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Marijuana Should Be Legalized for Medical and Recreational Purposes Marijuana has been the controversial topic of discussion for centuries. Early American leaders enacted the first law regarding marijuana, which is also referred to as cannabis or weed, in the year 1613. The law stated that farmers were required to grow hemp, the stalk of the marijuana plant, in order to prepare fibers that were considered “essential for making sails, ropes, food, and fuel in the developing nation” (Rich, Stingl…

Tossing and turning, I could not sleep the night before our cruise to Ensenada, Mexico. Excitement had gotten the best of me. It was the day of the cruise. We all met 5:30am sharp outside of our friend Aaron’s house. All of us carpooled together in Joey’s car and hit the road to Long Beach, California; where it is the home of the Carnival Corporation’s Long Beach Cruise Terminal. When we arrived we can see all the cruise ships that were departing that day. First we went through the terminals,…

Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s there were several important social and political changes that occurred. One of the most significant changes was the end of segregation and the birth of the civil rights movement. There were several opinionated groups like the KKK and the Black Panther Party. Hippie subculture emerged among the youth population. The primary belief of the hippie movement was their anti-sentiments towards one of the most controversial armed conflicts during the 20th century, the…

The Paper Crane Imagine a time where people spent the evenings at the disco. Life was full of hope and women were looked at from a completely new perspective, oh the 70’s. Within the town of Woodsbury, a young girl named Emily lived with her family. Despite being 9 years old, she loved to feel and act like a grown up. She was a proper girl who always dressed-up in out of her mother’s wardrobe. From the shoes to the extravagant dresses, Emily found a way to make it work. She was insightful,…

one of the best genres of music to listen to in the 20th generation because of the powerfully distinct elements it contains. Two young and relatively known pop rock bands that appear to be pop rock music are Twenty One Pilots (TØP) and Panic! At the Disco (P!ATD.) The most popular album Twenty One Pilots has come out with is Blurry Face and Panic! At the Disco’s…

Introduction The autobiography ‘If only you knew’ is an honest, humorous, and at times shocking, recount of Jacy Arthur’s personal experiences of growing up with cerebral palsy. Due to contact with a range of individuals with various lenses of disability, Jacy shares both positive and negative experiences within her school and community (Arthur, 2011). Due to her optimistic outlook, supportive family, high level of extra-curricular involvement, and building of strong friendships, it is believed…

It had been several years since the meteor had struck the planet, an event that would surely go down in the history books. Before, the survivors had lived in unison together. Little did they know, their diminishing resources and supplies would cause them to become hostile towards one another, ultimately driving them to split apart. Icarus found himself traveling with one of the large groups to a landmass known as Emerald Island. He did not join a Faction after The Separation, but he was well…

the place where the party will be held. Rose describe the place but I 'm not familiar. I Never been to that place but she said it was just across by the Library of Glasgow. We park in front of the building and rushed inside. There was loud funky disco music when I first step into the door while my husband behind me with our three years old toddler and my 15 yrs old son . Ate (means sister we use this word to show respect when we talk to older female person even though we are not blood-related)…

Saturday Night Fever, the iconic 1970’s disco film is really a tale of two cities, Manhattan and Brooklyn. It’s a depiction of people trying to break out of dead end lives. While both Manhattan and Brooklyn are a part of New York City, in the 1970’s they were worlds apart. Manhattan was White Collar while Brooklyn was blue collar. Manhattan was a borough full of hopes and dream while Brooklyn, the setting of the film, was the home of broken dreams. The characters in Saturday Nigh Fever, most…

In the recently published first volume of memoirs, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk describes how a 1950’s child hood among Europe -yearning cosmopolitans in the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire helped to shape him as a writer. The key, he said, is to understand the concept of huzun. This turkish word describes a kind of melancholy, he says, not so much a personal state as one shared by an entire society, a mood of resigned despair for the great past - a murky, black white…