N Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bridget Bishop, the first colonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being found guilty of the practice of witchcraft.
Trouble in the small Puritan community began in February 1692, when nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams, the daughter and niece, respectively, of the Reverend Samuel Parris, began experiencing fits and other mysterious maladies. A doctor concluded that the children were suffering from the effects of witchcraft, and the young girls corroborated the doctor’s diagnosis. Under compulsion from the doctor and their parents, the girls named those allegedly responsible for their suffering.
On March 1, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, became the first Salem residents to be charged with the capital crime of witchcraft. Later that day, Tituba confessed to the crime and subsequently aided the authorities in identifying more Salem witches. With encouragement from adults in the community, the girls, who were soon joined by other “afflicted” Salem residents, accused a widening circle of local residents of witchcraft, mostly middle-aged women but also several men and even one four-year-old child. During the next few months, the afflicted area residents incriminated more than 150 women and men from Salem Village and the surrounding areas of satanic practices.
In June 1692, the special Court of Oyer and Terminer ["to hear and to decide"] convened in Salem under Chief Justice William Stoughton to judge the accused. The first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem, who was accused of witchcraft by more individuals than any other defendant. Bishop, known around town for her dubious moral character, frequented taverns, dressed flamboyantly (by Puritan standards), and was married three times. She professed her innocence but was found guilty and executed by hanging on June 10. Thirteen more women and five men from all stations of life followed her to the gallows, and one man, Giles Corey, was executed by crushing. Most of those tried were condemned on the basis of the witnesses’ behavior during the actual proceedings, characterized by fits and hallucinations that were argued to have been caused by the defendants on trial.
In October 1692, Governor William Phipps of Massachusetts ordered the Court of Oyer and Terminer dissolved and replaced with the Superior Court of Judicature, which forbade the type of sensational testimony allowed in the earlier trials. Executions ceased, and the Superior Court eventually released all those awaiting trial and pardoned those sentenced to death. The Salem witch trials, which resulted in the executions of 19 innocent women and men, had effectively ended.
Answer:
The benefit cost ratio is 1.564
Explanation:
The benefit-cost ratio is the ratio of the present value of benefits to the present value of costs. It is thus calculated as follows.
Benefit-cost ratio = Present value of benefits / Present value of costs
Present value of costs = $20,000 + $2,500 (P/A, 10%, 10 years)
= $20,000 + $15,361
= $35,361
Present value of benefits = $9,000 (P/A, 10%, 10 years)
= $9,000 x 6.145
= $55,305
Benefit-cost ratio = $55,305 / $35,361
= 1.564
Answer:
Cost variance= 7 unfavorable
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Each bat requires 1 kg of aluminum at $18 per kg and 0.25 direct labor hours at $20 per hour. Overhead is assigned at the rate of $40 per direct labor hour. Assume the actual cost to manufacture one metal bat was $40.
Estimated cost= 18 + 0.25*20 + 0.25*40= 33
Actual cost= 40
Cost variance= 7 unfavorable
Answer:all of the above are Correct (D)
Explanation:
Real GDP is a macro economic statistics that measure the value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a specific period , adjusted for inflation. Government use both minimal and real GDP as metrics for analyzing economic growth and purchasing power over time.
Answer:
the value of imports increasing by more than the value of exports at the time of devaluation.
Explanation:
J-curve effect means the starting depreciation effect based on the balance of trade that should be negative also when the imports and the exports adjusted on the long run with respect to the changes made in the prices so the net effect should be positive
So as per the given situation, the above should be the answer
