Timothy Leary "Turn on‚ tune in‚ drop out." That saying has turned into the slogan of Timothy Leary ’s mind-expanding movement. Although a graduate of both West-Point and Berkley‚ and a Harvard professor‚ these were not his greatest lifetime achievements. Throughout his publicized life‚ he became the spokesperson of the psychedelic age. His devotion to the belief that LSD and marijuana were gateways to enlightenment resulted in a new church‚ numerous prison sentences‚ and a following of
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Boston Globe (Boston‚ MA) Feb 16‚ 2014‚ p. K.1 Copyright © Feb 16‚ 2014 The Boston Globe. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Whose Rights? By Ruth Graham • A new wave of fetal-protection measures creates a collision in American law: two sets of rights in one body. In December of 2010‚ Bei Bei Shuai was pregnant‚ alone‚ and in despair: Her marriage had fallen apart‚ and her new boyfriend had broken his promise to leave his wife for her. In a desperate moment‚ the Indiana
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Paul Allen co-founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates (1955- ) ‚ adapting existing programming languages such as BASIC‚ which was originally written for mainframe computers‚ into software suitable for personal computers. Such innovations enabled the software industry to become established and expand as a viable business‚ strengthening the American economy and creating new groups of computer entrepreneurs and users. As personal computers became more affordable and accessible during the 1980s
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countries but Eastern countries as well (www.charm.net)". Music has been influenced greatly by Beat writing. The lyrics of many great songs have forever been changed by the writing of the Beat Generation. “Bob Dylan’s favorite poet was Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg became one of Dylan’s greatest friends. He worked on many projects
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initially a small group of individuals situated in New York. The Beat writers were a small group of friends at first‚ and a movement later. The Beat Generation in literature consisted of a relatively small number of writers‚ of which Jack Kerouac‚ Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs are the best known today. All three met in the surroundings of Columbia University in New York City in the mid 1940’s‚ and they remained close
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What are the main themes of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’? What aspects of the poem would you identify as modernist techniques? What does Eliot’s poem express about the condition of the human subject in early twentieth-century modernity? You need to substantiate your essay on a close reading and critical analysis of the poem. T.S Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ is a prominent modernist poem that vividly reflects his opinion about the impact of World War I’s traumatic experience‚ questioning at the same time the
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naked‚ dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.” This quote from Allen Ginsberg showed the feeling of the beat era. Allen Ginsberg‚ an author‚ one of the most influential writer of beat generation followed by few others‚ who practically changed the perspective of many Americans during the beat generation era. But what is beat generation‚ when did
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woody allen Woody Allen is a challenge for philosophy. Why? Laughter is of course not one of the most fundamental but is never- theless one of the most controversial and intriguing topics in philosophy‚ in whose analysis various philosophical dis- ciplines have to work together—philosophical anthropol- ogy‚ philosophical sociology‚ and aesthetics proper. This bestows on comedians a certain philosophical interest—the more so since‚ “while comedy may be the most widely ap- preciated art‚ it
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Ethan Allen Ethan Allen was an American Soldier‚ Frontiersman‚ and an author of many books. Allen played an important role in our American history. He served in the French and Indian war and was Colonial Commandment of The Green Mountain Boys. So without him‚ today would probably be different. Allen was born on January 21‚1738 in Litchfield‚ Connecticut. His parents were Mary and Joseph Baker Allen and was oldest of eight children. In 1769‚ he moved to a place known as New Hampshire Grants
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Running head: Was It Worth It? Was It Worth It? Marisa Wallace Allied Health Institute According to Albert Camus (as cited by Khalid‚ 2013)‚ "The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and‚ despite himself‚ does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it‚ unceasingly (Khalid‚ 2013)." We all come to that cross in the road where we are faced with choosing between doing right and doing wrong. When we chose to do wrong‚
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