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Peace love and freedom; a common saying in the hippie/counterculture era. Hippies were about love and fighting for their beliefs. They were a group of individuals previously known as the Baby Boomers who had grown to wish to change the way the world worked. These college students and young individuals were fed up with being conservative, denied, and unheard. Their lifestyle included three things: Concerts, drugs and sex (most of the time these three things were joined into one activity). Music was a new way to rebel. With bands like [|The Doors] and [|Jimi Hendrix], kids found new things to be mad at, or even new things to try. These musicians were seen as demons to adults; to the hippies, these musicians were Gods. Drugs were used to free the mind. They would often use LSD or a pill. Hippies trusted each other; all they wanted to do was get high with one another and listen to some good music. As said in an article involving the 60s, “This was freedom.This was rebellion. This was cool.” Sex was a new discovery amongst the college students and young crowd. From the beginning, they were told that premarital sex would achieve them a trip to hell. Now, things were changing. With new books coming out, people could know that sex could actually be fun and not just something needed to keep the human race alive. This opened a new group of revelations. These hippies wanted to love each other; what way is there to love someone than to have sex with them? – that’s what the hippies thought -. “Love exists to be shared freely… So why reserve your love for a select few?” said a past hippie. Along with their new lifestyle, they protested many of the past lifestyles and many of the government’s ideas and concepts. The hippie culture were quite different from their past culture. In the 50s, people were often materialistic. Since WWII ended in 1945, the decade consisted of buying [|new inventions] – automobiles and refrigerators were big – rather than living on nothing like the hippies did. The hippies made their own clothes and saved their money for drugs and concerts. The hippies would be seen in sloppy jeans and homemade t-shirts. Hippies also broke away from the conservative love-your-partner-only attitude; hippies gave their love to whomever they chose. The hippies had a tendency to be [|vegetarians] (against the horrors of beef, pork and other meats). Most hippies were animal activists and would also not wear fur or other animal products. The hippie generation was all for peace and completely against violence. Their protests involved sitting in front of army trucks and saying something along the lines of ‘run me over or stop!’ It was effective – until they were arrested by police. The hippies were extremely displeased by the Vietnam War. The hippie generation led big protests in hopes of ending the war. The hippies wanted peace within the countries; they’re protests were always non-violent. Hippies lived in communities known as communes. These communes were usually filled with vans, in which they would live. These vans had beds and rugs giving the van a homey feel. Hippies would live here to look for alternative ways of life (most of the time spiritual). The inspirations for these communes were the Native American tribes. The hippies enjoyed the idea that they mixed their life styles as hunters and gatherers, yet everyone contributed to the tribe. This vision was turned into the communes, some of which still exist today. In Summertown, Tennessee, [|The Farm], is a vegetarian commune that exists today. Other things that were left behind by the hippies that exist today include the sexual revolution and the gay rights movements. Sex is practiced more openly now, due to the hippies and their free love. The Gay Rights have progressed incredibly far due to the hippies. After all their protesting and their effort to allow gays the right to marry, homosexual couples can be bound by law in at least 11 states. The Hippies were about passion, their life style is something that will always be with the US. Once a hippie, always a hippie.

=Black Panther Party=

Black Panther Party In Oakland, California, police brutality against blacks was out of control. In an attempt to save people, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale asked city council to set up a police review board. When the council ignored the request, the two men created the Black Panther Party. The two men created a Ten Point Plan for equal rights including, freedom, employment, shelters and education. Throughout the sixties, the Black Panther Party patrolled the streets and spread their word throughout Oakland. After a violent standoff with police (Newton was shot four times while a police officer was killed), the Black Panther Party slowly disbanded.

