Sunday, February 1, 2015

Multi Genre Project Proposal

For my multi genre project I would like to possibly look at the prohibition era from the moonshiner's view.  What I would really like to learn more about is the story of a poor, Georgia farmer: my grandmother's father's story.  I already know that he and his family ran moonshine and had several skirmishes with the law, but I want a better understanding of his life and other struggling farmers that turned to moon-shining and boot-legging.  Unfortunately, my great grandfather has passed, but I could still use both my grandparents and my mother as primary sources as they all often heard his stories.  

23 comments:

  1. I think this would be really easy to gather a lot of information on!

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  2. Prohibition was easily one on the worst ideas in American history (my opinion)

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  3. very cool topic and a nice twist on how people usually look at it.

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  4. Your topic is very original. I'm interested to see the information you bring forward.

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  5. Really interesting topic, I've always been interested in prohibition. Im excited to see how it turns out.

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  6. This is a great topic and I like that you also have a personal tie to it! Are you also going to look at it from the point of view of other people living during that time?

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  7. I like the perspective that you're looking at this from!

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  8. the idea behind this is very interesting it is like stepping back into the past and getting a different look into why they did what they did.

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  9. I like how you have a personal connection with this topic!

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  10. Awesome topic! No doubt that he had amazing stories about what he went though. I can't wait to hear more!

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  11. Having a personal connection with your pretty cool topic could help you write your research paper.

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  12. The sources you have could make this amazing!!

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  13. After seeing the show about moonshiners on the Discovery Channel, I've always wondered what else they're doing off camera and their actually feelings about it.

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  14. I love that you are using some of your great grandfathers stories as a source!

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  15. It's awesome that you have a topic that you can connect your family too!

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  16. Family stories are the best. I hope that you get plenty of them.

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  17. I'm glad you picked a story that relates to your families past.

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  18. This is an awesome topic, I don't think I've ever heard it from a bootlegger's prospective. I've never thought of it as a way to get by financially.

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  19. I think this would be a fun topic to read.

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  20. This is probably the one I am most excited about. Good luck with getting all your information!

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  21. Have a grand time finding information, and I think that its cool that its a family story!

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