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    In the following essay‚ I will attempt to highlight the 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

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    Unit 9 Time Capsule 2325: The Era of the 1960’s Kaplan University Exploring the 1960 ’s SS310-24 Unit 9 Time Capsule 2325: The Era of the 1960’s It is the year 2325 and hundreds of years beyond the time of dominance the United States of America. This once super power is now just part of the North American Empire. While doing and archeological dig in the mid eastern area of the empire we discovered a time capsule from the 1960s. This time capsule had five things that were enclosed represented

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    The 1950’s and the 1960’s and the American Woman : the transition from the ”housewife” to the feminist Vanessa Martins Lamb To cite this version: Vanessa Martins Lamb. The 1950’s and the 1960’s and the American Woman : the transition from the ”housewife” to the feminist. 2011‚ pp.106. <dumas-00680821> HAL Id: dumas-00680821 http://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00680821 Submitted on 2 Apr 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents

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    The Byrds was a part of the folk music revival era during the 1960s. The folk music revival was during a rough time for the United States. The Civil Rights Movement wa at its peak‚ the Cold War was occurring‚ war was being fought in Korea and soon in Vietnam. During this period‚ they did not know how to play electric instruments for a short time‚ but they were producing their folk-rock sound in their music. They were a band known along with the Beatles‚ the Rolling Stones‚ and the Beach Boys. They

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    Morgan Young Hist 322 6/15/11 Final Exam The 1930s through the 1960s was an extremely critical and pivotal moment in American popular culture. Movies‚ radio and music changed with the movements of the decades and are arguably the best representations of how the cultures were influencing everyday life. If you want to understand a population of people you have to understand their culture‚ and the American popular culture has and continues to be a part of everyday life. During the 1930s and

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    direct threat to end capitalism. This resulted in an ideological‚ economic‚ and military conflict known as the Cold War. The Cold War would ultimately shape American politics‚ economics‚ and cultural and social developments from the 1940’s through the 1960’s. Another issue

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    Repressed Free Thinking In Between 1960 and 1980 most of Europe and Russia wasn’t a good place to be. There were tensions and fears brought on by the Cold War. People were not allowed to freely think and express their opinions from behind the Iron Curtain. There was also an extreme lack of Human Civil Rights under Joseph Stalin’s rule and several years after. Furthermore it’s clear why the Soviet Union wasn’t a good place to live if you were a free thinking human being. A notable event during

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    Discuss the Impact of the Cold War on Australian Society in the 1950’s and 1960’s During the Cold War Era‚ Australian society was profoundly affected due to our involvement as a loyal ally to both America and Great Britain. As a result‚ a fear of communism in and around Australia developed and lead to a lot of tension around the country. As countries in both Europe and Asia were taken over by communist powers‚ the threat of communism became a genuine fear within Australian society. Many Australians

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    and makes it easy for people to stand up for their own rights. Martin Luther King Jr. is a prime example as to why peaceful resistance to laws has a positive effect on a free society. King was a marquee figure in the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. King encouraged his followers to be peaceful in protest and not retaliate when punished for their civil disobedience. King goes about the protest in this way because of the effect the tactic of civil disobedience has on the opposition. When people

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    As we look back in modern American history‚ there are three sizable reform periods from 1890 through the 1960’s. These three periods were The Progressive Period‚ 1890 to 1914‚ The New Deal‚ 1933 to 1938‚ and The Great Society‚ 1964 to 1968. The ultimate goal of these reform periods was to improve the United States Economically‚ Socially‚ and Politically. The Progressive Period helped the nation economically by dislodging the monopolies that provided utilities to the urban areas. This formulated

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