Psychedelics

performers that included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, the Fugs, John Handy, and Jefferson Airplane. He organized two more successful benefit concerts and soon began producing regular concerts which included special lighting effects and lively psychedelic concert posters. Graham had finally found his niche and realized his true talent. This would be the beginning of his rise to becoming the most influential…

Antidepressants, such as Prozac (Fluoxetine), were the second most commonly prescribed medications in 2010 (Insel). Most commonly, Prozac is indicated for major depressive disorder. Depression is a mental illness with symptoms of low mood, loss in pleasure, and changes in appetite, sleep, and concentration strong enough to effect a person’s life (Magni). Many people today still struggle with depression, and it’s important for them to be informed on drugs that may be able to treat them and turn…

Its sequence of Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky is a psychedelic and horrific occult piece. Described by Gabler as “…inspired by a Slavonic legend about evil spirits gathering on Walpurgis Night…” (Gabler, 2015) Chernobog unfurls with powerful, unsettling movements, with yellow eyes void of pupils that strike…

In The Things They Carried, war is seen by Americans as a way for men to show their country’s pride and to prove their worthiness. In this time period war was unavoidable for men between the ages of 18 to 25, the draft forces men to partake in war even if they didn’t want to. Some men fled to Canada, emitted themselves into mental hospitals, and did anything possible to prevent their having to go. Tim O’Brien is saying throughout this novel is that the whole culture of war is patriotism,…

Diana Vreeland, a known “empress of fashion”, once said, “Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes” (LeTrent 19). Fashion is generally defined as the clothing and accessories that are worn by individuals. Even though fashion seems like a simple and insignificant topic, fashion impacts almost every aspect of our society. Fashion reveals not only cultural changes that are occurring in society, but…

There was not a single piece of leather furniture that lacked an intricate map I had scratched into it with my grubby four-year-old fingernails. Every wall and flat surface had Sharpie murals of vast cotton candy skies and family trees made of dogs as soon as I discovered how to hold a pen. My parents never tried to stifle my creativity. They urged me to pursue artistry and offered every tool conceivable to develop my creative skills. Growing up hearing my father jam out on guitar and watching…

This evolution ranged from the 1950s with the teenagers wanting music that reflected them, to the 1960s of songs of political statements to ending the decade with psychedelic music. The 1970s then started producing music of hard rock/heavy metal and ended the decade with punk rock, which was a reaction to the fact that most people believed rock bands were just playing for the money and not for the music (n.p, Rock Music…

Created in 1968 and running until 2016, Zap Comix was a ground-breaking and defying comic book that defied convention and societal law (Comic Code) it became a model for the Comix movement. A comic that has evolved with the ages taking a progressive and often regressive stance on ‘hot topics’ of the time. In Zap Comix Issue 1 Crumb describes himself as a ‘raving lunatic’ through the use of self-caricatures in this case; Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural. Showing from the get-go Crumb wasn’t one to…

What is going on? In 2018 our society is ran by a corrupt racist Donald Trump billionaire and the police killing young black men like ,Michael Brown, Tamir rice and Trayvon Martin. These are the same issues Marvin Gaye called out in 1971 in his iconic song What is going on? “Marvin starts the song by saying Mother, mother There's too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.” When this song was…

College in the 21th century should have general version of majors, and when a person gets their masters or PHD when they get more specific. But there are different opinions from Liz Coleman a speaker on a TED Talk video, Walter Kirn a personal story of his journey for knowledge and Aristotle giving the reader three Rhetorical Appeals and Minerva a new age college, as well as mission statements from different colleges. The way Liz Coleman summarizes her argument is that she wants a broader…