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A Day In The Life
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A man, fighting for his country and dressed in honor, sits by himself. There is no emotion in his face, for it is forced in the back of his brain where he lets it rest, untouched. If he allows the poison to enter his thoughts, it would have a disastrous side-affect. He has a journal at hand. He begins to write. The only way to release some of the pain, terror, and/or confusion is poetry. Many poets during World War I wrote about pain (it was not exactly a happy time). Poets, such as Woodbine Willie, have written about realistic war experiences that shocked all of the countries. Born on June 27, 1883 in Leeds, England, [|Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy], also known as G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, became a Anglican priest in 1914. When he entered the war, he became a spiritual aid for dying soldiers. Studdert-Kennedy obtained the name “Woodbine Willie” from selling Woodbine cigarettesto all of his fellow soldiers (he sold 5000 packets per week) (19). Because death was not rare, most of Willie's poetry tells of the different ways men can die in the war. The goal of Woodbine Willie, along with many other trench poets, was to portray at every angle - man, comrade and self - that war equaled death. Woodbine Willie made sure all the points of death were shown; one of those points were the most general: man. In one of Willie’s shorter poems, War, he described what the death did to those around him. “There’s a little English maiden Sorrowing. There’s a proud and tearless woman.” (Willie War). In this poem, Willie describes what war does to those who are not even in it. When people think of war they do not see the dead as humans, with families, emotions and other aspects that make humans magnificent. They just see the enemy, and the enemy they must destroy. In war, the death of a man is not realized. Also in the poem, War, [|Woodbine Willie’s religious side]peeks its head out in the line, “There’s a soul in the Eternal, Standing stiff before the King” (Willie War). This line states there is the soul of a soldier in heaven, standing before God. Since Willie was a priest, many of his poems involved God. The death of man is just one of the other deaths Woodbine Willie wrote about. During the war, there were few ways to escape the hopelessness and dread of the war. The men you fought with, bathed with, lived with, and in many cases died with were the ones that knew you In his poem called, His Mate, Willie speaks about the feelings of the man who has lost his comrade. The poem reads, “…I remember how I reached them, Dripping wet and all forlorn, In the dim and dreary twilight Of a weeping summer morn. All that week I’d buried brothers … In one grave I laid two hundred…And that night I’d been in trenches, Seeking out the sodden dead, And just dropping them in shell-holes, With a service swiftly said...” (Willie His Mate). This part ofthe poem explains how the soldiers dealt their comrades after they have died. The men in the war would often not be able to bury their brothers. Most soldiers would not be able to find their friends, nor would they be able to identify them. “With a service swiftly said” (Willie His Mate) simply means a quick funeral. The soldiers cannot dwell on the loss of their comrades, for it would drive them mad. media type="youtube" key="uXX9DNN2aHM" height="349" width="425"

After all the death the soldiers have witnessed, it would be too difficult to deal with the pain of losing a comrade through a simple funeral service. This poem also proves how much death there was compared to the graves (shell-holes). The [|death toll]was excessively high; the body to grave ratio was sometimes as high as 200:1. In the war, there were so many men dying, the soldier would drop them in shell-holes and simply fill the holes with dirt. It was rare a deceased soldier obtained his own grave. “…Then there spoke a dripping sergeant, When the time was growing late, ‘Would you please bury this one, ‘Cause e’ used to be my mate?’ So we groped our way in darkness To a body lying there, Just a blacker lump of blackness, With a red blotch on his hair…There are many kinds of sorrow In this world of Love and Hate, But there is no sterner sorrow Than a soldier’s for his mate.” (Willie His Mate). The last section infers that there is no greater depression than that of when your comrade dies in battle. When you lose their friend, it’s almost as if part of yourself dies too. After the war, many men suffered from [|post-traumatic stress]; one of Woodbine Willie’s most famous poems deals with the worst deaths, one’s emotional and spiritual self. In the poem, The Spirit, Willie was referring to when everything is bad, and you feel as if you can’t go on any longer, “Carry on” (Willie The Spirit). “…When the world is red and reeking, And the shrapnel shells are shrieking, And your blood is slowly leaking, Carry on… Carry on, Though your pals are pale and wan, And the hope of life is gone, Carry on…” (Willie The Spirit) This part means that even though your bleeding, your friends are dying, and you have no hope of survival, keep your head high, and do not fall until you are taken down. This poem also combines the different kinds of death. “…When the Boche” (the word “Boche” was WWI slang for German soldier) “had done your chum in…” (Willie The Spirit) infers the death of man. “…Though your pals are pale and wan…” (Willie The Spirit) means your comrades – your brothers – are dying. As stated in the poem His Mate, …“there is no sterner sorrow Than a soldier’s for his mate” (Willie). The poem also indicated more than just emotional or spiritual death, yet actual physical death as well. In the line, “…And your blood is slowly leaking…’ one can conclude that a man is dying. In 1917, Willie received the Military Crossafter running into [|No Man’s Land]in order to save a wounded man during a bombardment. After the war, Willie converted to Christian socialism. He became in charge of Saint Edmund King and Martyr in London. He continued writing and eventually went on tours of Britain, speaking in aid of the Industrial Christian Fellowship. On the tour, he caught the influenza and died in Liverpool on March 8, 1929 (19). Woodbine Willie had the right idea in defining war in many different ways of death. Not many people realized that a dead soldier was a man with a family, emotions, and/or a life. People today don’t even realize the loss of a human death until they lose someone close to them. In war, soldiers never see other soldiers as humans; the trauma would be too great if a soldier did. The soldier creates a persona of an enemy in order to kill without feeling guilty. War is death. As soon as war breaks out, death doesn’t follow far behind. How does one win a war? It depends on how many soldiers have died. It depends on who has killed more humans. It depends on who lost more lives. War is foolish, yet since people are not civilized enough to exclude violence from the world, soldiers die. People say being a soldier is an honor, yet being killed or killing a human being is hardly something honorable. Just because the person is not a US citizen, it is still murder. War is death.  Studdert-Kennedy, Geoffrey A. __The Unutterable Beauty__. Morrison and Gibb, 1927. "Trench Poetry." __Trench Poetry and Songs__. . "'Woodbine Willie' War Hero, Dead." __The New York Times__ 8 Mar. 1929.

