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- 281: Elduc In 2000
- ... almost complete. Leaving the needle out on the table she plopped Jill on the couch. In front of her, she placed two more needles, a small mirror with cocaine on it, and a pound of marijuana distributed in baggies. Gail looked around, took a deep breath and laughed to herself: "what a dumb bitch and now Eli has nothing. Theyll get him or possession of illegal substances and the intent ...
- 282: A Raisin In The Sun Crtical Analysis
- ... achieving success through a liquor store should not be thought of as exploiting the hardship of blacks, but as the only opportunity adequate to providing. This situation mirrors the youth of today that's selling marijuana to each other blacks to provide the basic needs for their families. In the midst of us pursuing our ambitions there exist the possibility to behave selfishly. Walter must learn that the quest for manhood ...
- 283: The Breakfest Club
- ... just a few minutes with him in detention. Besides this however, as Theresa pointed out, the lingo is very realistic and full of terms which teenagers used such as blazing up which means to smoke marijuana. Theresa Puchta writes that one point Hughes has in his favour is the absence of gratuitous sex-indeed, virtually any nudity-in his films. In the same article, Hughes is quoted as saying that most ...
- 284: Woodstock
- ... this lifestyle is risky, but that's life and avoiding risk leaves one unprepared for the unexpected. A controversial, yet still notable cause for the success of Woodstock was the availability of illegal drugs, specifically marijuana and LSD ("Woodstock '69: Three days, 3"). About 400 people experienced bad trips on acid at the festival. It is widely believed that a large amount of the population at the festival was smoking pot ...
- 285: Allegory Of American Pie By Do
- ... underlying message that McLean was trying to convey was that drugs were ruining the music. The Byrds sang a song called Eight Miles High, but they were falling fast and landed foul on the "grass", marijuana (Jordan), which was also the sweet perfume (Kulawiec). During the mid-60s the Beatles predominantly influenced rock music the most. Dylan is the "jester on the sidelines in a cast," the sidelines being the outside ...
- 286: Brave New World: All Things are Relative
- ... everyone happy. Two efforts to do this were to teach them to be selfish and take soma. The reason for taking soma was to induce happiness through euphoria in much the same way alcohol and marijuana behave. Also when are people the happiest? When they're pleased, so this brings about the act of being selfish with the thought that you must do what you have to in order to be ...
- 287: Tales of the City
- ... together. They joke with one another and Edgar reveals his inadequacy of contend with his social class. Anna remarks about how wonderful it is to fly a kite while being stoned. Obviously shocked Edgar asks "Marijuana?" He felt older than ever having to refuse the offered joint. Anna turned the cheerless situation into a gleeful one by trading the joint for the usage of a kite. "Off to Mendocino" ch.22 ...
- 288: Brave New World: All Things are Relative
- ... everyone happy. Two efforts to do this were to teach them to be selfish and take soma. The reason for taking soma was to induce happiness through euphoria in much the same way alcohol and marijuana behave. Also when are people the happiest? When they're pleased, so this brings about the act of being selfish with the thought that you must do what you have to in order to be ...
- 289: Malcolm X
- ... pusher in the thriving drugs trade which was sweeping America's urban centres. Throughout the second world war he sold reefers, provided black prostitutes for rich, white men and used endless quantities of cocaine and marijuana, sinking, in his own words, to the very bottom of the American White Man's society. He and many other blacks, denied the opportunity to get decent employment and respect from white society and the ...
- 290: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- ... whatever he was thinking about at the time. An example of this is in lines 29-31: "America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I'm not sorry. I smoke marijuana every chance I get. I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet. When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid." It is ...
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