American Indian Movement

consumption for centuries (Rumbarger). Residents of the United States believed Americans would no longer be blessed and that ungodly and unscrupulous people of our society presented a threat to America 's moral and political system. To survive this threat people believed citizens needed to be more…

Vehemently debated in American history, the Prohibition Era affected many American lives during the 1920’s as the country reformed social and political principles. Despite the ban on alcohol throughout the nation the wealthy ignored the law and partied on, drinking carelessly without any worries or responsibilities. Liquor flowed into major cities in quantities greater than ever before, enticing the wealthy to continue their reckless behavior. Although the original purpose of the Eighteenth…

Prohibition - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Prohibition simply began as an idea of many groups of the time, primarily the Anti-Saloon League and the Women Christian Temperance Union (National Woman 's Christian Temperance Union). The idea of outlawing alcohol seemed to be a fantastic idea: Outlawing alcohol would completely remove it from circulation, and would make the people better as a society. However, what happened in actuality was the polar opposite. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald…

When Maoris expanded their tribal territories in Aotearoa, they gathered resources for trading purposes and began to make strong trading ties to countries around the world. This was essential to their survival and they became a strong economic power base due to the help from the British Government (Declaration of Independence, 2013). Declaration of Independence was created, in 1840, to form protections for their resources and provide leadership to citizens. This is because the country and…

Anne Moody’s “Coming to age in Mississippi” illustrates how the economic, and social injustices and fears that plagued her childhood in the rural south shaped her future as a leading advocate during the Civil Rights Movement. From her earliest memories Moody recognized the color of skin would dictate her finances. In the first chapter of her autobiography, moody describes the rickety shack her sharecropping family lived in when she was four, and how it “was up on the hill with Mr. Carters big…

who felt the taxing of alcohol was unfair. Another time period when the culture of alcohol changed was during the Industrial Revolution. During this time the view of alcohol changed from “good creature of God,” to “demon rum,” and the temperance movement started to emerge. Many organizations formed…

The stress of these issues caused men to drink excessively. They would get drunk every night in the pub and come home drunk to their families and sometimes abuse their family because of the level of drunkenness. This led to the creation of the American Temperance Society in 1826. Its members convinced people to stop drinking because if men were less drunk society would be better. The woman would work all day, watching the kids,…

Amaya and Federico Pino (2015) offer a slightly different lens on cruceño movement. Amaya and Federico Pino’s work could be interpreted as another story of lost hegemony, this time defining hegemony primarily in terms of development ideology. Nevertheless, this text breaks away from other interpretations as it conflates hegemony with development strategies. Instead of focusing on the indigenous/non-indigenous binary, Amaya and Federico Pino interpret hegemony as the two competing development…

My environmental background has helped me be in engaged conversations in the classroom. Environment is one my passions and I love when I find people who share that passion. I believe that treating our earth justly is important. Through this class, I have made that connection with humanity as well. I have learned humanity and the earth are two entities which are intimately related. However, before this class I did not see this connection. Therefore, many of my hours spent were focused…

In her paper, Good (2007) examines the links between TV viewing and attitudes about the natural environment (p. 365). Previous research from different parts of the World revealed that heavier TV viewers showed a lower degree of environmental concern and less interest in the natural environment than lighter TV viewers (p. 365) and that heavier TV viewers were more likely to be materialistic than lighter TV viewers (p. 366). Since previous research did not offer any explanation for the…