...life there have been many occasions to get absolutely whiskey bent. You know, to wake up and essentially set the goal to get black out drunk with nothing but bourbon and cheap smiles in mind. Knowing my whiskey habit, my 21st was set to be a momentous day in whiskey drinking’s fantastic history. On my 21st I blacked out at 930 and didn’t get home till 2am (last sighting at least). Apparently in my stupor (like I said, it was a great day for whiskey drinking and I put on a clinic) I invited two different girls over to my house on my walk home with my friends from the bar. It really was a great birthday, I got really drunk all day all over the place so I remember very little in nothing but fragmented blurs. And oh yeah, the only bad part was that my house got robbed latter that night. This is what I do remember: I woke up wide-awake at 7:30 am so dehydrated that I could barely move or open my eyes. I’m fully dressed with my shoes still on, laying face down on top of the sheets with my contacts in and everything on my nightstand had been thrown across the floor. Jolted awake by the harsh reality of morning, I began to try to remember what happened the night before but I can’t get past that familiar yet fine taste of bourbon that has come to welcome me in the morning as often as the sun’s light. My next move seems obvious. I should go down stairs, get wicked high and chug water to recover and start to piece together the night. Once I got downstairs I saw that my bong was missing...
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...management and worked last year in her family's restaurant. Recently, Juanita's parents died, and the last will and testament named Juanita as manager of the restaurant. Her older sister, Carmen, had expected to be named manager, as she had worked almost eight years in the business and put up with their mother's abusive personality for the sake of the family and the business; without Carmen's help the business would not have made it, and Juanita would not have been able to finish school. To soothe her feelings, Juanita made Carmen night manager, but then demoted her back to waitress. Carmen is not happy with the new situation, and started drinking heavily when she was passed over. Juanita has now managed the restaurant well for one year and believes that her sister Carmen has an alcohol addiction problem. Carmen misses work relatively frequently, and her breath smells of whiskey even during work hours. One night after work, Carmen was drinking whiskey and cola and talking to Juanita at the bar while Juanita was counting receipts. When Carmen got up, she spilled her drink, and then slipped on the spill, hurting her back severely. Now Carmen has sued the restaurant for negligence. Juanita was astounded when she received notice of the suit but was even more surprised at what the other siblings said when told of the situation: "You know mom gave you the job just because Carmen was the only one who stood up to her! It was mom's last misdeed, and now you are perpetuating that...
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...Moonshine in Appalachia: A Constant Thread in the Tapestry of Mountain Life My sister recently shared with me a little known fact of our grandparents’ lives in Kentucky as young parents. They were involved in the illegal manufacture and sale of alcoholic spirits, also known as moonshining (Brown). Having known our grandparents to be very peaceful, law abiding citizens in their elder years, I find this revelation of illegal activity oddly fascinating. I want to understand how and why our grandparents got involved in moonshining which is a key element of our family’s heritage as Scottish immigrants to the United States. The production of illicit whiskey has been an integral part of American history since the early days of our country. Stiff taxation of alcohol and ingredients for the manufacture of alcohol by the British government angered colonists who were seeking economic freedom (Carr 16). Having then gained their freedom from taxation without representation from the British government, US citizens were furious when the fledging government imposed a tax on home distilled spirits (Carr 20, Abramson and Haskell 413). This began a long term battle between the United States government and her citizens over the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol (Carr 20). In order to understand how my grandparents came to be involved in this battle over the home production of liquor, we must examine the history, culture and economy of Appalachia as it pertains to moonshine. Some...
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...Jack Daniel’s International Strategy: By sticking to Its Homespun, Down-Home Story, the Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey Has Increased Sales at Home and Abroad In the United States Jack Daniel sales showed no growth in the 80s and 90s; the only growth was for premium and superpremium whisky (Pearce and Robinson 2009). The company realized that generation X & Y did not have the same taste as the baby boomers; therefore, they need to change their strategies. Jack Daniel came up with a strategy to target younger crowds who surprisingly preferred the premium taste of Jack Daniel in overseas markets. In order to implement their strategies Jack Daniel had to conduct an internal and external assessment of the company. Although the company had already been selling whisky globally, their assessment would be in how to reach a younger audience before entering the niche market. Jack Daniel needed to assess their internal factors such as advertising and marketing strategies for targeting youth in other countries. For example, sponsoring concert events and placing ads that would attract the Chinese or London’s youth. External factors that Jack Daniel needed to assess were where they were planning on placing these marketing ads and how will their whiskey reach youth in other countries. Jack Daniel has a super strong brand story that has proven to overcome any overseas backlash. The whisky story comes from small town USA; giving them visual advantage of how Whisky should be made. Marketing...
