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I don’t know everything about my family background but I do know that my heritage is Irish and French. My paternal ancestors were also Irish and French and owned an alcohol distillery. Throughout the eighteen hundreds and nineteen hundreds, there have been many social policies that have impacted and changed the lives of numerous individuals; all from various different backgrounds. While some policies assisted in helping the disadvantaged populations, others took freedom, independence, and civil…

Early in this story, the mother dies and she is surrounded by her three young children. The mother died because she was a drunkard and lost the control of her way and fell on a piece of wood placed beneath her door: “Idleness, sin, and drunkenness had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold and still aimed her wretched children. She had fallen upon the threshold of her own door, in a drunken fit and died in the presence of her frightened little ones” (1). Being jobless, the…

already tried to ban drinking from the United States because National prohibition of alcohol in (1920-33)—the “noble experiment”—was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. According to Evan Andrew "Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, in motive and far-reaching in purpose." It was an experiment after all, an experiment in…

In Europe, from 1450 to 1700 about half of the population were labeled as poor. To be considered poor one must have the bare minimum to be able to maintain life. The amount of people living in poverty increased, during times of war, famine, and plagues, up to eighty percent of a region’s population. In Europe between 1450 to 1700, the poor were approached in many different ways, based on other’s sympathy or disdains; these included compassion, intolerance, and appealing for disciplinary actions…

normal life. Her early childhood was rough. She suffered from a rare illness that almost blinded her eyes. Her mother died and left Anne and her two siblings to an abusive father. Luckily, Anne’s father abandoned them and left them to be placed in a poorhouse. Anne’s eyes still bothered her unbearably, and so she had a surgery that restored most of her eyesight. Later on, she got the opportunity to attend a real school, The Perkins Institute for the Blind. Constant bullying was a huge part in…

Alcohol has been corrupting human society for as long as human beings have been alive. In 2016, the surgeon general Doctor Vivek Murthy said, “I’m calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing. Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it’s one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.”(......) Alcoholism is a…

The universe; at first glance, it may seem so simple, but in reality, it is an intricate ideology. This bigger-than-life place inhabits, more or less, an astonishing one hundred billion galaxies! Of all of these galaxies, there is the beautiful and spirally Milky Way Galaxy, where if someone would look hard enough, may see our solar system. Out of all nine planets, there is the Planet Earth, and out of all seven billion people there are on Earth, there is you. Many people may not know, but…

Colonial Puritan philosophy regarding juvenile behavior was enacted into law, in 1646 Massachusetts passed the Stubborn Child Law, which created the first status offense which was an act considered illegal for minors only. Also, according to the common law, a youth under the age of 14 may or could be adjudged incapable of discerning right from wrong this appeared to the court and jury that he could discern between good and evil. These trials and punishments were based on age and any one older…

give her a thousand silver dollars as a remuneration for their hotel. She utilizes this cash to get herself a tobacconist's shop. Running the shop and staying "great" ends up being trickier than she envisioned, and the shop soon transforms into a poorhouse that pulls in vagrants, wrongdoing and police supervision. The play epitomizes the substances of the…

FDR brought the country hope, in a time when rarely anyone had any. 13 to 15 million Americans were left without the basic needs they required due to the massive layoffs of the Depression. Unsure of the future, American’s felt comfort in the leadership of FDR. A sense of hope and security grew within the minds of the American people during his presidency. Roosevelt’s policies and overall charisma allowed the country to trust his leadership and gain hope for the future of the nation. Americans…