SAT Essay Scoring Practice
===Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.===

Interestingly enough, I fall in the middle of these statements. I believe that one should remember the past and learn from those events. However, I also believe that many bad memories harm the present and the future. The only way to continue, many times, is to forget and forgive. My brother, who is college, has proved to me the importance of getting good grades and actively participating in extracorrecular activities. These two ideas helped him to get into the prestegious college of the University of Notre Dame. His education there will allow him to have a prosperous career as an adult. Reviewing these facts and ideas has led me to believe if I do the same, I will have a similar promising career. Consequently, I have gotten good grades and have seen interest from many prestigious programs. Through my knowledge, I have learned that in many bad instances, time to forget is very important. Ireland, for example, had been persecuted for many hundreds of years from 1000 AD to 1900 AD. After being granted the Irish Free State, they attacked many parts of Britain for retribution of those many years of being oppressed. Consequently there has been on going hostility between the two peoples. This hostility has cost the lives of many hundreds of people. A quote once said, "Violence begets violence" is the perfect phrase for this warfare. The only way to stop the loss of life is to forget and forgive; start anew. Different situations require different actions to proceed in a positive manner. Many times, people are required to use both elements. For example, let's forget this part and concentrate on how to bring this positive part into light. Both of the ideas on remembering and forgetting have their reasons for existing and both are positive.

--I gave this guy a three even though we never went over three. He deserves this grade because he has horrible grammar. Also, his thoughts are all over the place and he does not have enough insight to connect with his topic. A few of his sentences didn't even make sense. His grammar was good, yet it was not enough to give him even a four.

Beginning in 1936, a [|Spanish Civil War] broke out where tensions rose between two political parties: the Loyalists and the Nationalists. The Loyalists and/or Republicans formed as one group; led by the Spanish Government, this group consisted of workers, peasants, and trade unions (don Quijote 1). The other group, The [|Nationalists] consisted of rebellious soldiers, industry landowners, and the middle classes of the Catholic Church. Francisco Franco organized the rebellion against the Spanish Government. During this gruesome Civil War, the Loyalists were supported by the Soviet Union and European democracies, while the Nationalists were supported by Germany and Italy (don Quijote 1). The Spanish Civil War was gory and violent. Although the two sides were equally equipped, it was the Nationalists who were better organized; therefore, they won the Spanish Civil War, and overthrew the government. [|Francisco Franco] became the new dictator of Spain, which lasted from 1939 to 1975 (don Quijote 4). Adolf Hitler of Germany asked for support in his own military campaign in return of his helping Franco, but Spain could not provide financial nor human aid to Hitler’s cause. During Franco’s reign, Spain went through international isolation. In 1970, Franco anointed Prince Juan Carlos to be the next king, establishing a monarchy. When Franco died in 1975, Kind Juan Carlos I was crowned and the country found it’s was back to democracy (don Quijote 5).

__HSPA Practice__
__Picture Prompt__ You will have 30 minutes to complete the writing task. Take a few minutes to think about the task and to plan what you want to say before you begin to write. You may use the prewriting/planning space to plan your text, but your prewriting will not be scored. ** Only your writing on the lined pages of your answer sheet will be scored. ** Do your best to make your writing clear and well organized. Keep your purpose in mind as you write and use your checklist. You must use a No. 2 pencil. You may either print or write your final copy. You may // not // use a dictionary or any other reference materials during the test. However, you may use the Writer’s Checklist. If you finish before the time is called, review what you have written using the Writer’s Checklist to read critically and improve what you have written. ||
 * ** Directions ** : Today you are going to take part of the High School Proficiency Assessment for Language Arts Literacy. The assessment contains different types of the text and different activities. In the first part of your test, you will look at a picture and then complete a writing task. In this activity, you have an opportunity to demonstrate how well you can organize and express ideas in a written text. Refer to the Writer’s Checklist of important points to remember as you write. Educators who read your writing will consider these important points when they read and score your writing.