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...am here to study the culture and importance of Scottish food. Scottish cuisine is very distinct and unique, usually based off of traditional foods. For example, a very simple Scottish traditional food is porridge. Porridge should be thick and wholesome not slimy like gruel. Porridge must be cooked with salt to get the right flavor. Those eating porridge outside Scotland have been known to cook it without salt and instead eat it with sugar or even syrup, which is a habit which would turn the stomach of any Scotsman. Scotch whisky (or simply "Scotch") is the best known Scottish drink. Scotch whisky is distilled from barley liquor and flavored with peat tainted water. There are two types of whiskey, Malt whiskey which is more expensive and comes from a single distillery, and Blended whiskey which is cheaper and more popular, comes from multiple distilleries. The national dish of Scotland is Haggis. Haggis is made from lamb’s offal mixed with suet, onions, herbs and spices, all packed into a skin bag traditionally, made of a sheep’s stomach. Haggis is often served with mashed potatoes and mashed swede or turnips. The country of Scotland has foods that are very different than that of American cultural foods, yet there are some similarities for example salmon. Scotland is famous for its fish game and...
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...A DEFENDANT’S MEDIATION STATEMENT Name: Institution: Date: Opening Statement for the Defendant (Mediation). 1. Parties attending the Mediation Case a. The plaintiff, Carmen L. b. The defendant, Juanita Solis. c. Ms close Jones, a key witness d. Mr. Dennis Watson, a key witness 2. Brief Summary of Facts The plaintiff and the defendant are sisters. The plaintiff was drinking whiskey and cola as she talked to the defendant. She spilled whiskey and slipped when she got up. As a result of the fall, Carmen suffered a severe back injury. The plaintiff commenced this mediation case suing the restaurant of negligence. The siblings of the defendant have also raised alarming claims against the defendant. They claim that being given the job by their mom was a misdeed and that the defendant is ripping the family apart. The sources of these happenings are strongly attributed to the lat will left by the parents of the parties. The plaintiff expected to be named as the manager of the restaurant because she has worked in the business for around eight years. Following, the pass over, the plaintiff resolved to heavy drinking of alcohol the circumstance leading to the accident. 3. Claim and defense to counter the claim The plaintiffs claim lies on the basis that the restaurant was negligent. However, the defendant disputes these claims as the circumstances underlying the accident solely lie on the responsibility of defendant as confirmed by the summary of facts...
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...perfect. The parents-in-law live at a nice place with perfect surroundings and the two motorbikes indicate that the family is quite wealthy. But this perfect picture ends fast. On the second day of their visit the boyfriend crashes on his motorbike. She holds the horn down so his parents will come out and help, but he pushes her hand away and tells her that holding the horn down just will scare them. She says that she is sorry and he replies: “You can stop apologizing. I’ve heard it enough”. The fact that he says he has heard it too much, shows that he probably has had a lot of disappointments in his life before and therefore he has heard those words many times before. At night when everybody is asleep she sneaks outside to drink whiskey of her shampoo bottle. She uses a shampoo bottle instead of a real whiskey bottle to hide her abuse. But at the same time she says that she doesn’t’ care if her boyfriend detect it. On the one hand she hides it, but on the other hand she doesn’t. In the morning he smells it on her skin, and he rolls away from her. “I specifically asked you not to bring liquor into my parents’ house” he says. This shows that she doesn’t have a problem about drinking in front of him, and that he’s obviously aware of the problem since he tells her not to bring liquor. After breakfast when she clears the dishes, his mother whispers: “You’ll break his heart”. This...
