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- 1821: The Cultural Gap In Joy Luck Club
- ... youth want to make their own mistakes and learn from them. As parents, they feel as if they have the right to know. They're afraid that their children will be influenced by peers into drugs, alcohol, and sex. They don't see that what their children want is privacy in their personal lives. It's up to them whether they choose to reveal or keep private of what goes on ...
- 1822: Escaping Harlem
- ... Sonny wants only to be understood, while his brother wants to change him. It is that struggle that leads Sonny away. And it is through this detachment from his only family that turns him to drugs. The story takes place in Harlem. The setting compliments the story because had it not been such a difficult area to grow in, Sonny’s brother might have been more forgiving of his brother’s ...
- 1823: A Tale of Two Cities: Summary
- ... overhears a plot to kill Lucie, her daughter, and Dr. Manette and has them immediately get ready to leave the country. Carton, having spy contacts, gets into the prison in which Darnay is being held, drugs him and switches places with him. Lucie, Charles, and their daughter successfully leave the country. Sydney Carton, making the ultimate sacrifice, partly for Lucie, goes to the guillotine in place of Charles. Just before he ...
- 1824: The Webb Story and the Efforts to Rebut It
- ... the organization also sent the Contras a truck and other supplies.) Finally, with twisted logic, Golden derided Webb’s claim that Blandón and Meneses "met with CIA agents" at the same time they were selling drugs. Golden conceded that Contra leader Adolfo Calero had met "on as many as four visits" with Meneses, and also that Contra military commander Enrique Bermúdez had met with Meneses and Blandón. Ignoring Calero, Golden then ...
- 1825: Nick Carraway: A Good Narrator
- ... got a lot of money because he had worked for a rich man; the man bequeathed all his money to Gatsby after he's death; and he also told Nick that he owned lots of drugs store. That was Gatsby's when he asked where his money came from. Because of Jay having almost no clandestine relationship with Nick, Nick could tell a lot about Gatsby to readers. No one else ...
- 1826: The Life of Ava
- ... heads back to her childhood home of Idlewild, Michigan, to spend the summer with her recently widowed sister before moving on to San Francisco. Once there, however, she finds herself embroiled in big-city problems--drugs, violence, teen pregnancy, and an abandoned crack-addicted baby, to name just a few, in a small-town setting. Ava also meets Eddie Jefferson, a man with a past who just might change her mind ...
- 1827: The 60’s: Decade of Challenge and Change
- ... into the streets, where public protests raged. It was a decade of dynamic change for the nation’s youth, the new generation to whom JFK said,” the torch has been passed.” Long hair, mod dresses, drugs, sexual freedom, and anti- established ideas were everywhere. It was a decade of tragic death for people such as John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. It was an unforgettable , exciting era. Many things ...
- 1828: Mark McGwire's Home Run Record
- ... the result of Androstenedione use. To verify the need for this asterisk, one must examine the significance of this drug, and compare McGwire with the other home run kings. In any issue involving sport and drugs, the primary concern is whether or not use of such a drug is legal, according to the governing body of that sport. Fortunately for Mark McGwire, use of Androstenedione does not violate any rules of ...
- 1829: America: One Nation
- ... many social changes. Nuclear families were no longer as common as before. Divorce is at a high rate due to marriage at too early of an age. Kids are rambunctious and born to one parent. Drugs play a major role in the youth. The kids are looking to release from reality, and are enjoying it. Also in the ‘60’s, the black population is looking to gain freedom from segregation, and ...
- 1830: The Anti-Vietnam Movement
- ... headlines and the attention of the White House. To make matters worse, 1967 witnessed more urban riots; the most deadly of which took place in Detroit. It was also the year of the hippies, the drugs, and a wholesale assault on morality and values; and all of these singular happenings were magnified by the media. (VN H. and P.). The antiwar effort was crippling Johnson's presidency and paralyzing the nation ...
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