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    Hippie Movement “Hippies were called Flower Children because they gave flowers to communicate gentleness and love” (Salge). The Hippie Movement was a popular counter culture during the 60’s-70’s. Hippies are best known for their practice of psychedelic drug use, interesting political views, where they took up living quarters, and their unique fashion sense. Hippie drug use was more than just use, it was the practice of psychedelic drugs, in order to spread love and happiness. Some of the many drugs

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    Psychedelics Essay

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    The use of psychedelics for Spiritual purposes, etc. “Psychoactive substances exert their their effects by modifying biochemical or physiological processes in the brain.” Psychedelics are taken out of context to be for recreational use only, when they can be taken to enhance spiritual journeys. Psychedelics have been used for spiritual journeys and religious rituals for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians have used the “Blue Lotus” by putting it in their wine for recreational use. The flower

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    Psychedelia

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    Psychedelia is defined as music that is based on the experience that is produced by psychedelic drugs. It started in the 1960’s in the United States. The main drug was LSD and it was said to enhance the music. One of the major promotors of the drug was Timothy Leary. He was a professor at Harvard. He was so famous for this that there was even a song about him. This time in music was one of the most changing for the future of music in history. There were many different things that changed in many of

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    Grizzly Man Sparknotes

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    2006, is about the tragic death of an eccentric wild life activist named Timothy Treadwell. This analysis will examine the validity to the indexical and interpretive material in Grizzly Man. Herzog uses original Timothy Treadwell footage as well as personal interviews to represent the reality he perceives, using the reflexive and performative modes in the documentary. Although it is impossible to show the entire picture of Timothys story, there is enough information provided to support Herzogs position

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    to freely travel across the country on a whim. The increased attention towards the Merry Pranksters had cast a spell on American youth. Not only did Kesey affect the mindset of American teenagers, but also former Harvard psychology professor, Dr. Timothy Leary. In an interview with Playboy magazine, Dr. Leary talked about increasing LSD abuse. Young adults typically agreed with Leary’s belief that drug use was beneficial, whereas older Americans scorned at his ideas (Leary). By claiming that drug

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    Lsd Pros And Cons

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    Marshal attempting robbery of a bar in New York, may not reflect a true acid trip.7 Timothy Leary, a Harvard psychologist who studied the effects of LSD under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, proposed the concept of “set-and-setting” when describing psychedelic episodes. Set is the drug user’s character, expectations, and reasons for taking

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    Case Summary. The Oklahoma City Bomber: Timothy McVeigh. Mass murderer, Timothy McVeigh committed the largest crime involving mass murder in the history of America by the Oklahoma City Bombing that took the lives of a total of 168 people. During the Spring of April in 1995, A rental truck from Ryder drove into a federal building parking lot known as Alfred P. Murrah. The driver of the truck got out and left walking in a casual manner. A few minutes after the driver left the truck, the truck blew

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    The Film Grizzly Man

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    The film Grizzly Man aims to demonstrate the common cliche, “not everything is how it seems.” It follows a man of the name Timothy Treadwell: his life before his death, his actual death, and the impact of his death. He spent 13 summers of his life within close proximity of grizzly bears until one takes his life. Before this event, the public only knew him as a passionate nature enthusiast, with his focus mainly on bears. They found entertainment in watching a cheerful idiot embracing these animals

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    New database is Hubble Space Telescope's legacy S. Mathur Over 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has collected more than 100 million bits of data and images of astronomical objects and space phenomena. These have been maintained in the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescope (MAST), but the collection was not easily accessed or searched. Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have now made these available in

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    The Heart Of The Country

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    Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was attacked, and the bombing caused the building to be completely destroyed. Not only Oklahomans, but people around the world were left speechless and fearful of what was yet to come. The leader of this attack was Timothy James McVeigh, a very anti-government individual. He sought out a detailed plan on how this bombing was going to unfold. Step by step, he created a plan that he believed he could pursue. It all began at 9:01 A.M. in downtown Oklahoma City, and the

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