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...“Welcome to Jefferson, Tobe,” Mr. Grierson said. I was going to work for him and his daughter, Miss Emily Grierson, to be their servant. The first few years have been great. When Miss Emily turned fifteen, something changed. Many interested boys would come around to visit her, and Mr. Grierson did not like it. “Go get my horse whip now!” he shouted. “Yes sir,” I replied. It was a long brown stick of leather used to scare away Miss Emily’s boyfriend. Get started from here! No more seeing my daughter!” he yelled. Miss Emily didn’t even move, she knew she couldn’t stop him. I could see the look of shame on her face. I truly felt bad for her. Every night I comfort her. “Miss Emily, you know he’s just trying to protect you, he doesn’t mean to hurt you,” I...
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...home one evening. A strong bond of love and playfulness between father and son is shown thru Roethke’s recollection of personal childhood memories. The poem takes place at the family’s home on a quiet evening. The father comes home after a hard day’s work which is where Roethke states, “With a palm caked hard by dirt” (line 14) suggests that the father is a blue collar hard working man who provides for his family and puts the food on the table every night. Since he works so much and does not want to come home bitter and exhausted and complain about his long day, he rewards himself with a bit of alcohol. The speakers reveals, “The whiskey on your breath, Could make a small boy dizzy” (1-2). One might get the impression that the father came home drunk out of his mind, but what those two lines say to me is after having a drink or two, or maybe he drank at home, he was in such a good mood that he started waltzing with his son. Also since the father was such a hard worker and most likely was a big fellow, his son mentions the whiskey breath which would be too strong for him but does not make him seem like a drunk. Now that the father is home and sees his family, he starts waltzing around the living room with his little boy. The father is moving quite fast for the little boy which is why Roethke notes, “But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy” (3-4). The waltz itself represented the father and son relationship that they shared which even thou it was not perfect due to...
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...poem that expressed a son’s love for his father, despite his father’s alcoholism and abusive ways. Although the poem states playful interactions between the father and son, the majority of the poem focuses on the father’s drunken aggression towards the boy. After discussing the poem in class, I realized, it is about a young boy, remembering a night with his father when they danced around the house aggressively. With this analysis, there is no intentional abuse on the father’s part, yet there is clear evidence of alcoholism, (“The whiskey on your breath”). Now I believe the poem is about that of my second interpretation, but both interpretations are satisfactory. There is a wide amount of evidence that, “My Papa’s Waltz,” is the story a young boy revealing the trouble he has lived through with his alcoholic father, while still possessing a great love for his dad. The boy would then be the narrator of “My Papa’s Waltz” and thus the son of an alcoholic father. It is easy to focus on the physical abuse, and anger the father has, which was targeted at the boy. In the first line of the poem, the son is speaking to his dad and says, “The whiskey on your breath/could make a small boy dizzy.” The son is telling his father, that his drinking is a problem, and the boy is worried. In the next line, he says, “But I held on like death: such waltzing was not easy.” Apparently, the thoughts here are aiming towards abuse. The son is telling his father, that he struggled to survive (mentally...
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... They had nine children. He was their forth, born January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. This is where he attended Public School 7 from age 5 to 14 until an incident with his 6th grade teacher, he gave her a beating and was then beaten and expelled by his principal, never to return. Beatings were a typical form of punishment for public school in this age and young Al was known to challenge authority. Expelled from school and transplanted to a different neighborhood, Capone met notorious criminals like; Johnny Torrio and Lucky Luciano when he joined two street gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Within a few years he was regularly involved in organized crime. Capone worked at a night club called the Harvard Inn for the crime boss Frankie Yale. One night at the Harvard Inn, Capone insulted a young woman which led to fight. The brother of the woman gave Al a beating and a new nickname “Scarface”. This incident also led to Capone’s first arrest “disorderly conduct”. Al met Mary “Mae” Coughlin, a young Irish woman at a dance in 1918. It must have been a tumultuous, whirlwind of a romance because she gave birth to their son Albert “Sonny” Capone on December 4th, 1918 and then they married on December 30th, 1918. Capone was the prime suspect of two murders and the brutal beating of a rival gang member that led to an extended hospital stay. Frankie Yale knew that the gangster code would prevent any witnesses from coming forward but he wanted the heat to...
