Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Web-quest Info Daniel A. Greyson F.

Miller


  • Miller was employed at an automobile parts warehouse to pay for his college.
  • The family moved to a small frame house in Brooklyn, which is said to the model for the Brooklyn home in Death of a Salesman
  • Studied at university of Michigan
  • Lived in New York City, New York
  • In 1944 Miller toured Army camps to collect background material for the screenplay The Story of G. I. Joe (1945) Miller's first novel
  • The Death of Salesman was his best work
New England in 1960's
  • People that were leaving religion persecution, and saw themselves as a new God loving and centered around him committee 
  • They kept their head down and their mouth shut. Supposedly the people of the new world saw themselves creating a New Canaan, supposedly did everything by the book. 
  • Watched out for anything that had signs of the devil. So they really didn't think independently like creatively, or crazy stuff like Albert Einstein. Their biggest fear was the devil and things evolving him/it. Then that turned into a annexation and a complete fear that people for coming to the devil that some where hung, and imprison for this superstition.
  • Their hierarchies were Cotton MatherArthur Miller, and Terry Locke. Mather was a priest and he was one of the strongest supporting people of the judges in 1962. Miller was a play writer and his best was Death of Salesman. Locke was very bright, and was a Senior Lecturer in English Language Education
McCarthyism
  • Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908- May 2, 1957) was anAmerican politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957
  • Campaign against alleged communist in the US government and other institutions carried out under senator Joseph McCarthy
  • Harry S Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower were McCarthy's victims
  • He found the Senate and the generals and commanders rising up against him, and he collapsed

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