Political Climate of the 1950s

Born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, McCarthy earned a law degree at Marquette University in 1935 and was elected as a circuit judge in 1939, the youngest in state history. At age 33, McCarthy volunteered for the United States Marine Corps and served during World War II. He successfully ran for the United States Senate in 1946, defeating Robert M. La Follette, Jr. After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.  McCarthy was never able to prove his sensational charge.Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate. In succeeding years, McCarthy made additional accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department, the administration of President Harry S. Truman, Voice of America, and the United States Army. He also used charges of communism, communist sympathies, or disloyalty to attack a number of politicians and other individuals inside and outside of government. With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, McCarthy's support and popularity began to fade. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion. McCarthy died in Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. The official cause of death was acute hepatitis; it is widely accepted that this was exacerbated by alcoholism.


McCarthy seems to have have started out as a popular man. He made some poor choices and lost respect from a lot of people. He may be a bad man to a lot of people, and i do not think many people cared to give him a second chance.  He's seems to have done some unjust things. I do not think many people liked this man.

Drugs in the 1960s

My research paper was about the influence of drugs on the 1960s.  I enjoyed doing this research paper because i learned many things that i did not know about drugs and even the 60s.  I had no idea the effects that LSD had on people until i did  my paper.  It said that it is the most frightening drug out there.  I did not know it was so highly promoted by prestigious people and basically everyone had tried it.  Also i did not know that marijuana started out only being used by jazz musicians.  I had thought that only the hippies were  using drugs, but really it was musicians who started promoting it and everyone else picked it up along the way. The way drugs were used in the 60s and leading into the 70s is very mind blowing and i can even imagine if how different life would be if it were like that today.

Romantic Poem Reflection

The poem i want to reflect on is the one about the birds flying south for winter.  I really enjoyed that poem because you could see the beauty as you read along.  They way everything was described was very spiritual without being bold.  That is mostly what i enjoyed about it.  It gave off such a strong meaning of finding your own path and not letting others hinder your choices, but it never just came out and said that exactly.  To find the meaning you were looking for through in this poem you really have to look at it with an open mind.  It would be very easy to take a literal translation to it, but that is not what it is all about.

Connection with nature

I find that i connect with nature very well. I love flowers and i try to incorporate them into everything. I love how simply beautiful they are. I feel as if they can brighten up a room and hardly be noticed.  If i were to be one thing in nature i would choose to be a flower. They are all different but equally beautiful. They are not as noticeable as everything else in nature, but to me they stand out the most. I connected with flowers because they are simple yet they say a lot. They add spark to any situation and can fix any bad mood.  They are the fall back for a forgotten gift.  They are reliable and everyone finds joy in them. They simply are a gift to earth.