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1 Harrison, Katherine English 11B Prohibition People used to make their own alcohol and it was not legal at one time. The same has happened with marijuana and now they are both legal in California.​ Prohibition was the ban of alcohol sales in the United States. Prohibition has come a long way from stopping people from doing things in this country. There were a lot of historical events that lead us to where we are today, including a change in American Literature. People lost jobs, people were upset, they started selling alcohol​ ​illegally and people were put into jail because of it. The change in government is what changed the law. “A law was made to stop alcohol sales. It caused the United States to lose​ ​money and people lost jobs. Prohibition caused people to lose their jobs, it made people upset as the government changed the laws of alcohol sales in the United States. With the country mired in the Great Depression by 1932, creating jobs and revenue by legalizing the liquor industry had an undeniable appeal. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president that year on a platform calling for Prohibition’s appeal, and easily won victory over the incumbent President Herbert Hoover. FDR’s victory meant the end for Prohibition, and in February 1933 Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The amendment was submitted to the states, and in December 1933 Utah provided the 36th and final necessary vote for ratification. 2 Though a few states continued to prohibit alcohol after Prohibition’s end, all had abandoned the ban by 1966” (Editors, History.com, 2009). People seem to believe that there was importance in the events leading up to and after the banning of alcohol in the United States. Reverend Lyman Beecher preaches against the evils of alcohol. In 1812, Beecher took a stand against alcohol. He preached to the people in his area and wrote out 6 sermons on “intemperance” and they were translated into other languages and people heard his message around the world. Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in 1851. Thousands of signatures were gathered on a petition demanding the state legislature enact a law. Eliza Thompson led women in 1873 to sing hymns against alcohol in Visitation Bands to protest saloons and petition drug stores that filled prescriptions. People across the United States were banning together to stop alcohol sales because they were causing people to act badly and they were creating a mean society. Attempts to outlaw the use of alcohol in American history had not worked as planned. People started to lie about the sales of alcohol; it caused more harm than good. People were finding ways to make their own, leading to deaths. People were breaking more laws to find ways to get and make alcohol. There was no real benefit to the banning of alcohol sales in the United States; it caused more harm than good. "Then Prohibition came along, and that basically gave them an American Express black card," Kane said. "It subsidized criminal activity in this country" and “Yet there is a major difference between Capone's henchmen and the Mexican cartels: "The violence is not to the scale of what's going on in Mexico," Peck said” (McLaughlin, Eliott C., 2012). 3 The war on alcohol united people in ways that caused more problems in the United States. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” National prohibition. The temperance movement brought religion into the mix. People got their way, but it wasn’t right for everyone. Laws were put into effect, but they didn’t really work for everyone, everywhere. All things come to an end. In this case, prohibition also had to end. For marijuana it was the legalization that made it change for people, jails and the states government. Laws are put in place, but they are broken. Not enough room in the jails to house these minor infractions. There are many things that worked in the past, but they aren’t working today. There are new laws, new people, and a new way of life. What is the real cause of the problem? What can people do to make things better? In my research, I found it interesting that people were making their own alcohol and it was not legal at one time. The same has happened with marijuana and it is now legal in a lot of states. According to Pro Con.org, medical marijuana is legal in 33 states and for recreational use in 10 other states. ​People have taken steps to legalize marijuana. There are places today you can buy marijuana legally in many states in the United States. This seems to be profitable for states that are allowing the legalization of marijuana. States are benefiting from the legalization of marijuana as they did from the legalization of alcohol. People all over the country decided they had more thoughts and more feelings when they drank. They became more ambitious when they drank, they used this time to go out and dance 4 and have fun. They also used this time to write stories. In the book “Spirit of Defiance”, the author writes about this, “Drowne examines a wide range of American literature including works by William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Claude McKay, Sinclair Lewis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Upton Sinclair. Grounding her study in social, cultural, and literary history, she investigates how these and other authors’ politically charged accounts of life during the “Dry Decade” reflected the many ways Americans responded to the legal, social, and cultural changes wrought by National Prohibition” (Hmm, 2019). “By making alcohol forbidden, Prohibition increased its appeal for American writers. Writers are outlaws” (Flavorwire, 2015). This author talks about the reason why American Literature changed and what caused it in her book. It shows that writers were affected by prohibition, it changed the way they wrote, and it changed what they wrote. It seems like authors felt like they had more freedom in their writing. It is like they were using their writing to tell people all over what was going on. They used this as a way to express themselves and to get things out in the open for other people to know about. Prohibition has come a long way from stopping people from doing things in this country. There is a long history of events that lead us to where we are today. People did not benefit from the legalization of alcohol. If things got so bad, I don’t understand why drugs or alcohol would be legal. I think there are a lot of things we could have done differently to change the outcome of the legalization of alcohol, marijuana and peoples spiritual defiance in literature. 5 Works Cited 1. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopedia. “Prohibition.” ​Encyclopedia Britannica,​ Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 3 Aug. 2018, www.britannica.com/event/Prohibition-United-States-history-1920-1933. 2. Editors, History.com. “Prohibition.” ​History.com​, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition. 3. Sandbrook, Dominic. “How Prohibition Backfired and Gave America an Era of Gangsters and Speakeasies.” ​The Guardian​, Guardian News and Media, 25 Aug. 2012, www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-prohibition-gangsters-speakeasies. 4. Sanneh, Kelefa. “Prohibition and the Penal State.” ​The New Yorker​, The New Yorker, 31 July 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/drunk-with-power. 5. “Unintended Consequences .” ​PBS,​ Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences/​. 6. McLaughlin, Eliott C. “Marijuana Advocates Hope to Rise from 'Prohibition'.” ​CNN,​ Cable News Network, 4 Dec. 2012, www.cnn.com/2012/12/01/us/marijuana-legalization-and-prohibition/index.html​. 6 7. “33 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC.” ​Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?,​ 2019, medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881. 8. Hales, Taylor. “Prohibition Literary Analysis .” ​Prohibition - Literature Analysis,​ 2004, umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/prohibitionlit.html. 9. Hmm. “The Ohio State University Press.” ​The Ohio State University Press,​ 2019, ohiostatepress.org/books/Book%20Pages/Drowne%20Spirits.html. 10. Flavorwire. “How Prohibition Turned American Writers Into Drinkers: From Susan Cheever's 'Drinking in America'.” ​Flavorwire​, 14 Oct. 2015, flavorwire.com/542656/how-prohibition-turned-american-writers-into-drinkers-from-susan -cheevers-drinking-in-america. 11. Unknown. “Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature | Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.” ​Origins​, 2019, origins.osu.edu/review/spirits-defiance-national-prohibition-and-jazz-age-literature. Mending Wall by Robert Frost In this poem about the Mending Wall, Frost seems to be talking about the relationship people can have with barriers. The theme is keeping people away from each other. It seems to be about people who are trying to stay away from each other and keep their own space. Some people try to stay private and don’t like people in their lives. Even if there are barriers, people can still meet somewhere in between and have a conversation. An example of this is in line 4 “And makes gaps even two can pass abreast”. I think he is referring to a place in a wall where people can stop to talk, a whole in the wall. There is conflict in this story. As he continues with his wall, he begins to talk about “But at spring mending-time we find them there.” Even if, as he says earlier, “The work of hunters is another thing”, he is still talking about a relationship people have with each other. I think he is talking about how people can work together to build a wall, only to break down the barriers it might create. If people have conflict and can’t work together, there will be problems for them. The setting is the countryside in a small town. A wall has plenty of purposes. The most often use of a wall is to create a barrier between two places, sometimes between two people. Frost talks about how rabbits and yelping dogs might find a place at a wall. It creates an image in your mind about what he is talking about. He finds ways to give you information about a place with his words. As people find that they have more in common in this small town, they can use their area and space to stop their conflict. So the setting and the plot of the story come together. All of these ideas come together through personification, metaphor and similes throughout the story. Frost makes good use of words to express the way people feel about their neighbors and the places around them. What some people might see, others might not. Frost mentions “There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard.” Maybe he is referring to how people might want to stay on their own sides of their wall or keep their space. People have different interests and different ways to keep themselves happy. They don’t always have to come together. I think that Frost brings a lot of the parts of writing together in his stories. I think this one especially brings parts of speech together with conflict, symbolism in a lot a places and through the characters. Maybe mending the wall is what people should be doing in order to get along. Maybe people should work harder at their relationships. Frost goes on to say, “Good fences make good neighbors”. He also finishes with this line. I think this is important because it is true. If you aren’t going to be a good neighbor, you aren’t going to have a good fence. If you aren’t willing to work with your neighbor, you won’t have a happy life. 45. Respond in a paragraph. Answer is written in complete sentences. (16 pts)Choose any two (16 points) characters studied in Semester B, and compare them to one another. The characters that you choose may be characters in a story or the narrators of poetry or nonfiction. How are these characters similar? How are they different? How do you think these characters might interact if they had the opportunity? How do you think they would act if suddenly transplanted to the twenty-first century? Be sure to include direct references to the traits of the characters learned through the stories. Select the link to access the English Essay Rubric. 46. In English 11 you have studied literature from the 1920s through the 1980s and learned about (16 points) how American society changed over that time period. Write an essay about how the literature of America has changed over time, as seen in this semester's readings. You should select 4 important pieces of literature that you have read and use them to show how literature reflects history, as well as how literature reflects changes or events throughout history. Be sure to include a brief summary of the historical time periods for each piece. Consider elements such as theme, style, and tone in your analysis. Select the link to access the English Essay Rubric.
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Two authors that were covered in Semester B are Katherine Harrison and Robert Frost.
One key aspect that the two characters have is that their work usually majors on social issues
such as social interactions, conflict, unemployment among others. They focus on how these
aspects implicates the society. However, one key difference between the two authors is that
Harrison wrote novels w...


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