8 Apr 2011 Woodstock: Peace, Music, and Memories In the summer of 1969, a music festival known as “Woodstock” took place for three straight days in Upstate, New York with thirty-two musical acts playing, and over 400,000 people from around the world coming to join this musical and peaceful movement. Woodstock started out being a small concert, created to promote peace in the world. Now, Woodstock is still being celebrated over 40 years later. This three day music festival represented the perfect
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happy and free. Hippies catch my eye the most. With the tye-dye shirts, long hair, sexual promiscuity and recreational drugs like marijuana and hallucinogens like LSD, the hippy life is the life for me. The primary concern for hippies was about being happy, not what others thought it should be. Their “ if if feels good, do it” attitude included little thought or concern for the consequences. They were dissatisfied with the life their parents expected of them. Also, hippies resided mostly in
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Woman started wearing perms in their hair heavy and thick lipstick. This is when make-up became heavy in woman culture . Make up even gave teen females away for them to look much older then what they really are. Late 60’s The hippies influence on fashion really started showing .Hippie started wearing their long natural hair; pony tails weren’t for girl but boys too and headbands was very vital in their wardrobe. People looked for vintage clothing especially females, they searched
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Trang Nguyen 5/21/17 English 3 Mr. West A Beautiful Summer for the Hippies of San Francisco The 1960s saw people organizing and effectively working for change both in social order and in government. This included the student movement, the women’s movement, the gay rights movement, and a push by the courts to extend rights in general. In 1967 in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco, it started as a word of mouth gathering and erupted into the legendary event known as the Summer of Love. Mainstream
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Flower Power On October 21, 1967, a large demonstration took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As many as 100,000 demonstrators attended the event, and at least 30,000 later marched to the Pentagon for another rally and an all night vigil. The civil disobedience on the steps of the Pentagon was interrupted by clashes with soldiers and police. In all, 647 arrests were made. A plot to airdrop 10,000 flowers on the Pentagon was foiled by undercover agents. After the airdrop was halted
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will feel materially deprived, which they will blame of society not meeting their needs. They will then resort to crime in order to obtain this materialism. There is also many other cultures within this main sub culture, for example drug takers or hippies. These sub cultures offer a sense of ID to the individual and allows them to integrate into their new society which they may not have otherwise been able to do into main society. However, subcultures alone cannot explain the trend in crime and deviance
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and things were changing. I believe fashion during this time was about fitting in with the social life as well. In 1960, the hippie movement was going on. This is when people wore afros and bellbottoms. Having big hair was popular as well. The “hippies” were making their own clothes too. Drugs were becoming well known to during this time. I think that the drugs may have affect the way of people dressing. People were being to dress more freely. This area of time has
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In a sunny morning at the Leopard Village, there was a newborn cub named Asgard. He is the son of the Alpha male and female of the village. One night, there was a group of tigers which led by Ravil. They invaded and attacked everyone that were at the village. Luckily Asgard was safe and he was carried and hid in the mountain cave. Asgard didn’t know what was happening so he peeked, he saw the tigers attacking the leopard and he saw Ravil attacking Asgard’s parents. He couldn’t do anything so
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watched Earl Weaver’s production of Hair at UCF’s theatre (“Hair”). The story followed a medley of hippies dealing with their individual problems. The musical was like a psychedelic trip back to the 60’s with colorful lighting, showy clothing, and “far out” lingo. The overall performance was fun and enticing emotionally and aesthetically, but lacked in smooth story telling. Hair is about a tribe of hippies rebelling against the draft for Vietnam, racism, sexual repression, and many other issues in Vietnam
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How Jim Morrison’s Poetry Lead A Movement The United States of America found itself in a peculiar situation near the closing of 1959 and the beginning of 1960. There was a tremendous split between two very different generations. The older generation was a collection of people that witnessed the terrible acts of communism and the reign of Hitler, they fought bravely to expel Nazi Germany from the world and witnessed an attack on their own nation. They were a nation of go-getters that believed in the
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