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=Plan of the Investigation (100-150 Words) Tips]=

This investigation will focus on the life during the prohibition era in america particularly the bootlegging activities and the rise of gangsters as depicted by the film “the public enemy” The reason to choose this is because I have always been interested in the gangster films and thought it would be interesting to analyze a classic film such as this and the ways it depicted reality. The analysis will be broken down into several parts; the first will analyze the importance of the investigation in its historical context, then the different interpretations on the subject of the prohibition law, thirdly I will analyze the evidence available. Throughout this study I will use a variety of sources, ranging from websites to books such as “ Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America” by Edward Behr and “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” by Daniel Okrent. Prohibition and the rise of gangsters was a very important issue at the time since it was an important turning point the USA’s history, where the old established Americans tried to desperately maintain their moral and religious standards, as historian Andrew Sinclair said “On the rock of the 18th amendment, village America made its last stand.” [1]. As President Calvin Coolidge described it, “the greatest social experiment of modern times” [2] still provides useful lessons now, with a similar problem in the case of drugs. Importantly this topic shows how people act to acquire what they desire, even to the point of turning to illegal activities.