Short Essay: The 21st Amendment

‘Rosie the Riveter’ is the name of a fictional character which was created to represent and symbolize the millions of real women who were encouraged by the North American government to join the work force in factories, munition plants and shipyards during World War II, while most men were called to duty to serve in the army during the war.

In Germany, on November 12, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring held a conference regarding the monetary impact of the destruction and to talk about additional actions to be used against the Jews. SS leader Reinhard Heydrich reported 7500 were businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues were burned and 91 Jews were killed.

In the political world today there are so many different opinions about several different topics. The topics that I will address to you will be, should the 22nd Amendment be repealed and also should the foreign born be allowed to run for president. In both topics you may have your pros and cons, but I am strongly against the both of them because I feel that the Constitution should not be taken advantage of. Government should not be allowed to manipulate the Constitution to suit his or her needs. While making adjustments to the Constitution to allow different things to take place for convenience doesn’t leave any form respect of the Constitution. There should be a line drawn to keep this from happening for years to come on these issues and

Even though Rosie the Riveter is an image frequently synonymous with the contemporary women’s movement, she was not designed to promote social change or improve the role of women in the workplace during World War II. In reality, she was promoted as the ideal female worker and was patriotic, confident, capable, and beautiful in a large propaganda campaign by the United States government. Since the war caused many men to answer the call to serve in the military, both at home and abroad, the United States was faced with the urgent challenge of recruiting women into the workforce. Rosie the Riveter was their solution to this problem.

In March 1941, Congress approved the Lend-Lease Act. The Lend-Lease act was brought up by President Roosevelt. This helped the United States allies that were lacking military supplies and weapons. “The United States contracted Lend-Lease agreements with more than 30 countries, dispensing some $50 billion

Margaret Sanger, born on September 14, 1883 in Corning, New York. She was not born with the name of Margaret Sanger, she was born as Margaret Higgins (Simkin, John). Taking on

1984 brought change to the United States of American, but South Dakota did not want any part of it. In 1984, the United States passed a law saying that people needed to be 21 years of age to purchase and consume alcohol that was considered low point beer. In the years prior it was 19 years of age to purchase and consume low point beer that had 3.2% of alcohol. Any states that did not comply with the new law would hold five percent of their road funding from the Secretary of Transportation that would go toward rebuilding highways across America. If any states did not comply it the five percent rate jumped to ten percent each and every following year after.

In Germany in 1939, the German Nazis took down almost all of Europe, and on their way, 64.5 million people, including six million Jewish people. This war could have extinguished the Jewish culture. According to Holocaust Encyclopedia, this is some of the aftermath of the Holocaust (2).

Black Sunday had a big impact on the great plains, and everywhere. Black Sunday was the worse Sunday in history. According to the story," Everyone hurried home trying despertely to beat the overwhelming black blizzard before it struck." Alot of people got lost and perished from the black cloud.

J. Howard Miller’s poster of “Rosie the Riveter” in the 1940s encouraged women to join the workforce and has remained an important symbol of feminism because of this (Miller, J). Rosie the Riveter was originally intended to draft more people into the Westinghouse Electric Company while WWII was in progress. Her purpose was well served because she encouraged 18 million women to begin working in factories while men were at war (US History, 3). Rosie was idolized because of her powerful statement to women, “We Can Do It!”, and was an inspiration to many women across the nation. Her message only applied to women while men were away at war and once the war was over her relevance faded

In 1919, the United States Legislation ratified the 18th amendment stating “After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited (“18th Amendment,” n.d.). Just a year later in 1920, a historical time period knows as the Prohibition Era started in the United States. This ammendment was put into place to try and rid the United States of alcohol, but quickly proved to be a challenge. After just thirteen years, for the first time in history, the United States ratified the 21st amendment to appeal the

Sometimes, after a long hard day at work, you like to relax with a glass of wine, or maybe even bourbon. Without the ratification of the 21st Amendment, the people of the United States wouldn’t be able to enjoy any alcoholic beverages. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919, outlawing the sale of alcoholic beverages and brining in the period known as Prohibition. At the time, the top Prohibitionist in Congress stated: “There is as much chance as repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail” (“Repeal”). The 18th was the only Amendment to ever be repealed, through the 21st Amendment, in 1933. (“Prohibition” 2014). Prohibition was brought about to outlaw all alcohol, and the destructive behavior surrounding it. The law backfired, sending the U.S. into a downward spiral; but repealing the amendment actually saved our country. As journalist H.L. Mencken wrote in 1925:

Herbert Hoover said once when America amended the 18th amendment, "our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose." The 21st amendment was amended because of the 18th amendments backlashes: crime and corruption in the United States and the government losing money because of the fact alcohol is now prohibited with the 18th amendment. The 21st amendment was the first to repeal another amendment; the 18th amendment. This is also the first amendment to be ratified by state conventions rather than the legislatures. The 21st amendment essentially needed to be passed because of the harm the 18th amendment did to the economy and society (“The 21st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution”).

The term Lebensraum was utilized by Hitler during World War II. Lebensraum represented the territory that Germany needed in order to become whole once again. Hitler’s goal was to reunite Germany and Lebensraum which means living space in German, was his way of doing so. This territory would assist Germany in becoming self-sufficient as well.

Lebensraum is the land a countries leader believes it requires in order to expand and flourish. It is the Nazi ideology based on the expansion of Germany because the need for land is becoming a problem due to a growing population. According to the theory of Lebensraum, “ In the last few centuries…the needs of the European peoples have grown so rapidly” and this is why the “relationship between population and land area” has become a struggle that Hitler wants to overcome. Although “the human life lost on the battlefield will automatically be replaced many times over,” The lebensraum adjusts when the population reduces because there’s less of a fight for survival. However, this is seen as a problem for the rest of Europe. If Germany doesn’t get living space, Germany will be in danger. Germany cannot serve as a slave nation and vanish from the earth; they always need to be on top. Therefore, Hitler has decided to take selfish action and make sure that Germany would never run into that problem. By giving in to the need of more living space to Germany at tomorrows meeting, we’re just endangering the rest of Europe instead. The constant giving up of land will create more living space for them and less for us, which means Europe, will be struggling while Germany is the survivor. According to his theory, Hitler perceives the need for living space as what Germany needs to do