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The sixties were a time of change and revolt. Strikes, marches, and peaceful protests were all popular during this era. Many of the people from this time period were called [|hippies]. The definition of a hippie is "a [|youth movement] that began in the [|United States] during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. The word //hippie// derives from //[|hipster] //, and was initially used to describe people who created their own communities, listened to [|psychedelic rock], embraced the [|sexual revolution] , and used drugs such as [|cannabis] and [|LSD] to explore alternative states of consciousness." Music artists were also part of the hippie culture as well. Such as The Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and Jefferson Airplane, all were icons of this generation. Woodstock, what was meant to be small music and arts festival had a turn out of approximately 450,000 people; it was one of the greatest gatherings of hippies during the sixties. The main goals of the hippies were for the country to stop fighting, and to live a free and unrestricted lives.

Today we are much more conservative. Even though there are few things of the hippies that have been left behind, music and some illegal drugs, we still are much different. For example, our (the people of america) latest gathering in Washington D.C. was for the inauguration of [|President Barack Obama]. It was a gathering to support the president, not to stand up for what we believe in. People today both favor and dislike the war in Iraq. Those in favor of it are doing what all supporters of past wars do, hope we accomplish what went in for, and to loose the least amount of lives that we can. As for those who disagree with the war have not done much to support their cause. Hippies on the other hand were all about speaking your mind, and up for what you believed in. Like in the movie [|Forrest Gump]. After Forrest receives the medal of honor he is luered in by a ban of hippies to speak on the podium in front of the Washington Monument. There were thousands there to listen to what the veterans had to say. Which is what the hippies represented. Their power came in numbers, and believers. Your next question is who were hippies? Well hippies were normally from wealthly or middle class families. Their goals were to get away from their parents, experience life, and just to get out of their homes. Essentially this was what hippies were all about. Hippies were a generation of rebels. Their explosion of independence came from the boring seclusion of the fifties. Many of the beatnik poets evolved into hippies during the sixties. Being independent is very important in life, to an extent. I feel the hippies were a little extreme with their freedoms. Their protests were effective, but their abuse of drugs is what they seemed to do an excess of. Even though I disagree with some of their methods, thats what the hippies were all about.

In 1922 he became general secretary of the Communist party, in this position he built a support for himself. After [|Lenin] died in 1924, Stalin proclaimed himself his heir, and outmaneuvered all that were standing in his way. By the late 20’s Stalin had become dictator of the [|Soviet Union](BBC para. 3). Stalin was kicked out of school in 1899 for many reasons including reading forbidden books. He later said that the reason was he was trying to convert some of his fellow students to Marxism. He later got h is first start in politics when he joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901. (Spartacus Educational, Para. 4) In 1928 he introduced his first [|five year plan], it dealt with development of iron and steel, machine-tools, electric power and transport. He called for 111% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron production and 335% increase in electric power. He argued that if they did not meet his demands that the Soviet Union would not be able to defend itself from invasions of the capitalist countries Westward. (Spartacus Educational, Para. 48). In 1934 Stalin had Sergey   Kirov assassinated due to being rebellious. Stalin was also threatened by him because he felt that he may take his po wer from him. (Spartacus Educational, Para. 56). Stalin knew that war with Germany was going to happen, but he wanted to build up his armed forces. Instead, he made a treaty with Hitler, so he would invade Western Europe first (Spartacus Educational, Para. 67).

Works Cited "Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)." __BBC__. . "Spartacus Educational." __Spartacus Educational__. .

2/3/09 This article explains much about Adolf's father and family more than himself. The article also tells you some of his family history, it is rumored that Hitlers grandfather may have been jewish (history place para. 3). Hitlers father also married many times, and made himself rich and successful from nothing. Adolf's last name was not actually Hitler, technically it was "the last name of his mother, Schicklgruber" (the history place para. 9) What may have caused Adolf's mental disturbance was the fact that his father was able to make himself something when he was nothing. Adolf most likely was pressured by his father to be great, but in fact his father's strategy back fired. He made him into a ruthless and terrible man.

