Let it stand, however, as it is, and add to it 8,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits in the same year imported, and the quantity for home consumption amounts to 33,365,559 gallons. (Asbury 12) The report broke down these figures to obtain a per capita consumption for 1810, of four and seven tenths gallons
Prohibition struck a chord with many citizens, who believed it would transform America into 'a law abiding, pure and healthy country' by alleviating alcohol's destructive effects, such as crime, poverty and low productivity. (Bryce 37) The reasons for the development of the temperance movement are many and the degrees of the demands of temperance were many
Prominent psychologists and neurologists-more ominous even than Increase Matherhad declared that alcohol in any form was in fact a poison. (Clark 9) Yet, the extreme nature of acceptance of alcoholic consumption and its effects, coupled with the power of the "dry" rhetoric created a campaign unlike almost any other political movement
Although the party was never successful, their ideas spread throughout the country. (Krohn and Pyc 459) Prohibition was seen as a solution to all the problems facing a rapidly growing culture
But temperance advocates were not satisfied. (Kyvig 8) The sad and real truth of the situation was that there was a social problem in need of address, the family and the culture was at risk by their own hand and yet the legislation of morality rarely succeeds in creating real social change in the form of personal opinion
Underlying the insistence that liquor was fundamentally a municipal problem was the traditional aim of progressives to free the cities from their political entanglements with state legislatures, as well as the older temperance position that reform was best handled by local property interests. (Rumbarger 120) The reality of the problem even in the most well established of the American states was foundational
Already some of our cities are well-nigh submerged with this unpatriotic element, which is manipulated by the still baser element engaged in the un-American drink traffic and by the kind of politician the saloon creates. (Sinclair 9) The reality of the changing nature of alcohol consumption and desire, even before prohibition led to the downfall of many and to the devaluing of many localities and regions as the individuals within them spent a great deal of time impaired and ineffective in their projects and goals The toll that alcohol must have had upon social conditions was extreme and this resulted in an extreme response by the prohibition movement
Pegram goes so far as to say that, in the South, "prohibition was a doorway to a host of reforms that entailed expanded state regulation over personal liberty. " (Szymanski) The failed 18th Amendment marks a culmination of the fight between the individual and their own demons and desires and the fight between the local and national forces of social reform
this is and remains for ever intolerable to all men whom God has made. (Carlyle 1003) Carlyle defends the weaker in society by referring to Gurth from Scott's Ivanhoe
The first lines awaken our curiosity because we are pulled into a medieval and supernatural world. When the narrator asks, "O what can ail thee, knight at arms" (Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci 1), we are hooked into discovering the mystery of this beautiful woman
We see the medieval aspects of courage, loyalty, and Christianity in this poem. Catherine Phillips contends that the poet "knew an Italian version of the story of Elaine, which he used for 'The Lady of Shalott' and, traveling extensively in Wales, he collected local fables" (Phillips)
He writes that he finds in Venice, "the vitality of religion in private life, and its eadness in public policy. Amidst the enthusiasm, chivalry, or fanaticism of the other states of Europe, Venice stands, from first to last, like a masked statue; her coldness impenetrable, her exertion only roused by the touch of a secret spring" (Ruskin)
In Carlyle's "Past and Present," Smith states, "what must strike every one is, the manifest partiality Mr. Carlyle shows to the past, and the unfair preference he gives it over the present" (Smith)
The poem, "Idylls of the King" illustrates the poet's ability to capture and renew older legends and myths with a flavor all his own. Abrams notes that Tennyson realized that the Arthurian story had "epic potential and selected it for his lifework as 'the greatest of all poetical subjects'" (Tennyson qtd
Henry Williams agrees with Smith, adding that Carlyle uses "myth to point the idea of a chapter or a succession of chapters. Thus Midas and The Sphinx are chapter captions; in each case there is constructed an elaborate application to England" (Williams)
Is it about ordination? Is it an allegory on Regency England? Is it about slavery? Is it about the education of children? Is it about the difference between appearances and reality? Is it about the results of breaking with society's mores? Any or all of those themes can, and have been applied to Mansfield Park." (Austen
More precisely, "Austen's references to Antigua, though sparse, have rich and complex implications. Sir Thomas is a slave-owner, a category common enough amongst English gentlemen, but known through the propaganda campaigns as being capable either of comparatively humane behavior or of "Savage Murder," (Sturrock, 2006) Still, despite the fact that Fanny is a very religious person with high moral standards, she fails to consider slavery as a particular negative aspect of the society
.representing as she does, not open minded Christian charity, but an inflexible moral system which has little room for generosity and which gives her every opportunity for self deception" (Waldron, 1999)
It could not have been an easy decision to make. In his famous book Asylums, sociologist Erving Goffman points out that once a person went into an asylum, it was difficult to get out, so difficult that Goffman defined asylums as impermeable institutions (Curran, 2006)
In England, the Madhouse Act of 1828, provided for the First Middlesex County Asylum in Hanwell, West London to be built, but condition were poor there, too, and no treatment was offered (Psychiatric Hospital web site). After the 1845 Lunatic Asylums Act, most of England's counties and boroughs were able to build asylums from public monies to care for paupers who were mentally ill (Dowbiggin, 1997)