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- 111: Tim Leary
- ... Tim believed psychedelics should be shared with everyone and thought that the non-elite would benefit most from its use. Barron went back to Berkeley and Tim started working closer with an assistant professor named Richard Alpert. Then, a British philosophy student named Michael Hollingshead called Tim with revelations about LSD and showed up at Harvard with a mayonnaise jar of powdered sugar laced with it. This was an incredibly powerful ... 30 years and his daughter to five years for having ten dollars worth of marijuana. With the Texas conviction Tim’s popularity increased. The government however, started becoming more militant in its anti-drug policies; Richard Nixon called Tim the "most dangerous man in America". Fruitless raids and constant harassment by G. Gordon Liddy ended the Millbrook era. With the cultural changes going on at the time, the government was becoming ...
- 112: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- ... Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, and Stevenson. Kennedy won on the first ballot. The delegates, at the request of Kennedy, nominated Johnson for Vice-President. The Republicans chose Vice-President Richard M. Nixon to oppose Kennedy for the presidency. Kennedy's old opponent, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., then U.S. delegate to the UN, was Nixon's running mate. The 1960 campagin was a hard-fought race. Both candidates were young, vigorous campaigners. At first, most experts believed Nixon would win. He had the advantage of being Vice-Presient under ...
- 113: Nixon
- Nixon I. Civil Rights A. Some people, mostly blacks, did not get equal rights. B. Nixon believed fundamentaly in responsible civil rights policy on the part of the federal government. II. Health Care Issues A. People believed in having health care for everyone, and being taken care of from the goverments money. B. Nixon believed that there should be health care for everyone, employer mandates, pharmancy care, and preventive care. III. Law Enforcement A. Crime increased and drud use began to bloom. B. Nixon believed that the judiciary ...
- 114: Similarities and Differences Between The Bridges of Madison County and The Storm
- ... The Storm” was placed or around the early 1900’s. The novel, The Bridges of Madison County involved one family just as the “The Storm” had, but in “The Bridges” the married couple, Franchesca, and Richard Johnson had two children, Michael, and Carolyn. “The Storm” involved one married couple, Calixta and Bobinot, they to had children but only one, named Bibi. In both of the stories, there was a man who interrupted the day to day life of the two wives. In “The Bridges”, the man’s name was Richard Kincaidj, a photographer for National Geographic, and in “The Storm, the man’s name man involved was Alcee’. In “The Bridges”, Franchesca was an educated woman, she had been an English teacher before she married Richard. In contrast, Calixta was portrayed as an uneducated woman. between Calixta and Franchesca were their ages. Franchesca was much older than Calixta. Franchesca’s children were much older than Calixta’s one. Michael being ...
- 115: Richard Marcinko
- Richard Marcinko A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through the Navy ranks to create and command one of America's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, Seal Team Six. Then Marcinko was given orders to create Red Cell, a team of the best counterterrorists, whose job was to check the security of the military's top installations. Richard Marcinko was the ultimate rogue warrior. First, born Thanksgiving Day, 1940, Marcinko was from a poor, broken home. He was always very independent, having a paper route at five and cutting school classes regularly. ...
- 116: Leakey, Richard
- By: Meg Richard Leakey- Homo habilis Richard Leakey was born December 19, 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya. His parents were the esteemed anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. Richard first became a tour guide in Kenya, but changed his mind when he found an extinct human jaw. He then schooled himself by completing a two-year secondary education program in six months. From ...
- 117: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... JFK was shut out for the vice-presidency by a hair but four years later gained the prestige of a first-ballot nominee for President. The world watched in anticipation as the heated debates between Nixon and JFK came to a close with JFK winning in the popular vote making him the first ever Roman Catholic President in history. His inaugural speech was one which no one ever forgot quoting the ... of his fight against peace that he didn't want to be hindered by politics. Although the peace-talks were under way he died before seeing them of a heart-attack on January 22, 1973. Richard M. Nixon Nixon; born in California in 1913, he studied at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before devoting his time to the study of law. Marrying Patricia Ryan in 1940, he fathered two girls, ...
- 118: The Life of Richard Feynman
- The Life of Richard Feynman Richard Feynman was a physicist who was born in Far Rockaway, near New York City, in 1918. He lived there until he left to attend university at the Michigan Institute of Technology. He studied there for ... unfeasible because friction does not scale down as well as robots, he is the spiritual father of the nanotechnology and high-density information storage fields. Bibliography Gleick, James. 1992. “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”. Pantheon Books. Schweber, S. 1994. “QED and the Men who Made It”. Princeton. Feynman, Richard. “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom”. http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/feynman.html. “Feynman Diagrams”. http:// ...
- 119: Charles Darwin And Richard Owen
- Charles Darwin and Richard Owen Wars occur everyday, whether it be pushing and shoving or shooting and bombing. During the 1800's, a different war of conflict took place. This so-called war between Charles Darwin and Richard Owen circled on the topic of evolution. As much as it would liked to have this essay based upon a physical war between these two opposing figures, it is not the case. This war involved ... misinterpreting it and trying at his very best, falsifying it. Prior to describing events that took place during the 1800's, it would be best to briefly account for the characteristics of Owen and Darwin. Richard Owen was born in 1804, and was considered lazy and impudent by teachers. He attended Lancaster Grammar School to pursue a medical career and later entered the University of Edinburgh medical school in 1824. ...
- 120: Kent State University Incident
- Kent State University Incident The End of the Innocence After a long period of fighting a defensive war in Vietnam, on April 29, 1970, President Richard Nixon launched a full scale attack in Cambodia, which greatly accelerated America¹s involvment in this conflict. The reaction from the American college student population was one that led into great controversy and heated debates. When Nixon announced his decision on the following day, many people were upset, and thousands of people protested. The end result of one particular protest was bloody, and a perfect example of what terrible shape our ...
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