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- 1361: Jimi Hendrix
- ... 18). Another Hendrix tune from Are You Experienced? was “Purple Haze,” that Jas Obrecht described as “the band’s break-through single in America” (Obrecht 29). Beyond the surface interpretation of the song referring to drugs (the lines “Purple haze, all in my brain” and “Got no money, don’t know why” are brought to mind), Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek in Electric Gypsy suggest that the inspiration may have come ...
- 1362: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... and arranged for the east and west wings to be added to the White House. After reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Roosevelt forced Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drugs Act. This incident alone places Roosevelt among the greatest contributors because of the countless lives that have been saved because of government regulation of food preparation. In 1985 Roosevelt helped bring an end to the ...
- 1363: Jacqueline Kennedy
- ... and felt stabbing pain in her abdomen. She flew back to Manhattan where doctors diagnosed her as suffering from a form of cancer known as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She began receiving chemotherapy and steroid drugs, while continuing to work three days a week as a book editor. She wanted to keep the matter private, but she knew the tabloids would get wind. the cancer spread to her brain and spinal ...
- 1364: Malcolm X
- ... of it. As a result, he dropped out of after the eighth grade and moved to Boston, Massachusetts where he worked several different jobs. Soon, Malcolm became associated in a gang and sold and used drugs, and was involved in many other criminal activities. His gang "career" ended when he got into some trouble due to a bet with the gang leader. Since the gang wanted Malcolm killed, Malcolm hid for ...
- 1365: Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings
- ... much of his life. Poe was always under the control of his step-father, and when he was independent, he did not know what to do, there fore he did thing like drinking and doing drugs. He needed structure in his life and did not receive this so he did not spend his life meaningfully. The only thing Poe obsesses about in his stories is death, and facing death, because he ...
- 1366: Richard Linklater: Man of Youth
- ... would have liked to have watched Slacker, but it was not at the store. Richard Linklater liked to work with stories of younger people. Dazed and Confused showed how youth in the mid seventies used drugs and alcohol to forget about their real life. Suburbia showed youth, but in the nineties. The characters used alcohol to hide from decision also. In the Newton Boys the youth knew what they wanted, to ...
- 1367: Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting the Universe
- ... United States to assist in suicides in a big way. He started in 1990 by placing a newspaper add for assisted suicide. He then developed a device he called the Suicide Machine, which injected deadly drugs into the bloodstream. Once the shock passed over, the issue was brought up that he did not commit any crimes, or he is a murderer. Most people think very strongly in one way or the ...
- 1368: Blaise Pascal
- ... lasting impact of all of mankind. Everything that Pascal created is still in use today in someway or another. His primative form of a syringe is still used in the medical field today to administer drugs and remove blood. The work he did on combinatory mathematics can be applied by anyone to ‘figure out the odds' concerning a situation, which is exactly how he used it; by going to casinos and ...
- 1369: Nathan McCall
- Nathan McCall When he was 20, Nathan McCall shot a man who made an offensive comment about his girlfriend. He robbed a McDonald's. He sold drugs. He broke into homes, stole cars and gang-raped girls. He went to prison. There, he read Richard Wright's Native Son and became fascinated with words. He “got into his spirituality,” and decided to ...
- 1370: Robert Boyle
- ... by, Boyle became more and more interested in medicine. His curiosity in this field led him to chemistry. At first Boyle was mainly interested in the facet of chemistry that dealt with the preparation of drugs, but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists as John Wilkins and John Wallis, and ...
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