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    What is Methaqualone? Methaqualone is a man-made drug that generally depresses the central nervous system. Like barbiturates, it is also known as a sedative-hypnotic drug, which induces sleep to anyone that uses it. Although it effectively treats patients who are suffering from insomnia and hyperactivity, Methaqualone is rarely prescribed by doctors. For some varying reasons, some people also abuse the drug, which may draw a positive result using the drug test kits. Methaqualone was sold in North

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    War is seen as a universal concept that often causes discomfort and conflict in relation to civilians. As they are a worrying universal event that has occurred for many decades now, they posed questions to society about human's nature and civilization. Questions such as is humanity sane or insane? and do humans have an obsession with destruction vs creation?. These questions are posed from the two anti-war texts; Dr Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick and Slaughterhouse Five written by Kurt Vonnegut.

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    important part of the community. These people had a large amount of knowledge about plants and herbs, and often used this knowledge to benefit the community, as they acted as healers. Some plants that they used included St. Johns Wort, Monkshood, Mandrake and even poisonous plants like Belladonna and Hemlock.

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    DMT and ayahuasca. The second subcategory is the dissociative category. Drugs of this category include PCP, special K, magic mushrooms, and DXM. The third category of hallucinogens is the deliriants category. Members of this category include mandrake, belladonna, Benadryl and Dramamine in some cases. (The Good Drugs Guide) One thing that makes hallucinogens one of the most difficult categories to deal with is the fact that the effects and results vary from one drug to another. Psychedelic hallucinogens

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    In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, we see character development in our star-crossed lovers go two opposite ways. Romeo is written to be dependent, irrational, and weak. Juliet, on the other hand, is independent, determined, and logical making her undoubtedly stronger than Romeo. On several different occasions in the play, we see Romeo is reliant and helpless. At the beginning he complains to Benvolio about “not having that which having makes [his days] short,” (21). Here he is talking about the

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    deaths, for both characters, construct an inner-climax that changes everything they know and how they saw life. Yossarian started viewing everything more vulnerable and that how he can end up like Snowden. At first he described that “he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill-Shakespeare. He was Cain,

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    mashed into a tree. The tree started punching the car. The car fell, threw them out and drove off. Ron’s wand broke on the end.      The next morning, Ron got a Howler from his mom. The y went to Herbology where they repotted Mandrakes. Harry was going to Quidditch practice, after a few minutes the Slytherin team came to the field. They said they had to train their new Seeker, Draco Malfoy. Draco’s father bought the whole team new Nimbus Two Thousand and Ones. Hermione got mad

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    associated with ambition. Yet, according to edvardmunch.org in this painting, the man’s ambition is being suppressed because of the crimson plant which is preventing him from moving forward into the future. The crimson plant is “possibly intended as a mandrake, with its love and death symbolism”. Along with the black clothing, the plant further reinforces the idea that the girl might as well as be dead to him but at the same time he still cares for her. Assuming that the crimson on his hand and the plant

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    playground fantasies and reality-something which she is unable to do. Ofelia becomes extremely violent and dangerous when her mother attempts to break her delusions, and ends up killing her own mother. Immediately after Ofelia’s mother burns her imaginary mandrake friend and claims that magic isn’t real, she starts to bleed out and dies shortly after. The repercussion of breaking down the delusions of grandeur that Ofelia has set up is uncontrollable and homicidal backlash. Accepting the falsehood of magic

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    soul or body to the said destination. The “oyl” was rubbed on their staffs, broomstick or under their armpits and other hairy parts of their body. What was unknown to them was that the ointment contained hallucinogenic active agents from plants like mandrake, henbane, and belladonna (also referred to as deadly nightshade). From these plants, the active hallucinogenic agent, atropine can be found in them and according to Marvin Harris, “atropine is…absorbable through the intact skin.” Under the influence

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