Rum

will attempt to further support the claim made by Tim Cook that rum was more than a drink, but a “medicine” for Canadian soldiers during the Great War. However, he asserts that prohibition was viewed as “patriotic” for those back in Canada. The dichotomous perspectives of rum and its necessity during the war is prevalent in the pieces by Cook and Thompson, as well as the primary documents consisting of letters sent home from soldiers that address and make mention of rum. The paper will argue the importance of rum as an integral part for maintaining morale of the soldiers within the trenches and the multiple, complex functions it served the soldiers overseas. Furthermore, the role of prohibition on the Home Front in Canada also provides…

“Do you wanna, do you wanna be, happy” “Intro” by J. Cole Forest Hills Drive The sixth shot of Grey Goose burned my throat as I forced it down. I gasped, then laughed at the girl who threw up next to me. “Such a lightweight,” Arianna laughed. I was accustomed to drinking rum with my family and had become great at holding my alcohol. Being Jamaicana had it’s perks. The drive back to The Waldorf Astoria Resort Boca Raton Resort, from the concert was crazy and I needed to enjoy myself. More J.…

near both water and trees, so Puddin would be the settlement for lumber making. Puddin would be the settlement for lumber mills, carpenters, and lumberjacks. The third settlement I created was Wifey, and I placed Wifey right by the water. The settlement Wifey was the settlement for storage because, from everything I have learned so far in history class and from this game, your economy and survive rate will not be good if you don’t have a place to storage the supplies you produce. My warehouse…

of mind, such as me lying in a beach chair. As I lay soaking in the comfort I let my left hand slide down my body and chair, leaving my hand to hit the ground of sand. I start to pick up small piles of sand, and let each partial run through my palm and fingertips. As I go through this motion, I get a sense of closure in life. I soon realize that I cannot hold on to everything in life, and I have to picture people and or events that are not meant to be in my life, need to leave and slowly…

Lastly, rum was also considered to be a necessity in terms of the social interactions it created, Cook describes the accounts of men that describe their first tot of rum as a “coming of age” initiation in to being a proper masculine soldier. The other aspect of social interactions built around rum are the other similar morale boosters including letters, cigarettes, parcels and food. He describes these as the “simple pleasures” for soldiers and were all part of the social structures and norms…

Have you ever been interested in the illegal rum running? This essay is going to give you a look into two families very in on the rum running business. The kids of these families might be young but they sure are important when it comes to the Black Duck and the rum running business. Jeddy and Ruben have always been good of friends. The boys are letting Rum running get in their way. Jeddy and Ruben are only 13 years old they should not even be involved with this situation. They found a body on…

The African Slave Trade brought Africans from all over their native land to the Caribbean, to the Americas, and to Eurasia. This map illustrates the sheer immensity of slave transport to South America, yet also displays the few slaves that were brought to Europe and Asia. This horrible trade allowed for millions of liters of rumbullion, a spirit that is now known as rum, to be spread throughout the world, from Barbados, where this unique spirit was created, to English ships, to the colonies.…

June 19, 1929- Gang of rum runners kidnap photojournalist, Horace Wild, for Border Cities Star. The following details come from an interview between Marty Gervais and Leon Wild, grandson of Horace Wild, and is found in Chapter 12 of Gervais’ book: The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook (2009). Gervais explains that Horace, his 16 year old son Noel, and two Star reporters went to a river in Amherstburg to take some photographs of bootleggers passing through. Approaching a dock by boat, the group…

Narrative As I’m driving towards the house my heart starts pounding and my palms start sweating. I’m driving down the driveway and I was so nervous that I almost couldn’t focus on driving. As I walked into the house I saw her and had to put on a fake smile and went and sat down. She did what she normally does and poured me a rum and coke, she gave it to me and went to sit down. Because I knew I would probably need the rum and coke before I say what I was gonna say I sculled it and got up to…

To begin with, prohibition revealed a number of flaws in Canadian society during the 1920s. First of all, prohibition was created due to the Temperance Movement Act which involved women who thought that it was alcohol that caused a variety of problems in everyday life. The reason why alcohol was abused before and during prohibition was mainly due to all the trauma veterans experienced during the fierce battles of World War One. Important to know, men old and young thought that alcohol is the…