Stephen Blake 12/3/08 Mr. Saxon/ Ms. Yeam American Studies [|World War One]was a war where weapons, the likes of many people had never seen, were being developed. The trench was the most commonly used tactic in World War One. I consider it a technological advance because it was never greatly used before this time. A trench was a dug out in the ground that allowed soldiers to better protect themselves. Because of the trenches many weapons, like chorine gas, where developed. Next the biggest advance in warfare towards our lives today, the "modern" bullet. No longer did soldiers have to shoot, stop for fifteen minutes, only to shoot again. Gas, as mentioned before, was a huge role in the war as well. It may not have caused the most casualties, but it was the most feared weapon of the war. There was also the first appearance of the machine gun; every country had its own type, and many nations used them differently. Lastly, the airplane, the one invention of this time period that directly effects you, the readers, most today. The airplane opened up enormous possibilities, and led to the famous dogfights of the Great War. Even though many people called it, "the great war", it certainly was not pleasant. I feel the war caused more bad than good for the generation of that time period. Wilfrid Owen, a poet, writes about the horror of the gas attacks, "...But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the mist panes and thick green light, As under a sea, I saw him drowning." World War One will always be known for [|trench warfare]. Not for the protection it provided, but the terrible conditions that the soldiers suffered. Trenches also will be known for their complexity, the weapons made for them, and what little the style of warfare accomplished. The terrible conditions of trenches during the war caused a massive wave of the influenza virus, or the flu as we know it today. Half of the american troops, or dough boys, were killed off by this epidemic. Not only was influenza a problem, but rats, mold (on the food) and lice made trenches an extremely gross and unsanitary place. Another problem that arose was trench foot. Trench foot was a condition developed from standing for hours on end in the cold, muddy and soggy water of the trenches, which caused a soldiers feet to swell and deform. Trench foot leads to [|gangrene], an infection that requires, in this case, the foot or leg to be amputated. This meant for men fighting in the trenches, if they survived gun fire, gas, bombs, and [|trench foot], that they would still be limited to small jobs because they had a leg or foot cut off. Many men went mad in the trenches, committed suicide, or lost all hope. You were lucky went home with a somewhat strait head on your shoulders; although, "shell shock" which is insanity caused by horrific events such as war, was also something that could effect your life as well. Men twenty years after fighting war still wake up at night with scenes from the war playing in their heads like it was yesterday. A co-worker of mine told me about fighting in desert storm when he was seventeen. he said "Yeah, war is a horrific thing to be part of. Like one time me and one of my friends, who had been hit, were hiding for two full days in a dugout from enemy fire. By the end of the first day my friend died, and it started to smell really bad. Once everything cooled off I brought him back, and we buried him. That is the most reoccurring dream I have from the war."(Raza) The trenches of World War One were a terrible place to be, but what was even more terrifying were the weapons designed to attack them. media type="youtube" key="YoDTcX715rA" height="344" width="425" The sounds of people drowning in their own blood-- The screams of men, "I'm blind!" are all caused by one chemical weapon, gas. The agents that were used in World War One ranged from [|tear gas], irritates eyes, nose, mouth, lungs, and can send a person into a sneezing or coughing fit, mustard gas, a weapon that can literally eat at your skin, and chlorine gas, can literally suffocate a man where he is standing. The first country to actually use gas was France, they used tear gas against Germany in August of 1914; although, Germany was the first to use poisonous gas--they used it the most of all the nations at war. Tear gas is still used today, law enforcement uses it to control riots. Mustard gas, and chlorine gas are no longer used for obvious reasons. So two deadly weapons faded away with the Great War never to be used in combat again. Though the lives lost to them will never be forgotten. Another new weapon that would revolutionize guns forever, the metal casing bullet or "the modern bullet." The new bullet not only gave the soldiers the ability to get more kills. The innovation also gave soldiers the ability to shoot longer distances, and to become true marksmen. With higher velocity from each shot means better accuracy as well. Mussel loading rifles are replaced by automatic machine guns. More bullets flying past you faster than ever can only mean one thing, more fatalities. Machine Guns flat out caused the most deaths of the war out of any other weapon. Simple more bullets equals more kills. Every country was in on it too. Examples of machine guns are the British Vickers, Hotchkiss and Lewis guns. The Vickers gun had the ability to shoot four hundred and fifty rounds per minute. The gun was very reliable and sturdy, soldiers described of times where one gun shot for 12 hours strait, 1 million rounds were fired, 100 barrels were used, and not one break down occurred. Many of our automatic weapons we used today descended from those very machine guns introduced ninety four years ago.
 * The Lost Generation**

