Psychedelics

Theoretically, the term 'Public Art ' (municipal or community art) signifies any work of art which is designed for and located in a space available to the general populace, from a public square to a enclosure within a building freely accessible to the general public. In practice, however, a significant amount of such works of art end up tucked away in storage, or in private governmental workplaces. A lot of the public art, which has fortunately evaded being classified as antiquity, contains a…

Woodstock The 1960’s marked a huge turning point in American history. Music continued to become more and more influential in everyday life. By the mid 1960’s, young Americans began to feel progressively more frustrated by the society they were being brought up in. The youth had to witness women be suppressed and discredited strictly based on gender. Many women revolted against the traditional housewife position that men felt the need to impose on their wives. The youth had to watch colored men…

Throughout American History, minority groups have been no stranger to structural and institutional racism, whether it be through blatantly racist policies such as The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Jim Crow Laws, or Japanese Internment during World War 2, or through more discrete micro-racist projects such as employment discrimination, education discrimination, and unjust treatment by individuals in society. After the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, the concept of equality for all…

A Calculated Metamorphosis When the words “Disney Starlet” come to mind, what does the average person picture? Who do they envision? If millennials were asked this question ten years ago, a blonde haired, bubbly, Miley Cyrus, also known as Hannah Montana, would have come to mind for many. Ten years later, she portrays quite the opposite persona, going from Disney darling to outspoken, edgy it girl. Thesis (last sentence/ play around with this/ topic +claim + reasoning): Miley Cyrus elects to…

The Beatles were a musical group who originated from England, in the small town of Liverpool. This bands influence has shaped the very world with their experimental music, and inoventatuive album covers. Their musical stylings, influential image, and profound lyrics have touched the hearts and minds of many, many people all over the globe for over 50 years, and will continue to do so for many decades more. The beatles member count consisted of four young blokes by the names of George Harrison,…

'The idea is to produce things that are as strange and mysterious to you as the first music you ever heard.' Brian Eno Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Eno or, as more commonly known to the world, just Brian Eno, can be unbiasedly described as an iconic contemporary British artist. He began his music career with guitarist Anthony Grafton in 1968 in Maxwell Demon, and was influenced by such bands as The Velvet Underground (Independent.co.uk, 1998) his real legacy began in 1971, as a…

policy,” (Richard, 1). Drugs are defined as a broad base of substances with psychoactive effects divided into four categories which include tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, and other drugs. Many currently illegal drugs, such as marijuana, coca, and psychedelics, have been used for thousands of years for both medical and spiritual purposes. Since the mid 1980s, growing numbers of United States citizens have come to recognize the harshness, expense, and ineffectiveness of United States drug…

Every year there is a new “it” drug such as Xanex, marijuana, promethazine, and so on. There are actually more drugs that the youth could be exposed to. An examination of late overviews and exploration puts the extent of the illicit U.S. drug market at $200 billion to $750 billion every year, with most gauges coming in the middle of $400 billion and $500 billion. The investigation additionally found that the present decade has logged into the heaviest medication use per individual every year in…

Today, like in every other generation, the artists are singing about the drugs that are prevalent in their lives and making them a part of our culture. Little do people notice how much impact this has on the audiences. The 60s saw the rise of psychedelics with big names like Pink Floyd and the Beatles, the 70s became the home of the cocaine culture and so on until today we have the cannabis and MDMA artists (Lombardi). When big music idols begin to incorporate these drugs into their music they…

Intro: A. Alkaloids are the most diverse group of natural products that exist within living organisms (Hartmann, 1998). Alkaloids are a diverse group of low molecular weight; nitrogen-containing compounds mainly derived from amino acids, and are found in about 20% of plant species. Alkaloids play a very important role in organism metabolism and functional activity. They are metabolic products in plants, animals and microorganisms (Aniszewski, 2007). Due to their potent biological activity, many…