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Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix
892 wordsMusic and Drugs Beginning with the late 1960 s counterculture in San Francisco, music and drugs will forever be inter-linked. Hippie bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and Phish are associated with marijuana, mushrooms, and LSD. Modern electronic rave, or club music is associated with MDMA or Ecstasy. When one thinks of rock and roll, sex and drugs immediately come to mind. While the use of drugs is not essential for the creation or performance of all new music, it was certain...
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Social Democratic Party World War Ii
1,955 wordsSweden is one of the northernmost countries in the world, lying farthest from the equator with the Arctic Circle crossing its northern regions. With a total area of roughly 450, 000 square kilometers, Sweden is one of the largest countries in Western Europe. Its population density is relatively low; however, it had a population of just over 8. 8 million in 1998. Sweden is a constitutional monarchy, traditionally neutral, since early 19 th century. Norway, formerly united with Sweden, became inde...
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Rock And Roll American Dream
328 wordsOn the movie Easy Rider, Peter Fonda played a character that was known as Captain America. Some might say that his behavior in the movie was immoral. But I would have to say hes characters behavior was very moral. What is moral and immoral? Captain America wanted the American dream or should I say his own view of the American dream. Everyone has his or her own concept of the so-called good life. Mr. Fonda dream was to enjoy life and to take life for one long ride. Weather it was sex, drugs, and ...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,616 words... d States (Churchill & Wall 1990: 37). From 1968 - 1971, these tactics were used against the BPP to control and neutralize what was believed to be "a dangerous black political group. " The most vicious and unrestrained application of COINTELPRO techniques during the late 1960 s and early 1970 s was clearly reserved for the BPP (Churchill & Wall 1990: 61; Horne 1995: 13). After several confrontations for over two years, the disputes between the BPP and US continued to the campus of UCL...
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Jack The Ripper Serial Killers
2,439 wordsSerial Killers audience: anyone who likes a thriller movie thesis: define serial killing and compare and contrast several famous serial killers. A. Serial killers 1. Characteristics of serial killers a. White, normal acting male b. Seldom is there a woman serial killer 2. what makes it serial B. Motive 1. What drives them to do such crime a. Psychological damage b. Physical damage to the brain 2. Why they leave "signature" on crime scene a. Behaviors of a serial killer b. Sexual desire of a seri...
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Level Of Violence Los Angeles
2,390 wordsKeeping Our Teenagers off the Streets In Leesville, LA, many parents and governmental agencies are concerned with the question of how to keep teenagers of the streets, just like in many other small communities in LA. The thing is, in LA the presence of youth gangs is one of the most heated social problems. To keep teenagers off the streets actually means to keep teenagers out of the youth gangs. (Harmon 73) Within the scope of this research, we will first provide background information on gangs ...
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Cultural Studies Third World
2,494 wordsFrantz Fanon Frantz Fanon was born in 1925, to a middle-class family in the French colony of Martinique. He moved out of Martinique and volunteered to fight with the Free French in World War II. He later started writing political essays and plays that remain controversial even today. Fanon's biography can be looked through two different prisms, despite the fact that Frantz Fanon is among the 20 th century's greatest theoreticians on philosophy of liberation emanating from the Third World. Psychi...
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19 Th Century Chemical Substances
1,440 wordsHISTORY OF DRUG USE IN SPORT The Greeks had made sport an important part of their lifestyles by 800 BC. It was both a cultural and religious observation of the time. Not only was there emphasis on the athletics but on artistic merit also. Participants were required as a rule to write poetry, as well as perform physical feats. There were rich prizes for winner. Writing from Plato reveal that the victory in the Ancient Olympics were equivalent of nearly half a million dollars. Along with this, the...
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R 038 B Rock And Roll
1,133 wordsHistory of Rock Rock Music is a group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. Rock music began in the United States, but it has influenced and in turn been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country-and-western music, classical music, folk music, electronic music, and the popular music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to its use as a broad designation, the term rock music co...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,673 wordsThe civil rights movement started in the end of the 1950 s and through various protests broke the pattern of racially segregated public facilities in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for blacks since the Reconstruction period (1865 - 77). The Struggle for Black Equality by Harvard Sitkoff offered an extremely detailed overview of the movement and went through every phase of the struggle. The book made it clear that the black struggle has been wor...
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