Every technology mentioned above contributed somehow to World War One, known effect you more today than this invention, the plane. The airplane, invented in 1903 by the Wright brothers, opened up a whole new world of warfare, in which leaders could tamper with and exploit. Bombs could be dropped from planes, and guns mounted on the planes could be used to shoot at enemy planes, or enemies on the ground. Sixteen years after Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the plane that trans-Atlantic flights began taking place. Dog Fights also began to occur where two enemy planes shot at each other with the guns mounted on the plane, trying to take one another down. Back then if you were shot down that was it, you were dead, there was no escape. Because there were no safety features like we have today, the pilot death rate was very high, as well as the deaths that the planes caused, from the dropping of bombs, to the shots from its gun. Later the plane would become even more famous for dropping the world’s deadliest bomb. To summarize this passage, World War One was a very treacherous and death filled war, with very little progress due to the use of trench warfare. Technology like planes, metal bullets, trenches and gas all contributed to the most fatalities the world had ever seen in a single war. The horrors of the war, and the trenches were embedded in the minds of the soldiers for the rest of their lifetime. The question is, do you think that this war was one for the people or was it for the leaders? Was there really those men had to fight for other than being forced to go, or to feel obligated to go? The answer is obvious.

Works Cited Roberts, Hugh. "Our National Weapon." __The Washington Post__ 16 June 1901: 1-1. Trueman, Chris. "Poison gas and World War One." __History learning site__. . Wiest, Andrew A. __The Illustrated History of World War I__. Chicago: Book Sales, Incorporated, 2001.

**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.** Memories act as both a help and a hinderance to the success of someone. Many people advise you to learn from the past and apply those memories so that you can effectively succeed by avoiding repeating your past mistakes. On the other hand, people who get too caught up with the past are unable to move on to the future. Elie Wiesel's memoir Night perfectly exemplifies the double nature of memories. Wiesel, a Jewish man, suffered heavily throughout the Holocaust and Night is rife with horrific descriptions of his experience. These memories help to spread the view of what life was like. Through recounting these memories, Wiesel is able to educate world readers about the atrocities committed in hopes that the same blatant violations of human rights are never repeated again. Through reliving the Holocaust through his writing, Wiesel was inspired to become proactive in the battle for civil rights. Some would point to his peaceful actions and the sales of his book and label him a success. Despite the importance of recounting such memories, Wiesel acknowledges the damage that memories can also cause. Following his liberation from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Wiesel was a bitter, jaded man. He could not even write Night until several years later. The end of the novel describes Wiesel's gradual but absolute loss of faith throughout the experience. His past experiences haunted him for several years, rendering him passive. It was not until he set aside his past that he could even focus on the future. Had he remained so consumed with the pain and damage caused in the past, he may never have achieved the success that he has attained. Overall, Wiesel's experiences exemplify the importance of the past as a guide. Wiesel's past experiences helped to guide him in later life, but it was not until he pushed them aside that he could move on. To me this means that you should rely on your past without letting it control you. Allow your past to act as a guide, while making sure that you are also living in the present and looking to the future. i felt this essay was fairly well written, but it did not impress me. Although I did like the vocabulary they used and the examples they used. What I did not like about the essay was that there was a few spelling errors, plus it was a bit choppy. Over all a good essay, this person would've gotten a four.

=Part 1= ===Directions: Today you are going to take part of the High School Proficiency Assessment for Language Arts Literacy. The assessment contains different types of text and different activities. In the first part of the test, you will look at a picture and then complete a writing task. In this activity, you have an opportunity to demonstrate how ell you can organize and express your ideas in 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.=== === 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 your write and use your check list. 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 time is called, review what you have written using the Writer's Checklist to read critically and improve what you have written.===

=Part 2= ===Directions: In this part of the test, you will read a persuasive passage and then respond to the 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 the answer sheet.===

=== In the matter, fellow citizens, of American disillusionment v. **Alex Rodriquez**, may I make a small suggestion? Do not allow yourself to be surprised that **__any__** hero who competed during the prime steroid years used performance-enhancing drugs. Really, acceptance of this fact will be so beneficial to your emotional health whenever the next big name surfaces ... guilty. ===
 * =Maybe A-Rod's steroid saga isn't all that bad for baseball= ||


