Carrie Nation

When Carrie Nation moved to Kansas in the 1800s, no one ever expected her to be the second coming of the devil. Though Carrie Nation worked in our Civil War and helped our soldiers, what she did after was nobody’s guess. Heinous, Malicious, Blood-Loving, are just a few of the words that epitomize Carrie Nation. Paired with her border line lunatic methods, Carrie Nation has taken the United States as a hostage. In our free market country, Carrie nation has imposed a totalitarian war upon Salon owners and just about anyone else in that vicinity. She does not discriminate; anyone who stands against her has yet to be seen again. She kills and then thinks. With her Satan-loving followers, who refer to her as “Mother Nation”, she has caused a great blow not only to the economy but also to the well being of many do-good and church-going citizens. However, instead of a pitch fork used by the devil, Carrie…

land? How is justice served then? Carrie A. Nation would answer that question with the swing of her hatchet. Living in the wake of World War One, on the front of the temperance and women’s rights movements, Carry A. Nation led a radical resistance to alcohol and misogyny, showing true leadership through her bold actions. It is in the roots of an individual’s life that their motivations and principles can be understood. Carrie Nation, or Carry A. Nation, was born on November 25, 1846 in…

Introduction of Prohibition Prohibition was introduced to all American states apart from Maryland in 1920. Prohibition was the banning of alcohol; you could be arrested for sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol. There were many factors that influenced the introduction of prohibition, One of the main factors was the temperance movements two examples of this were the anti-saloon league and Women’s Christian temperance movement. The temperance movements…

During the nineteenth century alcohol consumption in the United States had reached an all-time high. Eighteenth century advancements in technology and agriculture made the distillation of spirits easier and cheaper. Furthermore, the abuses of the industrial revolution provided reasons for workers to overindulge in drink as a means of easing their pains (Prohibition). It became quite evident that drink was becoming a problem of the nation. Richard Hamm, author of “Prohibition and Temperance” in…

In 2013, Kimberley Pierce directed a remake of Brian De Palma’s horror film classic Carrie. The arrangement stays the same, but by using a little modernization, additional character development, and new scenes here and there, Peirce essentially reinvents the same familiarity while making the film her own. Pierce jettisons the focus off of Carrie’s tumultuous relationship with her mother and puts a microscope on Carrie’s desire to fit in. While Brian De Palma’s version focuses on the sexual…

using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female protagonist as…

Director Kimberly Peirce reimagines the classic story of Carrie, a highschool teenage girl who is tormented by the entire senior class. Given the excellenct casting of Carrie as well as her mother Margret, this movie delievers effects which the original wasn't able to support in it's time. Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) portrays the role of Carrie White, giving us a satisying performance which by the time the movie is over, your happy that little vampire girl from 'Let me In' ended up landing the…

Two Source Analysis Essay Carrie Nation and Saloon Culture Lillian Stephens HIS 202 Man’s vices have always plagued progression; whether it be sex, drugs, or sin- there will continuously be temptation. The beginning of the twentieth century was no different, with alcohol running rampant in shady saloons, there was a constant invitation to immoralities. Wanting to abolish these depravities, America began to introduce the prohibition of alcohol. Carrie A. Nation coined her name in her name in her…

dichotomy of the virgin vs. sex kitten, innocent vs. deviant, pure vs. impure female image and the religious undertones that drive this binary. This film does, however, stray from what feminist theorists have called the “male antagonist,” as Carrie acts as both the antagonist and protagonist in this film. On the contrary, Carrie does fit the virgin profile while other females in the film fit the sex kitten profile. In order to better understand the reflective theory in the context of this film,…

Carrie is a book by Stephen King and the book was banned because it was a violent, and had a sexual themes in parts of the book. Carrie is a just teenage girl and is trying to get by in school. She has these telekinetic powers and she barely found out about it. She does not know how to control her powers. There was an incident when she was little, she cause a rain storm to occur when it was sunny. The sad part about her life is that she has this psychopath mother who hurts and abuse Carrie…