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Creative teaching on a budget

by Janet K. Tipton

Aids and devicesHandbooks, manualsTeachingImpressment in literatureSailors in literatureExecutions and executioners in literatureCapital punishment in literatureBilly Budd (Melville, Herman)

Billy Budd is a "handsome sailor" who strikes and inadvertently kills his false accuser, Master-at-arms John Claggart. The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, recognizes Billy's lack of intent, but claims that the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged.

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