Mr. John Hardison
American Literature (Honors)
16 November 2012
Is it really a question of prohibition or self choice?
Ones have raised their hands
voluntarily to protest or to praise what they have built just from their
dreams. If their morals could withstand the trials faced by all through war, a
depression, and self-mutilation due to the mere feel of losing prosperity, then
why must those who they held close as their own try them once more? Prohibition
is degrading the economy by starving the pockets of the people and making them
loses their sense of being. They as well felt the lack of the spirits and the
freedom that the people pleaded for. Other great men have spoken on the same
behalf of this belief that prohibition is un-American. As a man by the name
Thomas Paine once said, "He that stands now, deserves the love and the
thanks of men and women... yet we have this consolation with us, that the
harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." (Paine 160) As well as
a man named Benjamin franklin once said, “Beer is proof that god loves us and
wants us to be happy.” How great those spoken words were we must show thanks
along with honoring the will of people such as those two by following in the
steps they rightly took for us. For they opened the life we have now as we know
it.
Do we not wish for our own will to triumph as
well? This right to hold our self-accountable and have that drink is like our
voice and we need to cherish it as so. The second it is silenced we are lost to
everyone because time displaces all memories, but only a legacy can stand among
the news of that day and show the truth felt in some men’s hearts. Please go to
the unknowing and tell your story now, not the things of the day but our
reasoning for what we keep holding to. Then stand here and tell me that we all
have the right to our own choice and the prohibition shouldn’t be just an able
bodied man’s choice.
Is it not our own individual rights that give
us the chance to bring up our voice and to show the one true strength that in a
good fight could not ever be choked out? The establishment of America and its
way consist of finding what we cherish and creating the path to obtaining that
dream. For if you place the cup in the hand of the thirsty will he not drink,
also if you place a cup in the hand of the satisfied man will he not refuse. As
Americans we are the voice of our own reason the one that should decide whether
we are allowed as long as we are at the control of our own body with an acceptably
sound mind. Let me just ask you this, would you allow a master piece to be
ripped apart or a child unprotected or a danger unchecked? Then why would we
leave our selves vulnerable to an internal attack? The strong are the ones who
reach down and pick up the lowly. Let me hear it now are we all here strong or
are we going to hide on the crutch of another man’s possible wavering wills! “I
have no fear… For our motives are presently misunderstood.” (King jr. 180) Rights are given to the takes so i ask you now to take for yourself.
If you would please leave a comment and tellhow the following things are:
1. How was my thesis?
2.Was it supported well?
3. How was the resolution?
4. What are my strengths and weaknesses?
5. What is your opinion?
Thank you for reading your feedback will be greatly
appreciated, good day.
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