In the specific case of A-Rod, for goodness sake, all the signs were there ... along with the manifold rumors. He is strictly a Type-Me personality, just the sort to try anything to abet his own cause. We know all too well that he is insecure and susceptible to temptation. Moreover, he was mentioned by **Jose Canseco** in his mea culpa that also cited a number of his colleagues as likely drug offenders. Canseco was called out as a Judas, but he turns out to be like one of those hideous old crones in fairy tales who forecast all the bad news -- and get it all right. Ancient Mayan literature predicts the end of the world in 2012. Were Jose Canseco to do the same, I would be packing my bag today for the hereafter. But love is blind. The Yankees twice paid exorbitantly for Rodriquez' services -- the second time, you will recall, after he publicly disassociated himself from the team in the rudest possible fashion. But the cuckolded Yankees remained enthralled by the fact that A-Rod might someday take the all-time home run record away from the unlovely, steroid-scented **Barry Bonds** -- who, by the way, goes on trial for perjury in just two weeks. The Yankees were buying, they convinced themselves, a knight in shining armor, who would free the sainted record from sin and restore it to a man of grace -- as mobs would descend upon ball parks to pay to watch A-Rod succeed. But the past is prologue here. What we saw with Bonds was that everyone rooted against him, except for the hometown Giant fans, who clasped him to their bosom. Now, we will only see this phenomenon taken to a new power, for the Yankees have infinitely more admirers and, likewise, infinitely more despisers than the Giants (or anyone else). Wherever the Yankees go, it will be rather like professional wrestling, multitudes turning out to boo the villainous A-Rod, except in the new Yankee Stadium, where indiscriminating New Yorkers will feel obliged to stand up for their man. It's the same old home-town business as with Bonds: he may be a creep, but he's our creep. So, in a very real way, what has happened to Rodriguez isn't all that bad for baseball. Really. Nobody much liked him when he was supposed to be clean. He might as well be the new Bonds, an even more divisive figure in pinstripes. Not only will throngs pay to root for him to hit or not to hit home runs, but all students of the game will spend the next decade or so doubling as baseball theologists, interminably debating whether or not A-Rod should ascend into the Hall of Fame. And, of course, the irony is that anybody with any sense of justice will know that none of this matters because**Henry Aaron** remains the one true holder of the home run record.

Before A-Rod’s drug-use was discovered, the author described A-Rod’s reputation as a hero, but the author also wrote, “Nobody much liked him when he was supposed to be clean.” Now, however, A-Rod is the “new Bonds”; he will always be remembered no matter what, and he will always make a good conversation topic for the students of the sport for the next decade, which shows that he is still a hero of baseball in a sense. Although fans my be angered and have a feeling of betrayal, his impact on baseball is great enough for him to remain a hero, even with the slight villainous side to his image.

If it were up to me, Alex Rodriguez deserves a second chance. Everyone deserves a second chance, so why not an infamous baseball star? Yes, he used drugs, but he still brought the sport what it needed, a hero for the fans. He could regain the status of hero by stop using drugs and playing just as well as he had always played. Although his clean hero image may have crumbled, he can always rebuild his status if he is given a second chance.

 = = ===**Directions: In this part of the test, you will read a persuasive passage and then respond to the 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 the answer sheet.**=== = You will have 50 minutes to complete this section. John Updike's Descriptive Narrative=


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.

Describe Ted Williams after he hit his last home run. How did he run the bases? Why did he not acknowledge the crowd?
== Ted Williams’ last home run was clearly painful for him. He ran the bases as he had always done, with his head down, and he ignored the chants and applause of the crowd as he returned to the dugout. He ran “as if [their] praise were a storm of rain to get out of.” He didn’t acknowledge the crowd, perhaps, because he wanted the crowd to remember his last moment just like any other game. He didn’t change his style just because it was his last homerun; he went up to bat, he hit his homerun, and he walked back into the dugout. ==

When Ted Williams’ was at bat, the crowd had done something that the narrator had never seen done before at a baseball stadium, they just applauded. There were no cheers, yells, or boo’s: just applause. As he reentered the dugout, the crowd was crying out for his acknowledgement, and even the other players and the umpire begged him to come out and acknowledge the crowd; however, Ted Williams’ last bat was really his last bat, and the crowd did not want to accept it.