Hippies and American Values that dope was used to expand your consciousness such as marijuana‚ LSD‚ peyote and other psychedelics; these were good for their cause‚ but downers and dope that made those who took them dumber were frowned upon by the hippie community. Hippies believed that the America society was confined by the government and the conservatives and those drugs were the way to break out of that societal confinement and become revolutionary. More and more hippies indicated that they
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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‚ including Jack Kerouac‚ Williams S. Burroughs and Allan Ginsberg. Beatniks celebrated a hedonistic
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followers and how the trends on the streets are recognized by the media and picked up by the fashion leaders. I’ll demonstrate this by using Dior New Look from the 1940’s – 1950’s as an example of the trickle down affect. I’ll also be discussing the hippie style and how the small trend evolved to becoming a global trend‚ this would be the example of bubble up. I’ll also be exploring the affect the media and the images they advertise to the society has changed the way people look and dress. Fashion
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HIPPY FASHION TRENDS BACKGROUND Hippie movement started as a dissenting group‚ along with the New Left and the American Civil Rights Movement‚ encompassing the sixty’s ‘counterculture’ of rejecting the ‘Establishment’‚ criticizing middle class values‚ opposing nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War‚ among other things. A social revolution erupted in North and South America‚ Western Europe‚ Japan‚ Australia and New Zealand during the 1960s and early 1970s in the form of this counterculture‚ opposed
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performances were enhanced with light shows and the common use of drugs. Ken Kesey‚ the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and others organized the festival and also provided beverages mixed with LSD. The list of performers consisted of a variety of hippie and acid rock bands‚ including the Grateful Dead‚ Big Brother and The Holding Company‚ and the Charlatans. “It was incredible because of the formlessness…and stuff happening spontaneously and people being prepared to accept any kind of thing that
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American society and culture experienced an awakening during the 1960s as a result of the diverse civil rights‚ economic‚ and political issues it was faced with. At the center of this revolution was the American hippie‚ the most peculiar and highly influential figure of the time period. Hippies were vital to the American counterculture‚ fueling a movement to expand awareness and stretch accepted values. The hippies ’ solutions to the problems of institutionalized American society were to either participate
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THE TYPE OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock During this semester in Prose class‚ I have learned many kind of short stories by writers of various background. I also learn how to analyze the text critically‚ especially about structuralism and culture studies. There are 8 short stories that I have discussed with the class and written in one-page journal response. First
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Aroused in the early 1960s in the areas of Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco and the East Village of New York City‚ were a group of liberalist who coexist amongst themselves with principles of peace‚ love and freedom. “Hippies” or hippie‚ stated in the Merriam- Webster Dictionary to be a usually young person who rejects the mores of established society (as by dressing unconventionally or favoring communal living) and advocates a nonviolent ethic. Generally Caucasian‚ middle-class‚ white
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History - 1960-1969." Lone Star College-Kingwood Library Home Page. Lonestar College Library‚ Aug. 2009. Web. 07 Oct. 2010. <http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html>. "Hippie." Wikipedia‚ the Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ Inc.‚ 05 Oct. 2010. Web. 04 Oct. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie#Origins>. "Roaring Twenties." Wikipedia‚ the Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ Inc.‚ 06 Oct. 2010. Web. 04 Oct. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties#Fashion>
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way like never before. To exemplify‚ The Beatles were fashion icons and many copied their long hair. Others imitated the rebellious look of Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones. Also Hippie look was formed. Both sexes wore frayed bell-bottomed jeans‚ tie-dyed shirts and colorful headbands. Wearing sandals was also part of the Hippie look. At the same time‚ women wore suits‚ usually in pastel colors‚ with short boxy jacket and oversized buttons in general. Simple‚ geometric dresses were also in style.
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