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    Imagine a world without hippies‚ or hippies at heart. What a dull world it would be. Hippies were the counterculture of our world. Many people tend to think that the term hippies and hipsters are the same thing. In reality‚ A hippie and a hipster are absolutely two different things. The term “hip” was made during the jazz age. Hipster is a subculture‚ while hippies are a counterculture. Hipsters started during the 1960’s‚ just as hippies did which is why there is so much confusion between the two

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    movements at the time which had a drastic effect on American society. But why was there the need for movements in the first place? The outcry for reformation indicated that something was wrong with the political and social structure.             The Counterculture revolution was the direct result of built in frustration and dissatisfaction of the children living in the 1950s‚ a decade known for the dominant conformity. The fifties were characterized by nuclear war scares‚ cubicle offices‚ suburban homes

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    lifestyles and radical beleifs were the shocking blow that American culture-- segregation‚ McCarthyism‚ unjust wars‚ censorship--needed to prove that some Americans still had the common sense to care for one another. The young people of the sixties counterculture movement were successful at awakening awareness on many causes that are being fought in modern American discourse. If not for the Revolution that the hippies began‚ political or social reform and the People’s voice would be decades behind. While

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    Hello class‚ I will be your psychology professor for the day. Today’s topic is going to be Tim Leary and his contributions during the counterculture movement. Towards the beginning of the 1960’s‚ the sudden influx of the use of psychedelic drugs influenced many people like you and me. One of the biggest influencers was Tim Leary. His controversial views were proven true to many and influenced people‚ but was harmful. His penchant for psychedelics began from his experience of magic mushroom tripping

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    sense‚ the counterculture refers to the culture‚ especially of young people‚ with values or lifestyles in opposition to those of the established culture in the dictionary. Until its appearance in 1969 in Theodore Roszak’s influential book‚ The Making of a Counter Culture‚ "counterculture"‚ written as one word or two‚ has become the standard term to describe the cultural revolt of the young. Although distinct countercultural undercurrents exist in all societies‚ here the term counterculture refers to

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    American History: Internal Assessment Max Gander Word Count:1538 How did the Counterculture movement change America during the 1960 ’s? A. Plan of Investigation How did the Counterculture movement change America during the 1960 ’s? The focus of this study is purely on how the Vietnam war changed the culture in America during the 1960 ’s and how people and their views changed throughout the war. I will evaluate the musical influence that moved this cultured through the 1960 ’s and

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    phenomenon in cinema known as the "counterculture youth-pic." This trend in production started in the late 1960’s as a result of the economic and cultural influences on the film industry of that time. The following essay looks at how those influences helped to shape a new genre in the film industry‚ sighting Easy Rider as a main example‚ and suggests some possible reasons for the relatively short popularity of the genre. "The standard story of the counterculture begins with an account of the social

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    phenomenon was also known as countercultures. This decade raised the 76.4 million Americans born during the baby boom generation. These adolescents entered their teen years during the 1960s and they definitely embraced a multitude new standards‚ dramatically different from the way their parents were raised. While some encompassed new ideals in dress‚ music and movies others joined countercultures and rebelled against the social norms. Three of the most altering countercultures were the Hippies‚ the Sexual

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    literary response in fiction to the spiritual discomfort that grew from dark cold war realities affecting artists and intellectuals immediately after the Second World War‚ a response that reached its fullest expression in the counterculture of the 1960’s. The counterculture was a romantic social movement of the late 1960s and early 1970’s‚ mainly populated by teenagers and persons in their early twenties who through their flamboyant lifestyle expressed their alienation from mainstream American life

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    anything mainstream is not cool anymore. Mark quotes the social critic Thomas Frank‚ saying he called this type of hipster the ”the rebel consumer” and later on defined it as‚ “the person who‚ adopting the rhetoric but not the politics of the counterculture‚ convinces himself that buying the right mass products individualizes him as transgressive. Purchasing the products of authority is thus reimagined as a defiance of authority” (7). Hipsters would very often violated the norms of what was socially

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