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Loathing In Las Vegas Fear And Loathing In Las
1,965 wordsLas Vegas has always been known as the city of sin, and the movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas corroborates this belief. From drug experimentation to gambling, this movie portrays a surprisingly thoughtful glance into the mind of addiction and of drug usage. Though various drugs were used in this movie, psychedelics seemed to be the drugs of choice for the characters. The focus of this paper is to define the hallucinogens by using its most popular member, LSD. After LSD has been adequately def...
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Causes Of The Salem Witch Craft Trials
1,111 words... Hanson was certain that the girls were not possessed, but clinically insane (x). And that, he explained, may have been the result of witchcraft which, contrary to popular belief, is psychogenic, rather than occult. That means that the girls may have experienced their hysterical symptoms as a result of their fear. Regardless, the girls were insane, Hanson contended, long before any clergyman got to them. Another possible explanation for the girls insanity was ergot poisoning, a common problem...
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Salem Witch Trials Ergot Poisoning
1,180 wordsSarah Osbourne was an elderly, widowed woman who had not gone to church in about one year, which was considered a Puritan sin. Sarah Good was a poverty stricken woman who begged from door to door. Goods life brought her two prominent misfortunes. One misfortune was the death of her dad, John Start, who committed suicide. Because he killed himself, it disgraced the family, in the eyes of Puritans. The second misfortune was two failed marriages. Goods first husband died, and when her second husban...
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Salem Witch Trials Ergot Poisoning
2,111 words... quite promising. He compared their behaviors from that of ventriloquists, to highly accomplished actresses (Upham, 1978, p. 345). All three of the first women accused of witchcraft made prime candidates for the girls to place such blame upon. Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osbourne were all of questionable character in town, which made it easier for the girls to escape blame for themselves. Sarah Osbourne was an elderly, widowed woman who had not gone to church in about one year, which was co...
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Salem Witchcraft Trials Accused Of Witchcraft
2,213 wordsWitchcraft, Insanity, and the Ten Signs of Decay Since there never was a spurned lover stirring things up in Salem Village, and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic, yet these trials and executions actually still took place, how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover, as they did in The Crucible, but as series of seemingly unlinked, complex events, which a paranoid and scared grou...
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One Of The Most Famous Lysergic Acid
1,234 wordsErgot and its disease ergotism have been a worldwide plague to humans ever since humans have started to harvest and cultivate grains in all their forms. Although outbreaks of ergotism still occur periodically they have all but become nonexistent in the modern era. Ergot has had beneficial effects as well. Ergot has produced medicines, which are vital to the medicine world. Ergot has produced in the worlds eyes an ugly stepsister to its medicines: LSD. D-lysergic acid diethyl amide known to the w...
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Central Nervous System Lysergic Acid
1,611 wordsLSD (for Chemistry Class) Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) LSD), a potent hallucinogenic drug, also called a psychedelic, first synthesized from lysergic acid in Switzerland in l 038. Lysergic acids a white odorless drug, a component of the mold of ERGOT. Ergot is a product of the fungus Claviceps purpurea. Th e bio-active ingredients of ergot are all derivatives of lysergic acid. LSD is a semi-synthetic derivative of lysergic acid. Thus LSD is an ergot like substance. The drug evokes dreamlike ...
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Lysergic Acid Side Effects
784 wordsThe use of LSD LSD The use of drugs among Americans is rapidly rising. They can be bought and sold almost anywhere, from the streets to hallways of schools. A drug on the rapid rise from the 70 s is LSD. Some people attribute this to the fact it is extremely inexpensive, $ 2 - 4 a hit, the wrong belief by users that it is a safer drug than marijuana because it isnt physically addicting. However, LSD is a hallucinogenic drug that is very dangerous, despite popular belief. LSD stands for Lysergic ...
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