40‚000 and 50‚000 people gathered at Woodstock to celebrate their music‚ their love‚ and their freedom in the concert that has remained one of the most influential events of the 60s. “Some say [Woodstock] symbolized the freedom and idealism of the 1960s. Critics argue that Woodstock represented much of what was wrong with the ’60s: a glorification of drugs‚ a loosening of sexual morality and a socially corrosive disrespect
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a face-to-face conversation‚ not a video call. With a local face-to-face interview‚ I can observe a person’s body language and make better eye contact‚ while also having the practical flexibility regarding time zones and distance. While the late 1960s in the US did not just consist of hippies‚ drugs and protests‚ these aspects have shaped common perceptions of that particular time period. I especially wanted to explore a perspective that differed from the anti-authoritarian
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don’ts‚ and most importantly‚ what sort of benefits to society have brought the kind of personalities these subcultures have given birth to. The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that begun in San Francisco‚ United States in the 1960’s‚ the word “Hippie” derives from Hipster and was originally used to describe Beatniks; not the people you can spot walking around town with a zebra hat
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organize as a society and allows us to consider one’s self. Another reason that mediums or technology change our culture and world quicker than ever is that content is comparatively slow‚ ideas are slower‚ and technology faster in communicating. To explain‚ ideas and content are like erosion‚ they are powerful and unstoppable but slow. And mediums are earth quakes they are dramatic and reshape the land scape overnight. McLuhan points out‚ “it is only too typical that the “content” of any medium blinds
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WHAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF CONSENSUS? The 1950’s and early 1960’s was a time of consensus in the US. By the middle of the 60’s the US experienced a series of shocks which undermined consensus. The assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. The differences in the civil rights movement. The escalation of the Vietnam War. All of these factors undermined American confidence to change the world and improve the country. By the late 60’s‚ US society was polarised: divided between different
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Most believe that the 1960’s was all about rock‚ hippies‚ and the war. However‚ The Graduate took a different approach about the culture and class of 1960’s. The Graduate takes place in the upper class rather than lower/middle class. The themes of The Graduate is a reflection of counterculture of the upper class. During the movie‚ you get an idea of Ben’s character and understand that he is not like most in his family and others in his class. In the very beginning you get a sense that Ben is uncomfortable
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The Hippie Counterculture The Hippie Movement changed the politics and the culture in America in the 1960s. When the nineteen fifties turned into the nineteen sixties‚ not much had changed‚ people were still extremely patriotic‚ the society of America seemed to work together‚ and the youth of America did not have much to worry about‚ except for how fast their car went or what kind of outfit they should wear to the Prom. After 1963‚ things started to slowly change in how America viewed its politics
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The word “preppy” is used to describe students that attend private schools and that were also raised in an upper class family. Preppy is a subculture because the people of that group have different values and norms by most of society. It is normal for teens to dress like a young adult and to have very high expectations. They value money and success and always want to be “the best of the best.” The preppy subculture refers to the style of clothes‚ hobbies‚ and values that encompass those that are
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Counterculture Essay The Occupy Wall Street Movement About two years ago‚ when I was in the Washington Semester program at American University‚ my Global Economics and Business seminar group made a visit to McPherson Square to see the Occupy Wall Street movement that was alive and well in the Nation’s capital. Up until that day‚ I was unsure of what the movement stood for and thought that it was just another radical movement to spite the powerful corporations that exert dominance on our
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Stone on the Woodstock festival observing that a new culture was immersing from the roots of the adult American life (1960’s 198). Words such as "counter-culture"‚ "establishment"‚ "non-violence"‚ "free-love" and "Woodstock" were not even in the American vocabulary until the war against North Vietnam started in 1965 (Bexte). The counter-culture was a social movement between the late 1960’s and early 1970’s including generally young people who were opposed to the mainstream values of traditional American
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