Timothy Pickering

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a travelogue of sorts, due to the blurred lines between fiction and non-fiction, which deeply explores the status of the American Dream during the early 70’s, specifically 1971. Thompson states this purpose within the first three chapters of the book in the line, “Because I want you to know that we’re on our way to Las Vegas to find the American Dream.” (F&L pg 6) Although Thompson states in the beginning of the book that, “Our trip was different

1960’s Term Paper The 1960’s impacted the United States in profound ways. With the seventy million baby boomers growing into their teens, they brought with them change that is still evolving in our society today. The sixties was a time where American culture moved from being conservative to new and insightful ways of thinking. With these changes, it brought a new counter culture that would be known as the hippie culture. The hippies led way into a new sexual revolution that would break the old

One flew East, One flew West, One died without a part of his brain. In my opinion the main theme of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is conformity. The patients at this mental institution, or at least the one in the Big Nurse’s ward, find themselves on a rough situation where not following standards costs them many privileges being taken away. The standards that the Combine sets are what makes the patients so afraid of a change and simply conform hopelessly to what they have since anything out of

Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Ladd-Whitney Monument It was April 19, 1995 at 9:03 that the lives of thousands were affected by one single explosion. The explosion took the lives of 168 men, women, and children. The explosion physically injured 600 individuals and emotionally injured numerous amounts of people around the world. The explosion took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma. A staff writer for a newspaper was quoted stating “ the bomb was color blind” ( Yumi Wilson

The events that occurred on November 18, 1978 has rocked the psychological world on how Jim Jones was able to manage what is now known as the "Jonestown Suicides" or the "Jonestown Massacre". It all started from when Jim Jones created what was known as the Peoples Temple in the middle of Indianapolis in 1955 leading only just 20 followers at the time. After a year had past, the people’s temple started to make a name for itself by serving for the disadvantage and opening an orphanage. This started

attack in American history (this changed on September 11 2001) where about 650 people were injured and 168 were injured with 19 of those killed being children from the daycare, which was located one floor above the truck used to bomb the building. Timothy McVeigh committed this attack with some help from Terry Nicols and Michael Fortier. McVeigh was given the death penalty while his two accomplices were given jail time. This attack was a rather dark part of American history. This attack happened in

but they were group of young adults who did pranks with LSD. For instance, they mixed LSD in a bowl of Kool-Aid in their parties to get their guests high and this was known as Electric Kool-Aid Test. “In the 1960s, heroes of the counterculture -- Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead -- embraced the practice of dropping acid, viewing it as a great way to party and as the path to a higher consciousness” (Ross). At the same time, in the sixties violence was prevalent

Social class largely affects the ways of life of all Americans These divisions of social class are characterized by viewpoints, for example, lifestyle and income but education is a huge part of deciding one's social class. That does not imply that it will decide a person's achievements but with many individuals with higher education normally have better jobs with benefits and higher wages too. Those of the privileged have higher education rather than those of middle and lower class. Around 14% of

Started as a summer intern in 1977 at The Buffalo News, Dan Herbeck has been with the company for almost 40 years. He was 19 years old when he was placed on the graveyard shift at the downtown police headquarters and there, he went on to be a reporter for 12 years. “I was the only reporter in the city of Buffalo at police headquarters… I was scared!” He said. Herbeck’s first assignment was a midnight house fire in Lancaster, where he covered a story of Robert Covert, a father who saved a 4 years-old

The Beatles music career has been difficult due to the drugs.First, the Beatles were taking pills In the 1960s the year people in America were showing discontentment and dissatisfaction with life thru music and protest.The 1960s, a professor named Timothy Leary, who teaches at Harvard begged people to try the drug (LSD).Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a “psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects.” Some popular drug in the 1960s was heroin, Marijuana, and LSD. Heroin