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    Go Ask Alice Banned

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    “Go Ask Alice” is a book of a real teenage girl’s journal. She kept her journal to tell about her life dealing with drugs, sex, and running away from home. The book was claimed to be nonfiction to scare readers straight, but it is actually made up, however, this story could be true (Gershowitz, 2013). “Go Ask Alice” has been banned or challenged many times. When a book is challenged that means that a certain part of the book or parts of the book are considered obscene or a threat to security.…

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    MK-Ultra Conspiracy

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    used as information carriers or even killers. The most famous test done through MK-Ultra in its entire history is the LSD drugging. “Although MK-Ultra dealt with many areas of mind control, it is the development and testing of LSD that has attracted the most attention because it was taken out of governmental institutions and applied to the general American Public” (Knight). LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. This is a synthetic crystalline compound, that is a potent hallucinogenic.…

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    "you have created created quite an impact, although my primary job is regulated to the area of legal advice. I would suggest you tread lightly in the area of your writings. for many people it's been a hot topic, Where a lot of people have a lot interest defending your position, As well as those who have fallen on there sword in there attempts to dismantle it. "All I did was drop acid and write down what I was thinking, in large part so I would be able to retain the knowledge, I wrote what came…

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    Anti Drug Propaganda

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    As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different…

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    significant amount of businessmen and stay-at-home mothers thought of this to be outrageous, but soon they would be apart of this revolution in history. The beginning of Woodstock was near the beginning of the ‘hippie’ era. The drugs, marijuana and LSD became widely popular among the people. This was the start of drug use which changed the perspectives of a lot of children. During the early 1960’s and even before, people would be caught dead if they were using some sort of drug. This is not only…

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    The 1960s for the United States, a decade of controversy, drew this picture in the sense that the events that sequenced took place on the world stage of the political spectrum. Despite the validity to this, domesticity faced conflict as well, with the emergence of rebels known as the hippies. On the face of this movement were riots and protests to argue for the ideas that followed their mindset, but on the other hand, the scene of consuming drugs, and the facet of being relaxed and ignorant of…

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    “edgy”, is frankly, relatable for teenagers. Certain themes like sex and drugs do come up quite often, so it’s completely understandable why some parents wouldn’t want their fifth graders reading about Sam being a “blow queen” or Charlie getting high on LSD. For a certain age group, censoring this book makes total sense. But not letting teenagers read it is frankly, ridiculous. If the sole reason for banning books is to “protect” children from harsh issues, we have to face that taking away the…

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    coined in 1965, placed their focus on the happiness of individuals. Emphasis was placed on being oneself, and not conforming to “the system”. Spirituality and eastern religion were held with high regard, having possibly been the cause for the rise of LSD, in order to extend one’s consciousness. Fed up with being told how to live by societal standards, dissatisfied…

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    Project Mkultra Case Study

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    In one specific venture, whores were told to offer LSD to their clients while scientists viewed behind a two-way reflect. Neither the whores nor the clients had assented to the examination. At the point when the venture was begun in April of 1953, it allowed undertakings to be begun and studies to keep…

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    James “Whitey” Bulger could just be considered another troubled soul caught up in the wrong things, but he is one of America's most notorious and ruthless mob bosses. Hailing from South Boston, Whitey entered a lifetime of crime a young age and had become a prominent figure in Boston's organized crime scene by the late 1970s. From 1975 to 1990, he served as an informant, tipping off the police and giving information about the Patriarca Crime Family while building his own crime network. After…

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