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the woods, joints passed from stranger to stranger, and PA announcements about acid”(par.1). This alone shows how bad the concert was filled with drug use. She then added this statistic “The New York Times estimated that 99 percent of the crowd at Woodstock were smoking marijuana. Acid and other psychedelics were also quite prevalent. During the three days, there was one death from an overdose and an estimated 400 cases treated for bad trips” (par.1). This concert alone proves that drugs show up at

Leadership in Discord “Richard II” by William Shakespeare was written roughly 1595. The play is about King Richard II’s tenure as king of England. Shakespeare is famous for writing ancient plays about emperors and love. In this play Shakespeare describes a lot of themes, and one of the themes that stands out is leadership. Unfortunately the theme of leadership is mostly portrayed negatively and complex, especially where the characters of King Richard II and King Henry IV is concerned. This is important

Every Little Hurricane by Sherman Alexie is a short story about the hardships Victor remembers growing up on the Spokane Reservation. The story starts off with "the largest New Years Eve party in tribal history (LR pg1)." During this party fights begin to breakout between Victors uncles as an act of love, and a little hurricane that brought destruction. Victor goes on to mention the many other hurricanes that happened in his childhood. The rhetorical devices that are used in this short story are

To what extent did popular culture and music affect U.S. public opinion on the Vietnam War? I.B. Internal Assessment Chavez, Miguel History HL Port Chester High School Word Count: 2,131 May 2016   Table of Contents Part A: Plan of Investigation……………………………………………………………Page 3 Part B: Summary of evidence…………………………………………………………...Page 4 Part C: Evaluation of sources…………………………………………………....………Page 7 Part D: Analysis …………………………………………………………………....……Page 9 Part E: Conclusion………………………………………………………………

No late 60s American group ever started with as much musical promise as Blood, Sweat & Tears, or realized their potential more fully and then blew it all in a series of internal conflicts and grotesque career moves. It could almost sound funny, talking about a group that sold close to six million records in three years and then squandered all of that momentum. They fused a rock & roll rhythm section to a horn section, held out the promise of a jazz-rock fusion that could storm the pop charts. The

This decision is sure to lead to his ruin because it was known to Bolingbroke and his father Gaunt, that the king was involved in the murder of Thomas of Woodstock. Shakespeare shows that a king who is merciful, is not industrious, instead very incompetent for not putting an end to both parties that know of his treachery. Shakespeare goes on the show that Richard does not take counsel from those who have

Rock-‘n-roll: Rock and roll is a music genre that emerged in the United States in the early fifties. And is formed from the Blues. The name is created by an American dj named Alan Freed when he wanted to announced a song: ‘My Baby Rocks Me with one Steady Roll’ , and called this new music genre Rock and Roll. Some aspects of the Rock and Roll are the chord diagrams of eight notes, the afterbeat and the instruments that are used. This instruments are the elec-tric guitar, the piano, the contra bass

prisoner (Elizabethan era, online). Many of the Queens supporters wanted to have Elizabeth executed but there was no evidence against her. Elizabeth was captive in the tower of London for two months before she was removed to Woodstock Manor in Oxfordshire. Elizabeth was kept at Woodstock Manor for a year; the manor was uninhabitable so she was lodged in the gatehouse with servants. Queen Mary’s husband Philip of Spain convinced her to allow Elizabeth to return to her childhood home of Hatfield in Hertfordshire

was ready to strike, he had Arundel convicted of treason and executed; Warwick was banished and Gloucester imprisoned and murdered. In September of 1398 a quarrel between two former appellants broke out, Gaunt's son Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. This quarrel gave the king a chance to banish both

great majority of colonists in English American and his mother was Elizabeth Edwards Tipton. He had four brothers and three sisters so they grew up learning, playing, and working among. In 1751, John married Mary Butler. She was the daughter of Thomas Butler of Cedar Creek. His married last about twenty-five years and resulted in the birth of nine sons. In 1776, Mary died in childbirth while having Jonathan. By 1757, at the age of twenty-seven, Tipton was a landowner and owned a farm of 181 acres