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Brain Hacking Why Social Engineering The Decision-Making Reason Used In The Crucible

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A modern-day witch-hunt in America is discrimination and exclusion against ethnic/race in populations and communities, and when people with any type of authority seem to act differently towards anyone in those groups. In “Salem (and other) Witch-Hunts” fear played a role in the witch-hunts by scaring/forcing the Japanese American people out of their homes and placing them into internet camps (Kubic). Fear can be used to manipulate people into doing what you want them to do by scaring/threatening them. In “McCarthyism” a fear was spreading that there was communism and soviet influence on America's institutions and this made people believe and accuse people of the government (USHistory.org). In the article, “Brain Hacking: Why Social Engineering …show more content…

I know this because consensus means when everyone around you is doing something, you do the same. After all, you're unsure about what to do, so you just fit in with the people doing it. In the book The Crucible, when Abigail started to accuse the people of Salem, all the girls started to follow her in saying names of people in Salem that were a part of the witchcraft. Another example in the book is when people were being hanged some people started to shout with excitement so everyone else started to do it but towards the end, they stopped being excited about it because they realized that so many of their neighbors and friends were being killed (Ryan). In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller proves that the significance of reputation and the control of religion can be a good way to get people on the same page of doing what is right in their religion; however, it can also cause corruption to the people in a society. Miller uses the theme of the significance of reputation to show the repercussions of social engineering when people try to affect others' reputations and social status. Parris tells Thomas how they cannot assume witchcraft. We cannot leap to

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