Presentations- Melissa Kelsey

It has often been said that great minds think alike. To prove this, Melissa's presentation concerned the theme of scapegoats. Apparently the subject makes for a very entertaining/engaging read, as Melissa stated that a search on the term revealed 39,000 books on Amazon.com and over 3.4 million sites on Google. And to further show how deeply the scapegoat has permeated our society, she handed out several comics and cartoons showing several poor bumpkins getting the tar scapegoated out of them. These visual aids also included the famous painting by William Holmon Hunt.

As a final note, Dr. Sexson also mentioned the French historian Rene Girard and his writings on the scapegoat mechanism.