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    My Thanksgiving Theme

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    personally my favorite type of music. The theme will involve the music playing in every room at the party, including the outside activities. The theme will be fun because there will be three celebrities. The three celebrities are going to be Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton. They will be there to demonstrate their guitar work and they will also be signing autographs and showing off their guitars. The food will be great. Ruth's Chris will be catering. There will be waiters there. The waiters will

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    compare myself to, I am exhausted. The mechanisms of social pressures grind in my subconscious everyday and I have no recollection of who placed them there. Ginsberg addressed the inner workings of his complicated mind through his poetry, but he also inspired his readers to do so as well. Ginsberg was notorious for representing a variety of controversial issues, but he was also a part of the drug scene as a means of expanding personal exploration towards questioning the human condition. In his travels

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    My middle brother was twenty-one he began to drink constantly on a regular basis. He had many problems back home that influenced him in drinking, but also the people he associated himself with back then. It took him quite some time to overcome his addiction, but during his intoxicated moments he resembled that of Victor’s family. One night during my brother’s intoxication my brother had come down to our house to get away from his. When my brother rung the door bell, I quickly rushed towards the

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    important part of life during the 60’s that it’s influence was inescapable. Nowhere can this fact be seen more clearly than in the music of the time. The most obvious influence drugs had on music can bee seen in the lyrics. Drug references abound, be it Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” of marijuana smoke, or the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, obviously referring to LSD. Even the names of the bands were drug inspired, as Garofalo points out in reference to the Doors: “The group took it’s name from

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    festival had taken place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. “The three days of peace and music” had to be turned into a free admission and take down the fences for everyone. The festival had many different music artists that performed including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Santana, The Who, The Grateful Dead, etc. This was a huge countercultural event for music in America. Andy Bennett had said that “The Woodstock festival synergized a way of life which had been growing through the sixties: antiwar

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    trend of major change from this point on. We could even say that the Beatles were the most influential entity on American behavior in the last forty years. In the second wave, a sort of “drug culture” emerged; headed by such bands as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd and others. While the Beatles and the Stones (more so in the early years) had a clean-cut look, these bands were openly on acid, and it was well known that it was considered one of their main sources of creativity. “Held at Alexandra

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    racial stereotyping, and she backs up her argument throughout the story by using the character’s beliefs and experiences to create the story, not their races, leaving the readers to assume each of the main character’s race.

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    distorted music in the background, and flashes of light to see the characters faces. This creates a window into what we see the soldiers experience we get, utter madness. Once the crew members descend into the trenches we see very weird and out of place shots. The first film shot is a group of black soldiers listening to Jimi Hendrix and smoking pot. The Jimi Hendrix back sound is also supposed to represent what the crew member that dropped acid is hearing and feeling. Coincidentally, Francis is also

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    However once word caught wind that things had settled with location and that 32 bands were secured and performing; such as the famous Jimi Hendrix, people disregards previous thoughts and flocked to the event. Despite the audience having to pay for tickets to get in, 60,000 early comers entered the field where the stage was being set up and began camping out because fences closing in the

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    on the shores of Lake Erie and was established in 1983. There are many floors that house everything from the roots of Rock ‘n Roll, to Jazz, Country Folk and Gospel. There are small sections which focus of certain artists, including the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, The Beach Boys and more. The top couple of floors contains exhibits which are rotated over the years and have included: John Lennon, the Supremes, Elvis Presley and Bruce Sprinsteen. There are many kiosks throughout the Hall where the visitor

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