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- 1081: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... did not live upto such ideals, including the wish that they remain permanently and exclusively hers. And somewhere, too, she carried the forbidden knowledge of her father's weakness-his bouts of drunkenness, use of drugs, and philandering. Life and hte veiled memories of her father's frailities in time make her more tolerant of weaknesses in others. Her other model in adolescence was Mlle Souvestre, da;ugher of a French ...
- 1082: Aldous Huxley
- ... LSD (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley thought hallucinogens led to a deeper understanding of religious and mystical content. He and his wife experimented with LSD and psilocybin. He didn’t like to refer to them as drugs because he believed in “the importance of agents producing visionary experience in human evolution” (LSD-My Problem Child). Huxley continued his drug use and experiments until his death. While lying on his deathbed with terminal ...
- 1083: Twiggy
- ... to anorexia, bulimia, alcohol and drug abuse which leads us to one of the major differences between Twiggy and Moss. Twiggy obtained her figure while remaining healthy, but Moss obtains her figure by resorting to drugs and alcohol abuse. The average 90’s woman is approximately 5’5 and weighs 150 lbs. Today fashion models on average are close to six feet tall and weigh barely 120 pounds. That is too ...
- 1084: Prince William
- ... Queen has drawn up her own "Ten Commandments" that she wishes Prince William to follow whenever he goes to discos. They are: he must not smoke, he must not drink alcohol, he must not take drugs, he must not kiss girls in public, he must avoid if possible being photographed by the media inside the dance, he must be accompanied by his detectives at all times, he must be with a ...
- 1085: Farai Chideya
- ... African-Americans, which is now in its eigth printing. Using statistics largely from government sources, she attempted to undercut the argument that African-Americans are at the roots of problems such as crime, welfare and drugs. Chideya spent time as a CNN Political Analyst during the 1996 presidential campaign. It was at this time that she was named to the New York Daily News' "Dream Team" of political reporters and commentators ...
- 1086: Colin Powell
- ... a Short Biography of Colin Luther Powell. He was born on May 5, 1937 in Presbyterian Hospital. He was born, and grew up, in the South Bronx, New York. There was a big influence of drugs and gangs where Powell lived but, he seemed to steer away from all of that (source 1, page 23). Powell's parents were immigrants from Jamaica. His mother's name is Muad Ariel McKoy. In ...
- 1087: Allen Ginsburg In America
- ... with a bunch of poets and the like, including fellow students Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac and friends William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising ...
- 1088: Charles Manson
- ... on the ranch. The Manson "family" was surviving off of stealing and scavenging. Manson made sure that the girls did what he wanted them to. They listened to and looked up to Manson. They took drugs he took if he told them to. They would satisfy his sexual needs one after the other if he told them to. When Charlie carved a black X on his forehead his "family" did too ...
- 1089: Aldous Huxley
- ... LSD (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley thought hallucinogens led to a deeper understanding of religious and mystical content. He and his wife experimented with LSD and psilocybin. He didn’t like to refer to them as drugs because he believed in “the importance of agents producing visionary experience in human evolution” (LSD-My Problem Child). Huxley continued his drug use and experiments until his death. While lying on his deathbed with terminal ...
- 1090: Steve Jobs
- ... company. People that he has worked with are afraid of being “Steved” if they don’t work hard enough; that means fired by Steve. In conclusion, Steve Jobs who was a college dropout, experimented with drugs and Eastern religions before turning to computers, is a very strange man. He continues to lead Apple and his sub companies into the 21st century by carrying the lead in computers. Competing with Windows is ...
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