Moonshine

When the book opens we are given visualization into futuristic Appalachia, now known as District 12. It is nicknamed The Seam, a town of cinder streets with squat gray houses. The men and women are mostly coal miners. The district was recently stricken by a mining explosion which took the life of the main character, Katniss’s, father. With District 12 in a food shortage the main mean for food is illegal hunting done by Katniss, and her best friend, Gale. This comparison of the…

From the words of our general,”I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” Seeing war and surviving to return home is just living in hell,so why have it…

This investigation will explore the question: To what extent did prohibition influence the organized crime bomb of the 1920’s through the 1930's in Chicago, Illinois? The research will mainly be focused between the 1920’s to 1933 to accurately analyses the role Prohibition had on organized crime throughout its duration. However, there will be further development into how Prohibition and the organized crime associated with it further shaped crime in the proceeding years. Edward Sullivan’s,…

there and shoot you....’” Usually younger men, these farm robbers would steal wood, crops, or even livestock. (Songer 29) Because of the loss of farms, unemployment continued to grow. With farm land failing, farmers turned to making and selling moonshine illegally. During the roaring twenties, a higher part…

The origins of alcohol production can be traced back to 6000 B.C., where it was produced in the forms of wine and beer to substitute clean water (“History…”). Due to the difficulty of hauling grain to markets, farmers were able to profit more from turning their crops into alcohol, rather than selling the grain at markets. The colonists’ main concern when coming to the new world was water sources (Lieurance). Therefore, alcoholic beverages were brought in mass quantities in order to substitute…

come from the law, was the horrible enforcement of it. Some areas enforced the law more than others. This lax enforcement made it possible for people to begin bending the amendment itself. People began making alcohol in their own homes, known as moonshine. People wanted their alcohol and they found any way to get it. Selling, making and buying alcohol, became one of the biggest illegal businesses in…

city, it has very famous museum namely Grande Prairie Museum built in 1970 which tells the story of town settlement. The city gives unleashing experience of beautiful natural setting in places like Muskoseepi Park, Saskatoon Island Provincial Park, Moonshine Lake Provincial…

Drinking Ages The second ranked most watched sport in the United States was started thanks to young bootleggers carrying illegal moonshine. Yes, NASCAR was born from families like the Hatfield and McCoy’s to the Dukes of Hazard, who modified their carts or cars to outwit and outrun the police. In most states the legal purchasing/drinking age in the US has been twenty-one ever since the ratification of the twenty-first amendment. In today’s culture when a kid turns eighteen they are expected to…

In the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, she conveys a number of themes throughout the story through Victor Frankensteins and other character’s actions. The themes displayed by Mary Shelley are Isolation and Idealism which caused eventually everyone’s downfall. Isolation is the true evil in Frankenstein. More than revenge, the monster wanted a companion to heal his pain of being alone and rejected. "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree;…

Think there is corruption in your town? Does it really grind your gears? Wish there was something you could do about it. Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest is just that, the safe way to immerse yourself in action of revenge to those low down crooks that have done you wrong. Set in the grime and greed of the 1930’s, Hammett’s Red Harvest, is worded in the vernacular of the times which brings out the Al Capone gangster out of every reader. The theme is a righteous blood bath staring a detective…