Woodstock was a three-day outdoor festival of peace‚ love‚ and music in the summer of 1969 in Bethel‚ New York. But it was more than just a rock music festival; it symbolized the developing counterculture of the 1960s. Over the course of the weekend‚ thirty-two bands performed in front of an enormous group of youthful people. There were about 500‚000 people that attended Woodstock through the rainstorms and mud puddles. It was the first concert to have that kind of crowd. It is recalled as having
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expanded to include cultural freedom”(Foner‚ E. 2006). The generational rebellion that became to be known as counterculture would soon descend upon the hills of Bethel in upstate New York to what would be “the counterculture’s biggest bash”. The 1969 Woodstock Music Festival forever left a footprint in the lives of all those who had a hand in the staging of the festival‚ whether it be a hippie‚ planner‚ resident‚ or a business owner. It “brought together hundreds of thousands of young people to celebrate
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Family of Woodstock‚ Inc. BSHS/355 November 14‚ 2014 Family of Woodstock is a place where teens and adults are assisted in many ways. I am an interviewee for the upcoming position here at Family of Woodstock and I would like you to be aware of my knowledge and to let you know why I applied. I am a person that is really interesting in helping other people and that is the reason why I am graduating with a degree in human service. After reading and learning about the facts of Family
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The Family of Woodstock By Gail Hall Professor Mai Green BSHS 355 March 17‚ 2015 The founders of family of Woodstock Organization has specialized to meet many of the needs in the community around them. Preparing an organization is hard‚ understanding the needs of others and what they have more of is even harder‚ unless one has a heart for it. As an organization of family of Woodstock began‚ the founders found numerous factors that led them to create the family of Woodstock. In this paper
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Page 1 of 4 Woodstock Festival was a three day event of music and peace‚ held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm‚ in the town of Bethel‚ New York. It took place on the dates August 15th-18th‚ 1969. Five hundred thousand people attended the festival‚ watching thirty-two acts perform over the three days. It was the first time that so many people had gathered together to listen to music in an outdoor setting (Articlesbase 2008). Not only did Woodstock Festival play a major role in the influence of music
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counterculture against the war was particularly present among hippies‚ artists‚ and free-loving forward thinkers from all walks of life. Linked by a communal purpose‚ people came together to demonstrate their “peaceful” anti-war efforts: Woodstock. Woodstock Art and Music Festival‚ inarguably the largest music concert in the world at the time‚ was held in 1969 in Bethel‚ New York on 660 acres of farmland. The festival took place over a long weekend: the afternoon of Friday‚ August 15 to the morning
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This document comprises BSHS 355 Week 3 Team Assignment Case Francine Deadline: ( )‚ General Questions - General General Questions 1)Danny and Marion Klein were injured when an aerial shell at a public fireworks exhibit went astray and exploded near them. They sued Pyrodyne Corp.‚ the pyrotechnic company that was hired to set up and discharged the fireworks‚ alleging‚ among other things‚ that the company should be strictly liable for damages caused by the fireworks display. Will the court
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Family of Woodstock Diana Clark BSHS/355 April 22‚ 2013 Aaron Mills‚ MSW Family of Woodstock The family of Woodstock was founded because of the Woodstock Festival that took place in a city 115 miles away. Since 1970‚ a program was brought to area residents called FAMILY it is a place where individuals can go‚ and they are caring and respectful. With this any type of search for a solution is creative and never ending. FAMILY’s shelters‚ emergency food pantries‚ court advocates‚ counseling
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Woodstock 69 ’ "Three Days of Peace and Music" The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period with great cultural change. Some people called it the "decade of discontent" due to the race riots in Detroit and LA‚ and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of "Peace‚ Love‚ and Harmony". The sixties were about assassination‚ unforgettable fashion‚ new styles of music‚ civil rights‚ gay and women ’s liberation‚ Vietnam‚ Neil Armstrong landing
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roll and the "sinful"‚ inappropriate culture that it generated. In 1969 somewhere between 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
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