By: Heather Wear - PowerPoint Presentation

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By: Heather Wear

The History of ProhibitionSlide2

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury, is about a man named Montag, and how he realizes how unfulfilling his life as a fireman when he meets a young girl named Clarisse. He begins to steal books from work, where he would normally burn them, and brings them home to read. After the disappearance of Clarisse, the unexpected abandonment by his wife and the rash decision to kill his boss, Montag decides to leave town where he hopefully won’t be found out by the police. My second book, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, is a twisted tale about Alex, a fifteen year old boy, and his friends and the many illegal, immoral and cruel acts they perform. After Alex’s friends commit a mutiny sending Alex to prison, he undergoes a taboo treatment meant to “cure” the patient of violent and cruel behavior. Unfortunately, the treatment takes a turn for the worst making him hate music; something he has always loved. After being left for dead by his old friends, Alex seeks help at the house of a man he had once tortured, and even murdered his wife. Landing himself in the hospital, the government decided to reverse the treatment causing Alex to be right back to his old mindset.

My BooksSlide3

Prohibition of Bibles

http://pjcockrell.wordpress.com/category/the-persecuted-church/

http://digitaljournal.com/article/293233

http://www.discerningtheworld.com/category/all-keywords/democracy-majority-rule/Slide4

Bibles

Many countries around the world (approximately 52) ban the bible for various reasons. Depending on the country, the severity of punishment varies greatly, from merely taking away the contraband, to prison, torture and murder. The punishment used in Fahrenheit 451 is burning of the contraband. Firemen, who ironically start fires rather than put them out, would drench the contraband in kerosene where they then light the home on fire (houses being fireproof, so only contents would burn). Because of the hefty penalties depending on the country, smuggling in a creative and innovative way is always being sought out. For instance, just on the other side of the boarder of China, a group of people carefully create paper balloons with scripture written on it. They wait for the perfect time of day, wind patterns and weather, then let them float over the boarder where they meet secret Christians. Slide5

Prohibition of Alcohol

http://marymiley.wordpress.com/category/prohibition/

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html

http://redgables.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/spirits-new-hours-for-red-gables/Slide6

Although being arrested was the most common punishment, prohibitionists wanted other punishments to include: excluded from any churches, forbidden to marry, tortured, branded, tattooed, placed in a bottle-shaped cages in public squares or even forced to swallow two ounces of castor oil.

These punishments didn’t seem to phase smugglers as more and more alcohol was being smuggled across the boarder as the years went on. The prohibition of alcohol was expected to make crime rates plummet, yet it did the exact opposite. Violent crime rates as well as murder rates went up, meaning that prison population also rose. Due to the clear ineffectiveness of the prohibition, a repeal was made on December 5th, 1933. As the repeal was finalized, President Franklin Roosevelt declared “What America needs now is a drink.”AlcoholSlide7

http://factspy.net/10-most-bizarre-laws-from-around-the-world/

One Child Policy

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/one-child-policy-abortions-in-china-most-are-forced-21819-all.htmlSlide8

The One Child Policy was introduced to China in 1979, and is still in effect today. Although ‘punishment’ doesn’t really exist for this type of prohibition, families that are given a ‘One Child Certificate’ and do not hold to the promise of having no more children are often fined as well as the certificate being revoked.

The main controversy of the One Child Policy is that it leads to abandonment, murder, and abortion (counting for more than 75% of the world’s abortions). Males are favoured because they carry on the family name as well as being able to do hard physical labour. This creates an extremely uneven gender ratio. In order to regain balance in gender ratios, China promotes and supports families with one female child more so than families with one male child. One Child PolicySlide9

In Conclusion…

http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.ca/2011/03/gods-wife-edited-out-of-bible-almost.html

http://burnsidewriters.com/2010/02/16/the-christian-speakeasy/

http://prikol.bigmir.net/view/219857/