We Ate the Acid: A Note on Psychedelic Imagery “Symbols – symbols every where. All along my journey they flashed forth the apocalypse of utterly unimagined truths.” – Fitz Hugh Ludlow Psychedelic art typically contains a number of recurring motifs. Examples include circles, spirals, eyes, concentric shapes, grids, landscapes, nudity, long hair, skeletons and mushrooms. Other common motifs are various kinds of non-human animals, vegetation, space scenery and mandalas. And when humans and objects
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Yes! Nixon action most definitely warrant impeachment. He was trying to be sneaky and mess with the law. As president, Nixon should have been more responsible with his actions. He was completely aware of what he was doing and knew it was wrong and unconstitutional. A president is the leader of the country and is supposed to set the moral standards for the country. The president is also the person who tries their best to make the best decisions for the country and be trust worthy. Nixon at this point
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Fear, something that causes people to go crazy. Rainsford and Zaroff both were obsessed with hunting. The old man and the narrator both loved life. But what a tragedy. Two people ended up dead. Both murderers very scared, regretting the decisions they made, but only if there was another way out.. The Tell Tale Heart started out with a man becoming so obsessed with this old man's eye he plans to murder him because of it. He watched the old man sleep for eight days, when the old man woke up on the
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Like a world without light, racism and cruelty darken the heart of people with their own indecent ignorance; the people refusing to see with their own humane eyes the cruel evil that was occurring for years. Families forcing to separate, people beating others, and the torturing of a race all because of simple trait; the color of one’s skin. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, racism brutally appears in Mark Twain’s book and continuously seems to beat the reader with outrageous racial and cruel quotes
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Regret is portrayed throughout Victor Frankenstein’s life by creating a monster and regretting what he made. In chapter four, Victor wanted to begin creating human beings. Victor somehow ended up creating a monster instead of a human being. The monster that Victor created died when he was going to show Henry his creation. How could Victor bare to create a second human being or end up creating another monster? In chapters eleven through fourteen, Victor is relaxed on the production of human beings
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The colonization of Mars is a beautiful drug, the vice of humanity. Mars is overwhelming and consuming, like society. “Mars becomes a way of seeing, of being, a state of mind, a vision, an addiction,” (Harlow 311-314). The allure of Mars lied within the newfound freedom and power its settlers craved. Bradbury best showed the effects on Mars through his character Spender, an archaeologist who rages against his crewmates, murdering them as protest of destructive technology and disregard towards Martian
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‘The Shining’ is a horror novel by Stephen King. The story mainly revolves around three characters John ‘Jack’ Torrance, Winnifred ‘Wendy’ Torrance, and Daniel ‘Danny’ Torrance. Jack is married to Wendy and their son is Danny. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who had stopped drinking since the night he broke Dany’s arm about 2 years ago. Danny is a child who is very different because he has the Shining which shows him visions with the help of his imaginary friend Tony. The story starts by showing
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The story told in “Young Goodman Brown” reveals, in a very interesting way, what can happen to men when you take what they value most away. With the help of the devil, Goodman Brown changes from a hopeful young lad to a gloomy man who has lost almost everything that livens his life. It’s hard to believe that a simple interaction with someone or something that one does not trust could leave such a lasting impact upon the participant. Yet it appears that the devil, whether the real thing or a simple
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Just like a living organism can become infected with a virus, society is plagued with monsters in its midst. These monsters feed off of every good and beautiful thing in the world; they are inhumanly cruel and wicked. Just like a disease, they eat at society at every angle until it is destroyed and they achieve their ambitions. A man named Josef Mengele comes to mind when the word monster is spoken. Working as head physician in Auschwitz during World War II, he selected gas chamber victims with
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A professor obsessed with the idea of past lives, gets the chance to see his past, but his discovery leads to grave consequences. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Professor STEPHEN EMERSON (50’s) is obsessed with a book, DNALYM, written by EDGAR GRAVES. It explains his theory of past lives and the ability of man to tap into his consciousness to see his or her other lives. In fact, years ago, Edgar, along with his colleagues, DAVIS, SUZANNE, and JULIO ran an experiment on a homeless man to discover his past lives
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