Compare & Contrast One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Compare & Contrast

Early 1960s: In 1962, the Cold War reaches its most fevered pitch during the Cuban Missile Crisis. U.S. President John F. Kennedy imposes a naval blockade on Cuba after discovering evidence of Soviet missile construction on the island, and the U.S.S.R. goes on special military alert.

Today: The Soviet Union no longer exists, and Russia, the largest country left from the Soviet breakup, has a democratically elected president. The Russian government's biggest problems are paying their military, funding the government, and rising organized crime.

Early 1960s: After the government shuts down official studies of LSD in the late 1950s, research into the effects of the hallucinogenic drug is earned on at a few universities. The drug, still legal, becomes popular with young people, particularly members of the "counterculture."

Today: A controlled substance since 1966, LSD is illegal throughout the United States. Although its popularity has largely been...
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