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- 281: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: McMurphy
- ... s. In addition, its author, Ken Kesey, played a significant role in the development of the counterculture of the 60's; this included all people who did not conform to society's standards, experimented in drugs, and just lived their lives in an unconventional manner. Ken Kesey had many significant experiences that enabled him to create One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As a result of his entrance into the creative writing program at Stanford University in 1959 (Ken 1), Kesey moved to Perry Lane in Menlo Park. It was there that he and other writers first experimented with psychedelic drugs. After living at Perry Lane for a while, Kesey's friend, Vik Lovell, informed him about experiments at a local V.A. hospital in which volunteers were paid to take mind-altering drugs (Wolfe 321). Kesey's experiences at the hospital were his first step towards writing Cuckoo's Nest. Upon testing the effects of the then little-known drug, LSD, "…he was in a realm of ...
- 282: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... were trying to save the world. As this small pocket of teenage rebellion rose out of the suburbs, inner cities, and countryside's, there was a general feeling that the hippies were a product of drugs, and rock music; this generalization could have never been more wrong. The hippie counterculture was more than just a product of drugs and music, but a result of the change that was sweeping the entire western world. These changes were brought about by various events in both the fifties and the sixties, such as: the end of ... of most young Americans at the time. Some say it symbolized the freedom and idealism of the 1960s. Critics argue that Woodstock represented much of what was wrong with the 60's: a glorification of drugs, a loosening of sexual morality and a socially corrosive disrespect for authority. Whether one is a supporter or a critic, it is undeniable that Woodstock was one of the major climaxes of the hippie ...
- 283: Teenage Suicide
- ... A sudden change in school performance is also suspect, as is the inability to concentrate or the inability to sit still. Any hobby or activity that is carried to extreme (Homer 20). Increased use of drugs or alcohol. Most experts say that drugs or alcohol does not cause suicide, but alcohol and certain drugs are depressants. Use of such substances may increase any depression already present (Homer 20). Excessive risk-taking-Driving to fast, as well as the lethal combination of drinking and driving, are the most obvious ...
- 284: Psychology Book Report
- ... if they continue to just deal with it neither one of them will heal. A recent national survey of psychiatric disorders found that patients with OCD (compared with those without) are more likely to abuse drugs (pg. 119) This amazed me when I read this. It said that a young man abused drugs as to relieve the pain of his disorder. He tried so many different drugs such as PCP and LSD; some helped him deal with it. Its sad that many of these OCD sufferers have to result to drugs to help cope with their disorder. I also wondered that ...
- 285: Brave New World: Beliefs of Sex and Drug Use
- ... Huxley in the 1930’s about a futuristic society. The way of life is in the future is a different and controlled environment. The predominant beliefs of the people and government on sexual behavior and drugs are totally different, maybe even an exact opposite of our beliefs today. Morality of human creation is also a question that is challenged in the book. The big question is which of these societies is ... acceptable to limit the number of partners you have as opposed to having sex with many partners indiscriminately. Drug use is not accepted very well in society today. Governing law restrict the use of most drugs and discourage the use of legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco products. The beliefs of sex and drugs in Brave New World is more of an outrageous and wild belief compared to what people today are accustomed to. Sex is ...
- 286: Marijuana 2
- ... they can grow it right. Most people growing this plant are very careful because how well they grow this plant depends on how strong the product or result will be. Drug abuse is use of drugs in an illegal or unsafe way. The factors that lead to drug abuse are a person’s problems, to be cool, to seem older or mature, to rebel against their parents, to be popular. Although people give themselves these reasons to take drugs they don’t realize that what they’re doing is stupid. For example a teen smoking pot to seem older and mature what he/she don’t realize is that being mature means making healthy ... sometimes the only way a person can be considered to be cool is to smoke pot. The same goes for being popular. These two things listed above are the main reason teens in specific take drugs. Frequent drug abusers soon become addicts. To become addicts people go through a couple of steps before they become addicted. These steps are casual use/experimentation (body builds tolerance), regular use (body builds more ...
- 287: Drug Testing For School Extracurricular Activities
- ... student. The fourth amendment declares that the school cannot search a person or seize his/her property without reasonable cause. Each individual has these rights. This means that if some students are suspected of using drugs, the school does not have the right to search all students. So, if a coach believes he/she saw you using drugs or had “an oath or affirmation” (4th amendment) from an outside source, he/she has the right to search/test you. It is unconstitutional if a coach heard that some of his/her players are using drugs, and he/she searches all members of the team. A Supreme Court decision in 1995 in a case called Vernonia v. Acton said that student athletes can be tested for drugs because athletic programs ...
- 288: Dispossable Animals
- ... Because of this, warning labels on packs were delayed for years and cigarette manufacturers still use animal data to question the harmful effects of their products. Similarly, 150 years of animal “models” have produced 25 drugs “proven” effective against stroke, none of which works in humans. The drugs Oraflex, Selacryn, Zomax, Suprol and Meritol produced such adverse side effects in humans, including death, that they were removed from the market, though animal experimentation had predicted them all to be safe. One of the ... Because of this, warning labels on packs were delayed for years and cigarette manufacturers still use animal data to question the harmful effects of their products. Similarly, 150 years of animal “models” have produced 25 drugs “proven” effective against stroke, none of which works in humans. The drugs Oraflex, Selacryn, Zomax, Suprol and Meritol produced such adverse side effects in humans, including death, that they were removed from the market, ...
- 289: The Hippie Culture
- ... style they are known for today. “Eve of destruction; no satisfaction…and a third motif went rippling through the baby-boom culture: adhesive love” (Gitlin 200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its “black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young” (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings ... tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new source of kicks for thrill seekers, the sacramental substance of a far-out mystical movement- or the latest and most frightening addiction to the list of mind drugs now available in the pill society being fashioned by pharmacology (Clark 59). With politicians and law enforcement officers looking on the drug as a danger to society, many expert chemists “set up underground laboratories and ... prices down, gave out plenty of free samples, and fancied themselves dispensers of miracles at the service of a new age” (Gitlin 214). It wasn’t just the youth in America who was using these drugs. A statistic from 1967 states that “more American troops in Vietnam were arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other major crime” (Steinbeck 97). The amazing statistic wasn’t the amount of soldiers smoking ...
- 290: Hippies
- ... on every Sunday was known to have hordes of singers with banjos and drums celebrating their youth together(Stern 103). One of the basic foundations of the Hippie movement was the flagrant use of illegal drugs. There were many drugs that the Hippies used but none was more used then marijuana. From 1960 to 1970 the number of Americans who had tried marijuana had increased from a few hundred thousand to 8,000,000. The majority of these new users were from 12 years old to college seniors(This Fabulous Century 84). To some Hippies, drugs and music were the most important aspects of their lives. Another drug that was prevalent in the Hippie population was LSD. Some Hippies thought that "LSD puts you in touch with your surroundings" (Cavan ...
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