Moonshine

Nathanael Price Mrs. Jackson Writing 25 Sept. 2015 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. The legal…

Willie Brown: Honey, I'm home. How was my day at work? Well let's just say that it was eventful. I'm only 65 years old I'm too old for this to happen. The FBI thinks that I'm allied with the gang leaders and corrupt politicians. Then the FBI thinks that they can just storm in my office and start taking files out of drawers and confiscate my computer, thinking that they will find something against me. Then, to think that I would keep that information in my work office. I’m smarter than that.…

stupid, or even redneck when in reality that is not the case. NASCAR, or the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, started out in the forties and fifties as bootleggers came together and raced their cars, which were souped up for running moonshine to see who had the fastest car. As more and more people found out about this sport, they started to come just to watch the races. Soon, NASCAR grew into the multi-billion dollar sport it is today.…

Shakespeare’s use of imagery related to the moon symbolizes tone changes throughout MSND. It plays such a key role that the workers include the moon, or Moonlight more specifically, as a character in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe. When the Moonshine says, “All that I have to say is to tell you that the lantern is the moon,” (Act 5.1.254-5) the irony shines through since that is all the moon has to say even though the moon is such an important image in MSND. Shakespeare ever so subtly…

Shakespeare at his time and to his day is known to have written for all audiences. Shakespeare’s writings are so simplistic that the most illiterate peasant can understand his plays, but at the same time make it complicated enough for the scholars and nobles. To this day Shakespeare’s writings hold up in academia as a tool of teaching understanding of words and roots, except the ideas of audiences from today and his time are far from the same. In Shakespeare’s writings it is easy to see how his…

A 1930’s people’s bandit or a bank robbing gangster? There are two sides to every story especially the tale of Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd. Countless Oklahoma locals during the late 1920s and early 1930s believed that Floyd was a hero due to accounts of him burning bank mortgages thus freeing native farmers of their debt. While he did generous things, his immorality outweighed his kindness, forcing officials and the criminal justice department to see him as “Public Enemy No.1”. Although…

doll on the stage is singing a humorous tune about how her lover left her for a good girl, who turned out to be another cabaret singer. Red faced men and women are chortling behind their hands, pretending to be shocked. I wave down a waiter. Cherry moonshine for the lady, plain soda water for the lady dressed as a man. I let Lily take a few sips to loosen her tongue, then I pull out yesterday’s…

retort. "All you do anyway is sit on that smelly chair and drink your life away." "What did you say to me boy? Get out there now!" "You don't care about where me and Olly are everyday, but you care so much about your stupid rations that land in your moonshine filled stomach. How about you go out and dig through the trash for our rations and support Olly and I, your kids!" I said, slamming the door shut of our shack. Olly and I walked onto the cold, dirty streets of the 3rd degree. I had given…

short supply. There were problems in the camps, to be sure. Nazi groups intimidated fellow prisoners not to work too willingly for their captors and encouraged work stoppages. Other discipline problems included the occasional slacker, the making of moonshine, and…

Why is it so easy to convince people just by using rhetoric language, or propaganda? In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals rebelled against Mr. Jones, at first to create an equal society, but slowly the pigs started to gain power, using propaganda and rhetoric language, especially napoleon and squealer. They turned the perfect, equal society into an unequal society, almost coming back to the point when Mr. Jones was here, just with a different leader. The pigs become like humans…