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    DOCUMENTARY – STEVE JOBS: BILLION DOLLAR HIPPY‚ BBC RESEACH QUESTIONS – based on Steve jobs and Apple MARKETING THE BRAND 1. How has apple marketed itself to the world? How has it continued with its vision over the 25 years that it has been in business? At the conference‚ Jobs introduced the new generation of computer with Macintosh. The computer had interactive graphic and mouse. Moreover‚ it promoted the brand of Apple as the pioneer of computer technology. In other words‚ Apple changed

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    217-220)‚ hippies turned away from the established society. They “rejected activism‚ being almost completely apolitical” (Carnes and Garraty 842). The counterculture of the Sixties is a huge and complex subject that cannot be covered entirely in this short essay. Hence I will mainly concentrate on the peaceful hippie movement and its manifestations. Where it started The hippie counterculture of the Sixties started in San Francisco with a literary group of writers called beatniks or hipsters

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    The term “beat generation” was coined by John Clellon Holmes in his 1948 article‚ to describe an artistic movement in the mid twentieth century. This movement began as a group of Columbia students in the 40s who wanted to be different and experimented in ways to express their difference. They migrated to San Francisco and grew in size to become a huge influence on American culture‚ inspiring new art and poetry‚ a music genre‚ and two sub-cultures. The Beat Generation‚ through their determination

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    Jack Kerouac When initially venturing to find the perfect person for this report‚ I first looked at some very interesting people. I found most of these interesting people were‚ at second glance‚ not so fascinating. I don’t doubt that every one of them had a drastic impact on the world around them‚ but I found that none of these people suited the taste I was looking for. I needed a person who was not only interesting and beneficial to this world but also had a certain characteristic…I wanted this

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    every way. The Hippie Generation grew out of an already established non-conformist movement known as the Beat Generation‚ or Beatniks. The Beatniks were a collection of authors living in New York city best known for writing against anything conformist. Many were openly homosexual‚ something absolutely absurd at that time‚ and experimented with drugs quite often. These Beatniks then migrated to San Francisco and became vital in the upbringing of the upcoming Hippie Generation. From Henry Alvarez

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    from being hippies‚ punks‚ slackers to a generation of selling ourselves to others. In “Generation Sell” William Deresiewicz talks about the different types of social groups that there has been over the past decades. He says that the hippies were all about love‚ the beatniks aimed at ecstasy‚ and the punks were about rage and anger‚ the slackers were about not involving in anything; but today’s generation are the hipsters. The hipsters have been a durable culture because unlike the hippies‚ punks‚

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    Mc Murphy- Charismatic Rebel Leader Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an analysis of the anti-cultural movement of the 1960s. Kesey’s reflection on the spirit of the 1960s is embodied in his main character‚ Mc Murphy. He illustrates the author’s commentary on the 1960s in three ways: he exemplifies the Hippie movement‚ he leads other by example‚ and he persuades others to follow him through his charismatic behavior. Some brief plot summary is necessary before discussing Mc

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    initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. Both the words "hip" and "hep" came from African American culture and denote "awareness".[1] The early hippies inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation‚ created their own communities‚ listened to psychedelic rock‚ embraced the sexual revolution‚ and some used drugs such as cannabis‚ LSD and psychedelic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. Hippies who questioned authority

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    Most of the clothing that they wore back then was a little more rebellious and eclectic than the clothes we wear now‚ but it wasn’t weird to be dressed like that because everyone did it. The 1960’s fashion was heavily influenced by 50’s fashion and hippies‚ and these influences caused men and women to grow their hair longer and wear funkier clothes. Hair In the 1960’s clothes defined who you were but even more so‚ your hair showed who you were and who you wanted to be. Many

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    What was the impact of the Beat Generation after the Second World War? The Beat Generation was a time of liberation headed up by a small group of erratic men. The period immediately after the Second World War was deemed as the Era of Conformity. The vast majority of Americans were living in suburban areas called “Levittown” whilst the threat of communism was emerging. The conservative tradition dictated that men go to work and women become domesticated. This changed as people began to feel “beaten”

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