An ancient proverb says, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Regardless of the artist’s original intent, what we see in the picture can be very different from what others see. What story does this picture tell you? Use your imagination and experience to speculate about what is happening. Then write your story.

__Narrative Passage__
 * **Directions:** In this part of the test, you will read a narrative passage and then respond to the multiple-choice and open-ended questions that follow it. You may look back at the passage and mark notes in the margin if you like, but you must record your answers on your answer sheet. You will have 50 minutes for this part of the test. ||

The afternoon grew so glowering that in the sixth inning the arc lights were turned on--always a wan sight in the daytime, like the burning headlights of a funeral procession. Aided by the gloom, Fisher was slicing through the Sox rookies, and Williams did not come to bat in the seventh. He was second up in the eighth. This was almost certainly his last time to come to the plate in Fenway Park, and instead of merely cheering, as we had at his three previous appearances, we stood, all of us, and applauded. I had never before heard pure applause in a ballpark. No calling, no whistling, just an ocean of handclaps, minute after minute, burst after burst, crowding and running together in continuous succession like the pushes of surf at the edge of the sand. It was a sombre and considered tumult. There was not a boo in it. It seemed to renew itself out of a shifting set of memories as the Kid, the Marine, the veteran of feuds and failures and injuries, the friend of children, and the enduring old pro evolved down the bright tunnel of twenty-two summers toward this moment. At last, the umpire signalled for Fisher to pitch; with the other players, he had been frozen in position. Only Williams had moved during the ovation, switching his bat impatiently, ignoring everything except his cherished task. Fisher wound up, and the applause sank into a hush. Understand that we were a crowd of rational people. We knew that a home run cannot be produced at will; the right pitch must be perfectly met and luck must ride with the ball. Three innings before, we had seen a brave effort fail. The air was soggy, the season was exhausted. Nevertheless, there will always lurk, around the corner in a pocket of our knowledge of the odds, an indefensible hope, and this was one of the times, which you now and then find in sports, when a density of expectation hangs in the air and plucks an event out of the future. Fisher, after his unsettling wait, was wide with the first pitch. He put the second one over, and Williams swung mightily and missed. The crowd grunted, seeing that classic swing, so long and smooth and quick, exposed. Fisher threw the third time, Williams swung again, and there it was. The ball climbed on a diagonal line into the vast volume of air over center field. From my angle, behind third base, the ball seemed less an object in flight than the tip of a towering, motionless construct, like the Eiffel Tower or the Tappan Zee Bridge. It was in the books while it was still in the sky. Brandt ran back to the deepest corner of the outfield grass, the ball descended beyond his reach and struck in the crotch where the bullpen met the wall, bounced chunkily, and vanished. Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs--hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn’t tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.

11. The author used many different grammar techniques and many figures of speech. >
 * **Directions for open-ended questions 11 and 12:** Write your response in the space provided on the answer sheet. ||
 * What were some of the metaphors and comparisons the author used to create the baseball atmosphere?
 * How does the author create the feeling atmosphere of the baseball field, making you believe you’re there watching the game?


 * 1) The author used many metaphors and comparisons that gave us a vivid mental picture of Williams’s last at bat. Similes and metaphors were used when the author compared the soaring of the home run ball, stating, “…the ball seemed less an object in flight than the tip of a towering, motionless construct, like the Eiffel Tower or the Tappan Zee Bridge.” The literary devises made the reader to visualize the ball, actually being able to see it climbing over the right field fence. The author also compared the ball player to being like a god, for gods are modest, yet strong, and Williams displayed his modesty by very graciously running around the bases, not calling any attention to himself.

12. In the text, Ted Williams ran around the bases with his head to the ground, rushing his victory lap. >
 * If you were Ted Williams, would you do the same as he did, or would you smile and wave at the audience and cheer?
 * What would run through your mind as you ran around the bases after your last at bat during your home run victory lap?


 * 1) If I were Ted Williams, I would have been gracious, but not to the extent that he took it to. I would have stuck my head out and waved once when I got to the dug-out, but that is just about it, for it would be the last time I would ever be able to do so. Also, I don’t believe I would run with my head down, I think I would like to see and remember my last at bat for life. What would run through my mind would be probably thoughts of relief and joy; I would be relieved that I did not strike out, and I would be happy that I would be able to leave on such a high note. Feelings of sadness would also be present because I will never be able to return, professionally, to the game that I love.

