Psychedelics

3. Introduction to the Slaughterhouse-Five The ways we deal with our everyday life are different, some of us choose to deal with our problems and fight for the things which we want to achieve, but sometimes the reality in which we find ourselves is extremely cruel, perhaps each of us would have chosen to leave this reality through imagination. Fleeing from the cruel reality of war and the invention of a fictional planet is more or less the situation in which the main character of…

“Hey Ya!” is widely recognized to be one of the most sonically upbeat songs in pop culture with an award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and 46th Grammy Awards. Written by Andre 3000, a member of the hip hop duo, Outkast. It’s music video features a live performance by a band, whose all eight members are played by Andre himself. “Hey Ya!” takes it’s influences from funk, rap, and rock music to celebrate the relationships between men and women in the 2000’s and the importance of an…

Extended Essay English Language and Literature “To what extent did The Velvet Underground & Nico's 'Banana album' relate the social, political and cultural landscape of its time and how?” Arthur Vandervoort: (Candidate Number) Supervisor: Jonathan Jones Session: May 2015 Word Count: Citation Style: Chicago Abstract: Table of Contents Page 1 Title Page 2 Abstract 3 Table of Contents 4 Introduction 5 “Not since the Titanic ran into that iceberg has there been such a collision as…

In what role does the Internet and technology play in daily lives around the world? If the Internet were taken away from us, how would people feel? Many humans would feel like an entire part of their life is missing, due to technology now being a necessity in everyday life (Walker 2). What exactly is the Internet? Is the Internet only what people use when they need to look up a piece of information? Sure it is, but it’s also much more complex. The Internet is a global network connecting millions…

The Vietnam War, which began in 1955 and ended twenty years later in 1975, had an unforeseen impact on American society, which caused a decline in support for the United States’ involvement in Southeast Asia. This paper will examine the causes that led to a shift in support for the Vietnam War from the American public. Factors such as the cost of the war, both in monetary terms and solider causality rates, the lack of progress being made in Vietnam, and the protests and resistance that came from…

the previous two periods (Tuomas 47). Thus, the definitions of the previous stylistic periods are applicable to this period. However, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is recognized as one of the band’s best songs and is a good example of acid or psychedelic rock popular during this musical era. The song’s lyrics suggest a distorted sensory experience or acid trip, which is referred to as “tangerine trees,” “rocking-horse people,” or “marmalade skies” in addition to other surreal fancies.…

R&B, or Rhythm and Blues is a musical genre born in the middle of the 20th century that, perhaps, bridged the gap between the mainly black audience of early blues and what eventually became an international audience that transcended racial and social barriers. The musical term rhythm and blues was coined as a musical marketing term by Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler in 1948 as a substitute for the term “race records”. This distinctive music style described as rocking and jazz based with…

clubbing out there and they noticed they would dance the night away and British DJ’s working in Ibiza brought it back with them and introduced it into the already flourishing disco scene. House music got mixed with this ‘love drug’ and gave it a psychedelic tinge which flourished into Acid House. Another reason this culture came into the public eye is because of the causalities following the intake of Ecstasy, this caused Police to crack down and they were raiding warehouse parties constantly…

similarities. Hippies wanted an "'alternative mode of existence'" which "supposedly rejected all that contemporary America stood for, both materially and ideologically." As a consequence, hippies "took significant doses of relatively unknown 'psychedelic' drugs, engaged in a large degree of sexual freedom, [and] based their lives on a 'love…

Monsters have long been used to express an inner flaw or turmoil that is manifested in a particular society or an individual. We see this time and time again, from Little Red Riding Hood to the collection of Grimm’s Fairytales. Night of the Living Dead, the movie can be seen as a struggle or revolt against collectivism and consumer culture. When the Night of the Living Dead is looked at in comparison to the time it was created, a deeper meaning becomes much more transparent. NoTLD was filmed in…