the seventies or eighties, sometimes in the same day. The leaves turn colors but then they fall off and the trees are bare. You know it is going to be cold soon, but it isn’t yet, and you have a chance to reflect on your summer and look to the upcoming cold and new year. Fall is a time of transition.

Hollywood begins the Red Scare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKSykTPzA4&feature=player_embedded

This video is an interesting preface to the modern-day Salem--Hollywood during the Red Scare. When you just listen to this video it makes it sound like this is a tame search for a few Communists based on evidence, not the witch-hunt it became. And the bit from the producer too makes it seem like this will be peaceful. The producer makes it sound like Communism is not a problem and is not tolerated, which directly debates the amount of people that actually were charged, guilty or not. The website I checked said that about 350 people from Hollywood were punished, either jail time for contempt of Congress or told not to work for the entertainment industry. Whether they were actually Communists or not (a few probably were) that is a huge number for the amount of real evidence.
 I really get a kick out of how tame and well-meaning this video talks about or implies the search will be and that the guilds actually claimed also to be anti-Communist and willing to do their part. How quickly things changed.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhuac.htm

The Crucible, Act 1

This first act of The Crucible shows just how pent up with anger these people are, that when given the chance they will use the situation to settle personal grudges with other people they dislike. It really seems like these are the exact opposite of an ideal Puritan settlement, they are all running around wrongfully accusing each other just because they don't like something about the other, and have no problem seeing their neighbor tried or hung because they have an argument or different view. And in amongst all of this witch-calling are land disputes, money disputes, sect rivalries and affairs. When you think of an ideal Puritan village you would think they would have respect for one another and not be involved in all of these things, but I guess they had enough. They're not perfect, after all. There's only so much anyone, even the religious, can take.