__ Persuasive Passage __ Everybody at one point in his/her life uses cosmetics such as make-up, deodorant, shampoo, wrinkle creams, blemish creams and many other products. In the many different trials that these products go through before reaching the public, some are tested on animals. Many people believe that this is a necessary part of product testing, and I agree that limited testing needs to be done in a controlled environment; however, animal testing of cosmetics is bad. Animals are used to learn the many different things about how cosmetics have on animal skins; however, they do not always have the same effect on humans. In some cases animals have their fur shaved off and they have the product placed on the skin, which ends up burning or giving them a rash, causing them pain. They also have chemicals dropped into their eyes, and lethal substances injected into their bodies. In other cases the animal shows no effect, but when they use it on humans, it does not give the same results as it did on the animals. Although animals are said to be well treated, they are not. The treatment is harsh, and they are cared for half-heartedly. Cages are not cleaned out. They are so small the animal can hardly move or breathe, and the animals are not fed like they should be. The animal is under mental and physical torture. This can also affect the outcomes of the studies being done. Nowhere in the world is animal testing of cosmetics, toiletries or household cleaners actually required by law In most countries the law simply states that cosmetics and toiletries must be safe for human use. Critics maintain that animal test data is only used to defend the company against consumer lawsuits. Examples of companies producing cosmetics, toiletries, and household cleaners include: Pfizer Inc. (Coty), Hoechst Nestle (L’Oreal), Boots Eastman Kodak, British Petroleum, Max Factor, Clarion, Colorfast, Cover Girl, Maxi, and Procter & Gamble.
 * ** Directions: ** In this part of the test, you will read a persuasive passage and then respond to the multiple-choice and open-ended questions that follow it. You may look back at the passage and make notes in the margin if you like, but you must record your answers on your answer sheet. ||

As well as being wholly inappropriate, the continued testing of these products on animals is simply unnecessary. There are many products and ingredients already available whose safety has been demonstrated by years of use on humans. Many of the companies producing cosmetics, toiletries, and household cleaners are also active in other industries, such as the pharmaceutical, chemical or petroleum industries. These industries are closely related, due to the nature of the raw materials used in the products. Testing methods, therefore, are determined by manufacturers. The very unreliability of animal tests may make them appealing to some companies, since these tests allow manufacturers to put virtually any product on the market. Companies can also use the fact that their products were tested to help defend themselves against consumer lawsuits. Others believe that testing on animals helps them compete in the marketplace: Consumers demand products with exciting new ingredients, such as alpha-hydroxy acids, and animal tests are often considered the easiest and cheapest way to “prove” that new ingredients are “safe. The bottom line is that animal testing should be stopped. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just a few animals to save a million people. But sadly, that’s not the case. Millions of animals get tested to save hardly any people. It’s up to the caring people in this world to make a stand and do something about animal lab testing. Animals should not be abused for our own benefits, if there are any. They are living, breathing, creatures, and despite what some people say, they feel pain and emotions.


 * **Directions for open-ended questions 11 and 12:** Write your response in the space provided on the answer sheet. ||  ||

11. There were many reasons this person was against animal testing.
 * Identify two problems she had with this type of experimenting. Be sure to use examples from the text.
 * What are different ways of experimenting where animal testing would not be involved?


 * The author did have many issues with the subject of animal testing, one being the unfair treatment of animals during testing processes. We, the readers, are told that animals are placed in small areas that serve as cages, and the rations of food given are extremely small. Another issue that the author had with animal testing were the way in which testing processes are carried through. Labs intentionally inject lethal substances into these animals knowing that it will be harmful, and they also apply substances that burns their skin or will scorch their eyes. There are companies that do not use animal testing, such as the pharmaceutical industry, instead this company test on plants; this is an effective way to get around the use of animal testing for the benefit of the greater good.

12. As stated in the text, there are many different views on animal testing.
 * In your opinion, is animal testing an essential step for the testing of cosmetics?
 * What could be an example that would make animal testing okay? What could be a good factor from animal testing

- I do not believe that animal testing should be used for the benefit of the human race. Like mentioned in the essay, there are other ways of testing products without the use of animals; the testing use of plants can be just as effective, and creating hypoallergenic products work as good substitutes as well. However, there is one case in which I support the use of animals for experiment and that would be for stem cell research. The stem cell science is a science in which extra cells or organs are grown in animals, which will later be used for a person in need of a transplant or certain type blood. Though animals are used, this process can help cure millions of Americans with life threatening diseases, and could put an end to certain types of cancer; I believe the sacrificed life of an animal for one of a human is tolerable.