Chris Lemmon Professor Hoffman ENG101D Monday‚ April 22nd REEFER MADNESS What is marijuana? marijuana‚ as most know it‚ is derived from the plant cannabis indica. The leaves and flowering buds of the female cannabis plant are harvested and dried. The product of this process is called‚ among many other titles‚ marijuana. Cannabis is a schedule 1 drug‚ considered illegal in the United States. The reason for this? Smoking marijuana gets you high. The sensation of a high is hard to describe. THC‚
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The 1930s government propaganda film Reefer Madness‚ which I saw for the first time in class‚ portrays marijuana in a way that I haven’t seen. It gives the impression that marijuana is the worst drug known to man and will literally destroy your life. In the movie‚ it associates use of weed with reckless driving‚ manslaughter‚ murder‚ rape‚ extreme apathy‚ specifically loss of motivation in school work‚ and suicide. These crimes and bad deeds are carried out by “addicts” of marijuana. I feel like
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Crime and Punishment by author Dostoevsky is a fascinating study on how guilt and madness affects the mind. This is started by Raskolnikov’s isolation‚ as he began to remove himself from society and was only further solidified by his acts of murder as he seemed to cut all ties he possessed with humanity. The story starts out with this disillusionment Raskolnikov has of himself‚ despite being dirt poor and needing to ask for money from his family and not being able to pay rent‚ he still dresses as
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Rodriguez 1 Nick Rodriguez Ms. Sanchez English IV February 17‚ 2012 A Taste Of Madness In the play known as Hamlet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ the sane Hamlet occasionally switches between a state of sanity and insanity. When madness complements Hamlet’s purpose‚ he puts on an act of extravagance. On the other hand‚ when sanity proves acceptable‚ Hamlet returns to his normal‚ logical self. Hamlet claims he is "mad north-north-west" (II.ii.376)‚ meaning his sanity is uncontrollable
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good natured people into becoming insane. Iago‚ the puppet master‚ creates madness throughout the entire novel. He convicted many persuasive scandals in order to satisfy no one but himself. Madness‚ Manipulation‚ and Mendacious are some qualities to describe the main antagonist‚ Iago‚ in the play “Othello‚” by William Shakespeare. Iagos madness plays a very important role in this play‚ in fact if it weren’t for Iago’s madness and manipulations the play wouldn’t even have a plot. In this play‚ Othello
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Madness in Hamlet The theme of madness in Hamlet has been a widely popular topic in the discussion of the play by both critics and readers alike. Prince Hamlet‚ in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ is not mad‚ in terms of sanity. However‚ he is very mad‚ in terms of anger‚ at many of the people that surround him. Hamlet is mainly mad at Gertrude her mother and‚ most of all Claudius. Although he is extremely angry with Claudius and his own whole situation of his father being murdered;
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her. Used bythe King‚ her father and brother‚ and abandoned by Hamlet; these externalpressures combine to cause Ophelia ’s bizarre madness and‚ ultimately‚ hersuicide. However‚ to win favorwith Claudius he uses her to spy on Hamlet so she can report his every wordor deed to him. Hefeigns madness and acts extremely cold and harsh with Ophelia. "Reading Ophelia ’s Madness." In Patrick Cheney‚ ed. The death of her father atthe hands of the man she loves‚ complete rejection by the man she loves andthe
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Shakespear’s Hamlet contains multiple themes that are encountered throughout‚ however two significant themes are Revenge and Madness. More than one character in the play are pursuing to get revenge for something specific‚ especially for the death of their fathers. Furthermore‚ it is really interesting how all the characters have different perspectives and seek retaliation. One small example is when old Hamlet killed old Fortinbras and took his lands‚ young Fortinbras now has a desire to gain avengement
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Lemuel Gulliver’s Madness Despite the fact that Gulliver is a striking explorer who visits a perplexing number of interesting terrains‚ it is challenging to see him as positively heroic and stable. Indeed‚ well after his slide into cynicism at the end of the book‚ he essentially does not indicate the stuff of which fabulous heroes are made. Furthermore‚ the segregation from mankind that he perseveres for sixteen years must be tricky to endure‚ and results in a drastic change in mental stability
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Madness: Inside and Out. Ms. Ayala. What is the line between sanity and derangement? Why does insanity fascinate and repel us? And what is the reality behind our conceptions of madness? The purpose of this course is to dig deeper into these questions‚ and seeks to raise new ones‚ as we take a multifaceted look at madness. We will start the year through the lense of popular culture by analyzing specific characters in widely viewed films. These will include the classic movies Psycho (1960) and the
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