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    they could do and they do it. Usually people who commit the most violent crimes, like murder and assault, have something wrong with their psychology. Some people believe that Timothy McVeigh was mentally unstable when he decided to do the Oklahoma City Bombing. Many people live a hard life in this world and one of them was Timothy McVeigh. He “was the middle child in a blue-collar family in rural New York state” (“McVeigh”). McVeigh’s parents got…

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    Pros And Cons Of Mcveigh

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    On the morning of April 19, 1995 there was a blast that would change the United States forever. A man by the name of Timothy Mcveigh drove a Ryder moving truck up to the Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and detonated a bomb from inside the truck.He was reasonable for killing nearly One hundred- seventy people and injuring over five- hundred more people. Those nearly one hundred seventy people included nineteen children that were killed in a day care on the second floor.…

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    LSD was first made by Albert Hoffman, a Swiss scientist, in 1938. LSD (short form) actually comes from its early name LSD-25 which is an abbreviation for the German "Lysergsaure-diethylamid" followed by a sequential number. Hoffman was not only the first to make LSD, he was also the firwst to ingest and learn the psychedelic effects of this drug. Hoffman died April 29, 2008, at the age of 102. LSD is a semi-synthetic drug, this means that it occurs both in nature and is part man-made. Lysergic…

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    When both Psilocybin and LSD were deemed illegal in certain countries, MDMA began to emerge. In 1970, biochemist Alexander Shulgin explored controlling the altered consciousness MDMA had on people. Following Shulgin, around 4,000 psychiatrists and psychologists began experimenting with MDMA in their practice. Case reports from individual psychiatrists and psychologist proved that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy was successful in treating their patients. Although case reports analyzing the effects of…

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    LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, is an extremely potent hallucinogen and goes by many other names, such as, acid, blotters, trips, and many other nicknames. It was first created in the year 1938 and has been a well known drug since. The main effects of this drug cause hallucinations and trips. The drug LSD is manufactured from an ergot called lysergic acid. It was discovered in 1938 in a fungus that on rye and other grains. It is produced in crystalline form and then is mixed with excipients…

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    Example 4. Etiology of Violence Timothy McVeigh grew up in Pendleton, New York, a predominantly white neighborhood (Nichols, 2003). Although very bright, McVeigh was considered a loner and an underachiever in school. After high school, he developed an obsession with guns and began to stockpile weapons and supplies. In 1988, McVeigh enlisted in the U.S. Army. While in the Army, he became obsessed with the Turner Diaries, a book full of violent racist and anti-Semitic fantasies. Moreover,…

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    Lsd Research Paper

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    The CIA studied and utilized LSD extensively from the early fifties until 1963, when they stopped using it. Psychologists, who had been steadily building data that supported the therapeutic side of LSD, they were forced to stop their research. Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert of Harvard University, refused to follow the new LSD regulations. They were soon relived from teaching at harvard but they still educated the public about the spiritual and therapeutic effects of this drug. In…

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    City bombing occurred on 19 April 1995 at 9:02 am. The bombing, targeting the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, took the lives of 168 people, consisting of federal and state employees, citizens, and children. The culprits behind the bombing are Timothy McVeigh (executed in 2001) and Terry Nichols (serving a life sentence in prison). Given the extent of their involvement, in the heinous act, the blame is well placed. However, McVeigh and Nichols were not acting on their deranged ambition, rather…

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    and a half years ago when domestic terrorist attacked America? On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was blown up by domestic terrorist and ex-Army decorated soldier, twenty-seven year old, Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator and ex-Army buddy, Terry Nichols. McVeigh raised in western, New York where he acquired a love for guns and survival skills. In 1986, McVeigh graduated from high school and in 1988, McVeigh enlisted in the United…

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    Essay On The 90s

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    The ‘90s The nineties was a decade full of silliness and learning in the United States. In the beginning of the decade the country was fighting a war then in the middle of the decade they experienced a terror attack. The nineties came out with a variety of music and movies for people of all ages to enjoy. The time period from 1990 to 2000 is what is known as the nineties now. The nineties rolled around just as the U.S was preparing for the Persian Gulf War that would take place in 1991. Then in…

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