Now” and “Person to Person”. By 1950‚ the mass media found an audience in mostly white popular culture. In San Francisco‚ New York and LA‚ began the beat movement that expressed the social and literary nonconformity of poets and artists. The Beatniks were their followers‚ they cared little for material goods and lived nonconformist lives. They used the jazz musician vocabulary and dressed differently. Men wore sandals and beards‚ while women didn’t wear lipstick and wore black
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Essay 4: Sedaris Essay Me Talk Pretty One Day‚ published in 2000‚ is a best selling collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. Divided into two parts‚ David Sedaris ’s work represents a collection of personal essays on the subject of his personal life. The first part consists of essays about Sedaris’s life before his move to Normandy‚ France while the second section‚ "Deux"‚ tells of Sedaris’s move to Normandy with his partner Hugh. In Me Talk Pretty One Day‚ David Sedaris writes about
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Mickey Mouse Club Interstate highways Dishwashers Automobiles Hi-Fis and stereos Poodle skirts Drive-in theaters Levittown Dr. Spock Ozzie and Harriett I Love Lucy Persistent poverty Black urban migration Urban renewal Beatniks (beats) American Bandstand Elvis Presley James Dean Event Significance Interstate Highways Provided a way for people to travel better from city to city much faster. It also encouraged more economic activities. I love Lucy Created
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Hello! Today I’m going to make a speech on the fashion in the 1960’s. Well‚ let’s get right to it! Now‚ there is a common idea of the fashion in the 1960s. Most people thought it was just “hippies” and “bell-bottoms”. Not me. In fact that was one of the reasons I chose fashion in the 60’s. But in reality‚ the fashion in the 60’s was nothing like that. After WW2 ended‚ fashion came back as one of the latest things. For the women‚ in the early 60s the latest fashion was in Jackie Kennedy’s hands.
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music‚ rather it caused folk to be overlooked by many upper or middle class white people called hippies who were concerned with free love and freedom of the mind‚ not antiwar activism. Hippies became a main part of American culture in 1965 with acid tests and psychedelic rock. These hippies felt that they were taking a stand against their parent’s way of living and creating a new‚ better way. Hippies were a contributor to drug culture‚ known for having mind altering experiences while on Lysergic
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The American Dream in the 1960s “You have to forget about what other people say‚ when you’re supposed to die‚ or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven‚” said Jimi Hendrix (Haugen 55) . Jimi Hendrix along with many other Americans wanted to live a life full of peace‚ freedom‚ and happiness. One thing was certain‚ America changed in the 1960s and along with it‚ so did the American Dream. The American Dream
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heads West. He destroys all evidence of his existence‚ like his driver’s license and Social Security‚ and he escapes from his self-destructive parents in order to achieve his version of ultimate freedom. As he makes his way to the West‚ he meets a hippy couple‚ Rainey and Jan Burres‚ he works at a wheat farm for Wayne Westerberg‚ he meets a young teenage girl‚ Tracy Tatro‚ and finally‚ he meets an old‚ lonely‚ and stubborn man‚ Ron Franz‚ who is the last person to help Chris before he begins his ultimate
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that was displayed by music and a change in culture. The recent actions taken in vietnam by the johnson administration‚ as well as Nixon’s first year in office‚ created split in society relative to the civil war. This split in society was between hippies or other pacifist groups and the silent majority of war supporters. The increasingly prominent civil rights movement was contributing to a rise of racial tensions at this time; specifically in southern
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known as Three Days of Peace and Music. Woodstock was a three-day music festival held in Bethel‚ New York‚ on a 600-acre farm. The three-day outdoor music festival extended in both physical size and historical magnitude. An estimated half a million hippies gathered on the 600-acre dairy farm. Woodstock of 1969 showed peace‚ love and music with surprisingly no violence at all. Some of the performers were Santana‚ the Grateful Dead‚ Janis Joplin‚ Sly and The Family Stone‚ The Band‚ and Jimi Hendrix. What
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real people who should be punished are those who dodge the draft. They are cowards. They should be the one who gets boo because they didn’t believe in their country; they didn’t have the true patriotism. The worst thing is the American people or the Hippies; they didn’t see the struggle the soldiers had to go to‚ most of
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