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    intentions spread like wildfire and the organization quickly became nationwide in 1895. This group of Prohibition advocates was the most influential fight against drinking alcohol; even greater than the earlier Prohibition Party or the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement. As expected‚ a plethora of people in the United States were fairly aggravated by the notions congress supported. The people of the United States would not stand for the tyrant like acts; because it was illegal to produce‚ sell‚ transport

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    : In Book III Chapter 10‚ Aristotle begins to tell us his views on temperance or self-control. He sees temperance to be the virtue of the non-rational part of human beings. He believes that temperance is a mean concerned with pleasures‚ for it is concerned less‚ and in a different way‚ with pains (Aristotle‚ Nicomachean Ethics III. 1117B25-30). He distinguish pleasures of the soul from those of the body. Pleasures of the soul would be love of honor and of learning. Those who are concerned with those

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    Prohibition vs. War on Drugs Prohibition and the War on Drugs are not so different; both are useless and cause more harm than good to the economy. In time‚ as what was shown during Prohibition‚ this “war” will die out. Many “unions” were created to fight the consumption of Alcohol and is shown today for use of Marijuana. Prohibition and the war on drugs have also caused much unnecessary violence that could have easily been avoided if these items were just legalized. Prohibition was a black

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    If you were making or cooking tarantula juice or coffin varnish you would be making homemade liquor and alcohol. 7. If I was for Prohibition what two organizations would I want to join? If you were for Prohibition you would join the Woman’s Temperance Union & the Anti-Saloon League. Sources:

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    Temperance: Fruit of the Spirit Temperance means to restrain from or be absent from Through out the word of God men and women alike have been tempted. Some gave in and some refused. In every case there is a lesson to be learned. The Bible talks about sexual restraints. In the book of Ezekiel 18th Chapter it is a sin to look upon your neighbors wife in that manner or to touch a women during her menstruation. Intimacy should not be. Even for husbands and wives to restrain themselves

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    January 1919 and executed in January 1920. It banned the “manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors”. This amendment was the finishing touch of decades of realization and fulfillment by organizations such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League‚ and was also built upon the dry laws of eighteen states. The Prohibition Amendment had heavy consequences. It categorized the brewing and distilling of alcohol as illegal. It then went on and expanded state and

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    practices including the consumption of liquor. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti Saloon League Art Deco Poster were founded in the early 1800’s in response to the growing lawlessness in and around saloons. By later half of the 19th Century in response to the excessive immorality shown by saloon keepers in the Mid-West in which is now known as the Bible Belt‚ their long moral crusade known as the temperance movement gained it’s first victory. They spread like locusts within

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    Bones” is about a forensic anthropologist‚ Dr. Temperance Brennan. She is an expert at examining decomposed corpses. She is called to consult a murder because an Orthodox Jewish man was found shot in Montreal. She is a strong empowered woman. She sees that it is her job to restore the identity of the deceased. The Orthodox Jewish man’s body was found dismembered in the cupboard surrounded by cats. Unannounced‚ a stranger sneaks in and slips Temperance a photograph. The photo was of a skeleton at an

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    The American Temperance Society (ATS)‚ first known as the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance‚ was established in Boston‚ Massachusetts on February 13‚ 1826. The organization was co-founded by two Presbyterian ministers‚ Dr. Justin Edwards and the better-known Lyman Beecher. * Formation of the American Temperance Society marked the beginning of the first formal national temperance movement in the US. * The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and

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    Crossed Many leagues and Unions such as: It wasn’t needed. I should have started the sentence with Christian Temperance League. Including something that’s not necessary takes space and makes sentence less effective. Seneca Fall Convention? It was outside of the time period mentioned in the question. Instead I should have include that women were working towards ending lynching. Inalienable power? I am trying to say that women are no less than men and therefore the powers that men have should be equal

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