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Recovering from trauma is often a difficult and painstaking journey. In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye and the movie Ordinary People, two characters named Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett struggle with their lives in their own bildungsromans, stories about the coming of age. When their brothers die, both Holden and Conrad suffer emotional trauma which causes them to push people away. These episodes complicate their efforts to connect with people and further meddle with their recovery from the

the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma took place. This incident of domestic terrorism and the mastermind behind the explosion was credited to Timothy McVeigh who used a truck-bomb to kill 168 people and injure countless others (History.com Staff, 2009). Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who was also classified as an “anti-government militant”. Domestic terrorism is, “terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people”

LSD has been studied for decades and the research has produced mixed results. For a lot of individuals, this psychedelic is relaxing and eye-opening. For others, it leaves devastating side effects like flashbacks and an increase in anxiety. Scholarly conversation has changed over the years, yet all came to the same conclusion: LSD can be useful in psychotherapy and treatment of PTSD, but not on everybody. Peter Gasser and his colleagues conducted an experiment on patients with terminal illness who

Dr. David Nutt is a Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. Notably, he was one of England’s drug advisors until he got fired for his findings and proposals concerning his research. He discovered that psychedelic drugs such as LSD and Ecstasy were less harmful than alcohol. Due to government officials claiming that he wanted to change drug policies, he was let go. On an interview with ReasonTV, he discusses his newer research which includes brain imaging while a subject is

LSD Research: Does LSD have a medical purpose? Lysergic acid diethylamide, More commonly known as LSD-25 or simply, LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland on November 16th 1938. LSD is a hallucinogenic drug which affects the nervous system. Hofmann discovered the drug 5 years before the psychedelic properties were known, as on The drug is ingested in many different ways, it can be absorbed through the skin (however very uncommon

Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre November 18, 1978, altered America, but the process leading up to that day began much earlier by a mind only described as perverse. The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, Peoples Temple as it is commonly referred, led by James Warren Jones blazed its own way into the history books with what is still one of the most disastrous endings of a movement. Jim Jones is known for founding the most infamous cult in American history; his reputation revolves around

filmography contains dozens of curious characters. However, genius and baddies are the most successful stage types of Benedict. Benedict Cumberbatch – the Family and Childhood Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch came to life on 19 July 1976. It happened in the capital of United Kingdom, London. His parents, Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, were famous TV actors. No surprise, the boy went for the acting since the childhood. Newborn Benedict Cumberbatch on his parents’ hands By the way, Benedict

On the night of May 23rd, 2015, a 15-year-old boy walked home from a party. He was so intoxicated, that he didn’t know where he was going. The boy wandered onto Outer Ring Road and he fell into a pothole. The pothole was so deep, that the 15-year-old ended up in China. On May 28th, the boy returned home. During his few days in China, the 15-year-old boy learned to speak Google Translated Chinese. “我討厭這些坑洼” he said. Translation: I hate these potholes. On June 23rd, 2015, another man fell down a pothole

The Freedom Writers 1.11 In the Film Freedom Writers,the "diary scene", the scene is about the students writing about their lives during their childhood and now, this is an important part of the movie because it is used to show the story of the students to the audience and how their lives are in the present, shortly after the LA Riots, the scene uses a range of techniques such as the sound, editing, the colour/lighting and the cinematography to give the scene more emphasis. The Directors use of

have somebody basically crap on that for the sake of whatever his motivations were, I felt was a total betrayal” (Massey). According to Dan, the nation’s response was similar. “Shock, anger, a lot of fear. Confusion, because we didn’t understand why Timothy McVeigh would do such a thing.” This was the largest domestic terrorist attack in all of history, and remains as such to this day, but time didn’t stop. “It was serious, and yes a lot of people died; it was a very terrible tragedy. However, it was