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...democracy, where the common people had the power. Republicans were usually farmers or small landowners. Proclamation of Neutrality/Citizen Genet: In 1793, France and Great Britain went to war, and the U.S. declared neutral in the Proclamation of Neutrality. (Technically, they were France’s ally, but they also needed important British supplies, so they stayed neutral.) However, French diplomat Edmond Genet wanted to change that. He arrived in America, ignored the Proclamation of Neutrality, and began setting up ports to help French ships. He also encouraged people to help the French in the war. Washington, irritated, demanded he be recalled to France. Whiskey Rebellion: One of the ways Hamilton wanted to get more money to pay off the war was the Whiskey excise tax. In 1794 in Western Pennsylvania, a group of farmers refused to pay the whiskey tax and terrorized tax collectors. Washington gathered an army of 15,000 men, brought them to Philadelphia, and the rebellion collapsed almost immediately. This rebellion proved that the new government could efficiently solve these kinds of problems. Jay’s Treaty: The United States was angry at Britain because England still had some troops camped out West; they were assaulting American ships, and still would not trade with the U.S. because of the Revolutionary War. Washington sent John Jay to England in 1794 to solve problems and make a treaty. He did not accomplish exactly what he was asked, but Jay’s Treaty did give America the whole Northwest...
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...Dulce et Decorum Est I looked at the medals laid before me then took a swig of whiskey and gazed upwards. Looking back at me was once a soldier, never a hero. He was a noble figure that children looked up to. I was never such a thing. I clenched the three or four medals that I held in my left palm and began to pin them to my left chest. Memories of each battle and each event flooded back to me as I stuck each one to my shirt. As I attached the last, the worst of it came back. I fell down to the floor my whiskey still in my hand. Sweating, I remembered it. I remembered it all. I stood between walls of dirt within the battlefield; the gunshots firing overhead deafened me and everyone else in my battalion, which of course included George. George and I were only here because of each other. In the distance we heard German artillery fire again and again for two hours straight....
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...exactly when to expect a line that was sure to produce raucous laughter that would help disguise the gunshot. Major Henry Rathbone, who had accompanied the Lincoln’s to the theatre that fateful night, tried to stop Booth, but instead received a severe knife wound to the arm from Booth (Swanson 46). When Booth jumped to the stage below, he landed awkwardly and broke the fibula in his leg. He shouted “Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!” before limping off the stage (Swanson 49). At the stage door, Ned Spangler was waiting with a horse, just as Booth had instructed. He played a large role in Booth’s escape just by holding the horse for Booth, so he could hop in the saddle and ride away (Conspirators 9). After escaping the theatre, Booth hopped on his horse and galloped towards the Navy Yard Bridge, and then the Surratt Tavern in Maryland (Norton 6). At the Navy Yard Bridge, Booth’s escape almost ended before it began when he was stopped by Union soldiers on patrol, but was allowed to pass through even though it was past curfew (Swanson 67). After crossing the bridge, Booth met up with David Herold. Booth and Herold had been long-time friends, and met about ten miles outside of DC before riding to the Surratt Tavern to retrieve guns, ammunition, field glasses, and a bottle of whiskey (Blitz 4). The manhunt for John Wilkes Booth soon began, with investigators searching for the most wanted man in the world. The search continued into a second day and soon a third, while President...
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...Overlook Everyone has memorable moments from their childhood. Some of them merry and others are quite the opposite. Theodore Roethke’s poem, “My Papa’s Waltz” is a quatrain poem about a memory of a boy waltzing with his father. The speaker is now a grown man writing this as a memory. In the poem, he relates his relationship with his father to a "waltz." The author's childhood unfolds as the "waltz" is performed. In this performance, the diction the author uses allows the reader to have many perspectives of the poem. This poem can be viewed in two ways. One way to look at this poem is that the young boy is having fun with his father waltzing. Some, on the other hand, believe this is a poem about rough housing his son. There are examples for both agreements throughout the poem. I can clearly see the positive loving side of the son in admiration to his faulty father. This poem was written in the 1940’s which remains a controversial decade that created the welfare state, bred a culture of immorality and self-indulgence. Young adults urged people to explore alternative patterns of work and domesticity. They disputed paths to deeper fulfillment, even those involving illicit drugs, could be justified, believing they were creating a new America. Taking that into account, Roethke’s father character is more understood being from this time period. When Theodore was only fourteen, his father passed, leaving him with a wound and a sense of dissatisfaction that he was able to relieve only...
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