Temperance movement and fighting internet viruses

Internet Viruses have been plaguing computers, infecting files, then people would open the websites or they would open their files, then these people have virsuses on their computer. However, there have been websites that can treat these viruses and get them off people's computers, although, the person who has these programs has to update them, and keep them current.

People in the 19th century had dealt with a problem that was just as rampant, this was alcoholism; in the 1800s society was very different, men and women had different spheres of influence. Men had the political and business spheres, women however, stayed at home  and took care of the family. Men were able to go into the saloons or taverns and drink; however, many of the church groups had frowned upon this. Men would drink themselves to the point of ruin, this would also caused their family to put out on the street. With the help of women and church groups the Temperance Movement(this was like an early form of prohibition) was created.

The Temperance Movement was started in 1825, it had targeted the poor and immigrant communities. "These associations boasted membership of a million, most of whom were females. Working through church affiliations, Temperance gave women a noble cause-to protect women and children from alcoholism's by-product-domestic violence, poverty, neglect, and abuse. But as thousands of women joined the temperance and women's movements, liquor manufactors and factory owners feared female dignments. If granted the right to vote, women would first move to pass laws banning the manufacture and sale of equitable of alcohol and then work toward more equitable wages for women and children." (Women's History)

Some women did drink by only medicinally; they were not allowed in taverns, public houses, or inns. "With alcoholism widespread, everyone had a relative, friend, or neighbor whose life had deteriorated through alcoholic addition. Women were more likely to suffer the effects of alcoholism, especially through that of a spouse, enduring physical abuse, abandonment and poverty."

 One woman had even destroyed a saloon; this woman was Carrie A. Nation. She had joined the Women's Temperance of Kansas. "In 1899, accompanied by other temperance women she launched a hatchet-smashing campaign, invading bars, saloons, and gin mills. The women entered saloons singing hymns and proceeded to chastise the drinking clientele. Then the hatcheting would begin as Carrie Nation's brigade smashed bottles of liquor, the bar, the furniture, and generally laid waste to the property. Frequently arrested for vandalism and disturbing the peace, Carrie Nation always managed to pay the fines or make bail and the arrests only served to broadcast her notoriety and publicize temperance."

Temperance would continue until the 18th Amendment was passed which started Prohibition; people who had supported the Temperance movement would then celebrate because of Congress passing the Probition act (which did not stop alcohol in some states, it stopped alcohol throughout the country.) However, people sold alcohol to secret bars, or they made their own. These secret bars were called speakeasies.

After a while, Probition was repealed(1932); This did not work, because economic purposes but also thinking people would stop drinking, and did not. The Temperance Movement did stop because, as the western frontier was being more developed, people had opened taverns and saloons.

The Corset and dress reform

When people think about women's fashion, they think about the fashions of today, but in the 1800s and the 1900s, women wore hoop skirts, long dresses, tight blouses and corsets. The corset was a garment that had to be worn just below the rip cage, then it would be laced. In the early 1800s, the corset would be kept fairly loose, but as the century progressed, corsets were placed tighter. During the Victorian Age, it was thought that the "hourglass figure" was considered the ideal look for women. "According to 19th century economist Thorstein Veblen, who conined apt phrases like 'conispicious'." Women also wore hoop skirts, the hoop skirts were made from steel and  after the corset was laced, then the hoop skirt would also be laced. Women also wore bustles, these were like small pillows that women would tie around their waist so that would sit around the hips. Bustles were worn around 1870s-1890s.

"Sleeves were set tightly into dresses,blouses and jackets to prevent a woman from raising her arms, a gesture Victorians regarded unladylike. In this getup and walking in high heels, a Victorian woman was literally enslaved to fashion, encumbered in layers of startched, heavy clothing appurtenances and restricted in bodily movements." Victorian doctors thought that the "hourglass" figure was far too extreme for victorian women and realized that women were suffering from what the corsets had caused. Many of they symptoms was displacing organs, broken ribs, shallow breathing and the body would also detertoriate from lack of oxygen. Women had to take smaller breaths, when they were wearing their corsets. If a woman didn't take  these smaller breathes, then they would faint. There were also specialized coaches that were designed when a woman fainted. Also the only way to rvive them was to use smelling salts.

However, there were plenty of people who did not like the corsets or the resrictive clothing;  they wanted to reform women's fashion. One woman named Amelia Bloomer had created the bloomer outfit; this outfit consisted of a dress and a pair of pants that ballooned and then closed at the ankle. There were many people that were opposed to it; "God commands that one Christian woman should ever put on a pair of pants for any reason-even if these pants are made for a woman  and not made for a man. Advocates of this extreme  claim Deutronomy 22:5 as their Scriptual proof text, declaring that for a woman to wear pants she then becomes an abomination to God because she is putting on that pertainth to a man." (http://www.lightministries.com/SDA/id1226.htm) However people continued to wear them; and they were quite popular among women working as nurses during the Civil War. 
Today one woman took the corset and turned it into a thing of beauty; she had said that when it comes to feminism, that feminism is what she makes it to be, and she thought that the corset was beautiful.