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Past and Present Social Change and Prohibition

a considerable surprise that Prohibition was not readily supported by women. This historical event of the 1920s marked a period w...

Social Movement and Law Enforcement

In five pages this paper examines how social movement and law enforcement are related as it pertains to the power theory with issu...

Historical Overview of Racism in California/1850 to World War II

its sweatshops while the lush farmlands of California had vast farming and cattle empires that depended on equally vast numbers of...

Prohibition and the Growth of Organized Crime

It was during this time in the United States when Prohibition first opened the door for crime families to take over the illicit li...

Western Australia's OSHA The Occupational Safety And Health Act (OSHA) In Western Australia

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Act of Western Australia in a consideration of such topi...

Elephant Ivory and the 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

just one small purchase wont make a noticeable dent in the problem. But of course, when this is multiplied times the number of pe...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

Native Americans and Religious Evolution Over a Century

The full circle evolution of Native Americans in terms of religion during the past century is examined in this paper consisting of...

Defense of Marijuana Legalization

grasp the notion that continuing to prosecute marijuana users is doing nothing to ease the problem. "As demonstrated, the current...

3 Speeches and the Uses of Rhetoric

In six pages this paper analyzes how rhetoric is used in three speeches delivered by President Bill Clinton including 'We're Losin...

The Rhetoric of Addresses in Politics

In a paper containing six pages three separate speeches 'We're Losing the Drug War because Prohibition Never Works,' 'President's ...

Hodding Carter III's Speech 'We're Losing the Drug War because Prohibition Never Works'

This speech addressing the 'war on drugs' is analyzed in terms of speaker rhetoric effectiveness in five pages. There are no othe...

Panhandling, Free Speech, and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...

Child Labor Conditions and Government Policy in India

numbers unknown which is why the estimates vary. Regardless of the reports however, the child labor and bonded industries continue...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

U.S. Prohibition Movement from 1920 to 1933

per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furtherm...

A History of American Organized Crime

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

Lessons Learned From The Failure of Prohibition

enhancing family life, and creating a safer society, crime increased. There is a great deal of evidence to show that organized cri...

Government Prohibition of Tobacco Advertising and its Youth Impact

al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...

Post September 11 Elementary Schools in New Jersey

with the family. Of course, the other side of the coin is that this event is the first time--aside from Pearl Harbor--that America...

U.S. Family Impact of Prohibition

capita per year by those Americans that were considered of drinking age (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Obviously, alcohol con...

US Cities Prohibition of Alcohol Sales as 'Unconstitutional'

Increasingly, cities within otherwise "wet" areas seek to prohibit the sale and use of alcohol within specific areas of these citi...

Intoxicants and Islam

This direction is sometimes general in nature yet it can be applied to specific components of our world. Other times this directi...

Police Administration and Organizational Management IV

"Court of Appeals erred in concluding that employers are always automatically liable for sexual harassment by their supervisors." ...

Prohibition: Pros and Cons

the cities themselves. Evangelist Billy Sunday preached a sermon about the evils of alcohol in 1920. Among other things, he said...

Evaluating the Pros and Cons of Prohibition

that it controlled a bipartisan majority of more than two-thirds in each house of Congress by 1916" (Lacey, 2005, p. 45). The arg...

The Disappearing Middle Class

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Deliver Us from Evil by Norman Clark

one does with their own bodies is no one elses business. Those battles are fought today, but not over alcohol. That is what makes ...

Government and The Economy

influence on the American economy, exceeding that of the federal government (Mandel and Dunham, 2006). Just a decade ago, the U.S....