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    Counter Culture

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    The Counter Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology‚ a war against Communism‚ and an internal war against racial injustice‚ a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became young adults‚ they found far more discontent with the world around them. This lead to a subculture labeled as hippies‚ that as time went one merged into a mass society all its own. These people

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    Before this interview I thought of hippies as a group of people with a certain set of values. I was completely wrong. Hippies are just regular people with children who have jobs and responsibilities and although there are many similarities in every hippie each lives‚ their own way and find different things to make them happy. What I loved most about this interview was Michelle story. She grew up in a hectic household her parents were divorced she told me a lot about how she knew she wanted to be completely

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    Hippies‚ sex‚ drugs‚ and rock and roll. These are some things that might come to mind when you think about the counterculture movement of the 1960s. But although it may seem that way‚ the 1960s was not just one giant party. It was a radical social‚ political‚ and cultural movement that changed America and much of the Western world. It consisted of students‚ anti-war protestors‚ political figures‚ social activists‚ environmentalists‚ civil rights movement leaders as well as famous musicians and was

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    A.Definitions of the CountercultureIn its most common and initial 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

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    Shaping American Culture

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    Three of the most altering countercultures were the Hippies‚ the Sexual Revolution and the Gay Liberation. The Hippies were the beginning counterculture of this era. The sexual revolution and gay liberation connect back to the hippies. During the hippie time sex was key factor in their freedom and rebellion and with the freedom of sex came the freedom of sexuality. These small connection do not make these countercultures the same‚ but all them together helped transform society in drastic ways. 1

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    Impact of the Hippie Movement on Society Hippies of the 1960s developed their own music‚ fashion‚ perspectives‚ and styles of life. Many traditional morals of the past drastically changed due to the open minds of hippies and their views on society. Because of the hippies‚ unmarried couples can now live together without being frowned upon‚ religious and cultural diversity has gained greater acceptance‚ and the message of peace is widely spread. The hippie movement had

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    first important environmental movement in Canada was led by an organization called Greenpeace. They were against the nuclear testing that was being done in Alaska and protested by sailing on a regular fishing boat to the city of Amchitka. [3] As the hippie movement died out in the seventies‚ the

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    The three most important events in California history is woman suffrage‚ the hippie movement‚ and black radicalism. For many decades‚ women were treated unfairly and discriminated against‚ but it wasn’t till the suffrage movement began in California which women were finally standing up for themselves. In the 1870s‚ the state legislature granted women the right to serve as an elect member of the school board and as superintendents. (Rawls and Walton‚ "California History" 2012) Laura de Force Gordon

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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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    Bubble Up Trickle Down

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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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